Odds & Ends: Java-based email encoder;

FAXstf and Word; Excel cursor oddity; IXMicro cards A Java-based email address encoder Regarding yesterday's mention of JavaScript-Wrapping Email Address Encoder: there is now a Java Version. A GUI program written in Java 1.2, it has all of the same functionality as the original (encodes the email address, wraps the validating result in JavaScript), but now you can run the thing directly on your Mac. [Note: Spam Stopper also does this.]

FAXstf faxes Word pages as blank? Scott Rose tried using FAXstf X to fax a Microsoft Word v. X document. The faxed pages were all blank. We have no other reports of this as yet.

Excel cursor oddity Noah Rosenstein found that if an Excel v. X worksheet is not protected, the cursor moves down when you press the Enter key. However, if the worksheet is protected, the cursor moves to the right. The Return key works correctly either way.

Update: John Smith suggests that this may be "fixable" by toggling an Excel preference.

IXMicro: okay for X but not 9.2? Regarding yesterday's item on success using an "old" IXMicro video card with OS X: Gary Hobish confirmed this but found it precipitated a freeze when he tried to boot in Mac OS 9.2.x. "The symptoms depend on which level of driver is present- one symptom is a freeze whenever you use a drop menu, or scroll anything, on the second screen. The problem seems to affect only 133MHz bus speed CPUs."