Odds & Ends: ACTION Menus; SoftWindows; Toast; more

ACTION Menus Several readers noted that, unlike Now Utilities WYSIWYG, Action Menus does not give you the ability to change the font style and size of menus.

ACTION WYSIWYG does give you this ability.

Menuette also does, and Matt Neuburg adds: "It works great with ACTION Menus."

SoftWindows Y2K bug free fix Insignia Solutions announced a while ago that SoftPC and earlier versions of SoftWindows had a Y2K bug, and the only solution they've offered is buying an upgrade. Michael Bernstein notes there's a free solution available at this web page.

Toast: unidentified extension conflict confirmed Scott Frey writes: "While testing a Spressa drive, I was unable to burn any sort of audio CD (from any source) in Toast 4. Adaptec tech support had me disable all of my extensions except the following: Toast CD reader, Toast USB Alpha Bridge, Toast USB Support, Toast USB Shuttle Bridge, Toast USB ShuttleIn Bridge. This worked. Scott has not yet identified the conflicting extension.

Update: Denise McNickle adds: "I have a G4 450 and have no problem using my Sony Spressa USB CD-RW once I installed Toast 4 and completely removed any of the Sony software and drivers. The Sony Drive will not mount CDs but I have successfully burned audio and data CDs.

Streaming media via SimpleText Gilbert Dong found that SimpleText not only plays QuickTime movies, but can play QuickTime streaming video/audio. He used it to hear NPR. This is on a PowerBase running OS 9 with QuickTime 4.03. The only oddity is that the browser was set to use QuickTime Player, so he is not sure why SimpleText even launched.