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Netscape X 7.1 Web Browser

Why Switch to Netscape 7.1?
More and more people are interested in choosing their software rather than just using what comes loaded on their machines. Netscape 7.1 offers you a real choice. You get more done with Netscape 7.1 because it fits the way you use the Web.

• Bookmark groups for tabbed pages
• AIM with the browser with buddy icons
• Custom labels in mail
• Quick search in mail
• Quick launch
• Pause and resume in download manager

New In Netscape 7.1
• Junk Mail Controls
• International Domain Names (IDN) make it possible to use characters from virtually any language (e.g., French, Japanese, Russian) for domain names.
• Radio@Netscape Plus
• Find As You Type, for navigating web pages using your keyboard
• Automatic image resizing, so that large images fit in the browser window
• Address Book sync with PalmTM-compatible devices
• Many feature and usability improvements, including enhancements to message filters and instant messaging
• Improved performance and stability

System requirements:
Operating Systems   Mac OS X 10.1.x
Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

Minimum Hardware  
PowerPC 604e 266 MHz
G3, G4, 64 MB RAM
72 MB hard drive space

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

For more information, visit:
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp

Mozilla 1.4 - Mozilla.org's Next Generation Web Browser

Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

New in this version:
• Mozilla's bookmarks have been overhauled. Bookmarks now include a root level folder, the ability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location, site icons in the Bookmark Manager and Bookmarks Sidebar, and separators now have support for labels.
• Composer now supports click and drag dynamic image and table resizing. If an image is selected or if the caret is placed inside a table, eight resizing handles appear and allow to resize the image/table with a simple click/drag/release. In the case of an image, the resizing is done real-time and a semi-opaque shadow of the image at its target size is shown during resizing. A tooltip shows in real-time the target size in pixels, and the relative change in pixels too.
• Mail now has junk-mail context menu items, a "delete junk mail" menu item and many other usability improvements for junk-mail controls.
• Pop-up blocking has been streamlined to improve usability.
• Users can now specify "blank page," "home page," or "Last page visited" for each of first window, new window and new tab.
• Users can now specify default font, size and color for HTML mail compose.
• Image blocking/disabling is now more flexible and users can "view image" to see blocked or not loaded images.
• "Launch file" after downloading has been enabled for .exe files
• Proxy auto-config (PAC) failover has been implemented
• Mozilla 1.4 contains thousands of additional bugfixes, including changes to improve performance, stability, web site compatability, standards support, and usability.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Mozilla is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

Subrosasoft Screenboard 1.0 Lets Others View Your Screen

SubRosaSoft ScreenBoard lets others on your network watch your screen in a web browser.

You can select how often you want it (from 1 second to 1 minute) and Screenboard will save a screenshot (in jpeg format) and a web page (in html format) to the folder of your choice. If you select to save the files into your built in personal web server folder - users on your network (or internet) can view your screen in their web browser.

Ideal for labs, demonstrations, conferences, presentations, and any time you want to show others what you are doing.

SubRosaSoft ScreenBoard is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=414

Emailchemy 1.5.1 Universal Email Import/Export Utility

Emailchemy is a utility that helps you regain ownership of your email. Emailchemy reads email from the proprietary formats of the most popular (and many of yesterday's forgotton) email applications and converts it to a standard, portable format that any application can use.

The primary idea behind Emailchemy was to convert all the various proprietary email formats to The One True E-mail Format - RFC-822 (recently updated to RFC-2822, but we'll still refer to it as RFC-822 to avoid confusion). This is the official Internet/ARPAnet standard for email that has been around since 1973. However, Emailchemy was built with a “pluggable” architecture that allows it to easily convert to other formats as well.

