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Stone Design: Stone Studio
The rants, raves, requests, redolent random reverberations of the Stone Design software team, led by Andrew Stone - who has been developing in Cocoa since 1989 when it began as NeXTStep. Learn secret tricks of Create, PhotoToWeb, GIFfun, SliceAndDice, TimeEqualsMoney, PackUpAndGo, PStill, TrueBlue, DOCtor, StampInStone and other 100% Native OS X applications...
        

Tuesday, May 14, 2002


We got out the new revs of the Stone Studio - no wonder I've been ignoring the blog! Check out http://www.stone.com/pr/Stone_Studio_May_2002.html to learn more!

12:18:50 PM    
1:06:11 PM    


Well - I haven’t had much to say lately - which means GOOD THINGS are coming! Our artist just whipped up some cool Create Label Templates [17K] which are very useful for Neato CDs and a bunch of Avery standard label sizes.
4:05:16 PM    
1:05:51 PM    


DOCtor, our GNU and totally free MS WORD to PS and PDF conversion application has a new version with
  • Check for Updates
  • Better handling of long file names

Download App
Download Source
1:08:05 PM    
1:05:25 PM    


- announcing TrueBlue 1.2 here first!

Stone Design's free TrueType to PostScript Font Convertor with these improvements:
  • Check for Updates feature
  • Handles all mac font suitcases, including .suit's
Download TrueBlue v1.2.
3:40:59 PM    
1:05:04 PM    


This may save someone from having to reinstall your OS X when things go totally awry:

How to totally reset nvram on TiBook

1. remove battery & ac cord
2. hold down the < reset button next to the phone jack for 10 seconds
3. wait 30 seconds
4. plug in battery and ac cord
5. boot 3 times with
   <COMMAND> <OPTION> P R depressed
6. boot into open firmware with
   <COMMAND> <OPTION> O F
7. type:
reset-nvram <RETURN>
reset-all <RETURN>



1:04:45 PM    



Had fun and sold bunches of Stone Studio at the Sante Fe Mac Users Group last night!
Here's a cool plug-in for iPhoto that makes PhotoToWeb albums out of your photos, for totally controlling web output: iPhoto to PhotoToWeb Export PlugIn

iPhoto to PhotoToWeb Export PlugIn home page>

1:04:21 PM    

PANIC said my kernel!
DON’T PANIC said Doug Adams.

I lost my boot drive in a rough crash - and with it went Radio Userland and all my customizations.

Here are a few of my last postings re-added so my home page is not so dismally empty!



1:03:36 PM    


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