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SweetMail 2.1r10 Email Client

SweetMail does multiple accounts, threading, SMTP authentication, etc.

See my recent review of SweetMail for more details:
http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/sm21.shtml

New in version 2.1r10 (18.Jan.,'02)
• Now, you can select just received mailbox window action in preferences.
• Misc.

New in version 2.1r9 (17.Jan.,'02)
• Fixed a problem with memory management.
• Fixed a problem on remote window.
• Now, the Just-Received window does not came front automatically.

System requirements:
• System 7.1 or newer (68k through OS X supported)
 
SweetMail is $28.00 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~sweet/mail/

TinkerTool 2.1 Adds Functionality And Options To Many OS X Features

Do you want to control anti-aliasing of fonts? Would you like translucent terminal windows? Do you want to have all hidden files and folders displayed in the Finder? All that and many more hidden options of Mac OS X can be activated with the TinkerTool utility.

Without using the command-line, you can activate the following preference options:

• Enable or disable the Mac OS Desktop
• Disable the animation effect when opening files
• Show hidden and system files in the Finder
• Make the Finder a standard application with a "Quit" menu item
• Control display options for the Finder's column view
• Control the scaling options for the Desktop background image
• Set the Dock position and pinning
• Select the Dock animation effect
• Use transparent Dock icons to mark hidden applications
• Select different styles for display of the scrollbar arrows
• Control automatic play of audio CDs or DVDs
• Set the file format for screenshots
• Change the language for startup and login without having to reinstall the OS
• Select the default fonts used in Cocoa applications
• Activate transparent Terminal windows
• Control font-smoothing in most Mac OS X applications

TinkerTool 2 is a module for the System Preferences application. Installation is done automatically, an installer application is included.

The program is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 (or later versions) only. If you want to use TinkerTool with earlier versions of Mac OS X, please use TinkerTool 1.52 instead.

New in this version:
• TinkerTool now comes with an automatic installer. The installer makes handling easier and uses workarounds for bugs in Mac OS X 10.1 that could prevent TinkerTool from appearing in System Preferences. Additionally, it is now possible to deselect TinkerTool language packages during installation. The installer itself supports 15 different languages.
• A Swedish language package has been added.
• The Icelandic language package had to be removed. However, a preliminary package is still included.
• A new reset button allows users to reset preferences not only to Apple's defaults but also to the state they were before using TinkerTool 2.1.
• New: a "Quit" menu item can be added to the Finder
• New: it is possible to control options of the Finder's column view. Icons, arrows, and the preview column can be disabled.
• New: the maximum number of lines the Finder uses to display long file names in icon view mode can be set
• New: the Finder can be relaunched from within TinkerTool to make its settings take effect immediately
• New: the file format for screenshots can be set
• An additional warning that explains the Finder's auto-correction of background image settings has been added
• Cosmetic fix: the version warning regarding incompatible operating systems appeared as panel, not as sheet
• Cosmetic fix: touching but not changing the startup language setting sometimes caused a password panel to appear. It now appears only if necessary
• Bug fix: the reset button established the "separate arrows" preference for scrollbar view mode. This has been corrected to "at both ends"
• Bug fix: changing scrollbar view mode displayed a "login to activate" message. This has been corrected to a "relaunch applications" message
• Bug fix: changing the startup language only had an effect on the boot phase but not on the login window. This problem has been fixed
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
 
TinkerToolis freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool2.html

Radio UserLand 8.0.5 Desktop Website Management Tool

An easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop, so it's fast, and ready to go when you are. Radio UserLand automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- without any knowledge of HTML, FTP, or graphic design. All you need to do is install Radio and begin publishing, in minutes, not days. You can publish written text, links, photos, documents, and much more with just a single click of your mouse. Best of all, you can do all of this in your favorite browser.

