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FastScripts 2.0 Script Execution Menu Bar Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Win an iPod mini in the SOHO Business Cards Design Contest
DragThing 5.2.1 Launcher Palette For Files, Folders, Disks, Servers... [OS 10.2 up]
KnockoutDock 1.1 Makes The Dock As Unobtrusive As Possible [OS 10.2 up]
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.0.1.4 Browser Plugin
TrackYourMac 1.1 Tracks Your Lost Or Stolen Mac
iPasteboard 1.1 Clipboard Enhancer [OS X 10.1 up]
eDonkey2000 0.53.13 Graphical Cross Platform File Sharing Client [OS 10.2 up]
viJournal Jaguar 1.0b2 Journal With Blogging Support For OS X 10.2
Blades of Avernum For Mac Updated to v1.1[/url]
FastScripts 2.0 Script Execution Menu Bar Utility [OS 10.2 up]
FastScripts is the super-fast, super-elegant utility for executing scripts on your Mac.
With FastScripts, AppleScript or shell scripts are easily triggered from whichever application you are using at the moment. You may trigger scripts by custom keyboard shortcut, or by selecting items from the FastScripts menu, which contains all the scripts from your standard Scripts folder.
FastScripts is a super-charged replacement for the Apple script menu. FastScripts' preloaded scripts, custom keyboard shortcuts, and superior integration with running applications make getting your work done quickly and elegantly its top priority.
FastScripts offers a number of compelling improvements:
• "SmartSwitching" avoids unnecessary context switches
• Elegant Application-Specific scripts support
• Convenient shortcuts for editing and revealing scripts
• FAST!
For more information, visit the FastScripts home page:
http://www.red-sweater.com/RedSweater/FastScripts.html
New in this version:
Major revamp with keyboard shortcut support, a preferences dialog, and more.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://www.red-sweater.com/RedSweater/FastScripts.html
Win an iPod mini in the SOHO Business Cards Design Contest
Chronos LC has announced a business card design contest using its SOHO Business Card software product. The contest commences immediately and ends July 31, 2004 at 11:59 pm. The Grand Prize Winner with the best overall business card design will win an Apple iPod mini (approximate retail value $250 USD). Select Chronos products will be awarded as prizes in five other design categories.
Entrants must use Chronos' SOHO Business Cards product to create a stunning business card design. Chronos will be looking for designs that show creative thought and talent. Entries must use images and fonts included with SOHO Business Cards (or fonts included with Mac OS X). Winners will be judged on use of artwork, typography, creativity, and overall effectiveness of design.
Prizes will be awarded in six categories: 1) Most Creative; 2) Most Humorous; 3) Best Use Of Images; 4) Best Use of Type; 5) Best Representation of Business; and 6) Best Overall Design. The first place winners of the first five categories will each win their choice of Personal Organizer, StickyBrain or F10 Launch Studio (approximate retail value $30-$60). The winner of the sixth category, Best Overall Design, will win the grand prize: an Apple iPod Mini (approximate retail value $250 USD).
Entry information and official contest rules can be found at:
http://www.chronosnet.com/designcontest.html
SOHO Business Cards is a complete business card kit and includes everything the user needs to design and print impressive business cards. It comes with a) 13,000+ designer-quality photographs, photos of objects and vector clip art images; b) 50 Bitstream commercial-grade fonts so users can obtain the perfect look for their branding; c) 3,000+ ready-made designs including those with photos and artwork right up to the edge of the card (full bleed); and d) 100+ image masks.
SOHO Business Cards is compatible with over 700 popular cards stocks including virtually all business card stocks from Avery, PaperDirect, Idea Art and more. A wide variety of business card formats are supported including horizontal, vertical, double-sided, folding and CD card formats. Users may print their business card designs on virtually any inkjet, laser or color laser printer. Alternatively, users may submit their design to an online commercial print shop via SOHO Business Cards and have their cards delivered right to their door.
Simple, one-step tools let users quickly draw 30+ shapes, add graphics, arrange and align objects, and rotate objects. Add transparency and realistic drop shadows to text and graphics. Create designer effects with color gradients or clip images to shapes and text. Use over 150 smart-fields to automatically place information from the Mac OS X Address Book directly on business cards. Eight powerful text fitting options can automatically shrink or expand text as necessary or modify letter spacing for full justification effects. Pictures and albums from iPhoto are automatically loaded and accessible from the built-in Clip Art Drawer so users can simply drag a photo right onto their business card.
