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Firefox 1.0.4 Web Browser
Mozilla 1.7.8 Browser Suite
InforMac 0.1b1 Apple System Profiler Substitute [OS 10.2 up]
rootMachine 1.2 Daily Maintenance App For Panther and Tiger
Liberer 2.1 Rids The Library Folders Of Old Files And Much More [OS 10.2 up]
ClickScroll 1.3 2D Intuitive Scrolling Tool, No Scrollbars Or Scroll Wheels [OS X 10.3 up]
Church Membership Keeper 4.5.1 Organizes/Tracks Church Member Info [OS X 10.1 up]
Comic Life 1.1 Creates Digital Photo Comics
TypeTrainer4Mac 2.1.3 Multilingual Typing Tutor
Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 2.0.3
Version 1.8 of ToDo X now available
Firefox 1.0.4 Web Browser
Why Use Firefox?
Popup Blocking
Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox's built in popup blocker.
Tabbed Browsing
View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they're ready for viewing when you're ready to read them.
Privacy and Security
Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business.
Smarter Search
Google Search is built right into the toolbar, and there is a plethora of other search tools including Smart Keywords (type "dict <word>" in the Location bar), and the new Find bar (which finds text as you type without covering up anything).
Live Bookmarks
RSS integration lets you read the latest news headlines and read updates to your favorite sites that are syndicated.
Hassle-Free Downloading
Files you download are automatically saved to your Desktop so they're easy to find. Fewer prompts mean files download quicker.
Fits Like a Glove
Simple and intuitive, yet fully featured, Firefox has all the functions you're used to - Bookmarks, History, Full Screen, Text Zooming to make pages with small text easier to read, etc.
S, M, L or XL—It's Your Choice
Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet. Customize your toolbars to add additional buttons, install new Extensions that add new features, add new Themes to browse with style, and use the adaptive search system to allow you to search an infinite number of engines. Firefox is as big or small as you want.
Firefox Features
• Live Bookmarks
• Extensions
• Themes
• FastFind
• Improved Security
• New Tab Controls
New in 1.0.4
Firefox 1.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
Here's what's new in Firefox 1.0.4:
• Several security fixes.
• Fix to DHTML errors encountered at some web sites. For web developers
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Mozilla 1.7.8 Browser Suite
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
Why Use Mozilla ?
Navigator
Tabbed browsing gives you a better way to surf the net. You no longer have to open one page at a time. With tabbed browsing, open several pages at once with one click. And now your homepage can be multiple tabbed pages.
Popup blocker lets you surf the web without intrusion. Advanced popup blocker notifies you when popups are blocked. You can also block pop-ups on a site per site basis.
Image Manager lets you block images to block offensive images or to speed up the rendering of web sites.
Find as you type gives you another way to navigate a page. Just start typing to jump from link to link or to find a word or phrase within a page.
Plus all the features a modern browser should have including: Advanced security settings; Password, Download, and Cookie managers; Themes; multi-language and multi-platform support; and, the latest in Web Standards.
Mail & Newsgroups
Junk mail controls helps you take back control of your e-mail from spammers. Mozilla's adaptive junk mail control gets smarter with use and is personalized to the e-mail that you receive.
Manage your mail with customizable Labels and Mail Views. Color code your e-mail to help you prioritize. Sort your mail with views to help you through your e-mail much faster.
Mozilla supports Multiple Accounts to help you manage all your mail through one interface.
Mozilla Messenger includes Enterprise ready features such as S/MIME, return receipts, LDAP support, and digital signing.
Composer
Mozilla's HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your simple documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.
New in this version:
fix some known security vulnerabilities (MFSA 2005-42, MSFA 2005-43 and MSFA 2005-44). As we've stated before, although the Mozilla Foundation is not planning any further milestone releases of the Mozilla Application Suite, they are committed to supplying critical updates for the 1.7.x line as appropriate.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
Mozilla is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
InforMac 0.1b1 Apple System Profiler Substitute [OS 10.2 up]
InforMac is an AppleSystemProfiler-like utility that displays information about your computer such as hardware, software and settings. With InforMac you can save this information as a file, protect the personal data it contains, and read this file on any other computer.
Maybe InforMac will save confidential information, such as your IP Adress, your name,... InforMac can securly encrypt this data thanks to a system built-in encryption engine that will make your personal information unreadable to any user without the proper password.
