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LyX/Mac 1.3.5: LyX on Mac OS X [OS 10.2 up]
ClipClavin 1.0 for Mac OS X Released [OS X 10.3 up]
Car Lease 1.2.3 Vehicle Lease Calculator [OS X 10.1 up]
MacBibble 4.0 For Processing Raw Photos From Professional Digital SLRs [OS 10.2 up]
SafariSource 1.0.5 SIMBL Plugin Adds Syntax Coloring To Safari's Source View [OS 10.2 up]
iYML 2.5.1 Extension To Your Mac Life Net Radio Show [OS X 10.3 up]
GURL Watcher 1.8.0 Records URLs Visited By Browser [OS 7.6.1 up/OS 10.1 up]
Miss Lonelynotes 1.1 Virtual 3x5 Note Cards For Writing Projects [OS X 10.3 up]
Print It! 2.0 Released [OS 10.2 up] [/url]
LyX/Mac 1.3.5: LyX on Mac OS X [OS 10.2 up]
LyX/Mac is a fully-featured implementation of LyX on the Mac OSX native graphics display, with the familiar Aqua look & feel and anti-aliased text. LyX/Mac does not require X11. LyX/Mac was runner-up in the Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest. In addition to standard word processor functions, Lyx includes an interactive math editor, interactive table editor, version control, a table-of-contents window acting as an outline browser, foot and endnotes, margin notes, and many tools for working with complex documents as well as simple ones.
LyX/Mac is available as a self-installing binary based on LyX 1.3.5 and the GPL Qt/Mac library. The prerequisites are Mac OS 10.2 or later and teTeX. If you prefer to build LyX/Mac, instructions are included in the LyX source.
The latest version of LyX/Mac 1.3.5 (October 13, 2004) contains a fix for problems with fonts in math environments.
Users upgrading from pre-1.3.4 versions of LyX/Mac directly to 1.3.5 should download a script to clean up their installations. (On multi-user systems, the script needs to be run once in each account.) The script will clean up old versions of preferences files, remove old fonts, and offer the option of deleting ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, all of which are no longer needed for LyX/Mac 1.3.4 and greater.
Start LyX by double-clicking the icon. For those familiar with other versions of LyX, the Mac key functions as the CONTROL key for LyX key-mapping, and the Mac OPTION (ALT) key functions as both a META key and a COMPOSE key. For batch commands or debugging, you can start LyX from the command line with the case-sensitive /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx — modify as needed if you install LyX somewhere other than the Applications folder.
Note: Make sure there are no spaces in the path to LyX. (This will prevent LyX from finding your TeX installation, and you will be unable to generate outputs.)
Drag files to the open LyX window to open them. To enable double-clicking LyX files in the Finder, set LyX as the default application in Finder → File → Get Info → Open With.
Mac-like keyboard shortcuts for commands and cursor movements (like “OPT-LEFT” to move left one word) are provided as the default for new installations. (Users upgrading from earlier versions of LyX/Mac can specify mac.bind as their bind file in LyX → Preferencs → Look and Feel → User Interface. (Simply type “mac.bind” in that field.)
LyX/Mac uses the system default viewers, and should require no configuration for PDF and HTML. If you have MacDviX or MacGhostView installed, LyX will use them to preview DVI and Postscript. To specify a non-default GUI viewer use open -a app-name or open -a ‘Application Name’ in Preferences → Outputs → File formats → filetype → Viewer.
Spellcheckers compatible with LyX/Mac include aspell, ispell, and hspell. To use cocoAspell make a symbolic link from /Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to /usr/local/bin/aspell.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 and up
LyX/Mac is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
ClipClavin 1.0 for Mac OS X Released [OS X 10.3 up]
ClipClavin is a fun little utility that sits up in the menubar and will allow you to quickly copy & send Safari text, Safari URL's and even your clipboard to you or any other eMail address–it can even store your clippings to the iPod if you have one! We always found ourselves wishing to send a small paragraph or text, or even a URL from Safari to other friends–it got tedious to select the text, copy the text, move to Mail, create a new mail, paste the text, pick an address, and hit send...We always wanted a fast way to just select a block of text in Safari and just have it send instantly. On other occasions, we found that we liked to send clippings to our own eMail addresses, and found the numerous steps above to be just to cumbersome.
There are small JavaScripts out there that attempt to put this functionality into Safari, but we found they were just not feature-rich enough for our liking. Plus, what about sending our clipboard contents to ourselves or another user or saving the text to our iPod? ClipClavin to the rescue! You can even highlight a phone number on a Safari webpage and have it entered right into your Mac OS X address book This version will launch 5 times before asking you to puchase the software for $4.95.
