DOSWasher 1.0
EasyTransfer 3.2b1
Hotlist2HTML 0.7.2
HTML Editor 1.0
InternetLink 1.0b2 (Acrobat)
MacHTTP 2.2
MacTCP Watcher 1.1.2
Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24
Incognito 1.1.4
Acid Jazz 1.2v2
eWorld Cursor Replacement
Martian Town Square 1.0 (eWorld)
Term-Plus 6.96
Trade Data Manager 1.5
DOSWasher 1.0
Category: Networking & Telecom/Compression & Conversion
Author: N. Jonas Englund
Whatever happened to the idea that computers would unite the world?
Anyone who has ever tried to read a DOS text document with full
of untranslated special characters has been thoroughly disabused
of that notion. Most commercial layout and text applications include
conversion utilities, but what if you've taken the shareware route?
For you, DOSWasher is an elegant way out of this Tower of Babel.
Simply drag and drop any number of text files onto DOSWasher,
and it will figure out its original format (Mac or DOS) and translate
it to the other: DOS and Mac files can be mixed without problems
in one batch. The author has focused a lot of attention on the
interface, and as a result, it is sublime: similar to the popular
"StuffIt Expander" in its simplicity, it's intended to be used
primarily as a drag-and-drop utility. The dialogue boxes feature
some colorful graphic design which the author states he'd "like
to see in System 8".
Another thing: DOSWasher is fast. A 58K test file went through
in a matter of seconds, as befits a drag-and-drop utility. It
has a few shortcomings--more translation options and processing
information would be nice--but all in all, DOSWasher is a simple
and attractive tool. NOTE: There is no option to save the output
to a different location, so original text files will always be
overwritten. Attempting to convert files in an unknown format
may freeze your computer.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: TEXT CONVERSION PC IBM DRAG DROP
Requires: System 7.x or greater
Price: Shareware $5
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EasyTransfer 3.2b1
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: Christopher Reid
File transfer sure has come a long way since the bad old days
of XModem. Nowadays, it seems everyone is using Internet protocols
such as FTP to shoot binaries from machine to machine, and the
transfers are faster, cleaner and more error-free.
But FTP has its problems, especially for Mac users. The font of
these problems is the Mac's unique file structure: binaries store
information in two forks (data and resource) rather than one (data),
and transferred Mac files have to be mangled and manipulated in
order to send -- and restore -- the file in its original form.
Enter EasyTransfer, an Internet-based server/client which sends
files between Macs in their native form. Because EasyTransfer
is a single-platform utility, it can take advantage of the Mac's
special protocols for a simpler and faster operation. For example,
the author claims run-time compression of up to 60% -- and the
transfer is correspondingly accelerated.
EasyTransfer serves a small audience well, but is not as simple,
universal or attractive as Peter Lewis' more-robust FTP server
program for the Mac, FTPd (available in the Software Center also).
Still, EasyTransfer's speed and simplicity are compelling arguments
for its use in Mac-only environments.
NOTE: 3.0.0b6 in the first revision in which passwords are encrypted:
using client 3.0.0b6 and an earlier server may result in mangled
passwords and, therefore, no connection.
Version 3.0.0b7 lets your drag and drop files onto EasyClient
for transfer, and supports the transfer of folders. Version 3.1.0b8
enhances network security, adds balloon help and fixes minor bugs.
Version 3.2b1 merges the EasyClient and EasyServer into one application,
reduces the memory requirement, and improves security further.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: easy transfer ftp internet file protocol communications macbinary
Requires: MacTCP
Price: Shareware $20
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Hotlist2HTML 0.7.2
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: Lutz Weimann
For those of you who are joining the herd moving from NCSA Mosaic
to Netscape, Hotlist2HTML may be of use. Hotlist2HTML is a single-function
utility which performs an obvious -- but important -- function:
it translates MacWeb or NCSA Mosaic "hotlist" files into HTML
pages which can then be launched or imported into Netscape.
Although this file requires System 7, it lacks many of the niceties
that have come from later System versions, such as drag-and-drop
conversion of hotlists and color icons. Still, it performs its
task quickly and quietly -- what more do you need from a conversion
utility?