New in this version:
• Tiger compatible
• Added print function (that's right, you can print the app list)
• Some of the panels can be exported to html/xml
• Library now supports FTP
• Some new info available
• Fixes memory leaks
• German and Japanese have been temporarily removed
• NOTE: This software require a HUGE amount of time, I'm unable to fix all the bugs and I'm really sorry about that
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
InforMac is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.vmenager.ch/mct/indexEN.html
rootMachine 1.2 Daily Maintenance App For Panther and Tiger
rootMachine is a very basic Maintenance Application for daily use, to simply keep your Mac humming nice & smooth! · Run Daily, Weekly, Monthly Cron Jobs · Repair Disk Permissions · Show/Hide Finder Files · View Logfile · Auto restart, shut down, quit.
New in this version:
Designed for quick, easy and daily use
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.6 or later
rootMachine is 5 € shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26764
Liberer 2.1 Rids The Library Folders Of Old Files And Much More [OS 10.2 up]
Liberer is a simple utility to remove or add files from/to your library (either your home or the all-users one).
Everything is icon-illustrated and every library folder has a description of what is that folder used for.
Since now you can also let Liberer to find old unused or empty preferences.
New in this version:
• [New] Starting point
• [Improve] Radical speed improvements
• [Fix] Many bug fixes and overall improvement
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Liberer is $7.50 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.volny.cz/putaint/page3/page3.html
ClickScroll 1.3 2D Intuitive Scrolling Tool, No Scrollbars Or Scroll Wheels [OS X 10.3 up]
ClickScroll gives your Mac an highly-addictive feature: scrolling without scrollbars and scroll wheels.
No need to move your eyes anymore when you need to scroll a web page or a text document - simply call ClickScroll once and gently move your mouse around.
ClickScroll supports multi-button mice for a fast access, as well as single-button ones. It is the perfect scrolling software for laptops users.
With ClickScroll, take advantage of the following features:
Seamless integration: ClickScroll can be called in virtually every Mac OS X application (Finder, Mail, Safari, Internet Explorer, Word, Photoshop, etc).
Themes support: Do you want to create your own ClickScroll theme? Use the ClickScroll Interface Builder and let your creativity work for you !
Visual Feedback: ClickScroll lets you know what it is doing all the time with a Mac OS X-friendly interface.
2D Scrolling: ClickScroll now supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling to provide a richer experience.
With ClickScroll, enjoy these unique features :
• Themes support
• 2D Scrolling
• User-defined themes support
New in this version:
• Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" support
• Added the ability to invert scrolling
• Now supports restricted accounts
For more information, visit:
Mac OS X 10.3 or better
ClickScroll is €6 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.macgu.net/clickscroll/
Church Membership Keeper 4.5.1 Organizes/Tracks Church Member Info [OS X 10.1 up]
Church Membership Keeper is powerful church management software that allows churches to track vital information about members and their activities in the church. It is a fully relational set of databases that include the ability to track attendance, adult and children as a family unit, extended family, ministry involvement, giving and much more.
Church Membership Keeper is Shareware. It is available as:
• Church Membership Keeper Basic which is a stand alone application for Mac OS X.
• Church Membership Keeper Pro which is a customizable version of the software requiring FileMaker Pro 5.5 - 6.x. (FMP 7 is not recommended at this time.)
The program allows the church to keep track of ministry involvement, tithes, giving, pledges, gifts and donations, favorite scripture passages and songs, family relationships, anniversaries, birthdays and much more. CMK includes the ability to print labels, letters, post cards, phone, address, and picture directories, financial reports including the IRS required financial statement. Simply put, CMK is a complete church membership package.
CMK is a fully relational database program built around the FileMaker Pro engine. It is available as a stand alone application or for an additional cost as a customizable set of files. The CMK file available for download is the stand alone version. It is fully functional and complete. The customizable file requires FileMaker Pro 5.5 or later (FMP 6 preferred).
New in this version:
• Updated Troi Text Plugin function.
• Fixed the ability to store primary records.
• Updated contact information.
• Windows file updated for compatibility with current Macintosh version.
System requirements:
• Mac OS 10.1
• FileMaker Pro 5.5 (FMP 6 preferred) for customizable version
• Not recommended for FMP 7
For more information, visit:
http://www.icro.net/
Comic Life 1.1 Creates Digital Photo Comics
plasq is super-über-happy to announce Comic Life 1.1! Your favourite comic-making application has gained some mind-blowingly fun new features which allow you to create even cooler comics, easier and faster.
Want a more authentic-looking comic? Now you can apply filters to your photos to make them look printed, hand-drawn, painted and even 'night vision', among others. 16 included filters expand your creative pallette, making ordinary photos, Marvelous! You can change filters without fear - nothing is permanent (except your super powers of comic creation).
