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Want to listen to tunes and surf the net at the same time on a Mac
   without a CD player? Check out Progressive Networks' RealAudio!
   Also, we bring you news of a RAM Doubler update, the latest on
   the Microsoft-Intuit non-deal, the winners of the Usenet Mac
   Programming Awards, and the fourth and final installment of
   Tonya's trilogy about desktop launchers.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/22-May-95
    Microsoft and Intuit Terminate Merger
    Listen to Some RealAudio, or The Birth of InteRadio
    Desktop Launchers, Part IV
    Reviews/22-May-95

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MailBITS/22-May-95
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**RAM Doubler Update** -- RAM Doubler users may recall our mention
  in TidBITS-271_ of a problem where some RAM Doubler users had
  trouble using CD-ROMs. Connectix has just released a RAM Doubler
  1.5.2 updater, which corrects the problem and enables you to
  update the installed copy of RAM Doubler and your master disk
  (unless your master disk is part of Microsoft Office). Brian Grove
  <[e-mail]>, RAM Doubler Product Manager, sent this
  partial list of problems fixed in RAM Doubler 1.5.2:

* Fixes CD-ROM and File Sharing problem where CD-ROM files would
  not appear.
* Certain CD-ROM sound files now play with RAM Doubler installed.
* Compatible with PowerPC 603.
* Fully compatible with PowerPC upgrade cards.

  The ReadMe file for RAM Doubler recommends several times that RAM
  Doubler and System 7.5 users should upgrade to System 7.5.1 using
  the System 7.5 Update 1.0 (see TidBITS-268_). The ReadMe also has
  a suggestion that DeskWriter users should note: if you print to a
  DeskWriter and the printing goes slowly or doesn't happen at all,
  the problem might be that you have _too_much_ free memory (our
  sympathies). The ReadMe file suggests launching a sufficient
  number of applications (or perhaps a special copy of SimpleText,
  set to consume a fair amount of RAM), such that the available free
  memory (as shown in the About This Macintosh window), falls to
  below 1500K. Connectix -- 800/950-5880 --  415/571-5100 --
  415/571-5195 (fax) -- <[e-mail]> [TJE]

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/cfg/ram-doubler-152-updt.hqx


**Windows 95 Internet Tools** -- I implied in the Cyberdog article
  in TidBITS-277_ that Windows 95 wouldn't come with Internet tools.
  That's sort of true - the latest word is that the Microsoft Plus
  Pack will contain the Web browser, the SMTP/POP extensions for
  Microsoft Exchange, extensions that map Windows 95 Shortcuts
  (they're like hard-coded aliases) to URLs, and a setup wizard.
  These tools will also be available for downloading, apparently.
  However, the TCP stack, the PPP dialer, and FTP and Telnet clients
  will ship with the base Windows 95 configuration. Or at least
  that's the plan now - it may change yet again. [ACE]


**Usenet Macintosh Programming Award Winners** -- Congratulations
  to the nominees and winners of the Usenet Macintosh Programming
  Awards! Organized by Matthew Mora <[e-mail]>, the
  awards not only highlight cool Mac programming feats, but also
  emphasize support of the net and those who have earned the respect
  of the Mac programming community.

  Nominations and categories were submitted from the
  comp.sys.mac.programmer.* hierarchy on Usenet, then votes were
  validated (you had to answer some geek questions!) and tabulated.
  This year's winners are:

* Commercial Product: CodeWarrior from Metrowerks
* Shareware Product: Anarchie from Peter N Lewis
* Freeware Product: WASTE from Marco Piovanelli
* Support of Mac Programming Community: Greg Galanos (Metrowerks)
* Official SmartFriend (most helpful net citizen): Jon Watte

  Winners will receive a plaque and t-shirt, plus a surprising array
  of prizes donated by vendors, including versions of CodeWarrior,
  Symantec C++, MPW Pro, BBEdit, and other programming tools and
  resources. For the time being, you can check out a list of winners
  and prizes at:

http://xavier.sri.com/AwardsForm.html

  Again, congratulations to all the winners and nominees! Your hard
  work, dedication, and innovation are greatly appreciated! [GD]