Chronos believes users should have the opportunity to try the software for free before they purchase. A fully functional 30 day trial version can be downloaded from Chronos' web site at:
http://www.chronosnet.com SOHO Business Cards is priced at $29.99 and is available directly from Chronos. It will also be available soon at major Apple retailers.
System requirements:
SOHO Business Cards requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later (v10.3 or later required to use vector clip art); 30MB of available disk space (1.2GB for full clip art collection); CD-ROM drive (software comes on multi-CD set); inkjet or laser printer optional (great results from popular inkjet, laser, color laser printers including HP, Epson, Canon, Lexmark, et cetera).
DragThing 5.2.1 Launcher Palette For Files, Folders, Disks, Servers... [OS 10.2 up]
DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.
The main purpose of DragThing is to make items on your Mac such as files, folders, applications, disks, URLs, clippings, and even windows, quickly and easily accessible, while taking up as little space on your screen as possible.
The main elements with which DragThing enables this speedy access are its docks. DragThing’s docks, unlike the Mac OS X system dock, are highly configurable and you can have multiple docks, customised to suit your specific circumstances.
DragThing also allows you to define a huge variety of hot keys. These hot keys can open items in docks, control various other aspects of DragThing and even control the visibility of and switching between other applications running on your Mac.
DragThing can also provide you with a Trash on your desktop, play sounds in response to actions like ejecting a CD, and a lot more besides.
New in this version:
Fixes a potential crash when editing the name of dock items, otherwise it is the same as last week's 5.2
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
DragThing is $29 shareware/$12 upgrade
For more information, visit:
http://www.dragthing.com/
KnockoutDock 1.1 Makes The Dock As Unobtrusive As Possible [OS 10.2 up]
KnockoutDock is a simple Applescript by dirtymouse designed to make the Dock as un-obtrusive as possible
It has been created for people who:
[a] dislike the dock
don't want to use the command line
[c] want to deploy a quick solution over a network
After running the Applescript, the Dock will disappear and will only reappear if you hover your mouse for a second at the 'top right edge of the desktop picture just below the menu bar'.
New in this version:
You can now restore your previous dock preferences.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
KnockoutDock is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://fixa.troubledmac.com/
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.0.1.4 Browser Plugin
With Macromedia Shockwave Player, you can enjoy multimedia games, learning applications, and product demonstrations on the Web, using exciting new 3D technology.
Browser: Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL
System requirements:
• MacOS X/OS 9
Macromedia Shockwave Player is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?
TrackYourMac 1.1 Tracks Your Lost Or Stolen Mac
TrackYourMac is a software utility that will monitor your Mac's IP address to allow you to keep tabs on your Mac.
What would you do if your Mac was lost or stolen?
From the moment the TrackYourMac software is installed you will be able to keep track of your Mac via email or via the web. Although insurance may cover the fact your Mac has been stolen the data on it can be more valuable to you than the hardware itself.
TrackYourMac is a great tool in finding where your Mac is currently located simply for reference if you are a system administrator, or in the event that your Mac is stolen. Now the law enforcement agencies have something to work with should your Mac get stolen.
TrackYourMac requires very little resources to run and takes very little time to setup. Answer a couple of questions and away you go. In the event that you need to re-install the software you can simply enter your TrackYourMac ID and your software will simply start working as if nothing had ever happened.
Whether you have a desktop or laptop TrackYourMac is a handy tool to have.
Key Features
Web and Mail based tracking
Information about the physical hardware is stored to help identify the Mac
Automatically starts on machine boot. It does not require a user to be logged in
TrackYourMac runs hidden
New in this version:
• Simplified activation process
• Added "show me" feature. This allows you to see how the TrackYourMac server sees your Mac
• Minor changes made to the tracking engine
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later
TrackYourMac sells for $19.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.trackyourmac.net/
iPasteboard 1.1 Clipboard Enhancer [OS X 10.1 up]
Have you ever wanted to have several clipboards available to let you copy and paste between applications more easily? iPasteboard is the perfect application to help you overcome the one-clipboard limitation.
iPasteboard lets you create an unlimited number of clipboards, easily accessible from a clean and efficient user interface. Designed and optimized exclusively for MacOS X, iPasteboard features a great-looking Aqua user interface, a service menu, a dock menu, image & text previews..