Filters require CoreImage, part of Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
Want to create a special comic size? Now you can create custom page sizes to allow printing to special paper, or for fitting multiple comics on a page.
Perhaps you wish you could snap a photo straight into your comic with something handy, like... your iSight? Well now you can! Get your friends / dog / sock puppet to act... try a few different poses and drag right onto your comic. Bang!
Expand what you can do with your digital photos! With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides.
The makers of Still Life and plasq.com have joined forces to give you a super-quick, super-easy way to create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums and enticing instruction booklets. And not to mention all the other creations you can come up with!
Included are professional and fun templates, ready to drag and drop onto your page for instant attractive photo layouts. Or if you like to be in control, position your photos and panels exactly; with support for saveable styles and templates.
Your iPhoto library and hard drive files are always at your fingertip - just drag in your pictures. Drag on some captions, sound effect text (‘ka-blam!') and speech bubbles and your work is done!
Bunch of styles
Integrate... the world
Share your creations with friends and family! Comic Life supports .Mac, html, QuickTime and JPEG exports, so you can share on your website, blog or via email. Comic Life's .Mac support includes RSS feeds, allowing anyone to subscribe to your Comic Life creations - your unwavering fans can get the latest issue 'hot off the press!'. You can even transfer images back and forth online with iPhoto sharing!
Finally, print out pristine, lasting copies via your printer or the iPhoto Kodak print service. Stand back and watch people smile, laugh and engage with your creations!
Tons of uses
• Comics... duh
• Annotate family photos
• Holiday photo album
• Childrens story books
• ‘How-to' Guides
• Basic desktop publishing
• Greeting cards
• Gifts
• Scrap booking
Make it pretty
• Highly customizable objects
• Change colour
• Add drop shadows
• Create groovy Special Effects text
• Use gradients
• Layer pictures and frames
New in this version:
New Features
• CoreImage based filtering
• Lots of new image styles that demonstrate the new filtering.
• iSight video capture.
• Custom page sizes.
• plasq-komika stylesheet.
• Page range support for Export To Image.
Bug Fixes
• Dragging an image from one panel no longer deletes images in other panels that are crossed over.
• Transparency is no longer supported in balloons.
• Drag select of a panel with a background image no longer selects the image as well.
• Flipped images are no longer incorrectly clipped inside panels.
• Unused images are purged from file on save.
• Style attribute changes can now be undone.
• Occasional hairline outline around Lettering is no longer present.
• Turning off frame drawing around ballons shrinks ballon outline appropriately.
• Viewing .Mac comics on Windows comics.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. CoreImage filtering requires 10.4 or higher
Comic Life is $24.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://plasq.com/comiclife
TypeTrainer4Mac 2.1.3 Multilingual Typing Tutor
TypeTrainer4Mac is Freeware
TT4Mac is a Freeware Typing Tutor for Mac OS X. It is easy to use and supports European (ISO), American (ANSI) and Japanese (JIS) keyboards. It is already tested for 60 keyboard layouts (Dvorak, Roman, Cyrillic and Central European).
New in this version:
• Application is optimized for Tiger
• Identification of the physical keyboard optimized
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/typetrainer4mac/
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Yum 0.7.4 Recipe Cookbook Manager With Sample Recipes
"Yum!" is a recipe collection application featuring:
• Dynamic searching of all text - found set of recipes updated as you type the search terms.
• Indexing by category - each recipe can belong to any number of user-defined categories.
• Several printing options - 1 recipe, all recipes, selected recipes, all recipes in selected category, found recipes. Let's face it, who can afford to have the computer itself in the kitchen and operate it with flour and eggs all over their hands?
• Recipe text can be fully formatted including fonts, styles, paragraph settings, and even graphics (copy and paste, or drag and drop) so that pictures of your recipes can be included anywhere within the recipe text.
• Recipes can be imported from MasterCook export files, or from other Yum! files, and can be exported to Yum! files or to text files.
Even if the application does not entirely suit your needs, you might like some of these recipes!
This version of Yum is for Mac OS X 10.3 and above only. An older Mac OS X 10.2.x compatible version is also available at http://nixanz.com/products/yum/Yum0510.dmg.
New in this version:
â—ŠAdded a "Text Attributes" item to the toolbar (previous users will need to re-customise their toolbar).
â—ŠDelete Category (-) button is now disabled when a built in category (All Recipes) is selected.
