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Today's News by Cletus™ Let's do a little catching up of software that has been posted throughout the week! Akua Sweets1.4.3 has been posted. Akua Sweets includes over 200 Scripting Additions that enhance AppleScript by providing functions not normally available in the language. It is a direct FTP download. New in this release is: - Fixed a default startup disk crash
- Akua Version now gets SIZE info
- Conflict with Startup Disk
- Fixed "notify"
- Fix thread parameter to encode
- Removed bogus "for" parameter in the entries in (for now)
- Fix "expel" and drive numbers
 ScreenShot Pro is "designed for busy graphics professionals and makes it easy and fast to take screen shots for quick soft proofing. ScreenShot Pro first captures a portion of the screen, then quickly saves your screen shot in any of numerous graphics file formats including Adobe Photoshop, JPEG and TIFF." Version 1.5.2 includes:
- Supports multiple monitors.
- Fixed "Black Screen" bug that effected certain systems.
- Minor bug fixes.
- New Serial Number format. Registered users of SSP 1.0 or 1.1 are entitled to receive a free updated serial number. Please visit "Product Info" page.
The ever popular A-Dock has been updated to version 2.3.3. This Mac OS X like launcher for classic has the following changes to it: - When clicking on a separator, an alert was sometimes displayed in the Finder. Fixed.
- The quick-launch (cntl-F1 to cntl-F12) now correctly skips separators.
- When switching apps with A-Dock's keyboard shortcuts, it was possible to activate separators. Fixed.
- When opening A-Dock Control without A-Dock running, an alert with several choices is now displayed instead of the old one saying that it will now launch A-Dock.
Takashi T. Hamada has posted version 0.42 of DesktopCalendar. This version adds support for the customizable Dock icon. Improved the multiple screens and resolutions support and fixed some bugs.
Hide Menu Bar is a new freeware application designed to, well, hide your menu bar! This page currently is the only place to get documentation on the program. Calindock is a Mac OS X dockling that displays a monthly or daily calendar in the Dock. Calindock is currently being released as freeware! This version includes the option to view the calendar in a daily format. Localized versions of Calindock for both Japanese and German languages are provided, and program was updated to use the latest release of Brian Webster's dockling template. I received several emails about this product for Mac OS X. So I will mention it here. "FuzzyClock by Objectpark is an alternative menu bar clock which displays the current time e.g. like "five past ten" in the menu bar and with a single click on the time string it shows the current date like the "normal" menu bar clock." It is in beta and is freeware!  EightBall 1.2 is a dockling providing feedback to your most important questions. Of course when asked if Cletus™ will break into the 70's in golf this year I was told- "not in the foreseeable future" Hmmm, I don't like the program already!
- Now localized in Spanish and Italian!
- Fixed the infamous hang-up bug that would make the EightBall stop responding after a while
- The annoying warning message will now only appear once
- Fixed the dockling's creator type
- New and cooler desktop icon
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Cody submitted a new toolbar for Hotline (see contributions below). If others want to try their hand at it, he also sent a tutorial for you to download.
Kevin Kelleher has devised an easy way to make the dock totally transparent - no lines or borders! Visit his site to download the Applescript and links to the needed systemOSAX scripting addition. Kevin is constantly tweaking the script, but the version I downloaded on July 5th worked perfectly.
While the Applescript does all the work, be sure to read the documentation to be certain you'll have no problems. It may seem a little odd at first to have a dock with no borders and icons hovering in space, but it's a slick trick and one I like. While hidden, the separator that divides the dock and brings up the preference contextual menu is still there. Just mouse over it until the cursor changes. Great job Kevin!
Going to New York for Macworld? Be sure to set a new bookmark for The Hess Macworld Events and Party page! It lists every event from book signing to beer drinking.
Thomas Haller has uploaded his latest GIANT MOSS for the month of July 2001 is available. It is based on artwork by S. Dali, entitled "Fruitdish", and available in the usual two styles, with and without "Mac OS 9" additions.
Using Apple's Airport? Brian Behrens recommends this site to repair and supercharge your base station. Some of the topics covered are:
- How to repair the broken power supply in a Apple Base Station (ABS)
- The easy way to reset the firmware in your ABS after the repair
- How to configure your ABS using the Admin Utility instead of the Assistant
- How to add ventilation holes to your ABS to avoid heat build up
- How to add a Lucent WaveLAN extender antenna to an Apple Base Station
Fontosaurus Text, the hardest-working font foundry on the web, is proud to bring you seven new freely-downloadable fonts:
- 1978NYC
- Erg
- Exclaim!
- Grackle
- Mashed Potatoes
- Moonbase
- Scumbucket
User Contributed Splash Screens: by Michael Coyle
Remember, each month the most popular contribution (includes Snapshots, Desktops, Icons, Splashes, etc...) will win a prize!