Things you can do with Emailchemy:
• Convert email to standard formats
• Repair or clean mailbox files
• Remove proprietary extensions from mailbox files
• Condense/split email files and archives
• Prepare email for entry into a database
• Make older email Year 2000 compliant

Supported Email Formats

Emailchemy currently can read the email files and mailboxes from:
• Claris Emailer 1.x for Macintosh
• Claris Emailer 2.0 for Macintosh (yes, that includes 2.0v3!)
• Entourage
• Eudora
• Mac OS X Mail
• Mozilla
• Mulberry
• Neoplanet
• Netscape
• Opera 4, 5, & 6
• Outlook Express 4 and 5 Macintosh
• Outlook Express 4, 5 and 6 for Windows
• Outlook Express 5 for UNIX/Solaris
• PowerTalk/AOCE for Macintosh
• QuickMail Pro for Macintosh
• QuickMail Pro for Windows
• any UNIX-style mailbox (BSD mbox format)

Emailchemy currently can rewrite any of the above formats into:
• RFC-822 mailboxes (commonly known as “mbox” or “UNIX-style”)
• Folders of individual RFC-822 email files (.txt or .eml files)
• Comma-separated value files (.csv)
• Apple’s Mail.app format
• Eudora for Macintosh

New in This Version
Version 1.5.1 is a maintenance release that features:
• Mulberry wizard
• Netscape/Mozilla wizard
• Bug fixes
• OE4 Mac converter no longer skips to end of file when encountering a deleted message
• Emailer 2.0 wizard no longer freezes when encountering missing folders or invalid filename characters in folder names.
• Restored nested output from wizards for some output formats.

System Requirements

Emailchemy runs on:
• Mac OS X, version 10.1.3 or higher, with the Java 1.3.1 Update 1 installed.
• Mac OS X "Jaguar", version 10.2 or higher.
• Windows, Linux, Solaris, or UNIX with Java version 1.3.1 or higher. Get the latest version of Java from http://java.sun.com/getjava.
• Note: some Windows drivers for older video cards conflict with Java 1.4.1. See the Java 1.4.1 release notes for details, but Windows users should use Java 1.4.0 until they update their video cards and/or drivers.

Emailchemy is $25.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/index.html

LiveSearch 1.0.1 Powerful File Launcher And Finder

LiveSearch is a powerful file launch and search program for Mac OS X.

Features
• Locate any type of file in an instant by typing just a few letters
• Recognizes many common file types such as applications, folders, invisible files, movies, MP3s, pictures, and many more "out of the box"
• Create your own search sets with an easy and intuitive interface
• Perform actions on files such as move, rename, copy, reveal, trash, and more
• Traditional "find" feature that's faster and more accurate than the Apple Finder
• Customizable toolbar
• Minimization
• Powerful image browser
• Learns your preferred typing patterns
• Scans Safari bookmarks
• Scans automatically at regular intervals or when the screensaver is active
• Regular expression support
• Confidence sorting
• Dynamically tracks duplicate and most recent files
• View and change file attributes such as date, visibility, and type/creator code
• Batch modification of files
• Hide and show the dock icon on the fly
• Filter volumes, folders, and files that you don't want scanned
• Hot key brings LiveSearch to the front on command

New in 1.0.1
• Added Internet version checking
• Ensures that main window appears when LiveSearch comes to the foreground
• Ensures that the search field is in focus when the window appears
• Enhanced popup button graphics
• Search matching settings in prefs window weren't working
• Ensures that various settings are synchronized across all menus and popup buttons
• LiveSearch now updates the login items if its path has changed since the last launch
• Fixed a problem where you couldn't switch search sets until after scanning
• Fixed a crash that could happen when scanning "specific places"

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.5 or higher

LiveSearch is $18.00 shareware

System requirements:
http://www.lumacode.com/livesearch/

QuoEdit 1.0.8 AppleScript & WorldScript Savvy Text Editor

QuoEdit is a plain text editor that runs on Mac OS 7.1 and later. While multi-styled editors are popular these days, plain text editor would be still one of fundamental tools to deal efficiently with text. So it might be good idea to use text editors properly depending on the works to do.