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: hotlist bookmarks bookmark HTML WORLD WIDE WEB WWW MOSAIC INTERNET
http macweb
Requires: Mosaic hotlist, System 7 or later
Price: Freeware
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HTML Editor 1.0
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: Rick Giles
The problem with most "HTML editors" is that they're nothing more
than macros that insert the necessary tags in plain-text documents.
For example the HTML extensions for BBEdit, while useful, don't
really help the beginning page designer to visualize the page.
While HTML Editor basically performs the same functions, it has
one advantage that raises it above the rest: it attempts to show
how the page will appear when viewed by a normal browser. Through
colored text (gray for tags, for example) and other stylings typical
to HTML, users get to see the page flower before their very eyes.
And if HTML Editor isn't an accurate enough visualization tool
for you, it sports a handy button that jumps to a *real* browser
(such as NCSA Mosaic) quick as you please.
In short, HTML Editor isn't the killer app that will make constructing
pages for the World-Wide Web a walk in the park, but its visual
indication of styles, tags and other important HTML elements goes
a long way toward simplifying the process.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: html edit editor Hyper Text Markup Language WWW World Wide Web
document tag tags visual
Requires: 68020 or better, System 7 or later, 2 MB free RAM
Price: Shareware $25
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InternetLink 1.0b2 (Acrobat)
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: The Internet Gopher Mongoose Team, University of Minnesota
InternetLink, like WWW Link, takes a step toward making Adobe's
flexible Portable Document Format a standard for Internet communications.
It does this by allowing links to properly-formed "URLs" (Universal
Resource Locators) from within PDF files. The result is that the
PDF reader, Acrobat, automatically launches helper applications
to becomes a web browser in its own right.
This is very much a beta version, and consists mostly of documentation.
The application itself suffers from several flaws, the most egregious
of which is that it's limited to linking to specific programs,
e.g. TurboGopher et al. We hope that future versions will allow
users to set their own helper applications, so as not to be reliant
on the U. of Minnesota's choices.
Rating: Not Rated
Keywords: adobe acrobat pdf internet www world wide web link
Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.0 or later, Internet connection
Price: Freeware
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MacHTTP 2.2
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: Chuck Shotton
Internet, Internet, Internet. We're inundated with asinine articles
in the popular media about "The Internet Phenomenon." But do any
of them tell you how to set up your own server? Noooooooo.
Where Time and Newsweek leave off, MacHTTP sets up, providing
the software and information needed to establish your Mac as --
are you ready for this? -- a World Wide Web server. Just as Peter
N. Lewis' FTPd (in this library) allows the Mac to act as an FTP
server, MacHTTP opens up the Internet architecture in a way that
may well bring the Mac to the forefront of Internet connectivity,
as the plug-and-play darling in an otherwise confusing field.
The program itself doesn't look like much: as with its Un*x predecessors,
it relies on a text-based interface, monospaced font and decidedly
non-Maclike controls. Its beauty lies in its internal workings
and its documentation. The latter is formatted in HTML (use an
WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic to view) and gives the most complete
description of HTTP servers that I've ever seen. For those of
you with Internet connections (most of the target audience for
this utility, I reckon), links in the documentation will send
you off to remote sites, so that you're always certain of having
the latest versions of needed files and information.
These days, there seem to be few programs which fulfil the original
concept of the Mac as "The machine for the rest of us." MacHTTP
is one of them. It ports a function which was available only to
those with lots of time, experience and money and brings it home
to the Mac user with little. For the serious Internet maven, it's
golden.
Version 2.0 contains dozens of improvements over the previous
release version, 1.3. Most of these correct bugs, but some add
significant functionality (such as a background-only option).
Read the release notes for more details. Version 2.2 changes the
documentation to reflect licensing changes and fixes some small
bugs.
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Keywords: MacHTTP HTTP world wide web www server serve internet networking
hypertext transfer protocol
Requires: MacTCP, System 7 or later, AppleScript for some functions
Price: Shareware $varies
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MacTCP Watcher 1.1.2
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: Peter Lewis
So, raise your hands: who here knows what TCP is? You do? Good!
Let's see.. that's about 10 hands. O.K., here's a tougher one:
who knows how to set up TCP on a Mac? Hmm.. down to about four
hands. Let's try one more: who can tell me what MacTCP is actually
doing at any given moment? Anyone? No?
