Odds & Ends

IomegaWare conflict Although overall feedback for IomegaWare 1.1.3 has been positive, two readers (Steve Payne and Devesh Komaromi) report getting system crashes whenever they launch the new Iomega Tools. Devesh found that reverting to the 6.0.2 version of the Iomega driver fixed the problem. Steve found that the Global Village Teleport 56 1.0.3 control panel was the source of the conflict. He disabled it and Iomega Tools launched just fine.

Video Wizard a no go on G3/BW's? Two readers (Jim Ridenour and Will Loving ) report that Micro Conversions' Video Wizard card does not work in a G3/BW. The machine may not even boot with the card installed. Will was told by Micro Conversions that WizardWare v1.8 (not yet released) will fix the long-standing problem of only being able to display TV video on the monitor running off the card, which must be the primary monitor (with the menu bar). It was not clear if it will fix the G3/BW problem.

Spell Catcher conflict confirmed; upgrade coming Casady & Greene confirmed a conflict between Spell Catcher 1.6 and BBEdit, where BBEdit palettes often disappear. A forthcoming major upgrade to Spell Catcher will fix the problem. (Thanks also to Jeff Gates.)

Freehand converter AppleScript Ian Kelleigh has created an AppleScript that will batch convert old FreeHand documents into the new FreeHand 8 format.

Utility question Does any one know of a freeware/shareware utility that works similarly to SCSIProbe, but lists and mounts IDE/ATAPI devices as well as SCSI ones? If it also works for USB and/or FireWire devices, even better.

Update: A few readers suggested Mt. Everything. I tried it; it did not list IDE devices on my Macs. Drive Setup works of course and readers say Silverlining Lite also works. I was looking for a utility that was not also a disk formatting utility, but I guess these will have to do.

USB cards and wake-from-sleep crashes: a follow-up The newest versions of Apple's USB DDK remedied the crash when waking from sleep problem that one reader was having after installing a USB card in his beige G3 (see previous report).

MacWEEK in PDF format coming in May Starting in May, Mac Publishing will launch a PDF version of MacWEEK. It will contain selected content from MacWEEK Online. This was reported on several web sites (such as this one) and we had it confirmed by MacWEEK. MacWEEK now has a page where you can sign up to subscribe.

ATM 4.5 coming A MacWEEK article says to expect Adobe Type Manager 4.5 soon. Sources said the new version of the font-management and rasterizing application will offer a spruced-up interface and support for double-byte fonts.

Sony PlayStation to add USB and FireWire Yet another MacWEEK/Macworld article notes that the next version of Sony PlayStation will have FireWire and USB support.

Internet Explorer 5.0 has been released for Windows. A Mac version is still in the beta stages.