Goodies

Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 14:26:36 EDT From: Clare Durst <CCD@brownvm.brown.edu> Subject: System 7 goodies Thanks to everyone who contributed their information on System7 special goodies: to Murph Seawall (of course!), George Wittenberg, Jonathan Helton, Dan Goldman, John Morgan, Nathan Gasser, Jill Williams. Hope I haven't fogotten anyone. Forgive me for taking so long to report on them - a lot of things can come up at this time of year in a university, as we all know. In submitting these, I can only vouch that a) they all work together for me on my IIcx and portrait monitor; b) they all seem to work together on a small screen SE with 4 meg of memory and c) almost all are almost free. Almost the only other thing I have in memory besides these apps is Suitcase. Several (marked with an *) do much the same thing. Take your pick. Someone suggested the NOW utilities but since they're not shareware I didn't check them out. Popover and ViewPaint both were recommended, and I can't find them on the archives. Post, someone? Everything else IS on Sumex. I've tried to stick to the "serious" things - no sounds or pictures, although I did include CursorAnimator! Although I've crashed occasionally, I only would recommend against one item: Trash Chute, until it's fixed - it deletes the original of an aliased item, rather than the alias. And the one thing I STILL haven't found is a way to make a command key move something to the trash (not instantly delete it). STARTUP APPLICATIONS DARKSIDE free Tiny screen-saver app. Many different options. Be careful: Some may have screen-draw problems. If you haven't bought 60 copies of After Dark for your network, get this and have a clear conscience! APPLICON free * Tiny app. that shows icons of all open apps so you can switch between them easily. VERY useful in its 2.1 incarnation, and the most popular of apps recommended. TRASHMAN $5 Empties trash on schedule; VERY useful SYS7 SPECIFIC APPS ALIAS ASSASSIN free Finds aliases so you can delete old ones ALIASMAKER app free Makes alias to anything dropped on it Other VERY USEFUL APPS COMPACT PRO $25 invaluable file-compressor DISINFECTANT free "all you need for virus protection!" DOWNLINE Free unstuffs files as they are being downloaded. Doesn't work with stuffit classic, deluxe, or compactor files TASK-IT free shows what your mac is doing and how. understudy free Lets you open files for which you don't have the app with a similar app Documentation a bit obscure! FILELIST PLUS free catalogs any size disk you want, saves out into tab-delimited files, etc., etc. A necessity. CHOOSER APP BROADCAST 2 $25 a zone or $100 for all Send/receive 3-line msg to anyone on your network; Allows background sending now. CONTROL PANEL DEVICES ALTCDEF free Nice double-triangles at either end o…