Well then. It's a good thing we have Peter Lewis, author of ZiffNet/Mac
Shareware Award-winning program Anarchie, to help us out. He's
done so with MacTCP Watcher, a useful utility which displays the
internals of MacTCP, including a list of all the current TCP connections
and information on them. Errors, addresses, and connections are
all within your grasp, shining a light into where, umm, the light's
never shone before.
If you're still not sure what this program's supposed to do, don't
worry. Mr. Lewis has included copious documentation, including
Eric Behr's thorough exegesis of MacTCP. Enabling the elusive
TCP connection is still up to you, but this package will support
you well after you've made the initial plunge. Class dismissed!
Version 1.1.2 fixes a problem with the DNS code and the author's
address.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: MacTCP Watcher TCP IP Internet telecom protocol network monitor
networking telecommunications networks
Requires: MacTCP
Price: Freeware
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Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24
Category: Networking & Telecom/Internet
Author: David Brewster and Bob Boonstra
John Norstad created a superb Usenet news reader in NewsWatcher
(also in this library). But with the belief that the best can
always be made a little better through outside help, he released
the programming code to the public domain so that others could
improve on his work.
That's just what David Brewster and Bob Boonstra did with Value-Added
NewsWatcher, popularly known as VA NewsWatcher. The two biggest
features they added are significant: the ability to attach binary
files to news postings (such as is done in the many .binaries
newsgroups) and message filtering. While the first is useful mainly
to the small group of people who post graphics and applications
to newsgroups, the latter feature is sure to be of use to most
Usenet fanatics. Now you, too, can ignore all those silly diatribes
from a nemesis! Just filter those messages out, and they'll never
bother you again.
All the features of the original NewsWatcher are incorporated
into this version as well, including extensive drag-and-drop support,
useful configuration options, unfolding hierarchies (like those
twisty triangles on folders in System 7) and more. NOTE: this
is a beta version -- use with caution.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: newswatcher usenet newsgroup fat ppc Internet news PowerPC thread
kill filter binary attach attachment
Requires: System 7 or later, MacTCP, 2.5 MB free RAM, connection to the
Internet
Price: Freeware
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Incognito 1.1.4
Category: Networking & Telecom/Networking
Author: Manuel Veloso
Incognito is a Control Panel which solves an annoying problem
for networked users of copy-protected software: it allows you
to "mask" certain sites from each other, and therefore run two
applications with the same serial number on a network. In most
cases, you wouldn't want to do this, as it would infringe on the
application's copyright. However, the author describes a reasonable
and legal use:
"[Suppose] you have five licensed copies of Photoshop, but ten
machines. What happens if three copies of Photoshop are running,
you try and launch one and that copy is already in use? Obviously,
you don't want to dump five copies of Photoshop on each machine,
so you fire up file sharing, figure out which copy isn't running,
and copy it to your local machine. What a PITA.
"With Incognito running, the situation is simplified. After setting
up Incognito to mask your copies of Photoshop, just launch any
Photoshop and it will run. Then, install a license-management
system like KeyServer to insure you don't exceed your license
and you're golden."
Version 1.1.4 fixes a small bug and allows operation with Quark
XPress 3.3. NOTE: Simultaneously running multiple copies of single-user-license
software is a federal crime, and Incognito should not be used
toward this end.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: NETWORK HIDE LICENSE MULTIPLE USERS APPLETALK COPY PROTECTION
freeware
Requires: network
Price: Freeware
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Acid Jazz 1.2v2
Category: Networking & Telecom/Telecom
Author: Kevin Jundt
Acid Jazz allows you to send a command to dial your telephone
or modem from any program which supports Apple events (an ability
common to many major commercial applications). To activate it,
a command must be written in your program's native scripting language
to wake up Acid Jazz and dial the number. But if the prospect
of scripting makes you anxious, don't panic! Scripts are included
for FileMaker Pro (2.0 or later, 2.1 recommended) and HyperCard
(2.1 or later), as well as AppleScript code for those who wish
to tinker with Apple's more advanced inter-application programming
features.
Acid Jazz is scriptable and recordable under AppleScript. It also
includes its own small programming language, allowing users who
don't have AppleScript installed to better control the program.
