Connectix PowerBook Utilities comments?
Steve Maller
PowerBook Utilities) is worth the investment.
Any comments?
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Steve Maller st...@maller.com http://www.maller.com/
Free-Range Programmer Amalgamated Software Industries
Brian Hall
protection at boot and wake from sleep (it also displays your name,
address and phone number while waiting for the password), power saving,
and instant wake/sleep (gets rid of the "are you sure you want to put the
PowerBook to sleep; you may lose network..." message). It's probably
worth buying; it does almost everything you could want (displays of all
sorts; clock, CPU speed, battery life, etc.).
Brian
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Mark W Modrall
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David Brostoff
> I just got a PowerBook 540c and I'm worndering whether CPU (Connectix
> PowerBook Utilities) is worth the investment.
I find CPU *indispensable* because of the Keyboard Power feature.
Keyboard Power allows you to access most menu and dialog items from the
keyboard instead of the trackpad.
A possible drawback, although not for my setup, is that in order to get
Keyboard Power to work correctly, you have to have RAM Doubler (or Virtual
Memory) active.
--David Brostoff
Matthew Plumb
bros...@sirius.com (David Brostoff) wrote:
Funny, now that I have a PowerBook 540 with two batteries that's almost
always plugged in anyway, I thought I could dump CPU. Then I tried to
work without Keyboard Power and found I couldn't. I'd have to say CPU is
definitely worth the money, but more for the "power user" features than
the power conservation features!
---Matthew W. Plumb, Lifetime NRA Member
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of
people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially
when young, how to use them...."
Richard Henry Lee, 1788
Mr. Slippery
(Matthew Plumb) wrote:
> In article <brostoff-271...@ppp010-sf1.sirius.com>,
> bros...@sirius.com (David Brostoff) wrote:
>
> >In article <steve-27109...@goliath.maller.com>, st...@maller.com
> >(Steve Maller) wrote:
> >
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> >I find CPU *indispensable* because of the Keyboard Power feature.
> >Keyboard Power allows you to access most menu and dialog items from the
> >keyboard instead of the trackpad.
> >
> >A possible drawback, although not for my setup, is that in order to get
> >Keyboard Power to work correctly, you have to have RAM Doubler (or Virtual
> >Memory) active.
>
> Funny, now that I have a PowerBook 540 with two batteries that's almost
> always plugged in anyway, I thought I could dump CPU. Then I tried to
> work without Keyboard Power and found I couldn't. I'd have to say CPU is
> definitely worth the money, but more for the "power user" features than
> the power conservation features!
>
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Am I sure glad to find that there are at least 2 other users in the world
who find Keyboard Power insdipensible! I thought I was the only one who
used this obscure feature. My copy came free, pre-installed on my Mac in
a product called CDU, (some Energy Star stuff, that maybe I should use,
but don't). But the ability to always hit buttons in dialog boxes I
wouldn't give up. I hadn't remembered that you need run with virtual
memory to get it to work, but since I use RAM Doubler all the time anyway,
that's no big deal. Maybe that's why Connectix let Apple give it away
free -- to create a bigger market!
Anyone know if there a stand-alone version of Keyboard Power? (a
serarate extension?)
Matthew Plumb
(David Birdsong) wrote:
>: Funny, now that I have a PowerBook 540 with two batteries that's almost
>: always plugged in anyway, I thought I could dump CPU. Then I tried to
>: work without Keyboard Power and found I couldn't. I'd have to say CPU is
>: definitely worth the money, but more for the "power user" features than
>: the power conservation features!
>
>I just started using CPU after using Claris PowerToGO for a while, and I
>have to say that the power user features are far better, but I think
>powertoGo was much better than CPU so far... I hope that it is just
>learning my system and that it will get me the battary life that
>PowertoGo did.
I don't think CPU _will_ "learn your system." The reason I like CPU's
power management features is because you have total control of every
aspect. I used to get 6 to 8 hours of use from my PowerBook 100 with CPU
installed. I haven't really used my 540 on batteries enough to get a
battery life estimate. But the way you set up CPU will certainly affect
your battery life.
If you use your machine for taking notes like I did, I'd recommend that
you set the "Rest Processor" to 5 seconds or even less, the screen dimming
interval as low as you can stand, and spin the hard drive down in about 15
seconds. Then as you work for the first few days, pay attention to your
system and adjust settings accordingly. Oh, and remember to turn off
AppleTalk when you're not using it.
---Matthew Plumb, Lifetime NRA Member
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright
force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." "The great object
is that every man be armed" and "everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry, During Virginia's ratification convention, 1788
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Peter Payne
> I just got a PowerBook 540c and I'm worndering whether CPU (Connectix
> PowerBook Utilities) is worth the investment.