While QuoEdit is a very ordinary text editor, the most significant feature of it is probably that it supports AppleScript powerfully. Scriptable: full features (and more) of the application can be controlled by script (in AppleScript compatible manner). Recordable: you can record, replay and save your task sequence with/without the Script Editor (like keyboard macro). Attachable: you can attach your scripts to the menus (with some options) by either AppleScript or an included utility QuoEdit's Menu. As for the customizable menus, you can attach not only AppleScript scripts but also text, tags and any files openable from the Finder.

Search, another significant feature, supports ordinary search and regular expression (regex) search. As for the ways to search, ordinary search and batch find are available.

Other features are, WorldScript savvy (though just one encoding is available in a document), multiple levels of undo/redo, full shortcut key, and so forth. The text engine is my own code.

New in this version:
• Rectangular Selection is supported now.
• In AppleScript, a new class 'rect text' was added.
• Adjusted behavior of intelligent cut and paste.

System requirements:
• System 7.1 - Mac OS 9.2.2

QuoEdit is $10.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~quo/lib/

Blaze 1.0.1 CD/DVD Burner And CD-RW Eraser

Blaze is an easy to use application for burning CD's and DVD's and erasing re-writable media (such as CDRW discs).

New in this version:
• Fixed a crashing bug in OS X 10.2.6 (Thanks to all those who wrote in on this!)

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher
• A CD or DVD burner compatible with Mac OS X

Blaze is $19.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/blaze/

Impression 1.6 Backup Software

Impression is a Cocoa-based backup utility for Mac OS X

Impression 1.6 brings a significant speed boost and bug fixes to the backup application for OS X. File copy backup speeds have been improved by over 40%, and hfspax speeds by up to 10%. Some serious bugs and many trivial issues have been fixed as well.

Impression is being developed as an absolutely reliable, open-standards solution for archiving files to optical discs and locally-mounted media. It uses the 'hfspax' archiving tool which offers a reliable method for archiving all the facets and attributes of a complex Mac-based file. If an operator prefers to simply have files copied to the destination media, Impression offers this option as well. Large files are automatically segmented between disks with no need for operator input, save swapping CDs/DVDs when requested.

Both propellerheads and infrequent computer users should find that this application addresses their needs for a reliable, reasonably priced, open-standard backup solution. We all need to back up our data to keep it safe, and a single ~650MB CD is proving too limited to hold the multitude of files that we generate from our various digital input sources (video, music, photo, etc.)

Features include:
• Cocoa-based application, GUI backup and restore operations. Beautiful, streamlined interface.
• Impression offers the ability to back up small or large file sets to multiple optical discs (CD-R, CD-RW or DVD-R) or to disk images on locally mounted media.
• Archives can be written to pax archives using the open-standard hfspax tool or simply file-copied to the backup destination.
• Backup session information is saved and managed and incremental/differential backups can be based on previous backups with just an extra click.
• Advanced tools include disk image compression options, grep-compliant regex pattern file exclusions and MD5 file checksum file validation to offer significant "peace of mind" after restoration.
• Large files are segmented between discs and can be rejoined automatically when restoring from hfspax archives, or manually when restoring from file copy-based archives.
• Files can be restored back into place or to a location of the operator's choosing. Permissions can be preserved and files can optionally be overwritten.
• A handy CD-RW disc erasing utility is included.
• Thorough error checking and clear prompt and logging messages are used throughout the application.

New in this version:
• Instead of using 'hfspax' for file copy mode, 'ditto' is now the tool of choice.
• Reworked some of the archive and disk sizing routines to effect some really nice speed gains. Combined with the use of 'ditto' (above item), the speed gains vary from respectable to tremendous.
• Reviewed and rewrote many of the internal listing routines to effect greater speed gains and also to increase the accuracy of archiving UNIX symbolic link and Finder alias files. This fixes a few rarer bugs that were affecting the newly-added 'file copy' option.
• Fixed a bug in which a temporary pax file could mistakenly grow too large, filling up the free space on the scratch (startup) drive.
• Fixed a bug where Impression was archiving UNIX dot (".something") files even if the 'archive invisible files' option was unchecked.
• Fixed a rare stack overflow bug that was presented is the application couldn't find all of its necessary BSD resources.
• Fixed a bug in the restore routines that affected some situations where Impression incorrectly reported that an archive file couldn't be found upon drag-and-drop of a valid .pax archive.
• Fixed some small UI bugs in the progress panel display during restore operations.
• Fixed a bug where .part_a and .part_b archives were incorrectly described to be non-matching if they weren't both located in the same directory.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• BSD subsystem
• iTunes/Disc Burner-supported CD-R/W or DVD-R drive (if archiving to CD/DVD)