Key Radio UserLand Features
• Easy browser-based editing. Use your browser to post items to your home page and write stories.
• Powerful publishing. Update your site through Radio's one-click publishing. Upstream files, documents, and pictures to your website by dropping them in a folder. Let Radio do all the work.
• Get news delivered to you. Subscribe to hundreds of news sites and personal Weblogs. Radio automatically gathers news from all of these sources and displays them on a convenient news page. You can easily publish this news to your weblog with two clicks of your mouse.
• Become a Web Service. Radio automatically turns the content on your weblog into a XML feed that can be syndicated and subscribed to by other Radio users.
• It works through firewalls. Radio enables you to publish your weblog through a firewall or NAT.
• Get your own Web URL. Every Radio user gets free hosting of their website for one year with their purchase of Radio. No need to pay extra hosting fees.
• Works with any Web hosting service. Radio sites can be sent to any ISP. All you need to do is enter your FTP account information.
• Works Offline. Edit your site while on the road or disconnected. Since Radio lives on your desktop or laptop, you can add to your site even when not connected. When you connect again, Radio will make all the updates for you.
• Easy navigation. Radio enables readers to access back-issues of your weblog through a intuitive calendar on the homepage. Every day has its own URL.
• Full content management system under the hood. Templates, stories, pictures. Macros and a complete scripting engine connect to Radio's powerful content management environment.
• Super-quick setup. After downloading the software you'll be editing your first site in your browser, in the time it would take to get a cup of coffee.
• Complete control. Change the look, fonts, colors, type, and more.
• Friendly community. When you start your Weblog you are joining a huge community of other webloggers. Radio includes information on your site's traffic, referrers to your site, and recently updated sites. Radio automatically connects you to this community, no additional work is needed.

New in this version:
• Web Services. You can become a web service as simply as dropping a script into Radio's Web Services folder.
• SCNS -- Simple Cross Network Scripting. You can call XML-RPC and SOAP services in a single line of UserTalk code.
• Various bugs with accented (international) characters have been fixed.
• Stories are now edited in the browser, instead of in an external text editor. This makes it possible to edit stories remotely.
• Radio supports the BloggerAPI, as a server. You can use any BloggerAPI-compatible client to post to your Radio weblog.
 
System requirements:
• System 7.5.5 or higher
 
Radio UserLand is $39.95 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://radio.userland.com/

iSwipe 1.0b19 Multi-Protocol Search And Download Tool For The Mac

iSwipe searches AND downloads from the Web, and the FTP, Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster and Gnutella networks. It also searches the Carracho network. It includes a download manager, featuring retries and resumable downloads, and 4 slots each for FTP, HTTP, Hotline and Napster downloads (Gnutella downloads use a HTTP slot). It also includes an AutoSearch feature, which keeps a list of those elusive files that you want and can never find online.
 
New in this version:
• Faster and more stable OSX version ("E" version)
• Minor bug fixes
 
System requirements:
• PPC
 
iSwipe is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.hillmanminx.com/

FTP_iDrop 2.0b3 Configurable Droplet To Upload File(s) To ftp Sites

AppleScript droplet which uploads dropped file or files to one or multiple FTP sites. Configurable options include binhexing, authentication and replacing.
 
New in this version:
• Compatibility with Mac OSX
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS 8.6 - OS X 10.1.2
 
FTP_iDrop is $10.00 shareware

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http://homepage.mac.com/techknowsean/scripts.html

CopyPaste X 1.1 Multiple Clipboard Display/Editor Utility

One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. CopyPaste gives you this and much more. It turns out that having additional clipboards is incredibly useful. CopyPaste eliminates tedious repetitive work and increases your ability to get the job done.

CopyPaste-X magnifies the clipboard in many ways.

• Clipboard Extender - adds an infinite number of easy to access clipboards via menu or key command. Without CopyPaste the Mac has only one clipboard.
• Clip Recorder - remembers the last 10 items copied via command c and keeps them in a stack.
• Clipboard Editor - Edit any clipboard by simply double clicking in any clipboard palette.
• Save Clipboards thru Restarts - allows all 10 Clipboards to be saved thru Shutdown or Restart. Without CopyPaste the Mac does not save its clipboard.
• Drag and Drop - allows dragging anything to and from the CopyPaste Palette. Not only selections from a program, but also text, picture, sound or ClipSet files can be dragged. Now uses Quicktime to read files.

Registered users receive: The built in abilities of CopyPaste-X +
• A key to remove the startup (reminder) dialog
• E-mail hotline tech support (rarely needed but nice)
• Restore Clipboards at Restart is available only to registered users
• The knowledge that they are participating in the evolution of CopyPaste
• Email notifying you immediately of new versions
• Clip Archive in full is available only to registered users
• Good karma and a deep refreshing sleep at night

New in this version:
• The palettes for the Extender and the Recorder show a preview of a copied picture when you point your mouse to a clipboard.
• You can now create as many Clip Sets you like. They get listed in the "Clip Set" menu located at the bottom of the Clipboard Extender Palette. You can create rename or delete any Clip Set.
• The editor now supports tabs, currently set to a default width
• The Special menu in the Editor has two new commands, "Insert Long Date" and "Insert Bahá'í Date"

Improvements:
• The palettes for the Extender and the Recorder are resizable now.
• If you select the format "Plain" on a selection of text in the Editor, the color will return to black and sub- or superscript formating will return to the baseline.
• the "Statistics" function now works on selected text. If nothing is selected, it shows information about the entire text.

