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ClamXav 1.0.1 graphical interface (GUI) for ClamAV virus checker [OS 10.3 up}
App Stop .8 Pauses And Resumes Apps [OS 10.3 up}
Safari Enhancer 2.6.2 Enhances The Functionality of Safari [OS 10.4 up]
SafariStand 2.0b4 Enhancements For Safari [OS 10.4 up]
DieticianX Light 1.6 Food Finder & Ingredients Database With Caloric Planner [OS 10.3 up}
Peek-a-Boo 2.3.4 Monitors CPU Time For Running Processes
SpamSweep Advanced Bayesian Spam Filter For Mac OS X
MenuPass - Don't Type Your Passwords. Click Them.
Wallet 2.0.2 Securely Stores Important Information [OS 10.3 up}
ClamXav 1.0.1 graphical interface (GUI) for ClamAV virus checker [OS 10.3 up}
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
Back in the days before OS X, the number of viruses which attacked Macintosh users totalled somewhere between about 60 and 80. Today, the number of viruses actively attacking OS X users is...NONE! However, this doesn't mean we should get complacent about checking incoming email attachments or web downloads, for two reasons. Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc. For example, if you're a wise person and you've turned MS Office's macro support off then you're not going to notice that virus which is hiding inside this month's edition of Extreme Ironing.doc which your friend sent you. If you then forward that document to a less wise person who has not turned off the macro support, then you have most likely just sent him a shiny new Pandora's Box with a sign saying "Open this end"!
Flippancy aside, I'm sure you get the idea: check the file before opening and/or sending it on to someone else. This gives you the opportunity to avoid the file altogether or at least copy and paste any vital information into a new document and send that instead.
Don't forget, if you run VirtualPC you can still become infected and lose valuable data on your Mac even though technically you're running Windows inside a sandbox. VPC will run any application you tell it to, virus or no virus, it doesn't know the difference. You can protect yourself slightly by not using VPC's "shared folders", but that's a useful feature which you shouldn't have to be without.
New in this version:
• Install buttons work for all languages
• ClamXav Sentry's abort function now works properly
• ClamXav Sentry's "Launch ClamXav" menu item now works regardless of ClamXav location
• Added "--quiet" switch to freshclam's cron item
• Added Norwegian translation - thanks to Jo Daniel Aleksandersen
• Added Turkish translation - thanks to Kerem Erkan
It's mainly bug fixes from 1.0g to 1.0.1 so am keeping 1.0g's new feature list here too.
• Case change from clamXav to ClamXav to bring back in-line with ClamAV
• Added Danish localisation - thanks to Sebastian Adorjan Dyhr
• Added French localisation - thanks to Thomas Robisson
• Added German localisation - thanks to Juergen Schichtel
• Drag and Drop
• Folder Watching
• Watch for and scan removable media upon insertion
• Times in schedule pane now displayed as numbers to be easier for non-English speakers
• Quarantine option and mbox checking now mutually exclusive - thanks to Filip Vandoorne for the suggestion
• Menus correctly enable and disable
• New version of ClamAV 0.86.1
• ClamAV engine installer now uses Apple's preferred user/group number
• Pre-existing ClamAV user/groups are no longer altered during ClamAV engine install
• Ability to use ClamAV installation by Darwinports
Product Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (including 10.4)
• Must NOT be installed on Mac OS X 10.4 Server
ClamXav is donationware
For more information, visit:
http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/
App Stop .8 Pauses And Resumes Apps [OS 10.3 up}
App Stop is a little status bar that resides in your menu bar that allows you to pause, continue, and set priorities for your applications. When you pause an application is freezes it, keeping all the memory assoicated with the application intact but stopping the application from using any CPU cycles. For older machines with limited CPU, but an abundance of memory this is very usefull because it allows you to free up that precious CPU time to help other applications run faster. App Stop features a table view mode that allows you to select mutiple application to pause/continue, set CPU priority, as well as force-quit them. App Stop will also automatically continue all your processes when App Stop terminates.
New in this version:
• Fixed bug where CPU usage for applications running as root would display incorrectly, now applications running as root will display CPU usage as
• 1.
• Added ability to force update CPU usage
• Added ability to select all running applications
• Added ability to select all paused applications
• Rewrote the CPU refresh timer code, now allowing preference changes to be reflected immediatly without restarting App Stop
• Fixed human readable priority representation. Now -20 is represented like it should be, as "Max"
• Added 'Add to Startup Items' options in the preferences
• Yet again, I redesigned the preference pane
• Fixed bad bug which would cause App Stop to crash... alot
• Added ability to set the table view window to float above all other windows
• Added option to have an alternate image displayed in the menu bar when applications are paused
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
App Stop is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://developer.mabwebdesign.com/appstop.html
Safari Enhancer 2.6.2 Enhances The Functionality of Safari [OS 10.4 up]
Safari Enhancer is an application for enhancing the functionality of Apple's Safari webbrowser.