NOTE: because Acid Jazz relies so heavily on recognizing target
applications, it is highly recommended that you rebuild the desktop
(hold down command and option as you start up) before using.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: TELEPHONE DIALER APPLE EVENTS SCRIPT FILEMAKER PRO APPLESCRIPT
HYPERCARD modem
Requires: System 7 or greater
Price: Shareware $15
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eWorld Cursor Replacement
Category: Networking & Telecom/Telecom
Author: Jerry P. Nairn
If you're tired of seeing the eWorld spin the "wrong" way, you
can reverse it by downloading "New World Order" from this library.
But what if you don't want it to rotate at all? What if you'd
rather bounce it up and down on your little grape-size eHead while
waiting to connect to Your Favorite Online Service (tm)?
For you, there's Jerry Nairn's eWorld Cursor Replacement. If you're
handy with ResEdit -- or another resource editor such as Resourcer
-- you'll know how to paste these suckers in to the existing eWorld
application file. If not, make sure you work on a copy of the
app, and leave an unmolested copy elsewhere (not a bad idea in
any case). With a little hacking, soon you too will be able to
join in the song: "She's got the whole eWorld on her head.."
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: world globe eperson ball throwing wait crsr curs resource resedit
Requires: ResEdit or other reource editor or cursor-animating tool
Price: Freeware
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Martian Town Square 1.0 (eWorld)
Category: Networking & Telecom/Telecom
Author: Jonathan Durkee
It's an ever-changing world out there, folks.. and it can be a
new world in here too, thanks to the development of customized
"worlds" to greet eWorld visitors upon entry. Simply drop the
"eWorld One" document in this archive into your "eWorld Files"
folder according to the included instructions and you'll find
yourself strangely transported to..
Mars? Yep, it's Mars all right. I've been to Mars, and it looks
just like this. The red planet receives a barren treatment by
Jonathan Durkee, known on eWorld as "MarsSaxMan". According to
the Read Me, that's him playing a diminutive sax (a tenor, by
the looks of things) over by the eMail Center, in a landscape
full of craters, puffing volcanoes and ePeople with fishbowls
on their heads.
This file contains only the "PICT" resources necessary to change
the "Welcome" screen -- no special sounds are in this Town Square
world. Installation instructions are included. NOTE: Contrary
to what the Read Me says, the "eWorld Two" file does not have
a custom icon applied.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: eworld custom customize welcome online on line space mars planet
marssaxman
Requires: eWorld client software
Price: Freeware
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Term-Plus 6.96
Category: Networking & Telecom/Telecom
Author: PEEK[65]
Who says old programs are obsolete? Term-Plus is a terminal emulator,
created in 1986 and updated in 1990, which allows you to dial
bulletin board systems, automate your logins, and navigate around
CompuServe and GEnie services through pull-down menu choices.
The scripts included for these two popular commercial services
also include some rather attractive icons, giving this program
a more Mac-like look than many similar term programs. But its
main advantage lies in its convenience: many of the common commands
(^C, /exit, ATDT, and so forth) appear below your window as buttons,
speeding up many connections. (These buttons can be edited to
fit your particular needs.)
Phone books of frequently called BBS numbers can be maintained,
and one is included for over 475 CompuServe numbers around the
country--just the thing for a traveling PowerBook user! (Note
that, due to the age of this program, some of these numbers may
be obsolete.) It does lack some of the features found in the most
popular term program, ZTerm, such as ZModem transfers, but it
still provides a good, solid alternative to your telecommunications
needs.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: TERMINAL TELECOM TELEPHONE MODEM SCRIPTS BBS ONLINE
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $20
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Trade Data Manager 1.5
Category: Networking & Telecom/Telecom
Author: Jim McClure
It's said that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat
it, and nowhere is that truer than in the field of finance. To
guide investors away from the pitfalls of the past, Commodity
Systems Incoporated has designed this front end to their service
in Florida, where one can collect and interpret over 20 years
of financial data.
This is, if nothing else, a package unusually complete for the
shareware world: it includes a 160+ page manual (in MS Word, occupying
more than 1 MB uncompressed), numerous "Read Me" files, the 600K+
application, and a range of support files. These many resources
-- and wide variety of tracking options the program offers --
make for an unweildy and difficult-to-learn system. But if you're
serious about tracking historical trends in financial markets,
Trade Data Manager combined with CSI's service makes a superb
window to the past.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: commodities futures stocks quote online service charting accounting
investing mutual funds
Requires: Account on Commodity Systems Incorporated's BBS for properly
formatted updates
Price: Freeware
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