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Skidperfect Utilities
Applications:
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FC Text-Picture 1.1.3
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Freeware - 1993-1995
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FC Text-Picture converts pictures and
icons into stylized text. This is useful
if you want to include a small image in a
place that you normally couldn't (ie. any
standard Mac text box). Popular uses of
this program include SimpleText documents,
Macromedia's Director text fields, and
online programs like FirstClass and
eWorld.
This was my first widely popular
application. I originally wrote it in 1993
so I could put pictures inside my
FirstClass personal information. People
found it to be useful on other online
systems too, like eWorld, so it spread
quite fast back then.
Awards: Received an honorable
mention in MacUser's 1996 HandsOn
shareware awards (and also got 5
mice in their Mac Download reviews).
Runner up for the shareware of the year
award in the June 1996 MacWorld
magazine.
Reviews: Ezine30-3
Big-Sky Mac User Group (B-smug).
All original 1800 lines of THINK Pascal
source
code are publically available for your
enjoyment.
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CopyQueuer 1.0
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Freeware - 18.July.94
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CopyQueuer (pronounced Copy - Q - er)
lets you make a list of files to be
copied, and then instructs the Finder to
copy them in one big batch job. This is quite
useful for copying many files from
different locations with System 7,
especially if you are coping them over a
slow AppleTalk network. CopyQueuer is
compatible with OS 8 and 9, but is not
as necessary because
of the Finder's built-in background copying.
Reviews: Rated 4
mice by Mac Download (Aug 1996)
“a must-have for anyone who moves
lots of files around from one volume to
another.”
5 Feb 2000 - CQ has been
re-released as Freeware with improved
documentation and publicly available
source
code.
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Suitcase Maker 1.0
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Freeware - 24.Nov.92
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Allows you to quickly create empty Font
and DA suitcases. I still use this program
after 8 years!
This was my first real Mac application
publicly released under the Skidperfect
Software flag. (My previous efforts were
HyperCard stacks.) I wrote this program as
I was beginning to learn the Mac toolbox
on my B&W SE/30 (a friend's Mac II ci
was used for the color about box).)
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Function Keys (FKEYs):
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FKEYs are small system
programs that are run by pressing
Command (Apple key) + Shift +
number (0-9). For the last decade
the Mac OS has come with four
FKEYs built in: numbers 1 to 4,
leaving slots 5 through 9 and 0
free for other programs. Below
are some FKEYs that you may want
to add to your system.
The following FKEYs come in
two forms: an Installer and a
Font Suitcase. The Installer will
copy the FKEY in into your active
System file and allow you to set
the id number. If you don't want
to modify your System, you can
choose to install the FKEY by
dropping the Font Suitcase into
your Fonts folder (or onto the
closed System Folder icon). If
you want to configure the id
number though, you'll have to use
a resource editor such as ResEdit
before you do this.
Full THINK Pascal source code
is included with each of the
FKEYs below. The Installer’s
source
code is also available.
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AppleEvent Restart 1.2
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Freeware - 1993
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This FKEY will restart your computer
just like the Restart menu command in the
Finder.
If, for some reason, the Finder is not
running when this FKEY is activated (ex.
if you quit the Finder with Terminator
Strip), the Mac will still be
restarted in a nice manner.
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Quick Set Volume 2.0
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Freeware - 1993
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An FKEY for easily setting the System's
sound volume (0-7). You can choose whether
the change will be temporary or remembered
after restart (stored in the PRAM).
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FC Text Insert 1.0
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Freeware - 1994
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This FKEY will paste the contents of a
text file into the front window. It will
also copy the text file's style info which
makes it useful for pasting text-pictures
into First Class windows.
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Strip
Hider FKEY 1.0
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Freeware - 24.May.95
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This FKEY will toggle the visility of
your Control Strip bar. Also works with
Extensions Strip, and any other clone that
supports SBShowHideControlStrip().
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System Extensions (INITs):
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Close It! 1.0
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Freeware - 2.June.95
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Provides a nifty way of closing
windows. With this extension installed,
holding down the command and control keys
while clicking on a window will close it.
Also, if the window belongs to an
application that is not in front, you will
be returned to the front process.
Note: this functionality has been
integrated into my Control
Strip Module Terminator Strip adding
the ability to configure the modifier
keys. Full THINK C source code is
included.
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Control Strip Loader 1.0
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Freeware - 23.June.95
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Forces Apple's Control Strip 1.x to
load on startup if you have disabled
extensions (held down the shift key on
startup). This was useful in the good old
days for module development when you had
to restart to try out each build. Soon
after making this hack, I began work on
Extensions Strip so restarts would no
longer be necessary (well, for that reason
at least :-\ ).
Doesn't work with Control Strip 2.x
(part of OS 8.5 and later) or Extensions
Strip. Full THINK Pascal source code is
included.
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