Shareware Beat - Friday, January 30, 2004
NeoOffice/J 0.8 OS X Native Port Of OpenOffice [OS 10.2 up]
EazyDraw 1.5.1 Vector-based Drawing App [OS 10.2 up]
DiscBlaze 3.0 Burn/Erase Multisession Audio/Data CD/DVD [OS 10.2.6 up]
Dnotes 1.1.1 RTF Note Pad [OS X 10.3 up]
Look Up Words 2.0 Looks Up Words Based Upon A String Of Characters {OS X]
IndieToolbar 2.5 Internet Icon Toolbar; Works With Any Browser [OS 9.2/10.1 up]
Pixen r1v10 High-detail Pixel Editor [OS 10.2 up] [/url]
NeoOffice/J 0.8 OS X Native Port Of OpenOffice [OS 10.2 up]
NeoOffice/J is an open source software development project created by Patrick Luby
Neolithic Office for JavaTM, or NeoOffice/J for short. NeoOffice/J is one of the open source development projects that are a part of NeoOffice.org. NeoOffice/J's primary goal is eliminating OpenOffice.org's dependency on X11 using Java technologies.
As this project is focused on removing OpenOffice.org's X11 dependency, NeoOffice/J does not include any Aquafication of OpenOffice.org. Aquafication of OpenOffice.org is being actively pursued in the NeoOffice/J's sister project: NeoOffice.
As this is a development project, NeoOffice/J is intended for software engineers and is not yet complete enough for regular users.
New in this version:
With this release, you can copy and paste both text and images and an inline text input for Asian keyboards is supported.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• 256 MB RAM
For more information, visit:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
EazyDraw 1.5.1 Vector-based Drawing App [OS 10.2 up]
EazyDraw is an affordable drawing application designed exclusively for Mac OS X. It is useful for many creative projects including technical drawings, illustrations, icons, logos, and stylized text.
Version 1.5 provides significantly optimized performance for large professional level drawings. New-vector quality imports to MS Word and PowerPoint.
EazyDraw is a vector based drawing application for desk top publishing (DTP) with Apple's Macintosh OS X (Mac OS-X) operating system.  It is an Illustration or drawing software application that offers vector-based graphics editing and creation capabilities for creating simple, non-photographic drawings, technical diagrams and illustrations such as logos, icons, buttons and stylized art.
Features and Applications
• Vector Based Drawing
• You are on OS X - move up to vectors
• Communicate with quality drawings
• Technical  drawings
• Auto-line (a MacDraw favorite)
• Dimensions - automatically linked to graphic objects
• Architectural projects, house plans, landscaping
• Flow Charts
• Mathematical Curve
• Business Communications
• Graphics Software  drawings
• Drawing and Illustration
• Native Mac OS X Application
• EazyDraw is now available at the LA Computer Company in Anaheim CA. If you are located in the Southern California area this is a great place to see the latest Mac gear and pick up a CD copy of EazyDraw.
• MacDraw import, full support for MacDrawII files including layers and patterns. ClarisDraw import is in progress, planned release is Early Feb 2004.
• Technical drawing - dimensions draw to scale, great rulers and grids. Check out our House Plan screen shot or the ipod drawing.
• Mathematical curves-a full palette of precise mathematical curves tools like sine waves, the bell shaped probability curve and many more. Check out our Math screen shot.
• Great for flow charts. Easy to use connectors, orthogonal paths, and an extensive selection of predefined shapes.
There are several specialized drawing applications available for the graphic arts professional. We all know how much they cost and how hard they are to master. EazyDraw is drawing for the rest of us who want to have fun exploring the creative potential of this great new Macintosh Operating System.
EazyDraw is a new design tool for use on the Mac OS X platform. Its uses range from simple technical drawings, flow charts, business communications, commercial line art illustrations to graphic elements for application software and web design elements. Educators are also finding EazyDraw to be perfect for introducing new users to computer drawing.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
EazyDraw sells for$95.00
Download a free Demo which allows full editing and creation and save of up to 20 graphic elements. The demo disk contains example drawing and tutorials to give you a quick feel for what you can do with EazyDraw.
$20 Trial License
• Full use license for only $20 - for 9 months. Great way to try out EazyDraw.
• Have a specific project to get done -- use our 9 month license instead of a share-ware or costly high end OS X upgrade to your old drawing application.
• Budget a little tight -- your $20 investment can be applied toward the full purchase within the first 2 months of the license period.
For more information, visit:
http://www.eazydraw.com/
DiscBlaze 3.0 Burn/Erase Multisession Audio/Data CD/DVD [OS 10.2.6 up]
Introducing DiscBlaze 3
Features include:
• Burn data CD's and DVD's.
• Burn Audio CD's
• Burn multiple sessions to the same CD (including mixed Audio/Data CD's)
• Save and load "Burn Lists"
• Burn an existing Toast or ISO disc image file.
• Create a new ISO and DMG disc image file (requires MacOS X 10.3).
• Make an ISO or DMG image of an existing folder or volume (requires MacOS X 10.3).
• Burn discs that can be read on Mac's, PC's or both.
• Erase re-writable media (such as CDRW discs) for re-use.
• Incredibly fast and easy to use!
System Requirements:
• MacOS X 10.2.6 or higher (including 10.3).
