Category: Software
Like most people I hate being told how to spend any of my limited money. Especially in this economy. It seems every time Apple releases a major upgrade to their operating system a bunch of older computers are no longer supported. Readers will recall I have a G4 Server in excellent condition. Granted I had to replace the CD drive with a DVD drive, but that was the only hardware change I had to make. In order to get the…
T40, the 40 column text editor created by Antoine Vignau this week, now has a new art gallery to go with the program. The gallery created by Daniel Kruszyna only has a couple of items as of yet but the gallery is in both picture format and slideshow format in the form of an Apple ][ Floppy image. To check out the latest additions to the gallery, go to the T40 Gallery website at: http://krue.net/fortycolumns/
From a posting by Antoine Vignau: Say hello to T40 v1.2 which adds the following features: – screen flipping (horizontal, vertical) – screen mirrorrorrim (left-right, right-left, top-down, down-top) – screen inverting (convert all chars to flash, normal or inverse video mode) – an undo feature for the above ones 😉 – a feature to lock cursor movements (ideal for column art) – is now menu driven (ahem) – a change in the second output buffer (lines are now CR terminated)…
The three readers are Adobe Digital Editions from Adobe, Stanza from http://www.lexcycle.com/, and Skim from http://skim-app.sourceforge.net. Each of the three have their strong points and weak points. Adobe is fairly powerful and fast, but lack many of the whiz bang features of other readers.They concentrate mostly on PDF documents (which is no surprise). Apart from formatting, there really isn’t much there which can’t be found in Preview (built into OS X). It has the look of a Windows program ported…
Jomic is another comic book reader. It is written for the PPC, so the Intel folks will need to install Rosetta (allows the Intel machines to run PPC code). The version I have appears to be a demo. Many of the items in the menu are greyed out. However, I found by a bit of experimentation some of these items do function. Since the program was written for slower machines I’ve observed it is very fast on a faster machine….
Dapplegrey is a front end to DOSBox. It is a way to maintain quick access to the features and programs stored within DOSBox. Minimum requirements are OS X 10.3 and a PPC Mac. Access to programs is quite simple. It is a matter of going to the “Games List” tab and double-clicking on the desired program. The assumption is people running DOSBox are running old DOS (PC) games. In my case this is true. I do everything else in OS…
This article is a variation/enhancement to a post I found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9289 for a FreeNAS server. Of course purely Mac folks would likely want to stick with the AFP protocol. In terms of generalities the NFS server does not necessarily have to be running FreeNAS. It just has to work. FreeNAS is basically a “Swiss Army Knife” of external storage. I find it does a lot of things very easily. It doesn’t work on all machines (I’ve had a 60%…
When an app is installed via MacPorts, or one of the other programs used to bring Linux apps to the Mac, it is stored as a program requiring a terminal program to run. This is fine for some programs such as 7zip but not for others such as pan (a GUI newsreader) and gftp (a GUI based ftp program). I use these programs enough so I’d want them on the dock. After hunting around I found some discussion in a…
The Beagle Bros Software Repository, managed and produced by A.P.P.L.E. Staff and Brian Wiser, have once again added a number of graphics images from the long defunct company. Beagle Bros was one of the most popular Apple ][ software companies and had a large following due to their unique style of graphics According to the Beagle Bros website, “Thanks to the efforts of Brian Wiser, we now have two new graphics sections in the Beagle Bros Software Repository. Sections 6…
Donut Games has updated their Rat On A Skateboard app for the iPhone. Version 1.10 is now available from Apple’s App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/app/rat-on-a-skateboard/id404095058?mt=8 For a limited time, Rat on a Skateboard is also available for Free from the Donut Games website. For other Donut games for the iPhone, check out the Donut Games website at http://www.donutgames.com
Skyworks Interactive, Inc. has released an update for their 3 Point Hoops Basketball App for the iPhone. Version 3.3 was released today to address a host of bugs in the App. For information about the update and other Skyworks Apps, check out the Skyworks website at http://www.skyworks.com/iphone/ The 3 Point Hoops Basketball application is available for .99 cents from the following page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3-point-hoops-basketball-the/id306597349?mt=8
Nuance Communications, Inc. , maker of dictation software products has updated their Dragon Dictation package for the iPhone and iPad. Version 2.08 addresses some of the localization issues with the program. You can download the iPad / iPhone App for free from http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764?mt=8 or check their website at http://www.nuancemobilelife.com/ for more information about their mobile applications.
There are a good portion of our readers who know what I’m talking about. At the same time there are more than a few who don’t. I’ll explain what I mean in the title… Modern Intel Macs can be used to run PC software. When I say PC, I do not necessarily refer only to Microsoft and Windows. In this case Ubuntu is an example of a non-Microsoft operating system. Typically this is done in three ways. The first is…
The iPhone / iPad version of the ActiveGS Application version 1.22 is now available in the Apple App Store. Changes in Version 1.22 include: + 60FPS support for iPad & iPhone4 + CRT Emulation + B&W & Green Monitor The application is freely downloadable from the App Store. Users can also add their own disk images to the emulator. To get the application go to the App Store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/activegs-best-of-fta/id405115025?mt=8
The FreeToolsAssociation has updated the ActiveGS plugin to 3.4.459. The ActiveGS Plugin, used in a number of websites around the globe, is the centerpiece of the Virtual Apple ][ website. (http://www.virtualapple.org) This version of the plugin has the following changes / updates: + version upgraded to v3.4.x! + New SystemParam propery to set parameters that are only read when the emulator is launched/rebooted + Improved .ActiveGSXML error checking For more information about the plugin, check out the ActiveGS Website at:…
The new version of NeoOffice is out. The current version is 3.2. According to their web page at http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php there are updates to font support and support for Lion (OS X 10.7) when it comes out. Their download page insists on a donation to the cause. Considering the quality of this product and the cost of a fully commercial product, for most people a donation would be justified. Those who can not afford a donation can still download and use…
By now folks realise I’m into free stuff. I was looking around some of the social networking sites I frequent when I found this little gem. It’s a live CD with old DOS games for the PC. So why am I writing about it here? Simple answer… It works better on Intel Macs than it does on PCs. Well, at least it does on the machines I use. 😉 The CD contains a whopping 40MB of games. Back in the…
I can hear “Mac purists” complaining about “polluting their computer with foreign software”. Sorry to dissapoint, but no computer, Mac or otherwise, is the be-all and end-all of computers. There are some things which work better on other platforms and conversely there are some things which work better on a Mac. The objective here is to add to the basic functionality of an excellent machine and make it better. As the title suggest Macports is a way to add the…
Apple, Inc. has released an update for iOS. (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1358) Version 4.3.1 is intended to fix a number of anomalies in iOS 4.3 including: Fixes an occasional graphics glitch on iPod touch (4th generation) Resolves bugs related to activating and connecting to some cellular networks Fixes image flicker when using Apple Digital AV Adapter with some TVs Resolves an issue authenticating with some enterprise web services The update was not totally unexpected since many users were reporting issues with the iOS…
Actually it’s been out a couple of days now. At first blush (for maybe a couple of minutes), it looks pretty good. According to the various press releases it is faster than the previous version. Without actually timing anything my opinion is that statement appears to be true. As an aside, I’ve been seeing articles around the web suggesting it may be an IE killer on the Windows platform. Installing it on a Mac requires some steps. Connect to http://www.mozilla.com…
