• MoonMenu™ Extension adds a moon in the current lunar phase to your menubar.
• MoonMenu™ Application allows you to enter any date to see what the moon phase is, was, or will be.
The MoonMenu, when selected, reveals a textual description of the moon phase, illumination percentage, the moon's age in days, and the current lunation number.
Enjoy!
How do I Register MoonMenu™?
MoonMenu™ is Shareware! If you use it, you have to pay.
Visit our web site at <http://www.selznick.com> for information about our different payment methods, including secure on-line credit card orders, fax orders, phone orders, purchase orders, and mail orders.
MoonMenu™ costs US$12 for a single user license.
Thank you for supporting our efforts! We hope you enjoy using MoonMenu™ as much as we've enjoyed writing it!
Thanks!
Sanford H. Selznick
s3support@selznick.com
How do I install and use MoonMenu™?
Install: Drag the "MoonMenu™ Extension" file to the icon of your System Folder. When prompted to place the file into the Extensions Folder, answer Yes. Reboot your Macintosh. (Be sure to delete all previous versions of the MoonMenu™ from this folder!)
Use: Click in the menu. Selecting any of the first eight items will copy the lunar data to the clipboard.
Tip #1: Use the MoonMenu™ Application to see the lunar data for any given day!
Tip #2: Hold down the option-key on startup to NOT load MoonMenu™.
Changes through 1.6.1
* Fixed small problem with Registration Warning dialog (It came up twice in a row in 1.6).
Changes through 1.6
* Daylight savings time options added to menu vis-a-vis application settings.
* Daylight savings time options added to application settings.
* Phase icons added to MoonMenu items.
* Copying menu items to clipboard can now handle longer text. (esp. for international users.)
Changes through 1.5
* Saved changes in MoonMenu application take effect after application quits.
* Added messages after save button to avoid confusion.
* Added Blue Moon rendering! The second full moon of the month is now colored blue, for
both the extension and the application. (See blue moons for January and March of 1999.)
* Added settings panel to change brightness of moon.
* Saving brightness preferences between runs.
* Added buttons to advance and regress through whole lunations (via Full Moons).
* Reorganized application interface to make it easier to use.
* MoonMenu now runs much more efficiently on older 68K Macs.
* MacOS 7.5 is now required for the extension to run.
* Added quarter predictions, with buttons, to the "Calculations" tab.
Changes through 1.2
* Added minor increment buttons to application. Hold down option-key for four increments.
* Added "Now" button to application.
* All times are UT/GMT. Even for the menu.
* Fixed Moon descriptor strings.
Changes through 1.1
* Completely rewrote calculation engine. Times and dates are +/- one minute relative to U.S. Naval Observatory published ephemris.
* MoonMenu Application has buttons to advance you to the previous new moon, next new moon, and quarters inbetween.
* The extension now shows dates of upcoming new moon, first quarter, full moon, and last quarter in the system menu.
Changes through 1.0.4
* Time of lunation 0 adjusted for daylight savings time. Moon age is from GMT.
* The moon is now upside-down if you're using MoonMenu below the equator. Be sure your correct time zone is set in the Date and Time control panel.
Changes through 1.0.3
* Fixed crash with "Custom" format selected in "Numbers" control panel.
Changes through 1.0.2
* Using a more accurate Pi for higher fidelity mid-month calculations. Remember that everything is an approximation.
Changes through 1.0.1
* A reboot is no longer required after registering the extension.
* Application now includes a time field.
* Illumination percentage no longer off by 0.5.
* Reorganized code a bit so the extension will run on MacOS 7.0.1 or better. Please contact support for special registration file as "S3 Register Products" only works with MacOS 8.1 or better.
* Changed name of MoonMenu application window to MoonMenu.
* Added balloon help and extensions manager description string to extension.
* Added 'sysz' resource to extension to keep Conflict Catcher happy.
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