On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:22 PM, CR wrote:
At 2:48 AM -0400 10/13/05, Bruce Johnson:
What programs do you NEED Classic for? Perhaps we can suggest
alternatives.
TouchBase Pro: Address book. No real excuse but laziness here.
Could, Can. Should simply export to a FileMaker file. It started
acting funny after I ran Print SetUp Repair. Giving me "not enough
memory" boxes. Odd.
If you can export to a CSV file, you can probably import them into
the built-in Address Book.
Quicken: Tiger, of course comes with a 2004 or 2005 version. I
almost immediately reverted to my 98 version because they
eliminated the recently opened account bar. Can you believe it? Now
you can select accounts you want in the bar, they don't interact
with your use. I called them. No joy. I use that bar regularly in
every session. Alternative suggestions appreciated.
Maybe there's a hack.
There's Moneydance <http://www.moneydance.com/>, and Apple has a long
list of OS X business and finance apps <http://www.apple.com/
downloads/macosx/business_finance/>.
PhotoShop: I haven't had much time to work in PhotoShop lately,
Newest version is OK but seems excessively top heavy. Then one has
to find out where they put everything. So at times I have reverted.
Check out PS Elements? Graphic Converter is also a surprisingly
useful photo manipulation tool and though it's more oriented towards
scientific applications, the venerable NIH Image has been brought
into this century with ImageJ <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/>
On the more artistic end there's the free ArtRage <http://
www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html>, lotsof fun.
InControl: Calendar and To Do List. Now this one goes way back to
7.x. Still works though. Haven't found anything close in terms of
features. Outline. Drag and drop items to Calendar. Easy reminders.
Never liked the daily ToDo list though and would like better sort
options. They folded a long time ago. Alternative suggestions
appreciated.
What about iCal? Comes with every Mac.
Quark 4: I could never afford an upgrade and I went to a lot of
trouble creating some templates. Must be something simpler though
available by now. I saw something called "PageUp" on a friends Mac.
Maybe?
That might be Pages <http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/> part of
iWork. It's procey, but you might be able to crossgrade your Quark to
InDesign, which is (imo) infinitely better.
MacDraw: Not really on this list, as it doesn't work at all in
Classic, but I missed it terribly. Found JfDraw.jar though which
looks promising and has even more features and it's free. Others
might want to check it out.
MacDraw Pro works just fine in classic. There's a bug in the program,
though (which also manifested in OS 9, iirc) in that you cannot re-
save a file if MDP is running from a disk > 2GB.
A workaround I've discovered (very useful since I have several
professors with LOTS of old figures in MacDraw Pro) is to make a disk
image using Disk Utility, then storing the MacDraw program on it. It
doesn't need to be very large at all.
Then when you want to use MacDraw Pro, double-click on the disk
image, then double-click on the MD icon.
Also, there's Inkscape <http://www.inkscape.org/> which is more of a
Illustrator replacement. This is an X-windows app, not entirely Mac-
like, but there's a Mac installer.
There's also NeoOffice, which includes a drawing component; it's more
of a MS Office replacement, though.
NotePad: I ran a version I liked a lot in 9.1. Haven't found
anything to replace it. Someone claims a replacement but it didn't
have the same features.
iNotePad <http://www.vojousoftware.com/inotepad.html>
Notepad 2.5 <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20548>
Notes <http://www.ayanamichan.com/richard/notes/>
Jotz <http://www.thinkertons.com/>
I myself never used notepad all that much once I realized that most
OS X apps allow you to select something in a window and drag it off
to the desktop as a clipping. That replaced my use of notepad
entirely back in OS 9 when I discovered it, and it's very useful in
OS X.
For notes I need to make to myself, there's always Stickies, or the
Dock Stickies.
for plain text editing, I use TextWrangler which is the OS X
replacement for the old BBEdit Lite, a stunningly powerful piece of
free software. <http://www.bbedit.com>.
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Bruce Johnson
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