**George Bray** <[e-mail]> writes:
  Another good reason Apple should get Cyberdog out quickly, simply,
  and inexpensively is to lure other platforms to OpenDoc. Apple has
  a one-shot chance at proving all the theories behind OpenDoc. If
  the ingredients to make Cyberdog are freely available, you'll see
  it ported to OS/2 and NetWare. Now _that_ would be a real world
  example of cross-platform, object-oriented development, and one
  where a large proportion of Internet users would benefit.


Microsoft and Intuit Terminate Merger
-------------------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  Microsoft and Intuit announced on 20-May-95 they are terminating
  their planned $2 billion merger rather pursuing additional months
  of legal negotiation and investigation by the U.S. Justice
  Department (see TidBITS-275_). The merger, originally announced in
  October of 1994, would have been the largest in the history of the
  software industry.

  Speculation about the future of the deal began only the week
  before, when Microsoft failed to meet a filing deadline for a
  court brief, causing a temporary drop in Intuit's stock price.
  Until that point, it was widely anticipated that both companies
  would vigorously purse the deal, especially in light of recent
  announcements by BankAmerica and NationsBank that they plan to
  enter the electronic banking market.

  Asked about reasons for withdrawing the offer to buy Intuit,
  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been quoted as saying the
  industry is moving too fast for Microsoft to wait for the sale to
  go through. Some industry sources estimate it might have been as
  late as mid-1996 before the deal could be finalized - assuming it
  was approved under U.S. antitrust laws.

  Does this mean Microsoft is dropping its designs on electronic
  banking and commerce? Don't count on it. Microsoft continues to
  aggressively recruit vendors and businesses for its upcoming
  Microsoft Network online service and you can bet online
  transactions are part of the package. Also look for Microsoft to
  offer finance services in upcoming wireless devices and personal
  information managers, in addition to direct integration in desktop
  applications and versions of Windows.


Listen to Some RealAudio, or The Birth of InteRadio
---------------------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  I'm increasingly unimpressed by the so-called Internet
  breakthroughs that continually appear. Most trumpet their presence
  then fade away because they need too much bandwidth, are badly
  done, or don't solve any existing problems. But, as I write this
  in an older version of Nisus (a noted CPU hog), I have Anarchie
  downloading and uploading at the same time, Eudora sending some
  mail, and most notably, Progressive Networks' new RealAudio
  program playing some John Lee Hooker in real time over the
  Internet. If I was wearing socks, they would have been knocked off
  some time ago. Although I do have a 56K direct Internet
  connection, I'm in the middle of testing providers for the third
  edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (due out in late
  June), so I'm currently connected via a 14,400 bps PPP connection
  to Northwest Nexus. In other words, I'm jamming real-time audio
  through a standard modem.

  The Macintosh version of the RealAudio player is now in public
  beta, so check out the Web page below (which also has links to the
  known sites serving RealAudio files) to sign up for the beta
  program (which requires filling out a detailed online form via a
  Web browser). Nothing I've seen on the RealAudio Web site
  indicates whether or not the RealAudio Player will eventually be
  commercial software, although I wouldn't be surprised either way.

http://www.realaudio.com/

  Anyway, back to the testing. Let's be fair about this. Anarchie's
  having trouble getting much over 400 bytes per second, and
  Eudora's transfers were decidedly sluggish. But, the blues playing
  from Adam Curry's Metaverse site didn't cut out on me the entire
  time. And especially with Nisus 3.4 in the foreground, that's
  impressive.

http://curryco.com/.a/audio/index.html

  So what is RealAudio? It's a new way of delivering audio data over
  the Internet. You've been able to download sounds (often in the
  Sun .au format) of such highlights as President Clinton's cat
  meowing, and the Internet Underground Music Archive has done some
  interesting stuff. But it's a drag waiting around for a large
  audio file (and they're all large) to download just so you can
  play it. What RealAudio brings to the mix is real time playback.
  So although it's transferring heavily-compressed audio data over
  your MacTCP-based Internet connection, it plays what it transfers
  right away, rather than downloading an entire file and playing it
  later.