- Mandy Gordon has moved out of her "Hunk" phase with this beautiful sunset MOSS and About this Mac set. She took the original photograph from her second-story hotel room in Virginia Beach, Virginia when she was there for an Honors Chorus group competition in April of 2000.
- 007 walks into the scene of this Russell Chen throbber for Explorer.
- Cody created a more compact Hotline Toolbar. If you would like to create your own Toolbars, be sure to read about his tutorial above.
- Scott DeLong submitted this golden splash for Entourage 2001.
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Snapshots by Jeremy Hoesly Finish out the week with another round of snapshots: - RAILhead Design’s “AquaStripes” desktop picture and AquaX III K-Scheme debut in this screenshot from Jere Freeman. iTunes is serving up music in the lower left.
- This OS X submission from iCruise sports a modified version of Looroll’s “Animorphic” desktop picture. Audion, retro-fitted with the Cryogenesis face, is dishing out tunes in the lower left. Icons from Icon Factory are also present.
- This contribution from Tarl Raney touts a custom desktop picture. iTunes is sitting in as digital DJ towards the bottom.
- Adriaan Tijsseling sent this slick OS X snapshot featuring the Matrix screensaver running in SaverLab like a live desktop picture. BetterConsole, DesktopCalendar, and Clock are also running in all their translucent glory.
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan  Icons - Desktops: We've got (8) really nice desktops and (2) brand new Icon sets to supply your decorating needs over the weekend. All on display for today's update!
- While the new style of Aqua folders included in OS9+ look pretty cool, Alex Fox improves on a good thing with his "Aqua OS" folder icons. The set includes 21 updated Aqua folders for all your favorite applications and general usage.
- Meeker's "DBZ Icons" is a set of 9 different narly looking fantasy characters for use with OSX. (who are these strange beings?)
- John Williams continues to be a very a busy boy, and submits another of his excellent desktops titled "Lavender Dream" for your viewing pleasure. Featuring a glassy and pastel hi-tech look, this one comes in 1024x resolution.
- 'Josh Bishop previews "Sunset 2" and "GTI", two more recent desktop creations being featured at his new website. Visit the site for the download and check out all the other cool artwork he's posted there.
- The Ingredients: 1 Souper friend; 1 very fishy request; 1 Summer's Day; A pair of 3's; A pinch of inspiration; and a touch of gratitude. Thoughtfully stir and PRESTO... you have "Souper33." This fine 3-D rendered desktop by Bradford J. Wiles comes in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- Gary Principato submits two more very beautiful 3-D Bryce generated desktops for your enjoyment. "Lost Civilization" is stark and ancient, and "Peaceful Evening" is a surreal sunset scene. Both desktops come in 1024x resolution.
- "Claudia Thinkdifferent" and "Disco Thinkdiffernt" are two more nicely done dream like desktop compositions sent in by Thomas Gianardi. Both come in 1152x resolution.
News From Around the Web: MacMonkies opens it's doors July 4, 2001. We are a site dedicated to bring a smile to your Mac and PC. Check out the six new desktops at Rampant Mac! Tray's Trove updates with eight new desktop designs. Colheres updates with some a new icon set: Around Belfast (by Lu=EDsa) Creative Box has updated with a new desktop picture named "Spring Street" Visit Brain of the Monkey for some cool desktops 5 new *very cool* desktops at http://mypage.bluewin.ch/d-design !! Mike Davidson's Mac File Library has been updated again with a flash based screen saver titled APPLE HANDHELD. Macuserx.com has bas been updated with 8 new desktops and 3 new icon sets!!! Nonsuchworks.com, has seven new Simpsons desktops available for download. KCz Custom Desktops wanted you to know that there are eight new desktops online - get em while their hot. (now over 170 desktops in the galleries). Mandolux wanted to let you know that there are 36 new desktops at http://www.mandolux.com . These desktops are a continuation of his Impressionist Series. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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REALbasic Tutorial - Build a Caller ID Application (Part 2) by Erick Tejkowski Last week we talked about the hardware requirements for completing a REALbasic Caller ID project. This week, we'll discuss the Caller ID specification, learn about the REALbasic Serial control, and begin building the project. By the end of this lesson, you should have the basic knowledge to begin working on a Caller ID application. (Continued...)
Gamma - in the Archive now!
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Theme News by Michael Rabe
I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July.
After Playing around with my "X" themes I have fixed the progress bar, bevel buttons, and a few other problems. Keep an eye on the theme news for the updates to both "X" themes..
For those still running MacOS 9, today I'm releasing the classic theme "Gamma". I would like to thank Dan Flax for making a two great desktop pictures for this theme.
