EvangeList Digest Tuesday, April 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1155
In this issue:
Tidbit - NW-Media Online Forum Tidbit - An EvangeLista for Life (I Hope ;-) Tidbit - This Week's Farr Site is Entitled "Epilogue: Still Dead" PR - "Teach!" v4 Released PR - Fantasm 5.10 Release Followup - Looking for AppleCD Audio Player Database Exporter Followup - MacOS 8.1 CD has Cool QuickTime Video PR - April Showers Bring eVO Flowers Followup - Another Good Enhanced CD PR - IGM and Ambrosia Contest - Win Your Own Spaceship Re: Postings as separate MIME files in the Digest version Job - Macintosh Support (Bethesda, MD)
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NW-Media is proud to announce a new online forum for helping computer users. This on-line forum for troubleshooting and general questions for computer related problems. The focus is on multimedia and graphics, but everyone is welcome.
This forum is made possible by a Macintosh server, FileMaker Pro and Lasso. Currently it features a fully threaded discussion with searchable content and auto email responses. It is provided as a free service to the Macintosh and graphics arts industry and can be viewed at:
<http://www.nw-media.com/forum/>
Sincerely,
Jeremy Stoltz <Jeremy@nw-media.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:40:25 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - An EvangeLista for Life (I Hope ;-)
This tidbit is from:
Caroline Quine, <cquine@tesser.com>
I recently visited my sister in Akron, Ohio. Her 17 year old son introduced me to a friend of his who just turned 18. For his birthday, he got something he'd long desired -- his first tatoo!
He was proud to show it off. On his arm, about 3-inches high, is a tatooed six-color Apple logo. Now there's an Evangelista!
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:41:06 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - This Week's Farr Site is Entitled "Epilogue: Still Dead"
This tidbit is from:
Applelinks.com, <webmaster@applelinks.com>
This week's Farr Site is entitled "Epilogue: Still Dead" and features Money Can't Buy Them Love, He's a Heavy (He's My Brother), and Heroes Bustin' Out All Over. Why you can't believe everything you read and how to win big anyway.
The URL will be <http://www.applelinks.com/staff/farr/farrsite/apr13.lasso>.
About The Farr Site
Each week Farr Site will have something to say or show about how computers, hopefully Macs, have changed the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they know it or not -- so expect just about anything from Farr Site: real people and issues, web sightings, occasional rants, strange tales from cyberspace, and more than a few leaps of faith. Publish different!
Acrux Software, a provider of Macintosh educational software and courseware, today announced the release of version 4 of "Teach!": a Mac-only multi-media authoring toolkit specifically designed for the education community.
Teach! was recently rated as "excellent" in an "About This Particular Mac" review, and earned 4 out of 5 mouse points in a MacUser UK review - and both reviews were based on the previous version of the program!
Version 4 includes many improvements to the program's user interface. Most noticable are the "pop-up palettes" (inspired by the pop-up windows in Mac OS 8). These palettes "pop-up" when you click on one of their titles, which the program keeps neatly arranged along the bottom of the screen. Normally, only one palette is visible at a time. This keeps the screen uncluttered when you're designing courseware, yet at the same time gives the designer instant access to as many palettes as required. And the new on-line guide palettes ensure that help, instructions and draggable examples are never more than a couple of mouse-clicks away.
Other changes:
* the main design palette is now customizable; choose between large or small, buttons or pop-up menus * contextual menus have been adopted * contextual tips appear to guide each user through certain operations * it's much easier to set up timings and connections * tests can now be designed to put questions in a random order * the program can be used for full-screen and slide-show type presentations
In fact Teach! is becoming so versatile that it's rapidly growing into a great general-purpose multi-media tool, but with the accent still on education. And it remains largely free: the freeware "Lite" version can be used not just to run ready-made courses, but also to design and save courses of up to 25 pages. Teach! Lite can be downloaded directly from:
Teach! v4 is available directly from Acrux Software and through several US distributors. See our Web site <http://www.acruxsoft.com> for more details.
The suggested retail price for a single-user license supplied on CD is now just $79 ($99 with a printed manual). But it can also be purchased for electronically for just $69 from Software Unboxed <http://www.unboxed.com>.
There are special deals for educational users, including a $399 educational site license (valid for up to 30 school+home computers).
Lightsoft is pleased to announce the release of Fantasm version 5.1.