  RealAudio operates primarily as a helper application for Web
  browsers - you click on a link to a RealAudio file, and the Web
  browser passes it off to the RealAudio Player application. Also
  involved (I'm not quite sure what its purpose is yet) is a
  faceless background application called RealAudio Daemon that's
  installed in your Extensions folder. My suspicion is that the
  RealAudio Daemon is responsible for maintaining the performance
  even when the RealAudio Player is in the background.

  This morning I listened to about 20 minutes of Garrison Keillor's
  hilarious address to the National Press Club (they've got a number
  of other speeches you can hear), and although it was coming
  through in real time, I could still control my location in the
  segment with a graphical slider that indicated how far along I
  was. It tells you the exact timestamp of your location too, so
  it's easy to stop the program and start it up in the same spot
  later. You can pause and restart the audio stream, and if you
  click on additional links on one of these Web pages, RealAudio
  creates a playlist of what's coming up. You can remove and re-
  order items in the playlist, and when the current file stops
  playing, RealAudio starts the next one.

http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/Club/

  One of the reasons I'm tremendously excited about the potential of
  RealAudio on the Internet is that it could easily enable you to
  preview a low-quality (RealAudio has nothing on a CD player)
  version of an artist's work. If you decided you liked the music,
  it's trivial even now to order the CD over the Web from places
  like CDnow. And if the artist in question hasn't yet hit the big
  time, the Internet Underground Music Archive could perform a
  similar service.

http://www.cdnow.com/
http://www.iuma.com/

  In addition, unlike television, radio is for the most part
  extremely local and seldom has program listings, making it
  difficult to know which radio shows are on when. There are some
  radio shows that I'd love to hear, but which I can never remember
  to listen to or tape at the right time.

  I'm unsure what effect this real-time audio will have on the
  Internet itself. It's probably not a big deal for Metaverse to
  send me 43 minutes of American Blues, but what if 100 other people
  also want to listen at the same time? Connection speed shouldn't
  make much difference, since it will take everyone 43 minutes to
  listen to American Blues, so both the server and the Internet have
  to support that data stream for the entire time.

  The bad news for Mac users is that the (very expensive) RealAudio
  server runs only on Unix and Windows NT, and the RealAudio Studio
  program that you use to convert sound files into RealAudio format
  runs only under Windows. Still, the RealAudio player works fine on
  the Mac, and that's the first step. It might remain free to
  support sales of the RealAudio Studio and Server, or it might cost
  $20 or $30 - no telling yet. Still, give RealAudio a try - it's
  very cool.


Desktop Launchers, Part IV
--------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  It's time for the final installment of our desktop launcher
  series, which began back in TidBITS 275_. To review, the first two
  parts discussed two commercial desktop launchers, DragStrip and
  Square One. Both products cost only slightly more than some of the
  pricier shareware options, but they also offer more features than
  many of the non-commercial alternatives, and are worth a look if
  you have the money to spend and want a printed manual backed up by
  phone support.

  Part III veered away from commercial software, attempted to give
  less experienced readers an idea of typical desktop launcher
  features, and reviewed non-commercial applications that
  exemplified typical feature sets. If you read part III, I hope it
  alerted you to the wonderful variety of available applications and
  whetted your appetite for learning more of them. Part IV covers
  several more applications, and I saved some of the best for last.