Bugfixes:
• Many problems with the display of Japanese text have been solved.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
 
CopyPaste X is $20.00 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste/cpx.html

Caps2MIDI 1.0.4 Turns Your Keyboard Into A MIDI Controller

Caps2MIDI is a Mac Software which lets you play MIDI Notes using the key caps of your Mac keyboard. Of course, it is difficult to play Zawinulish solos with the key caps of your Mac, but it's a cheap and compact solution for every case you have no access to or place for a real MIDI Keyboard.

• Caps2MIDI is full compatible with the most music applications and software synthesizers on the Mac, e.g. with Reason, Cubase, Logic, Absynth.
• Support of english, german, french, swedish and italian keyboards.
• Option: Use the wheel of your Microsoft IntelliMouse (or compatible) to change the velocity or to send modulation events on the fly.
• Caps2MIDI offers useful shortcuts, e.g. to change the keyboard range.
• Use Caps2MIDI to send Program Changes.
• Caps2MIDI lets you transform single notes into chords.

New in this version:
• Support of more keyboard layouts.
• MIDI Send Channel is adjustable.
• Program Changes.
• Additional Shortcuts.
 
System requirements:
• PPC
• Mac OS 9
• OMS 2.3.8, any OMS compatible music software
 
Caps2MIDI is $16.00 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.alker.com/caps2midi/

Bambini 2.2 Simple Game For Babies

Developer notes:

I wrote this program for my daughter. She is one year old and loves to sit at my Macintosh. There she presses several keys on the keyboard. And if something happens she smiles.

So I wrote this program. At every keyboard touch something happens on the monitor and a sound will play.

New in this version:
• Compressed the images for the animal images much better. So I reduced the space for the program. Another feature is, that you can switch from the fullscreen modus back to the normal modus.

For all people, who don't have a Macintosh exists the Java version Jambini. It is necessary to install the Sun Java VM 1.1.8, not newer.
 
Bambini is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://home.t-online.de/home/MC.Richter/BambiniE.htm

Apex Racing 1.1 Text Based Car Racing Game

Apex Racing a text base racing game. You control a fast car speeding through a multitude of levels. Once you beat those which ship with the game (good luck), you can even make your own and play those too. The best part? Apex Racing is completely free.

New in this version:
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Apex to crash when it started up.
• Changed the interface to make it more intuitive.
• Recompiled to make it work nicely under OS X 10.1
• Fixed a bug dealing with high scores
• Flicker free rendering engine
• Made the car appear farther up on the screen allowing for better response times.
• Optimized the icon for OS X
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X
 
Apex Racing is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.danicsoft.com

dockDoubler1.0 Allows You To Switch Between Two Docks

dockDoubler simply makes a copy of the default Dock (the Dock in use) and allow the user to switch between the two Docks.
 
dockDoubler is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.daniele.ch/downloads.html

AquilaCalendar 1.11 Menu Bar Calendar

AquilaCalendar includes a menu bar calendar and also allows unlimited calendar windows to be open at once in either, one, three, six or twelve month views. Each view can have any combination of years or months you can think of from 1000 AD to 3000 AD.

Calendars can be customized through the preferences to allow different colors for days, weekends, holidays, evets and special days. Week numbers and days can also be shown. Other freature include difference in dates calculations, time clock, month view offsets and drag-n-drop month reordering along with date text value.

A simple todo and notes manager is accessible through side-out drawers, the notes list allows for either general notes (Notes not assigned to a day) or date notes (Notes attached to a particular date) are stored in a XML format.

Our extensive on-line help systems is fully searchable giving easy access to all advanced features. AquilaCalendar takes advantage of all the advanced COCOA feature not available in Carbon.

International includes German and Dutch languages.

New in this version:
• Calendar Menu Bar shows current date now (Can be turned off in preferences).
• Disable Auto-Updates is now a preference option.
• Calendar windows can now be set to open with the toolbar closed.
• Menu Bar Calendar selects current date when first opened.
• Menu Bar Calendar changes to correct date at midnight.
• Week Numbers having a border has been removed.
• Dock menu Toggle Menu Bar Calendar now works correctly.
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
• 128 MB RAM
 
AquilaCalendar is $20.00 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.avcore-systems.com/

For more information about the latest Mac software releases and updates, you'll find it on the Applelinks Search Engine here:
http://www.applelinks.com/pages/search.shtml

Charles W. Moore