Elite Apple Awards
by John Brochu

Control-Click!
http://www.venweb.com/controlclick/

Looking to extend the capabilities of OS 8's contextual menus? This site can help you out. Featuring a comprehensive list of all known CM plug-ins, Control-Click! (named after the technique used to invoke a contextual menu) is an invaluable resource for those wishing to extend the power and ease-of-use of OS 8. Includes a 'wish list' and daily news of new plug-ins.

Control Strip Haven
http://www2.gol.com/users/sytsma/csm/

This site tracks known plug in modules for the Apple Control Strip, including those included with applications, as well as Control Strip alternatives. Includes well-organized listings and descriptions of all known CS modules, with links to the author's site and downloads. Another invaluable resource!

Fontaholics Anonymous
http://www.flash.net/~fontahol/

If you're in search of that special font to put the finishing touch on your document, you'd do well to check out this site before shelling out the bucks for a commercial font. FA lists shareware and freeware fonts available on the web, as well as font-related utilities and links to other font archives and resources. A font junky's heaven!

 
Check them out on the SiteLink website at http://www.sitelink.net/SiteLinkEliteApples.shtml


             John Brochu
              jbrochu@mediaone.net

 


Ron's Recommended Sites
by Ron Freeman
This month's theme: Folk Music

I am a rather poor guitar player who likes to play folk music. Since nobody else in America seems to listen to folk music anymore, I have to get music off of the internet. While the internet may be full of pop tablatures, it is really lacking in folk music, so this month's article is devoted to what I could find. If any of you know of a web site where I could find chords to all sorts of Johnny Cash songs, I'd be much obliged.

OLGA
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/OLGA/all/

While not devoted to folk music, OLGA has a ton of stuff in every category. The fellas that run this really deserve a pat on the back. Where else could I find "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"? If you know of any folk music that they don't have, send it in and be appreciated by... dozens!

Richard Robinson's Tunebook
http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes/RRTunebook/tunebook.html

This site features Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian, French, and Balkan music. Whew, and we can't get a good American folk music page. You've got to respect people who put this much time and energy into something they love. It's neat to hear how this kind of foreign folk music has affected our beloved American folk music.

What we've accomplished today

I hope that this has drawn attention to a serious problem with the internet and I hope all of you will email me the addresses of all the thousands of folk music sites that I have overlooked. Also, I think that I've shown to all of you that my column can be about darn near anything.


             Ron W. Freeman
               ron@applewizards.net



   


                                          http://www.applewizards.net/