  I want to include a correction to part III, where I failed to
  mention one of Launcher's important features. (Launcher is Apple's
  entry into the desktop launcher field.) Two readers wrote in to
  correct me on this point. Stephen Trujillo <[e-mail]>
  explained that "by creating a new folder inside the Launcher Items
  Folder in the System Folder, and preceding the name of that folder
  with a bullet (the character created by typing Option-8 in most
  typefaces), you can create a "button" which then appears as a
  "category," for want of a better term, along the top of the
  Launcher." Suman Chakrabarti <[e-mail]>, an
  enthusiastic Launcher user, added that "Launcher can handle up to
  seven such folders for a total of eight categories, with a
  capacity of 30 items per category."

  As an additional note, several readers have pointed out that
  placing carefully selected and arranged aliases on the desktop
  also provides basic launcher functionality, and this is certainly
  a pragmatic and inexpensive option. Also, there are various
  products that provide launcher-type capabilities and limit users'
  access to the contents of a disk. I'm not going to discuss those
  products in this series or my original trilogy would never end.

  Another type of product that deserves a mention is the droplet
  launcher - an application that serves as a launcher by letting you
  drop documents on it. My fellow TidBITS editors tell me that this
  is another article topic in its own right, but I want to mention
  one such droplet, DropZone.


**DropZone** -- J.S. Greenfield's shareware DropZone 3.1 does only
  one task: it provides a quick way to open or print documents in
  any application, not just the documents' default applications. For
  example, it could help you easily open a Word document in Word 5,
  not Word 6. To use DropZone, you set up two folders (or just one)
  with programs (or aliases to programs) that you want to open
  documents with. For example, I set up one folder with word
  processors and a second folder with compression utilities.

  Drag a document on the DropZone icon and DropZone responds with a
  dialog box where you can quickly choose a program to open the
  document. You can most easily choose from the programs in the two
  folders you set up, but you can navigate to any folder. If you
  notice that you always open certain types of documents with
  certain applications, you can use the DropZone Valet to make
  DropZone automatically open these documents with a specified
  application, without asking you to choose the application.
  DropZone Valet lets you match creator codes (four character codes
  that indicate the program that created a file), file types (four
  character codes that indicate the type of file, such as TEXT), and
  extensions (such as .sea or .etx). DropZone can be rather simple
  or somewhat sophisticated, depending on the level to which you
  employ and configure DropZone Valet.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/drop-zone-31.hqx


**PowerBar** -- Some desktop launchers work best if you have
  monitor space to spare. In particular, the $25 shareware PowerBar
  1.1.4 really shines if you've got the space for it to get
  comfortable. Written by Scott Johnson, PowerBar helps you switch
  between launched applications and launch new applications - plus
  it has a number of less-standard tricks up its sleeve. PowerBar is
  a control panel: when installed, you'll see a bar and several
  Status Pads when you switch to the Finder. Though PowerBar has a
  few rough edges, many of its features work together fluidly.

  PowerBar is fairly flexible, complete with tiles that accept
  documents, folders, and Special Commands. Special Commands are
  similar to Control Strip modules in that they add special
  functionality. One Special Command, the Alias Boss, has several
  alias-management functions, including the feature of letting you
  drag an icon on the Alias Boss tile to make an alias of the icon
  and also quickly place the alias in a specific folder. PowerBar
  does not accept Control Strip modules and it does not
  automatically display tiles for launched applications.

  PowerBar also offers Status Pads, informative buttons that tell
  you something about your Mac and give you one-click access to a
  related control. For example, the Printer Pad shows the name of
  the selected printer driver and whether or not AppleTalk is on.
  Clicking the Printer Pad opens the Chooser.

  I won't attempt to list every PowerBar feature, but I found two
  notable. First, you can Command-click a folder in the bar to
  display a pop-up (non-hierarchical) menu of its contents. Second,
  PowerBar can make the Applications menu into a hierarchical menu
  that lists open windows for each launched application.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/power-bar-113.hqx
ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/power-bar-113-to-114-updt.hqx


**List Launcher** -- If you don't have much monitor space, you
  might like Glenn Berntson's List Launcher. Although you can set up
  List Launcher a number of ways, I get the impression Glenn expects
  people will press a keyboard shortcut to launch it, use it to
  switch to a different application, and then automatically quit
  List Launcher during the switch. List Launcher marches to its own
  drummer, and may be a good option for people who need one of its
  specific features.

