Black Cat Systems announces that a pre-release of MultiMode 2 is now available. The current pre-release version is 2.0.0a4. This version addresses conflicts with some printer drivers, particularly those from Epson. It also offers improvements to the Bit Rate tuning mode, which is useful for determining the transmission characteristics of unknown radio-teletype stations, and correctly decoding them.

MultiMode is a shareware application which allows your Macintosh to decode several different modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave radio. It is the only program of its kind for the Macintosh, and rivals commercial packages for the PC platform costing hundreds of dollars.

MultiMode allows you to decode and display morse code, RTTY, Fax, SSTV, ACARS, and many other modes on your Mac, without any extra hardware! MultiMode now also allows you to transmit in most of the modes of operation.

http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/MultiMode2.html

Never forget a birthday or anniversary again!

With Birthdays and Such, the delightfully simple reminder program, when you turn on your Mac a small window comes up telling you about: – the important birthdays approaching in the next few days and how old each of your friends and relatives will be; – the anniversaries coming up and how many years the couple has been married; and – the other important dates in your life, be they bills coming due, recurring doctor appointments to set up, or meetings to attend…

The new version of Birthdays and Such, the most frequently used daily reminder program on the Macintosh, lets you write longer reminders–room enough for your friend’s phone number and address, the present you gave your best friend last Christmas, or the location of that bottle of French wine you squirrelled away for your 25th anniversary. Version 1.3 also fixes an infrequent but potentially annoying memory leak when the program is left running for a month or longer without restarting.

The Price for this program is “What it’s worth”, which means you pay what you think it costs.

http://members.aol.com/RonLichty/Birthdays

Blue Label has released another update to its new emulator yesterday. The following problems were fixed:

- Fixed a problem with Error Type 3 at emulator startup time. – Fixed a problem with Monitors & Sound control panel crash. – Fixed a problem with keyboard on the G3 Blue&White and iMac (Rev. C). Keyboard did not recognize any pressed key. – Fixed a problem with floppy disk in left bay on PowerBook. The drive was not recognized by Blue Label PowerEmulator. – Fixed a problem with a diskette eject key assignment in the Standard Floppy Disk 1.44 component setup. – Fixed a problem with non existing drive A: (B:) – Fixed a problem with stop at “Setting Clock:”stage in Linux. – Fixed a problem with incorrect message in the Ethernet LSS-NE2000 setup. The “NET LSS-2000 V1.0″ message appeared instead of “No Ethernet found” message. – Fixed a problem with PCI Bus component crash on G3 Blue&White. (Error Type 3)

You can download the update at http://www.lismoresoft.com/update.htm

Panic has released Transmit 1.5 today which fixes on some major bugs including a crash when Cancel was clicked After establishing a connection but before a list of files was shown, Type 12 Crashes, Type 1, 2 and 3 crashes, and a problem where sometimes transmit would not quit properly.

Download Transmit 1.5 at http://www.panic.com/transmit/download.html

Semicolon Software today announced the release of version 3.4.1 of Solitaire Till Dawn, its popular shareware card game collection. This release fixes a bug which left an invisible temporary file behind after quitting. The file would be visible in the Trash after the next restart. Due to a separate bug in Mac OS 8.1, the temporary file could also cause a crash or other misbehavior at system shutdown. We recommend that all users upgrade.

Solitaire Till Dawn combines attractive graphics, a smooth and simple user interface, and powerful features in a package that wins rave reviews. Its 34 different games range from the simple to the complex, and from the familar to the exotic.

Download Solitaire Till Dawn at http://www.semicolon.com/DownloadPage.html

Vimage today announced the availability of driver updates for two of its most popular products. The Vpower PB 1400 G3/233 CPU upgrade for the PowerBook 1400; and, the Vpower PF G3/240 CPU upgrade for the Performa and Power Macintosh 54xx/55xx/64xx/65xx.

The new software for the PB 1400–which is the same driver used for the new Vpower PB 2400 series–solves a compatibility issue that some upgraded 1400s were having with MacOS 8.5 when virtual memory was turned on. In addition, it adds a control strip module that enables the user to adjust his or her backside cache speed ratio. By reducing this ratio to its lowest setting, a user can prolong battery life by up to 15%.

The other software solves a compatibility issue that a small number of Apus 2000/160 computers were having with the PF G3/240 card. The Apus is a flavor of Umax clone whose sales have chiefly been outside the US.

Western Civilisation announces the release and immediate availability of Style Master 1.2 , an important upgrade to the cascading style sheet editor that makes this new web standard accessible to all web developers.

Now web masters of all levels of expertise can create and edit cascading style sheets that will work every time in targeted browsers, and easily integrate them with their sites. But most importantly, Style Master uses innovative online help to guide users through the pitfalls of style sheets, particularly selectors, and the problem of developing for different browsers that support style sheets only partially.

Improvements to this version include

* integrated style sheet advice to smooth the learning curve for new style sheets developers, and save experienced developers trips to their reference material. * improved compatibility information for the major browsers. Style Master now covers compatibility in each version of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer on both the Macintosh and Windows, including hints for working around known bugs. * for advanced users, style sheets can now be edited directly, as well as with our intuitive editors. * whole sites can now be linked to a style sheet with one action.

And a host of other improvements that aid usability and productivity.

In short, the best style sheet editor on any platform just got better.

Style Master comes with our acclaimed style sheets reference and guide, and a valuable hands-on tutorial that will get new developers up to speed fast with style sheets.

The cost for Style Master is $29.00. http://www.westciv.com/style_master/

MacSelect is having a special blowout sale. The following is the latest price list:

XLR8 220/110/512k $249 XLR8 233/117/512k $299 XLR8 266/133/512k $339 XLR8 266/266/1MB $399 XLR8 250/250/1MB $379 XLR8 275/275/1MB $419 XLR8 300/200/512k $449 XLR8 300/300/1MB $499 XLR8 400/200/1MB $999

http://www.macselect.com

Aladdin Systems is having a special offer where they will be selling Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher 8 for US$59.95. $20 off the regular price of US$79.95. This offer is limited and is available at http://www.digitalriver.com/aladdin/concatch8/15018. Conflict Catcher is the #1 utility for tracking down conflicts.

Curry Software has released Reading Machine 1.0 for Macintosh. Reading Machine is a shareware solution for paced reading with electronic texts at home or school. The Reading Machine offers three reading methods (left to right eye training, vertically scrolling text, and book-style reading) with choice of reading speed, font, colors, and layout. Features include reading aloud with Macintosh speech synthesis, computer-generated test questions for instant feedback on any text, style shortcuts to save font and color settings, bookmarks and section markers, text searching, removing line breaks and HTML tags from text, voice and balloon help, and a built-in user guide.

Download Reading Machine 1.0 at http://www.kagi.com/curry