You can find Gamma along with other great themes in the Theme Archive.
See ya on the flip flop!
If you have a theme you wish to add to the Archive, drop me an email.
7/3/01 Snapshots by Jeremy Hoesly Break out the fireworks a little early. The main snapshot index page recently received its 500,000th viewer! This is a major milestone that I’ve been watching for, and I’d like to give my heart-felt thanks to all of you who frequent this section. You have made this possible.
Here’s Tuesday’s snapshot rollout: - This OS X submission from Apilon touts MacDesktops’ “Iron Man” desktop picture. OmniWeb is surfing the web Cocoa style in the lower right.
- Mandy Gordon contributes this screenshot sporting the custom “Apple Gone Country” desktop picture. An actual pair of blue jeans were scanned to make the background! Icons from Icon Factory line the right and left edges.
- A custom desktop picture and Albie Wong’s BeeHive K-Scheme debut in this submission from KC Lofty. iTunes, tweaked with George Krueger’s Graphite skin, is kicking out soundwaves in the lower left. The Icons Rounded collection is visible throughout.
- Richard Rice returns with this desktop picture featuring Dracula’s son Alucard combined with the iBook Tangerine Theme. Custom icons abound.
What’s your Mac look like? Send a snapshot for all the Mac world to see.
REALbasic News by Erick Tejkowski This week in REALbasic news: - VideoPlug 1.2 now available
- Create a web browser with REALbasic
- Parlez vous Francais?
- Interface problems? We have help!
- New GameConsole code
Find this and more in today's REALbasic News. (Continued...)
Theme News by Michael Rabe
I have received some eMails asking, "How do I switch back to Aqua using MetamorphX?"
- Run MetamorphX
- unlock the lock at the bottom of the window
- highlight Aqua
- press the switch button.
- log out,
- then log back in.
- Done. Aqua is back.
I've been talking with Colin Cornaby the creator of another theme switcher program called XMorph. and I find using XMorph to be easier to use for my themes. So soon both of my "X" themes and the "X" theme I'm almost finished making "VRX" will be packaged to work with this great new "X" theme tool.
Don't forget to stop by Thursday to pick up your copy of the "Classic" theme "Gamma" from the Theme Archive.
See ya on the flip flop!
If you have a theme you wish to add to the Archive, drop me an email.
Today's News by Cletus™  The first beta version of PrefsOverload 3.0 is now available. PrefsOverload is a full-featured tool for managing the Preferences Folder. Over time the Preferences Folder will slowly grow and may become filled with files created by trashed demo applications, or applications used for a short time only or not used at all. New in this beta:
- PrefsOverload can perform searches for damaged Preference Files
- PrefsOverload can manage a non-standard preference folder, this means, for example, that you can use PrefsOverload on your MacOS X Preferences Folder
- Scan processes are completely multithreading by default
- File lists can be ordered in the "Browse Preferences Folder"
mode LaunchBar 3.0p2 is the newest version of this quick launch application by Objective Development for Mac OS X. "LaunchBar provides the fastest access to thousands of files, web-bookmarks, email-addresses and applications just by entering a short abbreviation. Type OW to launch OmniWeb, AHN to open the "Apple Hot News" web page, BM to write an email to "Bob Miller" or HP01 to locate a folder named 'Holiday Pictures 2001'." A server version is also available. The Macintosh Developer Center has posted their newest version of SysMenu. SysMenu is the only menu you need! Featuring submenus, plugins, customizable options, and more. You can now launch any application, document, control panel, or use one of many plugins in any application, including the Finder.
- Fixed a rare crashing bug which could occur if you had plugins installed.
- Updated installer to Installer VISE 7.2.
- Fixed a problem which caused preferences not to be saved when quitting the control panel instead of closing the window.
 Hsoi's Shop: Software has released six Contextual Menu plugins. They are: DeskPicChangerCMPlugin, FileHierToClipCMPlugin, FilePathToClipCMPlugin, LockItCMPlugin, UnlockItCMPlugin, MROItCMPlugin. Full descriptions are available at the web site. Check them out and see if you can use one or more of them. They are all free!
AsyncKeys 1.3 shows ASCII & keyboard reference numbers to key combinations. This is freeware. Changes with this update include. - Added an ASCII Viewer Editor window which reveals the ASCII codes for text pasted/typed into its top text field.
- The Main window and the ASCII Viewer Editor window positions are now memorized every time the application is quit. Those positions will be kept next time Asynckeys runs.
- Minor bugs have been fixed.
- Asynckeys will accept (open source) new REALBaisc developers interested in sending their code that would be added to Asynckeys.
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 Polling Place. by Michael Coyle
Look at that! A corner of the internet not dominated by Microsoft. While their included browser garnered 27% of the vote, OmniWeb scored big with over 50% of MacOS X users showing a preference.