  List Launcher displays of a long list of files and folders (which
  you can add to through an SF-type dialog box or by dragging things
  in). Beneath the list, List Launcher offers a few buttons, which
  enable you to show selected items' path names and (optionally)
  copy the path names to the clipboard, open selected items' parent
  folders, launch selected items, and rename selected items (an
  easier way of renaming a batch of icons than renaming them in the
  Finder). Any button can operate on just one item or on a group of
  items. List Launcher does not support drag launching, but it does
  have a nifty rocket button for launching things.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/list-launcher-112.hqx


**PowerLaunch II **-- Roby Sherman's Power Launch II, version
  2.0.1, sports an eight-tile "application palette" with three
  parts. The top part shows the tiles, the bottom part (which can be
  hidden) shows buttons for various functions, including adding,
  moving, and removing tiles, and changing your monitor or sound
  settings. The middle part is perhaps the most unique. It shows a
  nicely-done status bar, which can (optionally) list the name of
  the tile that the pointer is over, or can be used as a pop-up menu
  to switch to a different palette.

  PowerLaunch II offers many standard features, including a number
  of different orientations and layouts for the application palette.
  You can only use it as an application switcher for applications
  stored on its tiles. It does not support Control Strips, but it
  does come with its own set of extensions that let you add more
  functionality. PowerLaunch cannot present you with a list of
  recently opened documents for a specific application, but the
  tiles of applications do act as pop-up menus, and you can add
  documents to those menus.

  One of PowerLaunch II's more unusual features allows you to set up
  special monitor and sound settings your Mac switches to if you
  launch (or switch to) a certain application from PowerLaunch II.
  You can also set the time that you want certain applications to
  launch and set an optional simple lock-out feature that password
  protects your Mac if you leave it unattended for a configurable
  amount of time. You can also (apparently) group documents in order
  to open them all at once - the documentation is sketchy on the
  capabilities and limitations of this feature.

  PowerLaunch II is a commercial application, though you'd think it
  was shareware unless you carefully read its ReadMe files. The
  program appears to function correctly without "activation," but
  you are supposed to pay for it. The cost is normally $30, though
  there is a $10 discount in a number of cases. Frankly, compared
  with other products I've discussed in this series, I would expect
  more of a $30 product that billed itself as "commercial."

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/power-launch-ii-201a.hqx


**HoverBar** -- HoverBar 1.2, written by Guy Fullerton, is a $5
  shareware application. Besides easily winning the award for
  inspiring the most laudatory comments from TidBITS readers,
  HoverBar's claim to fame is that its bars hover above your windows
  at all times. In this respect, HoverBar works like Desktop Strip
  (reviewed in part III, in TidBITS-277_), though the applications
  differ in other ways.

  HoverBar's features cover the usual bases. Bars can be horizontal
  or vertical, and tiles can display in small, medium, or large
  sizes. Names of tiles don't show on the tiles, but if you move the
  pointer over a specific tile, the name shows in the status field,
  a narrow strip below or alongside the bar. Bars never have blank
  tiles that you must ignore or try to eliminate by changing the
  size of the bar (typically blank tiles exist so that you can drag
  an item on them, thus adding the item to the tile); instead, you
  add items by dragging them to a special tile that has a plus sign
  on it. Launched applications' tiles have a slightly darker gray
  background than do inactive applications' tiles. You can put
  documents and folders on a bar, and you can move or copy a file
  into a folder by dragging it to a folder's tile.