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Safari (for best results)
For more information, visit:
http://www.ifthensoft.com/clipclavin.zip
or
http://www.ifthensoft.com
Car Lease 1.2.3 Vehicle Lease Calculator [OS X 10.1 up]
Car Lease 1.2.3 is an easy-to-use vehicle lease calculator that uses the money factor method to calculate monthly lease payments.
Features
• its multiple document feature lets you compare different leases side-by-side
• options that reduce or increase lease cost can be enabled or disabled with a mouse click: you can immediately see what effect they have on lease cost.
• lots of calculation details and an extensive Help let you understand how vehicle leasing really works.
New in this version:
• added scroll wheel support
• revised rounding of totals
• interface enhancements
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later
Car Lease is now a sponsored product. It can be used for free, provided that you visit our sponsor's site once.
For more information, visit:
http://www.paranzasoft.com/pages/carlease.htm
MacBibble 4.0 For Processing Raw Photos From Professional Digital SLRs [OS 10.2 up]
Bibble is designed to allow you gain the most quality from your digital SLR through the manipulation of?raw CCD files from the camera. Raw files are the digital equivalent of a film negative. They record up to 12 bits of information per pixel and store the data in an uncompressed form without any additional color corrections, sharpening or compression. By providing access to this virgin data, Bibble allows photographers to exercise maximum creative control over their final images, while simultaneously delivering the maximum quality possible. Conversely, Jpegs should be thought of as digital prints. Jpegs only records 8 bits of data per image, and are heavily processed in camera. Much like prints delivered by a photo lab, Jpegs have someone else's interpretation of what the color is supposed to look like. Additionally, while smaller in size, Jpegs have been compressed which introduces artifacts and reduces sharpening. Tiff files do not have the compression problems of Jpegs, but can be very large and slow to use. Even with all their size, they still only contain 8 Bits of data per channel, though they do not have the compression issues of Jpegs. With Bibble, you can quickly and easily browse through your raw files, edit and adjust them, and then save them in final form as either Jpegs or Tiffs. Additionally, Bibble offers many powerful tools that allow you to adjust the images to your satisfaction.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
MacBibble is $75.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bibblelabs.com/
or
http://www.bibblelabs.com/bibble/mac.thtml
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SafariSource 1.0.5 SIMBL Plugin Adds Syntax Coloring To Safari's Source View [OS 10.2 up]
SafariSource is a SIMBL plugin that adds HTML syntax coloring to Safari's source view. It's easy to install and makes View Source much more pleasant to use.
New in this version:
• Fixed another hang when the source had tabs (introduced in v1.0.1)
• Included the SIMBL installer in the download
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Safari
SafariSource is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.tildesoft.com/Misc.html#SafariSource
iYML 2.5.1 Extension To Your Mac Life Net Radio Show [OS X 10.3 up]
This application is an extension to "Your Mac Life", an internet based radio show about the Macintosh Computer. This app takes features from the website such as:
• Direct links to home page, archives, and forums.
• Direct links to Sly's website of the week, and Weekly Links.
• One click access to live broadcast video and audio streams.
• Links to sponsors
Simply open iYML. You can click on the "Archive Stream" tab and listen to the most recent broadcast. iYML also has links to various parts of the Your Mac Life website. If you'd like to see Sly's Website of the week, simply click "YML Web" in the "General" tab and click "Sly's Website of the Week" from the pull down menu. Send Shawn an e-mail in the "E-Mail" menu, or to the on-air e-mail address in your default e-mail program. The most important thing you can do with iYML is enter the monthly contests by clicking "Monthly Contest Entry". It automatically places "Month Prize Draw" in the subject line, so all you have to do is click send. You do need an e-mail program such as "Mail" or "Microsoft Entourage" to use that feature.
New in this version:
• Since Whimsplucky.com has been down iYML has been acting very buggy since it has to access certain files on the site for version checking and internet connection. Those files have been moved and iYML has been updated to access the new addresses
• YML iCal has been replaced with the new YML Calendar.
• With the update of the YML website, the address for the streaming archive has changed, that address has been updated in iYML.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later (Jaguar version also available)
iYML is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.geocities.com/whimsplucky/
or
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23004
GURL Watcher 1.8.0 Records URLs Visited By Browser [OS 7.6.1 up/OS 10.1 up]
Now you can take charge of what your children, employees or anyone else is doing while they're surfing online, without resorting to usually futile attempts at censorship or using complicated filtering software.
