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jinnee utilities
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The jinnee demo release includes several useful freeware utilities...

Menu3D
MagiC (and possibly MultiTOS/N.AES)
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If you're a MagiC user who likes the 3D system look have you ever wondered why the menu bar and drop down menus have been left boring black and white? Obviously Manfred Lippert has and has created Menu3D which, when placed in your auto starting apps folder, turns your menu bar and drop down menus grey. At only 1.5Kb it won't eat into your memory reserves as much as Stewart, which offers this feature alongside 3D text, spinboxes, rounded screen corners, nicelines, logo display, clock/date and coloured menus but unless you want some of these other features Menu3D is ideal.


PopFold
All Ataris

Popup menus are easy to use and a common interface feature in most applications these days. In case you hadn't noticed (I hadn't) when a popup menu is open background tasks are stopped in their tracks. It seems a shame after all the effort put into persuading programmers to use non-modal (non-system blocking) dialogs the humble popup takes us back to square one.
PopFold, programmed by Holger Weets, is the solution. Add this utility to your auto starting apps folder and popups become multi-tasking aware. It's not quite that simple as programmers have to support PopFold and currently only jinnee (and several beta releases of other products) do.

SysSound
Falcon/MagiC Mac

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If you're into sound effects and you own a Falcon (or MagiC Mac running MACSOUND.PRG) check out this tiny (1.7Kb) utility programmed by Manfred Lippert.
SysSound replaces the annoying default system ping and, under MagiC, adds sound effects when "shading" or "unshading windows".
Install a copy in your auto starting apps folder along with the three samples provided (or your own saved at 25KHz in 8-bit mono) and you're in business.

You can install all three utilities along with the three sound samples and still have change from 30Kb so I did! Alternatively you can leave out any of the samples and SysSound will skip that particular feature. If you're not running MagiC you an leave out the window shading samples but replace the system ping with a sample of your choice. The German demo version of jinnee is available for download via ftp from the ASH web page at:

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Kev Beardsworth
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