Impression is $20.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://babelcompany.com/impression/

Full release notes and speed comparison charts are available at this URL:
http://www.babelcompany.com/impression/history.html

Impression is available for download at this address:
http://www.babelcompany.com/impression/Impression.sit

EasyFind 2.8.1 Finds Files, Folders & Contents Without Indexing

EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Sherlock and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing -- and therefore immediately. This is especially useful if you are tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices or if you are just looking for missing features like case sensitive or insensitive search, boolean operators, wildcards or searching for phrases. In addition, EasyFind uses multithreading and is therefore very responsive even with multiple search processes running, provides contextual menus and Mac OS X services and displays the location of each item in a separate column for a better overview. Finally EasyFind uses little memory, supports drag-and-drop and the clipboard and optionally finds invisible items or items within packages.

Version 2.8 features a new preference to scan all file contents regardless of file extension or HFS type, and options to search only for folders or to sort by file kind. Also, the contextual menu now acts according to Apple's Human Inferface Guidelines, and some minor bugs have been corrected.

New in this version:
• Clicking on column headers changes sorting
• EasyFind remembers if sorting was reverse
• Some rare crashs fixed

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

EasyFind is freeware

System requirements:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/freeware.php

Back up user prefs 2.4.7 Backs Up/Restores Prefs, Browser & Mail Files

A Mac OS X AppleScript freeware application, Back up user prefs backs up a user's ~/Library/Preferences folder for safety in the event of corruption of either individual preferences or the entire folder. It also backs up the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and the preferences folders for Chimera (Navigator) (v 2.3.7 added support for Camino, the newly-renamed version of Chimera) and OmniWeb that lurk in the ~/Library/Application Support folder and Mozilla and Safari in the ~/Library folder. (Netscape, iCab, Opera, and Microsoft Internet Explorer preferences are automatically backed up when the ~/Library/Preferences folder is saved.) Back up user prefs allows the user to elect to save previously backed-up preferences in the event that something goes wrong. In addition to the capabilities of earlier versions, which include the ability not only to restore preferences that have previously been saved using the application and allow the user to choose the location of saved preference files, v 2.3.7 and all later versions include a feature that permits the user to choose to restore 1) the Preferences folder only, 2) the browser files only, or 3) both the Preferences folder and the browser files. The application includes the option of backing up the user's Mail folder, as well as the Address Book folder (introduced in v 2.4.3), and it sports a very robust error-recovery capability that, in the event of a copying error caused by the presence of a file or files whose owner name is "system" or "root", which will result in an aborted backup, flags the culprit file(s) and lists it/them, offering suggestions as to how the user can reset the owner name to allow the application to work successfully.

Back up user prefs is freeware

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher (v1.2 is still available for those who have not upgraded to Jaguar)

New in this version:
Adds the ability for the experienced user to suppress nearly all of the user prompts and warning dialogs.
A CAVEAT: Do not take advantage of this feature unless you are already acquainted with the workings of past versions of this application! If you are at all in doubt about what the new option entails, click on the "What will happen?" button in the dialog that asks whether or not you want to use the "Auto-pilot" feature.

For more information, visit:
http://www.m-t-software.com/software.html

Xupport 1.3.4 OS X Tool

Xupport is a graphical user interface (GUI) to configure many Mac OS X options, that are hard to configure manually, and more. It includes several unix commands to optimize and secure your Mac, and activates many features that are disabled by default.