I wish OmniGroup all the luck in the world, but I gotta tell ya, they should give the browser away with no strings attached, using it to establish the company brand and drive MacOS X users to their other software offerings. But that's just me, what do you think? This week's Polling Place asks, "Would you pay for a web browser?"
Tools of the Trade. by Michael Coyle
Robert Marking, a regular creator of MacOS X Boot panels, wants to remind everyone the location of the startup screen has moved since the beta release of MacOS X. The new location is:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemStarter/QuartzDisplay.bundle/Resourses/BootPanel.pdf
 Applelinks has something new for Mac users - the iClock! At about 3 1/2 square inches, the iClock looks very cool. Hmmm... I think I know what schwag to give to my clients this year for Christmas, and it's not even the 4th of July yet!
User Contributed Splash Screens: by Michael Coyle
Remember, each month the most popular contribution (includes Snapshots, Desktops, Icons, Splashes, etc...) will win a prize!
Snapshots by Jeremy Hoesly Monday’s snapshots are ready for prime time: - White Fire Ministries’ “Exodus” desktop picture and the Aqua Theme are showcased in this contribution from Donnie Fischer. iTunes, outfitted with the Graphite skin, is tickling the eardrums in the lower right-hand corner. A smorgesbord of icons from Xicons, icons.cx, Icon Factory, and Apple’s website are featured.
- This snapshot from Jose Miranda touts a custom desktop picture and Maury McCown’s AquaX III K-Scheme. Cool.
- Joe Sainson submits this screenshot sporting Aaron Begley’s “Nautilus” desktop picture accompanied by CRasH’s Titanium Theme. Icons from Blue Sky Heart are nestled in the upper right.
- The “Fight Club Paper” desktop picture and Hi-Tech Theme debut in this submission from Chad Wolcott. iTunes, retooled with a custom skin, is churning out music in the lower left-hand corner. Icons from Xicons and our Icon Archive share the spotlight.
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan  Icons - Desktops: We've got (8) really nice desktops and (1) Fablue Icon set to tide you over the holiday, since we won't be updating on Wednesday. All on display for today's update!
- 'Nicolas Cardot continues to create more fantastic icon sets for the Mac Community. "Fablue icons 09" is the last I have on hand of 3 brand new sets to be featured on Resx. Download this cool set of 7 colorful keypad button icons right here or from his website.
- Carlos Rosales created "Moonlight" using Bryce 4, dedicated to those of us who are enchanted with the moon. Available in 1024x768 and 800x600 resolutions.
- Andreas Dettloffa spins little joke about the "X" of our new operating system, X-ray and decaying bones. Bones? Well, if you studied well your lessons in school instead of hanging around on your computer all the time, you should know that "Os" means bones in French... Nevertheless, enjoy this Apple Centric desktop in multiple resolutions.
- Rodrigo de O. Grecchi submits another "Super" indigo flavored Think Different desktop in 1152x resolution.
- Jayson Allyson sends us a colorful and flowing set of backdrops titled "Lava". These desktops come in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- Bradford J. Wiles introduces his latest 3-D Byrce desktop "SilverAge" as a place where time tells no tales and leaves the past behind. The future is now. This very surreal backdrop come in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- Gary Principato submits two very beautiful 3-D Bryce generated desktops for your enjoyment. "Mythology" brings elements from the ancient past and future together and "Big Sunset" is a luscious water scene. Both desktops come in 1024x resolution.
- "Light Different" is the first of several dream like desktop compositions sent in by Thomas Gianardi. This includes two different variations on a theme, both in 1152x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Nonsuchworks.com, has seven new Simpsons desktops available for download. KCz Custom Desktops wanted you to know that there are eight new desktops online - get em while their hot. (now over 170 desktops in the galleries). Dylan Daniélou announces a lot of new desktops on his website, as well as an interface redesign! Mandolux wanted to let you know that there are 36 new desktops at http://www.mandolux.com . These desktops are a continuation of his Impressionist Series. Colheres updates with some new icons and a desktop picture by Joaquim. June 27th, 2001; Kauniainen, Finland -- Pixelcentric Design has released five new desktop picture creations Hoeslyvista has been updated with 5 new desktops. Dean's Designs has updated with 2 new desktops. There are three new desktops posted on 6/25 at http://www.bish73.com.
Well, it's finally here. Macuserx.com, well not totally finished but it will be completed by July4th. Another series of desktop pictures based on digital photos of interesting textures has just been posted to Gridface. Neighborhood Desktops features six new photos in a variety of sizes from 640 x 480 to 1280 x 960. Jon wanted to tell you that he has some really cool new iMac icons at his website. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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