• A CD burner (for CD burning capability) or DVD burner (for DVD burning capability) compatible with MacOS X. (If your CD/DVD burner works with iTunes or the Finder it will work with DiscBlaze.)
• Disc Image (ISO & DMG) creation functionality only available under MacOS X 10.3 or later.
• 700 MB of free HD space to burn roughly 80 minutes of Audio to CD.
New in this version:
• Can now burn Audio CD's from the Audio tab.
• Audio CD's can be burned from any Quicktime compatible files with audio tracks. MP3, MOV, AIF, WAV, MP4, etc.
• Can burn a CD with both an Audio session as well as a Data session.
• Can now save a pre-existing volume or folder as a DMG file (in addition to ISO).
• Several minor enhancements (Creating disc images is now slightly faster, a few cosmetic tweaks, etc).
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher (including Mac OS X 10.3).
• A CD or DVD burner compatible with Mac OS X.
• Disc Image (ISO & DMG) creation functionality only available under MacOS X 10.3 or later.
• 700 MB of free HD space to burn roughly 80 minutes of Audio to CD.
DiscBlaze is $19.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/blaze/index.html
Dnotes 1.1.1 RTF Note Pad [OS X 10.3 up]
Dnotes is a simple notepad. It's intended to be an easy to use, convenient, small footprint app. The individual notes are rich text (RTF format) which allows various font styles (e.g., italic, bold, colors, multiple fonts).
New in this version:
• Fixed a minor bug re setting the default font color.
• The Preferences are dynamic now, that is, the background color and transparency are applied immediately to the Dnotes window as the user modifies them in the Preferences Panel and Color Panel.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Dnotes is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/dakini56/cocoa/index.html
Look Up Words 2.0 Looks Up Words Based Upon A String Of Characters {OS X]
A simple AppleScript Studio application to look up words based upon string of characters.
A free online tutoral for building this app with Xcode's AppleScript Studio is available at:
http://www.timeoutofmind.com/assCodeExamples/lookUpWordsTutorial.cfm
New in this version:
Xcode create
System requirements:
Mac OS X
Look Up Words is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.timeoutofmind.com/appleDeveloperRealm/lookUpWords.cfm
IndieToolbar 2.5 Internet Icon Toolbar; Works With Any Browser [OS 9.2/10.1 up]
Customizeable standalone internet toolbar. Uses own icons, but works with any browser and allows a baker's dozen to be used at the same time. New in version 2.5: 21 customizable icons, icon set complete through IE Toolbar Icons set version 5 (over 350 icons). Windows version now has a close button for those who don't like hitting "CTRL-Q." New in version 2: interface improvements, active preview, custom link options, a Windows version, and stability improvements. Version 2.02 (OS X only) fixes a compatibility issue with Mac OS 10.2 Panther.
Makes no changes to browser or system; works with user's default browser, whatever that may be. This freeware program is currently for Mac and Windows.
New in this version:
Twenty-one new custom icons for creating your own links, and an icon set complete through version IE Toolbar Icons version 5 (over 350 icons). Panther-compatible.
System requirements:
Macintosh OS X version:
• PowerPC Macintosh, including G3 and G4
• Mac OS X 10.1 or later
• 4 MB of available RAM
• 4.2 MB of Hard Drive Space
Macintosh OS "Classic" version:
• PowerPC Macintosh, including G3 and G4
• Mac OS 9.2
• 4 MB of available RAM
• 4.2 MB of Hard Drive Space
IndieToolbar is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.awstudios.net/software.php?Show=indietoolbar
Pixen r1v10 High-detail Pixel Editor [OS 10.2 up]
For small-scale or high-detail art, there are only a few ways to create, and those kludgy. Zooming in really far in a normal graphics editor works, but sucks: the extra UI provided by the app just ends up getting in the way. Using a photo retouching app to do the sort of pixel-level work required of a sprite artist is also suboptimal. There is no pixel-art-specific graphics app for Mac OS X. That's why we wrote Pixen. Pixen is a graphics editor for the creation of such art, and is attuned to that form employed extensively in two-dimensional games and featured at forums like Pixelation.
The first thing you'll notice about Pixen is that it doesn't do a lot. This is only the first release, so the only tools are pencil, eyedropper, eraser, and zoom. This means you can get drawing right away and not accidentally click on the wrong tool and waste time. Many other necessary tools are coming, but we promise they won't complicate the interface (in fact, we plan to have the tool palette capable of high degrees of configurability: your workspace, your style).
One new feature of Pixen is "right click tools", hidden by a disclosure triangle on the tool palette. With this feature, you can select the tool and the color that you would like to be used when you click the right mouse button.
Another particularly novel and interesting feature in this early version of Pixen is an extensively configurable background. Wherever your image is transparent, you can have it draw against a background of your choice, be it an image, a color, or a preconfigured pattern with colors you choose. Which background to use is saved with the file if you're saving in the native .pxi format. Furthermore, you can configure different backgrounds to draw when the mouse is in and out of the image area(to see your image against a normal grid or against, say, a grass tile with a minimum of fuss-- just one quick gesture).
New in this version:
• Added support for selections, cut, copy, and paste.
• Added Rectangular Selection tool.
• Added tooltips for each tool that show the tool's name and its key switching shortcut.
• Fixed bugs in archiving, backgrounds, and the preview window.
• Added basic framework for Forms architecture.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Pixen is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.opensword.org/Pixen/
Charles W. Moore