Fantasm is a Macintosh-ONLY assembly language development environment allowing the creation of 68K, PowerPC and FAT applications, code resources and fragments. For the first time ever, Fantasm is native on both PowerMacs and 68K Macintosh's.
Version 5.1 is a significant update. This release combines many user suggestions with a host of powerful new features and a tremendous speed boost.
Fantasm 5.10 now additionally includes:
Universal Mac OS header files providing a uniform system interface for assembly language programmers.
Enhanced user interface, to facilitiate a faster and more powerful working environment including pop-up labels and sequential error jumping.
LXT - a 68K assembly language to PowerPC fragment cross-translator (also useful as a low level portable language).
Instruction and directive replacement (allowing assemblers, compilers and cross assemblers to be written using macros).
Additional output options.
More in-built (and faster) directives.
Support for Apple Script (tm) and external editors.
New PowerPC instructions.
Fantasm Overview:
Fantasm is a high speed PowerPC and 680x0 Macintosh assembly language development environment. It features a graphical project manager, high-powered macro processor, syntax coloring/hyperjumping editor, and assemblers that cater for 68K and both 32- and 64-bit PowerPC instructions (even to the extent of allowing both instruction sets in the same source file). Coupled with high-speed linkers, flexible output stages and modular tool construction Fantasm is the complete Macintosh assembly language solution. And, of course, it also provides an extremely fast edit-run cycle.
Minimum requirements:
Fast 030 based Macintosh or upwards. 4 megabytes free RAM. 16 color 640*480 display (256 colors prefered) 20 Megabytes free hard drive space. CD ROM required for installation.
Price: USD122
Concessionary price (unemployed, students etc.): USD76
Full details and a demo version/documentation can be found on our WWW pages:
<http://www.tau.it/lightsoft/>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:42:39 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - Looking for AppleCD Audio Player Database Exporter
This follow-up message is from:
Jeffrey K Eliasen, <demerzel@jke.net>
<excerpt from original message>
I would like to export data from my Apple CD Audio Player database into a Filemaker database. I have looked at the file and can't figure out how it is organized, so I was wondering if anyone has written a program to extract data into some sort of text file or database file that I could use.
</excerpt>
Thanks for all the replies! (I have been swamped...) Here's a summary of everything I was able to find:
InCDius requires Macintosh Runtime for Java and an Internet connection. If you have these, you simply put an audio CD in your CD-ROM drive and select a menu option, and it will look up all the album and track information from very extensive on-line databases. If you line everything up and have a good system going, you can do about 75 CDs every hour (way faster than typing it all in). I only found 10 CDs out of 311 that weren't on the net databases, and these were VERY obscure.
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Data Extraction:
CD Coyote 2.1.1 <http://www.filez.com/> and other archive sites
CD Coyote can be used to export, add and edit records in the Apple CD Audio Player database file. It will export to a tab-delimited text file that can be simply imported into any FM database. This in conjunction with a well made database is a complete package. See Audiofile and CD Directory below.
CD-Namer <http://www.datacomm.ch/darkeagl/>
CD-Namer is very similar to CD Coyote but has some advanced features that may interest some. Probably CD Coyote is more than enough for the average user.
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Database Solutions:
Audiofile <http://www.spinfree.com/>
Audiofile is a very extensive database that includes scripts to fully automate the process of importing the information. With Audiofile you can review, edit, and search in a variety of useful ways. Very well done!
CD Directory <http://www.filez.com>
CD Directory is designed to work directly with CD Coyote to fill in the database. This database contains a few less frills than Audiofile but is still very complete and well done.
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Hope this helps everyone who is interested in the same! And thanks once again to everyone who responded. Special thanks to those who sent quick-n-dirty programs written the day the post went out!
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:46:21 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - MacOS 8.1 CD has Cool QuickTime Video
This tidbit is from:
Jason Francis, <jasonfrancis@geocities.com>
If you didn't go peeking about the MacOS 8 CD carefully, you may have missed a great QuickTime video, "The Old Apartment" by the Barenaked Ladies <http://www.repriserec.com/barenakedladies/> also known for their hits "Brian Wilson" and "If I had $1,000,000." This Canadian band uses Macs, of course, to make Enhanced CD fun.
Now if Apple can get the BNL to include a video on the CD, why not Sarah McLachlan (she's Canadian too!)? Soon the Canuks will take over the entire QuickTime demo industry... uh oh, I'm getting ahead of myself again...