• Access hidden system and Finder and Dock settings
• Browse and read "Man" entries
• Browse and get Finder info for hidden files and folders
• Enable/Disable "File System Journaling"
• Create bootable backups
• Change SWAP file location
• Run maintain scripts
• Clear log, scratch and junk files
• "Rebuild Desktop" (Clear and rebuild LS files)
• Clear .DS_Store files
• Watch system log and background processes
• Change PORTS of Personal File Sharing, Web Sharing and ssh
• Launch servers on specified port (inclusive firewall allow rules)
• Watch access and error logs of sharing services (afp, http, ssh)
• Firewall (based on ipfw)
• Turn on/off Guest Access of Apple File Server
• Optimize Network settings for Broadband connection
• Request a new IP from a DHCP server (en0, en1)
• Delete files and folders with administrator privileges
• Empty Trash regardless of the file's permissions
• Create symbolic links
• Shortcuts collection
• Error codes collection

New in this version:
• NEW TRIAL SYSTEM (Startup-delay instead of expiration)
• Print buttons for integrated read-me texts, manuals and protocols
• Bug fix in Dock-alignment and Dock-position-menu
• Some minor bug fixes and code optimizations

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• AppleScript
• BSD subsystem installed

Xupport is $20.00 shareware

System requirements:
http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/download.html

Personal Trader 1.8 Portfolio Manager For US, Euro, Australian stocks

Personal Trader provides all the tools you need to invest in international markets.
You can manage multiple portfolios and track lists in US and Australian dollars, Euros or UK pounds.
You can see in real time major indices such as Nasdaq, Dow Jones, CAC40, and the Nikkei 225. Markets supported:

• Nasdaq
• Nyse
• Paris
• Milano
• Frankfurt
• Madrid
• London
• Australia

Personal Trader contains an invaluable database of 10,000+ stocks with tickers and company names from the USA, Europe and Australia.

New in this version:
• new : you can sort the tracking-lists by ticker, name, trade, highest trade, lowest trade, open trade, volume, etc ...
• new : portfolios and tracking-lists are limited to 256 lines and not anymore to 20
• new : when you delete a line in a portfolio, all the operations are reversed
• new : in the portfolio window, gains are green and losses are red
• new : you can have custody charges per share or per portfolio
• bug fix : the calculations are more accurate
• bug fix : a lot of crashers have been fixed
• bug fix : the application doesn't crash anymore when adding a tracking-list when the window is closed
• bug fix : UK shares value were divided by 100
• update of the list of tickers and companies

System requirements:
• Mac OS 8 - OS X 10.0 or higher

Personal Trader is $20.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://fred.elma.fr/

Galerie 2.5 HTML export for iPhoto

This little freeware program for Mac OS X, written with AppleScript Studio, export the current iPhoto selection to web pages.

In comparison to the current iPhoto HTML export you will find ;
• accented character export in HTML
• EXIF data in Web pages (Exposure, aperture, flash...)
• better page appearance.
• pictures quality selection
•  HTML templates
• encrusted text  in generated pictures (for example copyright informations)

New in this version:
• Added special characters in HTML
• Windows menu : launch iPhoto
• Preference : launch iPhoto at startup
• Folder processing (including subfolder): you can drag and drop a folder to process all the pictures it include.
• Template selection with popup menu
• Bug fixes in generated HTML code

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Galerie is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.myriad-online.com/perso/photos/galerie.html

Download the archive (260 kb) here :
http://www.myriad-online.com/perso/photos/Galerie.dmg

MyIP 1.6.2 Displays Your IP As Seen Inside & Outside Your Network

MyIP will retrive both your LAN IP and your WAN IP, LAN is your local address (for computers on the same network) and WAN is what the rest of the world sees. Most programs that show your IP will only show your LAN IP, because for the most part, before broadband and routers became commonplace at home people didn't have different LAN and WAN IPs.

New in this version:
• "Refresh" button
• "Donate" button
• 20% small file size
• 50% faster WAN IP collection
• Other minor improvements

System requirements:
• Mac OS 9.2.xor
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

MyIP is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://vaporproductions.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