Safari Enhancer current has the following features:
• Enabling the Debug Menu
• Removing underlines from hyperlinks
• Increasing the font size in the bookmarks sidebar
• Disabling Safari’s web content cache
• Changing the colour of hyperlinks
• Switching between the Brushed, Aqua and Unified Title/Toolbar application appearances
• Disabling the website icon cache
• Importing bookmarks from the Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Camino, Omniweb and iCab browsers
• Configuring of the history retention settings Safari uses
• Changing the search engine used in the Safari toolbar
New in this version:
• Fixed a bug that could cause the group permissions to be changed on some Safari resources.
• Implemented proper use of .strings files for easier localising.
• More informative error messages when things go wrong.
• French localisation updated.
• Vivisimo and Blingo search engine support added.
System requirements:
Safari 2.0
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger compatible)
BSD Subsystem installed
Safari Enhancer is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.lordofthecows.com/safari_enhancer.php
SafariStand 2.0b4 Enhancements For Safari [OS 10.4 up]
English documentation is not available yet. But User Interface is almost English.
feature :
- 'Stand Bar' (Bookmark, History, Side Bar compatible, Simple RSS Reader)
- 'Quick Search'
- 'Stand Serach' - supports Spotlight
- 'Action Menu'
- 'Arrange Tabs'
- 'Site Alteration'
- intelligent Plug-in blocking
- original bookmark property (color label, category, comment, rate)
- syntax coloring in viewed source
- open "_blank" Link in New Tab
- ...and many more
New in this version:
• now support SIMBL (2 way install)
• added "Change Wheel Scroll Amount"
• added "Alter: User Agent" to "Site Alteration"
• added directory scope to "Stand Search : Spotlight" (It is still poor)
• added "Show in Finder" to context menu of "Stand Search : Spotlight"
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4
For more information, visit:
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
DieticianX Light 1.6 Food Finder & Ingredients Database With Caloric Planner [OS 10.3 up}
Professional Food Finder and editable ingredients database - all menus and foods in English and German Language now. Over 1000 Foods and whats inside. New: caloric food planing module.
New in this version:
• Major Bug Fixes in Item-chooser
• much better search-functionality
• now relation of nutrients/caloric value included
• now weight-reduction functionality included
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (10.4.2 recommended)
DieticianX Light is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://dieticianx.ethernetworks.de/
Peek-a-Boo 2.3.4 Monitors CPU Time For Running Processes
Peek-a-Boo is a utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch how much CPU time each process uses, adjust processes’ priorities, and monitor process information.
Peek-a-Boo 2.x is the inaugural OS X version of Peek-a-Boo. While Peek-a-Boo has been around for a long time for OS 9 and below, it has been wholly rewritten for OS X.
When you run Peek-a-Boo, the window that you see that lists all the processes running on your computer is the process list window.
You can also create smaller windows to watch individual processes; CPU Usage History windows allow you to monitor the CPU usage of a single process:
• Peek-a-Boo is the only utility of its kind to show process information for all types of processes: Classic applications, Darwin processes, and OS X native applications.
• Peek-a-Boo's Process Throb view offers a revolutionary way to track process and system behavior.
• Peek-a-Boo's toolbar provides a system overview and is also customizable.
• Supports sorting on any column as well as reordering columns to meet the needs of each user.
New in this version:
• New addition to the memory graph shows “wiredâ€? memory.
• New pid info fields added: pid_terminated_user_time and pid_terminated_system_time
Peek-a-Boo is:$20.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.clarkwood.com/peekaboo/
SpamSweep Advanced Bayesian Spam Filter For Mac OS X
Bains Software has announced the release of SpamSweep, a new spam filter for Mac OS X.
SpamSweep is an advanced bayesian spam filter with a simple, easy to understand interface. SpamSweep seamlessly combines many filtering technologies, including domain and relay blacklists, sender whitelisting, and a bayesian filter to automatically delete spam messages before they're downloaded by your email client.
SpamSweep can notify you when you have new good mail by playing a sound, displaying the new messages in a floating window, or launching your email client.
SpamSweep is $20 shareware, and will expire after fifteen days of use.
Website:
http://www.bainsware.com
Direct Download:
http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/spamsweep.sit
Purchase:
http://www.bainsware.com/buy/
MenuPass - Don't Type Your Passwords. Click Them.