Find the QuickTime movie on your MacOS 8 or 8.1 CD in the following:
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:48:26 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - April Showers Bring eVO Flowers
This announcement is from:
Dave Prochnow <MrDave@p-pub.com>
Spring must be for designers.
Like the proverbial "April Showers," new books and software are starting to "sprout" on store shelves. Two of the most significant of these spring releases, Dreamweaver and Freehand 8, receive in-depth editorial coverage in the April issue of eVO <<http://www.p-pub.com/issues/evo.htm>>.
But eVO's reviews are more than just dry words and static screen captures. We animate our reviews through special QuickTime movies. In fact, our trademark "Flipbook" movies for book reviews have become a daily staple of our regular readers.
In another departure from conventional magazine reviews, our review of Bryce 3D features a QuickTimeVR world that was created with this new MetaCreations product.
Finally, our association with Amazon.com has resulted in our readers receiving a special discount for all book purchases that are made through eVO. Therefore, if you see a design book in eVO that you would like to purchase, just click on the special link and you are sent to the Amazon.com Web site.
Make sure to include eVO in your favorite browser's bookmark function; who knows what might come up next month?
eVO is available <@:>
<http://www.p-pub.com/issues/evo.htm>
Dave Prochnow Editor in Chief eVO <MrDave@p-pub.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:45:28 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - Another Good Enhanced CD
This follow up message is from:
J. Scott Franko, <sfranko@erols.com>
Christian Saborio mentioned the Sarah McLachlan and the Raristies inport enhanced cd. I just wanted to add another good cd to the list of enhanced cd's that work great on the Mac:
The Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hot, auto launches a quicktime video of one of the songs on the album. I didn't have time to see if there was more, but if you are into modern rock renditions of swing music, and want to see a cool cd on your Mac, then check this one out.
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:47:20 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - IGM and Ambrosia Contest - Win Your Own Spaceship
This announcement is from:
Michael D Flaminio, <flaminio@insanely-great.com>
Win your own ship in Ambrosia's EV: Override, the follow-up to the hit game Escape Velocity!
It used to be you had to work for Ambrosia to get this distinction, but now one winner who enters our contest gets to have their own ship, and a nice one at that! We'll even throw in a license code for Override when it is released. What does this mean? You'll get one of the biggest and baddest ships in the Override galaxy named after you. For example, the good ship (or the bad ship) John Doe. Mac users everywhere will both envy and loth you as people fly your ship throughout the galaxy!
The contest runs from April 10 - April 17. <http://www.insanely-great.com/override.html>
If you haven't entered our game giveaway, you could win one out of 35 Mac games of your choice. In one week, April's contest has already more than doubled last month's entries!
The game giveway runs through April. <http://www.insanely-great.com/gamegiveaway.html>
All of our current and future contests can be found on the contests page. <http://www.insanely-great.com/contests.html>
Keep watching Ambrosia Sofware for the release of EV: Override! <http://www.ambrosiasw.com/>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:03:49 -0700 From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com> Subject: Re: Postings as separate MIME files in the Digest version
At 8:07 AM -0700 4/8/98, Shalom Avital wrote:
>If each posting was processed by the Digest server as a separate MIME file, >and thus sent to the Digest subscribers as a "cover" message with the list >of the postings,
Our current server software doesn't support this. Down the road, it hopefully will, at least as another option, but there's no timeframe for it yet. Too many users can't read this kind of digest yet for it to be more than a future possibility, also.... Not everyone cleanly handles this kind of digest yet in their mail software.
- -- Chuq Von Rospach (Hockey fan? <http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/>) Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq@apple.com) Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com) <http://www.plaidworks.com/> + <http://www.lists.apple.com/>
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:10:16 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Job - Macintosh Support (Bethesda, MD)
This job announcement is from:
Shelagh Sitterson, <Ssitterson@kti.com>
Kinetic Technologies Inc. <http://www.kti.com> currently has openings for three Macintosh Support Specialists.
We are looking for all levels of MacIntosh support for a 4000 user, 50% Mac, 50% PC help desk environment (running Appletalk on Novell).
Requirements: One plus years hands-on MacIntosh trouble shooting experience. B.S./B.A. or equivalent experience. Knowledge of Appletalk a plus. Salary: Negotiable Location: Bethesda, MD
Interested candidates should send their resume to: Shelagh Sitterson Kinetic Technologies, Inc. 1964 Gallows Road, Suite 210 Vienna, VA 22182 703/883-1898 x144 703/883-2526 Fax <ssitterson@kti.com> <http://www.kti.com>
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