>
> Any comments?
I love CPU, but on the other hand I have always had crashes with my 280.
I am currently not using it, to see if the crashes lessen. They maybe
possibly have a little. Does anyone else have a problem with CPU?
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Martin Jourdan
(Peter Payne) wrote (écrivait) :
|> I love CPU, but on the other hand I have always had crashes with my 280.
|> Does anyone else have a problem with CPU?
CPU 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 run fine on my heavily-loaded 280, except that some
features have *always* refused to work, in particular "extended keys"
(which I really miss). Apart from that, I think that CPU is great for its
power management, security and "keyboard power" features.
Martin Jourdan
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Matthew Plumb
>Steve Maller <st...@maller.com> wrote:
>
>> I just got a PowerBook 540c and I'm worndering whether CPU (Connectix
>> PowerBook Utilities) is worth the investment.
>>
>> Any comments?
>
>I love CPU, but on the other hand I have always had crashes with my 280.
>I am currently not using it, to see if the crashes lessen. They maybe
>possibly have a little. Does anyone else have a problem with CPU?
I've used CPU for several years as I worked my way up from a 100 to a 160
to a 540 and I've never had a crash that I could blame on CPU. I'd hate
to see a rumor get started here!
---Matthew W. Plumb, Lifetime NRA Member
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people ... To disarm
the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason, during Virginia's
ratification convention, 1788
Paul Nam
Would you mind explaining what Keyboard Power is? Is it like Now Menu's and
QuicKey's ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items, or is it
something totally different.
Thanks.
Paul
min...@twics.com
In article <brostoff-271...@ppp010-sf1.sirius.com>,
bros...@sirius.com (David Brostoff) wrote:
:In article <steve-27109...@goliath.maller.com>, st...@maller.com
:(Steve Maller) wrote:
:
:> I just got a PowerBook 540c and I'm worndering whether CPU (Connectix
:> PowerBook Utilities) is worth the investment.
:
:I find CPU *indispensable* because of the Keyboard Power feature.
:Keyboard Power allows you to access most menu and dialog items from the
:keyboard instead of the trackpad.
:
:A possible drawback, although not for my setup, is that in order to get
:Keyboard Power to work correctly, you have to have RAM Doubler (or Virtual
:Memory) active.
:
:--David Brostoff
Mike Cohen
min...@twics.com (Paul Nam) wrote:
>David,
>
>Would you mind explaining what Keyboard Power is? Is it like Now Menu's and
>QuicKey's ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items, or is it
>something totally different.
>
CPU has several great keyboard features. My favorite is it lets you map
extended keyboard functions like pagup, page down, home, and end to any
keys you wish. It also automatically assigns keyboard shortcuts to menu
commands & buttons.
--
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Matthew Plumb
>In article <ACC2F912...@d14.dial.twics.com>,
>min...@twics.com (Paul Nam) wrote:
>
>>David,
>>
>>Would you mind explaining what Keyboard Power is? Is it like Now Menu's and
>>QuicKey's ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items, or is it
>>something totally different.
>>
>
>CPU has several great keyboard features. My favorite is it lets you map
>extended keyboard functions like pagup, page down, home, and end to any
>keys you wish. It also automatically assigns keyboard shortcuts to menu
>commands & buttons.
Actually, keyboard power makes your Mac menus work just like the ones in
Windows! Horrors, I know! But it really saves a lot of time. You press
cntl + one of the other modifier keys and the first letter of the menu
to pull it down, the the first letter of the item in the menu to select
it. I've gotten so used to it I can't seem to work without it. Funny
thing is I use a Windoze machine about 12 hours a day at work, but I don't
use the same menu selection method--I always use the mouse. Go figure!
---Matthew Plumb, Lifetime NRA Member
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright
force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." "The great object
is that every man be armed" and "everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry, During Virginia's ratification convention, 1788
David Brostoff
> QuicKey's ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items, or is it
> something totally different.
Assigning keyboard shortcuts for menu items with Now Menus or QuicKeys is
only partially helpful. It works for menus only, and only those you
program for it. Also, you have to remember the key combinations.
Keyboard Power automatically underlines a letter in every item in menus,
dialog boxes and control panels. Instead of having to remember a key
combination, you see the underlined letter on the screen. You can then
choose an item by pressing Control+Shift (or Control+another key you
choose) plus that letter, without having to use the trackpad/trackball or
pick up the mouse.
Another CPU feature, Keyboard Menus, lets you use the arrow keys to move
within and between menus.
To me, Keyboard Power is the difference between touch-tone and rotary dialing.
David Brostoff