Using Cube Speakers with other Macs; Photoshop blends and After Effects; Quicken & CarbonLib; more

Getting Cube speakers to work with other Macs Philipp Conrad could get his G4 Cube speakers to work with other USB Macs by copying the Sound Manager, Sound Control Panel and USB Device Manager files from the Cube to the other Mac. [We suspect that only the Device Manager file was required.] MouseWare extensions and AppleScript recording freeze Karlheinz Dobler found that his iMac would freeze whenever he started recording an AppleScript with ScriptEditor. Disabling his MouseWare extension and control panel (version 3.5 or 3.5.1, for his Logitech USB mouse) eliminated the freeze. Update: Richard Platt notes that this bug was confirmed to him by Logitech. His solution was to switch to USB Overdrive. Photoshop and After Effects Mark Nathan writes: "I have found Photoshop 6 blending effects (layer effects) do not import in to Adobe's After Effects as previous Photoshop 5.5 files do." Quicken and CarbonLib work-around Paul Strand offers a work-around for the Quicken 2001 crashed linked to CarbonLib (see previous item): "Instead of disabling CarbonLib, go to the Chooser and select any other printer but the HP DeskWriter 6.0.4 and the Reports function will work correctly (although you still will not be able to use the HP to print it). If you don't have another printer other then the HP, you can then export the report and open it in Excel or any text program, go back to your Chooser and select the HP printer and print." A reminder re AppleTalk Ethernet glitch Jeff Blume reminds us of a long-standing issue with older Macs and Ethernet: "Until recently I had my home-office networked with a simple cross-over cable between an iMac and a Mac clone (UMAX C600). If the clone was powered up without the iMac, AppleTalk would get no response from Ethernet, so it would shift the AppleTalk control panel setting to the printer port. Adding an Ethernet switch has helped this, but still, if both the iMac and the switch are turned off, the printer port is selected." The solution, of course, is to go to the AppleTalk control panel and reselect Ethernet. Note: as far as we can tell, this is not an issue with newer Macs that do not have serial ports. Update: Paul Dagleish notes that you can prevent this change from occurring by going into Administration mode (via the User Mode command) and selecting to lock the Connect Via line. The only problem here is that if you do wish to revert to a non-Ethernet selection, you will have to undo this and possible restart the Mac.