EvangeList Digest Saturday, October 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1305
In this issue:
PR - Savitar 1.0 Now Available Job - Need An AppleScript -- Frontier Wiz For Mac Evangelical P Tidbit - Cheap Mac Audio Card - PC Vendor Adds Mac Support PR - MediaWrapper Light 2.0.3 Update Tidbit - G3 CPU Card Upgrade Issues Tidbit - Unreal Mac Performance Comparisons, Toolkit and More Tidbit - New E-Zine Menagerie of Macs Tidbit - MPEG -- AppleScript JukeBox
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:06:56 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Savitar 1.0 Now Available
This announcement is from:
<mailto: "Jay Koutavas" jay@heynow.com>
Heynow Software is proud to announce the release of its first shareware product "Savitar".
Savitar is a text-based virtual reality client designed for the Mac OS platform, allowing users to connect to thousands of social, educational, professional, and gaming virtual worlds and online communities on the internet. Savitar is designed to deliver a rich and easy to use set of tools including keyboard macros, text triggers, automatic scripts, and text-to-speech options. Savitar arrives preconfigured with a collection of user favorite worlds, and can be easily configured to connect to new worlds.
Savitar can be obtained from Heynow Software's web site at <http://www.heynow.com/Savitar>. The shareware fee is $15; site licenses are also available. The site also includes Savitar's online manual, a user message board, and other useful information.
Heynow Software was founded by Jay Koutavas in 1997. Heynow Software provides software development consulting services in the areas of digital video, audio and network applications.
For more information, contact Jay Koutavas at <mailto:jay@heynow.com>.
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:06:55 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - Need An AppleScript -- Frontier Wiz For Mac Evangelical P
This job offer is from:
<mailto: "Michael Talman" mtalman@webstudio.com>
Our client is a major publication devoted to the dark side. We're looking for an AppleScript or Frontier expert to set up a special application which would blow their socks off. What we need is pretty simple to describe, but I can't actuallly talk about it on the Net (client confidentiality) but suffice to say it involves setting up a "watched folder" system similar to Acrobat Distiller, only doing something else.
This is a short-term, one-shot paying gig, and we could really use some help. If you fit the bill, contact Mike Talman at <mailto:mtalman@webstudio.com>.
Let's show 'em that Macs rule!
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:06:57 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Cheap Mac Audio Card - PC Vendor Adds Mac Support
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Mike Breeden" mbreeden@cstone.net>
Great news and a sign the tide may be turning for PC vendors to add more Mac support.
Read the latest issue of our Mac Audio Column for news of Mac drivers for a low cost Audio card at:
<http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/audio/issue20.html>
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:07:01 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - MediaWrapper Light 2.0.3 Update
This announcement is from:
<mailto: "John Clark" 12ftguru@mindspring.com>
MediaWrapper Light has been updated to support the iMation Superdisk. I have also added fixes for a few gremlins that were hanging about (including print problems with mutiple copies and a text overlap problem). MediaWrapper Light 2.0.3 is now available for download at:
<http://www.12ftguru.com/MediaWrapper/>
MediaWrapper Light 2.0.3 lets you scan a removable disk, and print out the contents on a wrapper that you can insert into the disk case. Currently MediaWrapper Light supports Zip, Jaz, CD-ROM, EZ Flyer, SyJet, SyQuest, MagnetoOptical Disks, and SuperDisks.
MediaWrapper Light offers the following features:
* Scan inside subfolders * Scan PC disks (for all your Wintel friends) * Prints Date Scanned and Space Available on disk * Editable fields * Logos or pictures can be added for all wrappers. * MediaWrapper Light stores all settings including a default picture for all wrappers * MediaWrapper Light is also much faster then previous versions.
MediaWrapper Light was recently given 4 mice by ZDnet.
MediaWrapper Light was created using REALBasic. <http://www.realbasic.com/> If you have any desire at all to program you should check out REALBasic. I can't recommend this enough. REALBasic can take you from simple projects to complex programs in a very short time. The REALBasic team is currently working on a Pro version that will allow you to write a program for your mac, press a button and compile the same program for PC. Try that on a DOS/WIN/NT box! __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
I had a chnce to play with REALBasic as well. To say I'm impressed would be an understatement. The compiled programs are fast, the development environment is powerful, interface development is FUN, and the whole thing takes 2 (yes, TWO) megs of disk space. That's including an online language reference. Not bad...
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:06:59 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - G3 CPU Card Upgrade Issues
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Mike Breeden" mbreeden@cstone.net>
Due to a overwhelming number of reader mails regarding 400MHz G3 CPU card upgrades for older Macs, I've posed an article titled
"Past, Present and Future Issues of G3 CPU Card Upgrades" at:
<http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/tips/400mhz.html>
This article notes the possible problems with faster G3 CPU upgrades and also summarizes the issues of the past and current upgrade cards. It also contains links to other site pages with owner feedback on most of the current available card models organized by Mac model and card brand. Worth a look if you're in the market for a G3 CPU upgrade.
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:07:00 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Unreal Mac Performance Comparisons, Toolkit and More
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Mike Breeden" mbreeden@cstone.net>
Unreal is taking the mac gamers by storm and rightly so - it's an amazing game. However it is also very ram and CPU intensive.
I've posted several pages at the site that show the framerates of different mac models, video card setups, etc. and how they affect Unreal performance.
Unreal Performance graphs with various CPUs and Video cards (3Dfx/RagePro/etc) <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/unreal/index.html>
Unreal Performance before/after a G3 CPU Upgrade: <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/unreal/unrealCPU.html>
How much faster is a G3 1MB Cache card vs a G3 512K cache card in unreal? <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/unreal/g3cache.html>
Lists of Unreal Framerates with a wide array of macs (and PCs shown for comparison): <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/unrealFPS.html>
To test your Mac performance download our "Unreal FPS Toolkit" that contains standard HQ (high quality) and LQ (Low Quality) unreal.ini files to allow accurate test conditions at:
<http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/unreal.html>
The Toolkit also has a DOCmaker file with Unreal FAQs and Tips.
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:07:02 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - New E-Zine Menagerie of Macs
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: MacManA9F4@aol.com>
I have started a new e-zine called "Menagerie of Macs". It is totally free and will remain that way. The image I am looking for is one that is informative and funny. Something of a cross between MacAddict and MacWorld. If you are interested in subscribing to this 'zine please send mail to <MacManA9F4@aol.com> with SUBSCRIBE in the subject box. Please include your name, age, city, country, occupation, and number of Macs owned. I am also looking for staff. Please submit a brief resume and what you would like to do to the same address. Reviews, tidbits, articles, evangelism, art, and Microsoft bashing welcome. Most importantly I am looking for a logo! Any submissions will be greatly appretiated. Full credit(unless otherwise noted) will be given to all artists and writers. In this subject box please put STAFF.
Thank-you for your time, Brad Harrison Editor of Menagerie of Macs
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:07:03 -0700 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - MPEG -- AppleScript JukeBox
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Rick Pepper" rgpepper@carlsoncraft.com>
The Mac rocks once more! Check out my article on how to build an AppleScript-driven, Mac-based MPEG jukebox at: <http://www.raum.com/mpeg/letters.html>. Since my initial writing, I have discovered that the artifacts I mentioned do not exist with MPEG files, so Ultra-Wide SCSI controllers can (and should) be used to allow expansion. Throughput is not an issue - even at 256kbps bitrate, the files are only 1.8MB/minute in size.
I welcome inquiries concerning my AppleScripts for this project.
Rick Pepper AppleScript Programmer Technical Support Specialist
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