â—ŠFixed a problem where plural amounts were not abbreviated as per preferences.
â—ŠUpdated Italian localisation.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, Tiger Compatible
Yum is freeware or "UNDER-Ware" (User Now Defines Entity Restrictions)
For more information, visit:
http://www.nixanz.com/products/yum/README.html
Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 2.0.3
Stairways Software Pty Ltd ihas announced Keyboard Maestro 2.0.3, the newest version of its powerful powerful productivity enhancer for Mac OS X, adding support for Mac OS X Tiger. Keyboard Maestro consists of three functions: powerful macros, program and windows switching, and clipboard switching.
Using Keyboard Maestro's macros you can control applications, windows, or menus; insert text; open documents, applications or URLs; execute scripts; control the system, iTunes, or a PowerMate; and more, all with the touch of a key, click of the mouse, periodically or at specific times, or even when an application is launched, running or quits.
The Program Switcher lets you cycle through applications or windows, closing, hiding, launching, and more. Keyboard Maestro can help you regain control of your crowded screen by letting you close or hide multiple windows or applications, especially useful in the Finder.
The Clipboard Switcher lets you select from a number of named clipboards, storing information away for later retrieval. Store the details you are working with and access them by name again and again.
Keyboard Maestro was acquired by Stairways Software on 30 June 2004 and we have continued to build on the solid foundations that Michael Kamprath developed in Keyboard Maestro 1 and the initial 2.0 betas.
New in Keyboard Maestro 2.0.3:
• Fixed some problems with Insert Text/Clipboard Handling under Tiger.
• Updated the Kagi Registration Module to resolve a crash.
• Resolved an issue where the engine could spontaneously quit when Switcher windows were closed.
Keyboard Maestro 2.0 represents a complete rewrite of the internal engine to support multiple Macro Triggers and adds support for a wealth of new action as well as the concept of a Macro Group, a set of Macros that are enabled for a specific set of applications and support for importing and exporting Macros so you can share Macros with your friends and colleagues.
System requirements:
Keyboard Maestro 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or greater.
New customers can purchase Keyboard Maestro from http://purchase.keyboardmaestro.com/
for US$20.
Keyboard Maestro 2.0.3 is a free upgrade to all Keyboard Maestro 2.x owners. Keyboard Maestro 2.0 is a paid upgrade from previous versions. Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro 1.x after 1 July 2004 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 2.0. To claim your free upgrade look up your Keyboard Maestro purchase at http://enquiry.stairways.com/
Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro 1 from Michael Kamprath before July 2004 will be able to upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 2 for US$10. In order to qualify for the discounted upgrade, you must have transferred your Keyboard Maestro 1 details to Stairways Software (you should have received information on doing this around mid-August). If you have not yet done so, please contact us and we will liaise with Michael about the transfer. Once your details have been transferred, you can claim your discounted upgrade to version 2 by looking up your license at http://enquiry.stairways.com/
A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from:
http://download.stairways.com/
Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at http://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/
A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at http://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/
A more detailed tour to give you a better idea of Keyboard Maestro's power and versatility is available at
http://tour.keyboardmaestro.com/
For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/
Version 1.8 of ToDo X now available
Omicron Software Systems has released an updated version of ToDo X, a dedicated to-do list application for Mac OS X.
The new version corrects some non-critical but annoying Tiger compatibility issues. A number of user interface refinements and user-requested features are also included. This is a free upgrade for registered users of earlier versions, and can be downloaded at http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/
Version 1.8 is currently available only in English. Version 1.5 remains available for those who require French, Dutch or German.
This $15 shareware app supports multiple to-do lists and allows a to-do item to appear in more than one list. Each item can have unlimited attached notes, and items can be copied, linked or moved among lists via drag-and-drop.
With extensive use of keyboard shortcuts, the application wields considerable power while retaining a refined, minimalist interface. Users of earlier versions have proclaimed this to be "the best to-do application for Mac OS X"; version 1.5 rated four stars (out of five) in the June 2004 MacWorld "Mac Gems" review at http://www.macworld.com/2004/06/reviews/junemacgems/
ToDo X can import to-do items from iCal and other Mac or Windows applications that generate industry-standard ".ics" data files. Users of the classic Mac OS desk accessory "ToDo!" (by Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software) will be happy to hear that ToDo X can import from that venerable utility as well.
System requirements:
ToDo X is compatible with Mac OS X version 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 (Tiger).
ToDo X product page:
http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/ ToDo X screenshots
Direct download
http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/ToDo.dmg
Charles W. Moore
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