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FenTek Ergonomic USB Keyboard with Touchpad For your USB Macintosh
Proporta Universal iPod Dock (Also Supports iPhone)
Mail Factory
SketchBox Electronic Scribble/Doodle Pad And Alarm
Image editor for Mac...
Free up RAM with Disk Utility
Have your Network settings gone Berserk?
FenTek Ergonomic USB Keyboard with Touchpad For your USB Macintosh
From Dan
Charles,
Is this keyboard still available? The link to the page is dead.
Dan
Hi Dan;
FenTek is still around. Try this site:
http://www.fentek-ind.com/ergo.htm
iKey also just released a new keyboard with a touchpad.
For more info, click here.
Charles
Proporta Universal iPod Dock (Also Supports iPhone)
From timada
Thanks for such a detailed review of this new product. I?m always struggling to keep my Ipod Shuffle charged without risking damaging it since the tower for my computer sits on the floor. This should solve the problem and the price tag isn't so bad considering it works with all iPods.
Mail Factory
From Max
Hello Charles,
I am involved in a project that will require the use of a mailing label program. I've looked around and come across one that seems OSX friendly called, Mail Factory. Are you aware of this product or have positive experience with another product in this field?
Cheers,
Max
Hi Max;
I have to say this is one area in which I have zero experience. I've heard of Mail Factory, but have never used it, although it does seem to have a good reputation. I have used and reviewed other BeLight software priducts like ArtText, Swift Publisher and Live Interior 3D and found them all to work well and do what they're designed to do
Here are a couple of links to reviews of Mail Factory.
http://www.atpm.com/10.12/mailfactory.shtml
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/mailfactory/reviews/maccompanion2007.php
Charles
SketchBox Electronic Scribble/Doodle Pad And Alarm
From Internship
An electronic doodle pad- sounds interesting.But how much would it cost.Could you please let me know.I would love to doodle on it using a sketch box, specially.
Hi
SketchBox is free for you to use. If you like it, you could consider making a small donation to support the development.
http://www.omz-software.de/sketchbox_index.html
Charles
Image editor for Mac...
From Kevin
Hi Charles:
I've been looking into image editors, not far and not too deeply, since there is a budget model I must keep to (zero) and that, along with the desire to not have to PhotoShop my images for simple fixes as they occur, have kept me looking for options.
ToyViewer, ImageJ, Graphics Converter; these I've looked into and find they have immense potential but make the basic task to 're-level rotate a horizon' by the matter of only 1 to 4 degrees, a larger chore. I don't need to re-paint my images, they're OK.
Those options do not include iPhoto, since I don't want to commit my images to the system iPhoto uses to store and edit them.
In the process, I was given an unused real copy of Photoshop Elements 4.0, but since I am using the last Tiger 10.4.11, found write-ups to the effect this is not such a good deal to muck around in. So, that isn't be- ing used, and has never been installed. If I ran Panther 10.3.9, maybe.
There is this other light-weight image editor: Chocoflop:
http://www.chocoflop.com/
{This requires Mac OS X 10.4 & Later, runs on Intel and PPC G4 or higher; and a good core-image supported graphics card is strongly recommended... So this may be beyond my iMac G4 & iBookG4.}
Best regards,
Kevin
Hi Kevin;
I don't recell offhand whether Seashore does incremental image rotates or not, but its worth checking out, and since its free software.....
Might be all you need.
As for PSE 4, I LOVE PSE 4 and still have it installed on both my TIger and Leopard machines and it works well on both. It would definitely be my first choice of an image editor when available. I have PSE 3 and PSE 6 as well, but PSE 4 will do pretty much anything I require of it and much more beside, and its less of a resource hog than PSE 6.
I'm still also a major fan of Color It! 4.5, but it's a carbon port of an ancient app. (very fast) but getting a bit long in the tooth.
Charles
Free up RAM with Disk Utility
From Eric
Hi Charles,
If you ever feel like you're tapped out on RAM usage (eg: experiencing page outs) and can't get it back without quitting a program or two, I think I may have discovered a nifty little trick. Of all things, repairing disk permissions also has the side benefit of freeing up RAM (in my experience, sometimes 100s of MBs).
I'm not sure why, but it works. Any ideas? I noticed it the other day using Disk Utility, but my guess is that it would also work with OnyX, Cocktail, etc.
Cheers,
Eric
Hi Eric;
Thanks for the tip.
I hadn't heard of that. However, I always use OnyX to Repair Permissions, and it wants all other applications shut down when it runs maintenance routines and then asks for a restart, so I wouldn't have noticed the RAM cleanup.
Charles
Have your Network settings gone Berserk?
From Kevin
Hi there!
Has your computer's Network settings in System Preferences gone berserk, with a popup window that won't go away taking charge...?
After applying the Security Update 2008-006 in Tiger OS X 10.4.11, several persons have been finding issue when clicking into their System Preference> Network panel...
A pop-up window that won't go away, says: "your network settings have been changed by another application" … {You can stop the annoying pop-up window (does not fix accessing this preference panel's content problem) by going in Security panel & choose "require Password to unlock each secure system preference" and click the Lock in this preference panel.} -- Apple needs to fix this.
1] Apple - Support - Discussions - "Your network settings have been..."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1710040&tstart=0
2] Apple - Support - Discussions - "Your network settings have been..."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1716357&tstart=30
3] Apple - Support - Discussions - "Network Preferences Pane Gone Berserk..."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712387&tstart=0
{In this ^ third link, above, note: two fair suggestions by contributor "tonza."} Hopefully an answer will be forthcoming; but the suggestions by "tonza" appear to give two possibilities to getting past the superficial & also may help get past the accessibility problem, so the user can change the setting in System Preferences> Network as needed; not just get rid of the pop-up.
Have you any experience with this issue after the Security Update? It would appear this primarily is a problem with Tiger 10.4.11...
Regards,
Kevin
Hi Kevin;
I have never applied any security updates to OS 10,4,11, although I do have it in daily use on my two Pismos and also have it installed on my 17" PowerBook where it's my backup system to Leopard, which is what I use on that machine.
Consequently, I can't comment from experience on your issue, but thanks for the inofrmation.
Charles
Re: Have your Network settings gone Berserk?
From Kevin
Hi again!
Seems at least for now, one of the easier fixes; actually a combination of two suggestions between two or three Apple Discussions threads, seems to be working.
This means I may also apply the same sequence in my iBook G4 that appears to have worked in the iMac G4, as both use nearly the same system 10.4.11. The iBook shipped with Tiger, but the iMac was upgraded from Panther about a year ago.
Here is a link to the Apple Discussions thread with the reference to my workaround that appears to resolve the issue similar to that found by several others; so named: Topic : Pop-up "Your network settings have been changed by another application"
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8134911#8134911
Best regards,
Kevin
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