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- Spring has sprung, and it's time to tidy up and
- redecorate your Apple II. There have been some
- interesting files uploaded in the last few months;
- some serve no purpose other than decoration, while
- others are extremely useful tools. Let's take a
- look.
-
- Right off the top, if you're tired of the bland old
- Finder Desktop, it's time you dressed it up. Start
- with this file:
-
- Number Name Uploader File Size
- --------------------------------------------------
- 21669 APPLE.INIT.BXY A.RAHIMZADEH 12416
- Desc: A really cool desktop background!
-
- Apple.Init puts a colorful Apple on your Finder
- Desktop. All you have to do is drop it in your
- System Setup folder and reboot. Or you might prefer
- the following file, which places a picture of the
- Earth on the Desktop.
-
- 22252 EARTHINIT.BXY S.HORSTMAN 5632
- Desc: Desktop Init - View of Earth
-
- For variety, get a whole group of different
- backgrounds by downloading:
-
- 22343 PLATO.BACKG.BXY A.HUTCHINSON 83712
- Desc: Some favorite Finder backgrounds
-
- Add new and different sounds by grabbing a group of
- customized beeps in a file from from Tony Morales:
-
- 21919 BELLINITS.BXY T.MORALES 2688
- Desc: Change the sound of your IIgs bell
-
-
- If you want functionality AND looks, try out
- Lunatics' Bleach Init, which eliminates those ugly
- yellow folders under System Software 6.0.1, both on
- the Desktop and in standard file dialogs:
-
- 22081 BLEACH.V1.1.BXY LUNATIC 6016
- Desc: Makes Finder/STD FILE folders white!
-
- Harold Hislops' Magic Menu adds a good deal of
- functionality to your menu bar:
-
- 22344 MENUMAGIC.BXY H.HISLOP 6656
- Desc: A neat Menu Automator PIF
-
- Functionality is also added to Info dialogs by
- Lunatic with this Finder Extension:
-
- 22082 NO.2.V103.BXY LUNATIC 32000
- Desc: FExt: "We want information!" on OA-I
-
-
- Eliminate having to continually empty your trash
- with this:
-
- 21740 TRASH.IT.BXY SNAKEBYTES 11904
- Desc: Auto-empties the Finder's trash.
-
- If you don't like having to grab your mouse, you
- owe it to yourself to get this one:
-
- 21906 WINDOWKEYS.BXY SNAKEBYTES 11008
- Desc: Move/scroll Finder windows w/keybrd
-
-
- If you want to do more than just dress up the
- Finder, add these tools to view pictures and hear
- sounds without launching applications:
-
- 22084 EAR1.1.BXY E.ROSENBERG 11136
- Desc: Hear sounds directly from Finder
-
- 22083 EYE1.1.BXY E.ROSENBERG 13440
- Desc: View graphics & more from Finder
-
-
- Finally, here are three NDA files that offer easy
- access to useful information, and ways to
- manipulate it.
-
- 22328 CALENDARNDA.BXY G.ENGELKEMEI 13440
- Desc: Perpetual calendar NDA v1.2
-
- 22272 SCRAPMSTR.BXY H.HISLOP 5248
- Desc: A scrapbook like NDA
-
- 21932 SHEPCLIP.BXY E.SHEPHERD 3840
- Desc: Show Clipboard NDA for System 6.0.1
-
-
- This is far from a complete list of the neat
- applications available in the A2 Library, but it
- should provide you with a good starting place, and
- an idea of the sort of things that can be done.
- There are lots of Extensions that provide useful
- additions to the Finder, NDAs that let you
- manipulate files in various ways, and patch
- programs to tailor some of your programs to work
- the way you want them to. Spring's the time to turn
- your computer into a system that looks like YOU
- want it to all year long!
-
-