  Besides its hovering abilities, HoverBar's main special feature is
  that you can set up a bar to only show when a specific application
  is active. HoverBar also has several options for hiding and
  displaying its bars, though you cannot minimize them. HoverBar's
  ReadMe file notes that it does not work with WindowShade, a
  window-shrinking utility that comes with System 7.5 and later. It
  also vaguely notes possible problems with Word, Excel, and
  Quicken.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/hover-bar-12.hqx


**The Tilery** -- The Tilery 3.0, (formerly Applicon) a freeware
  application written by Rick Holzgrafe of Semicolon Software, does
  a lot of things right. Its Preferences dialog box brought a grin
  to my face by not only including relatively standard options such
  as setting a hot spot to bring The Tilery to the front and
  changing the appearance of icons on the tiles (small icon, large
  icon, or name), but also by letting me color the tiles (one color
  for launched applications, another color for everything else). I
  also got to choose a color for the sides of the current
  application's tile.

  The Tilery includes a Help menu, which lets you easily find
  answers to questions like "how do I add a tile?" Because The
  Tilery has been around a while, I think Rick has had a chance to
  carefully consider and smooth some of the rough edges that often
  come with a desktop launcher.

  Most launchers employ at least two strips: one for launched
  applications, and one for things you want to keep around. The
  Tilery has no strip per se; it just has tiles that you can drag
  about independently and arrange as you like, in neat columns and
  rows (or not) as you wish. Like HoverBar, the Tilery never shows
  blank tiles - to create a new tile, you drag an item over Tilery's
  own tile (which sports the Tilery's application icon).

  The Tilery has two kinds of tiles: regular and remembered. A
  regular tile appears when you launch an application, and that tile
  lets you do things relating to that application while it is
  launched. If you launch an application for which you don't want to
  see a tile, you can hide the tile, and it won't ever show again
  unless you unhide it. Remembered tiles can be applications,
  folders, or files, and they stick around until you ask The Tilery
  to forget them. This process is nicely implemented and clearly
  explained; you can just fall into this method of using the program
  without devoting many brain cycles to figuring it out.

  The Tilery does not support Control Strip modules, but besides
  that it has all the basic features and many more subtle niceties
  than those I've mentioned. The Tilery also gets the nod for an
  excellent ReadMe file, which is incorporated in a rather nifty
  little reader called PocketDoc that Rick Holzgrafe also wrote.

http://www.opendoor.com/Rick/Semicolon.html
ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/tilery-30.hqx


**Winding Down** -- In preparing this series, I briefly played
  with each launcher. I set up a number of them and tried to use
  them in my daily routine, including Square One, DragThing, Desktop
  Strip, HoverBar, and The Tilery. All in all, I've discovered three
  things about myself: First, I love using keyboard shortcuts to
  launch and switch to frequently used applications. Now Software's
  Now Menus is one of many utilities that offers this feature, and
  I'm still a dedicated Now Menus user. Second, I don't have enough
  monitor space for hovering. I initially thought Desktop Strip's
  and HoverBar's hovering features were way cool, but my 16-inch and
  13-inch dual monitor setup is already too full with all the
  information that I'm typing or looking at. Third, I'm a sucker for
  eye candy. The Tilery ultimately won my pick as my desktop
  launcher of choice. It has a number of features that work well,
  and its unique ability to color its tiles decreases eyestrain and
  adds a fun touch to my desktop.

  That's it! I know I didn't cover every desktop launcher available,
  but I hope you have a better idea of what's out there. If you
  think a desktop launcher will make your Macintosh more efficient,
  more elegant, or more fun, I encourage you to take a few of them
  out for a test drive. If you already use a desktop launcher, I
  hope this article has confirmed your desktop launcher of choice or
  helped you choose upon a better one.


Reviews/22-May-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 15-May-95, Vol. 9, #20
    Imaxis 2.0 -- pg. 29
    Vision 32 4.0 -- pg. 29
    OptiMem RAM Charger 2.01 -- pg. 31
    Aladdin Desktop Tools 1.0 -- pg. 32

* InfoWorld -- 15-May-95, Vol. 17, #20
    Macromedia FreeHand for Macintosh 5.0 -- pg. 77


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