GURL Watcher helps you to establish a system of trust and responsible use, rather than trying to impose filtered access that may inadvertently cut people off from perfectly legitimate sites.
GURL Watcher silently watches the web sites displayed in a browser. Just install, configure, turn it on, and that's it. Every time your machine restarts GURL Watcher will automatically watch any browser activity and report it.
GURL Watcher works completely in the background to record all the sites visited by a computer's users. You can either save these URLs in a designated file known only to you, or email them to a designated address.
GURL Watcher for Mac OS X now supports page checking for inappropriate content. You set the words and phrases you deem inappropriate. GURL Watcher will then close the browser window if these words or phrases are found in the page. This function is completely optional and can be used independent of the URL reporting capabilities of GURL Watcher. See the Mac OS X Help page for more details.
No filter lists. No subscriptions. Just plain and simple Internet monitoring.
What customers are saying about GURL Watcher:
• "I like this software because it allows me as a manager to let my group know that they are being monitored passively. I am not denying them access through a filter. This tends to be cumbersome at best, and is easy to work around. "
• " I like the simplicity and power of this software. It doesn't slow down browsing or my system. It doesn't cause problems, it just does what it is supposed to do and lets me do what I am supposed to do."
• "Filtering simply doesn't work and can't work well, for obvious reasons. GURL Watcher works well and I can easily review a day's activities within a few seconds. GURL is also a useful URL historical log for me. "
Teach anyone that you want them to use the Internet responsibly, and that you trust them to visit only appropriate sites.
GURL Watcher observes all sites visited using most popular Internet browsers.
New in this version:
• Added support for multiple email recipients. Email addresses only need to be separated with a comma.
• Fixed potential bug where the background app could continually try to send out a single email report if it did not receive the proper responses from the SMTP (mail) server.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 7.6.1/10.1 or higher
Mac Classic System Requirements:
• A PowerPC Macintosh with an Internet connection (no 68K version available at this time).
• MacOS 7.6.1 or later with Open Transport v1.1.1 or later (not yet OS X compliant)
• A popular internet browser (Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Internet Explorer, iCab or Opera). No AOL browser support at this time.
• A direct way to send email via your ISP's SMTP server (if you wish to receive URL reports via email).
Mac OS X System Requirements:
• A PowerPC Macintosh with an Internet connection.
• Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
• A popular internet browser (Safari, Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Internet Explorer, iCab or Opera). No AOL browser support at this time.
• A direct way to send email via your ISP's SMTP server (if you wish to receive URL reports via email).
GURL Watcher sells for $19.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.quicomm.com/gw_overview.html
Miss Lonelynotes 1.1 Virtual 3x5 Note Cards For Writing Projects [OS X 10.3 up]
Miss Lonelynotes dramatically expands on a familiar note card methodology to help authors write more effectively. The latest version introduces powerful features to both compliment the way writers work and keep the project under control.
Miss Lonelynotes presents several views of the entire composition, eliminates the pain in finding content, automatically tracks characters, facts and sources and lets even the most technology-adverse move cards around on the screen to refine the flow. Miss Lonelynotes provides a simple color-coding system to link content to multiple plots or categories and now writers can view a particular plot line with one mouse click.
Miss Lonelynotes invites authors to drop the word processor and begin to craft the whole composition. Try Miss Lonelynotes for free to discover a potent and familiar writing method.
Highlights
• All But the Dirty Rubberband
Miss Lonelynotes excels like a stack of index cards and adds keystroke navigation, search tools, automatic spell checking, writing guidance, and multiple ways of sorting, organizing and visualizing your composition.
• Spin a Nasty Web
Use color tags to assign cards to plots, themes or categories. Simplify the painful task of associating related paragraphs or topics that sit in different sections of the composition. Now you can have the most sub-plots and win a prize.
• Procrastinate
With Miss Lonelynotes' flag function, writers can attach todos and ideas to cards. Don't be afraid to get carried away, easily return to these cards from the Flagged list.
• Take on Dickens
Who can keep tabs on hundreds of characters, locations, scenes, dates, facts, or illustrations? Miss Lonelynotes automatically exposes every reference in each card, lists them across the project, and provides search tools to help uncover even the most hidden detail. Use Find and Replace and a single button to magically replace a character's middle name across the project.
• Eventually a Document or How About an Outline
When the time is right, the story flows perfectly and you're ready to bother with bold type and crazy styles, export your project to any word processor. Include as much or as little of the project as you need.