• Main Features
° Allows an unlimited number of clipboards
° Clipboard content stored after a restart
° Keyboard shortcut for instant access to iPasteboard
° Built-in preview of clipboard content
° Easily customizable with extensive preferences options
° Very fast and responsive
• Designed for MacOS X
° Great Aqua user interface
° Written exlusively for MacOS X
° Service Menu
° Dock Menu
° Toolbar
For more information, visit:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
iPasteboard is $14.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://ipasteboard.brunoblondeau.com/
eDonkey2000 0.53.13 Graphical Cross Platform File Sharing Client [OS 10.2 up]
The next generation of file sharing. eDonkey2000 allows you to share and trade any type of file, with anyone, under Mac, Windows or Linux
New in this version:
Graphical Interface -- no additional dependencies, fake file warning, Improved statistics, additional tool tips to help new users,
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
eDonkey2000 is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.edonkey2000.com/downloads.html
viJournal Jaguar 1.0b2 Journal With Blogging Support For OS X 10.2
viJournal is a powerful personal journal application.
It's designed as an analogue of the good old-fashioned page-a-day bound diary - the kind you buy in a stationer's. You write your entries under dated headers and save them collectively by month and year.
viJournal has many powerful features, such as a parallel notepad, export to HTML and PDF, file encryption, password protection, hyperlinking. All these tools have been added in such a way that they do not clutter the interface or detract from the original purpose of having viJournal work like a traditional bound diary.
Features
• Clean iApp interface
• Optional file encryption using MulleCipher Cryptography framework
• Two optional layers of password protection
• Full-text searching
• Parallel notepad
• Multiple journals
• Drop Box for storing images and text
• Smart Quotes option
• Export to RTF, HTML, PDF, MS Word
• Add colour-coded hyperlinks to selected text (link to websites, local files or other viJournal entries)
• Insert checkboxes and graphics
• Date/time stamping
• Post entries to your Blogger or LiveJournal weblog
• All the usual Cocoa features - spell checking, fonts, find and replace, and so on...
New in version 1.2
• MultiJournals. Create multiple independent journals.
• Each journal can have its own title page and entry header style.
• "Drop Box" drawer for storing images, text files and journal clippings.
• "Go to Latest Entry" command - go instantly to most recent entry.
• Notes Drawer remembers its width between openings
• Interface refinements.
• Various bug fixes and minor enhancements.
• For full details see Version History
System Requirements
viJournal requires Mac OS X 10.3 (10.3.2 recommended).
A beta version of viJournal for OS X 10.2 (viJournal Jaguar) is now available. viJournal Jaguar has all the core functionality of viJournal, and differs only in minor details.
Licence
viJournal is shareware. It is fully enabled and not time-limited in any way. In Unlicensed mode it will display periodic nuisance reminders. $10 buys a licence serial number which deactivates these reminders. You can purchase a licence from our secure online store or from within the application.
New in this version:
• Redesigned Preferences window
• Minor bug fixes
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8
For more information, visit:
http://freespace.virgin.net/jeremy.dronfield/skoobysoft/vijournal/vijournal.html
Blades of Avernum For Mac Updated to v1.1
Spiderweb Software, the maker of many fine fantasy role-playing games for the Macintosh, has just upgraded Blades of Avernum to v1.1. A patch to update from earlier versions is available.
This patch fixes a variety of minor bugs and enables play of scenarios made with the latest version of the editor. It is highly recommended.
Blades of Avernum is a fantasy role-playing adventure with a powerful scenario editor. Play through four big, exciting adventures in the treacherous world of Avernum. Then download new, free scenarios on our web site, or get the power editor and make adventures of your own. You can even enter our scenario design contest for cash prizes. The fun of Blades of Avernum need never end.
The full demo can be downloaded at
http://www.avernum.com/blades/index.html
and a patch is available at
http://www.avernum.com/blades/techsupp.html
Charles W. Moore
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