User IDs. Credit cards. Passwords. Registration keys. Who can remember them all? It seems like every web site, message board, and application today requires a login. Or a secret key. Or something else you'll never remember when you need it most.
If you're like most users you probably have a growing text file or note pad filled with these snippets of important information. Your e-mail application is probably loaded with registration e-mails and keys. And you probably let your web browser remember web site passwords and credit cards for you (when it remembers). But who else can access and use this information? And how do you back it up when it's spread all over the place?
With MenuPass you'll never wonder what password you used or where you wrote down that user ID. MenuPass helps you store, organize, and use all kinds of account information.
With MenuPass running you'll have a global menu available in every application. Need a password? Simply select it by name from the global menu and let MenuPass type it for you. It's that simple!
MenuPass can automate many logins by typing your account ID, password, and starting the login process with one step. It can also, with a single click, start your web browser and log you into most web sites.
MenuPass stores your account information using AES encryption with a 256-bit key. A lot more secure than a text file. And MenuPass offers a lockout feature for when you're away from your computer. A lot more secure than your web browser.
And perhaps most important to anyone who has ever lost a hard drive, MenuPass stores all your account information in a single data file in your My Documents folder, making backups a breeze.
MenuPass is available for Windows (98/ME/2000/XP) and Mac OS X. A single user license is only $20.00 and Site licenses are available. Click the Purchase link above for more information. Or if you like to try before you buy, click the Download link above and try MenuPass for 30 days free.
For more information, visit:
http://www.taylor-design.com/menupass/
Wallet 2.0.2 Securely Stores Important Information [OS 10.3 up}
Take an already awesome password storage program, slap on a new eye-dazzling interface, speed up the performance, increase security, and make it a ton cooler. Now you've got Wallet 2 - our brand new remake of one of the most popular secure database apps for Mac OS X.
Everyone forgets stuff.
Can't seem to remember your account for that one site you almost never visit? Need to re-install some software you lost the serial number to? Well, you're in trouble. But had you entered that data in Wallet beforehand, you would have gone to almost no trouble at all to retrieve that information. Best of all: because of Wallet 2's flexibility, it can be used to keep almost any sort of data you can think of! Grocery lists, day agendas, the locations of downtown WiFi hotspots, etc. are just some of the possibilities when using Wallet. You'll never have an excuse to forget things again.
Wallet 2 uses military-strength 448-bit Blowfish encryption to secure your most important data. You can feel safe knowing that absolutely no one will be able to access your Wallet database without the correct password, in our out of the Wallet application.
Wallet 2 includes extra security features to make sure you're always secure. One of the newest features is one we like to call Quick-Lock. At the push of a button, Wallet will be securely locked to any wandering intruders. Use it whenever you leave your desk or Mac! Some of the other options include the ability to clear the clipboard when you quit, automatically Quick Lock Wallet after a certain period of time, or even clear the clipboard after that! There's even a built-in password assistant to help you choose a password that will be completely undiscoverable.
You'll probably use Wallet to store login information to some of your favorite websites. But switching back and forth between Wallet and your web browser can be time consuming and tedious. That's why we added the amazing new AutoFill feature to Wallet 2. With a push of a button, Wallet will open your web browser and fill out the login form to that website with your information. Cool? Yes. Useful? Extremely.
Apple's iPod is the number one gadget everyone carries around with them nowadays. What better way to use your iPod than to access your passwords? (Other than listening to music, of course!) Now when you use someone elses computer, or you need to access other information, you can simply whip out your iPod and reveal the info! Because you may misplace your iPod, leaving it vulnerable to wandering eyes, you choose which entries you would like to take along with you via drag and drop in Wallet. It's that simple.
New in this version:
• Added flexibility for localization
• Added German localization
• Improved single group printing
• Fixed bug where Import/Export menu items would be disabled under Mac OS 10.3 (Panther)
• Fixed bug where sometimes two "Help" menus would appear
• Fixed bug where sometimes the "Notes" field would not save its data
• You can now double-click or drag a Wallet database file onto the Wallet icon to import it
• Updated the Document icon
• You can now use the keyboard shortcut CMD-Option-F to select the search field (ala iTunes)
• A browser for use with AutoFill can no longer be selected if you do not have the browser in question
• Fixed bug where dragging an entry would not re-select the correct entry
• Fixed bug where removing an entry in table view while searching would crash Wallet
• Fixed bug where if you imported two databases in a row, the password remained in the dialog
• Fixed glitch in Password Generator where if you deleted all contents and selected a new choice, the "Generate" button would not re-enable
• All print dialogs are now shown as sheets
• Improved the help files
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• Apple iPod (optional for iPod syncing)
Wallet is $14.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.waterfallsw.com/wallet/
Charles W. Moore
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