Miss Lonelynotes invites authors to drop the word processor and begin to craft the whole composition. Try Miss Lonelynotes for free to discover a potent and familiar writing method.
Quick Points
• Assemble complex fiction or non-fiction writing projects one card at a time
• Easily drag-n-drop to reorganize and refine the flow
• Efficiently define and track characters, plots, and references in your writing
• Quickly record and revisit facts and ideas
• Instantly find sections of writing by keyword or category.
• Use the trash to put bad ideas in their place; later, dig through the trash after realizing your mistake
• Available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Enjoy perfect file compatibility across platforms
• Automatic spell checking
• Export to RTF or outline
• Intuitive, fluff-free interface
Categorize and Flag
Miss Lonelynotes helps authors categorize their content and jot down related thoughts.
New in this version:
• Multiple Card Categories
• Quicker Keyboarding
• Simple Category Assignment
• Better Backups
• Global Font, Size & Color Control
• Project Sorting
• Project Statistics
• Word Highlighter
• More Help
• Spelling Savvy
• And Naturally More Speed
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Miss Lonelynotes is $29.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mindola.com/
Print It! 2.0 Released [OS 10.2 up]
With Print It! 2.0 for OS X, if you can see it, you can print it -- and a whole lot more! Print It! is amazingly easy to use and never gets in the user's way. And Print It! is fast -- very fast.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF USING PRINT IT! ARE:
• Print It! lets users instantly select and print anything they can see on their monitors -- even if it's not normally selectable or printable -- and this includes any combination of text, pictures, and graphics -- literally, anything.
• Print It! is a system-wide enhancement to OS X that runs in the background; there's no interface to have to learn or to get in the way.
• A simple system-wide hotkey instantly invokes Print It!'s ability to select and print anything on users' displays.
• A simple system-wide keyboard shortcut instantly brings up Print It!'s innovative contextual menu which provides instant access to Print It!'s many other advanced features. (Among the innovative featurs of this CM are its optional ability to remain visible so users easily can perform multiple/repeated actions, its ability to be dragged to any location on the Desktop, and its ability to remain visible when users drag their cursors off of it.)
• Print It! provides WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) printing and includes support for previewing print jobs.
• Print It! also works with the Finder, so it's easy to create Finder lists of anything and print them -- users even can add their own customized notes to Finder lists.
• Print It! lets users instantly add notes and/or time-date stamps to anything they print, including pictures and graphics.
• Print It! lets users -- even on the fly -- create print jobs by combining virtually an unlimited number of selections from anywhere and then printing them together. Additionally, users can add notes and/or time-date stamps to their selections individually and/or to their print jobs as a whole.
• Print It! lets users select and grab whatever info they need from anywhere, including databases, spreadsheets, web pages, email, AOL, online chats, newsreaders, word processors, PIMs, calender/appointment programs, Quicken and other financial software, and virtually anything else -- you name it!
• Print It! lets users instantly create subreports from FileMaker, Quicken, Excel and literally any other program by allowing them to instantly collect and combine just the info they are looking for -- even across multiple applications. (Users even can add their own notes and time-date stamps to their collected data/subreports.)
• Print It! is a powerful tool for collecting any type of data when doing any type of research, whether for school, work, or personal interest.
• Print It! protects users' data by providing them with the option of automatically saving it so they can continue working with their print projects at a later time.
• Print It! enables users to print any material from any programs that can't print their own data.
• Print It! also saves users money because it eliminates wasting ink/toner and paper printing material they don't need and because it makes users more productive when using their computers.
• And Print It! includes many additional features to make users' lives easier and more productive when using their Macs!
The cost savings, productivity enhancements, and environmental benefits provided by using Print It! are multiplied for schools, businesses, and other organizations that use many computers! (Special site license pricing is available.)
NEW IN PRINT IT! 2.0
• An Auto-Scaling Guide dynamically and automatically provides users with the scaling value to use to print 100% of an oversized selection on a single page.
• The Page Setup dialog box automatically appears when users select an oversized selection to print.
• New preference items have been added to Print It!.
• Users now can create their own system-wide keyboard shortcuts for instantly accessing Print It!'s features.
• Print It! now uses a brighter alert color to let users know when their selections are oversized.
• Several enhancements have been added to Print It!'s code.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS X 10.2 or later (including Panther)
Print It! includes a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee and costs only $29.95.
A free, fully functional demonstration version of Print It! is available at:
http://www.macease.com
The direct link to the Print It! page where there's additional information about Print It! is:
http://www.macease.com/print_it!_main_page.html
Charles W. Moore
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