Shareware Beat - Monday, February 2, 2004
RadicalPhoto 1.1
Unsanity Releases Menu Master 1.1
Auntie 1.2.1 BBC News Ticker [OS 10.2 up]
osXigen 2.6 Cocoa FTP/SFTP Client With Several Power User Options [OS 10.2 up]
inkBook 0.4.0a1 Takes Handwritten Notes That You Can Search Later [OS X 10.3 up]
teleport Preview 1 Controls Several Macs With The Same Mouse & Keyboard [OS 10.2 up]
WinJack 1.1 Remotely Controls Windows From A Mac [OS X 10.1 up]
Spydisk FTP 0.5b Client For Spymac's Web Hosting /Spychat 2.3 IRC chatting app for Spymac.com and SNN members [OS 10.2 up]
Fire Instant Messaging Client
Dockless 1.3.0 Makes Running Apps Show/Not Show Dock [OS X 10.3 up] [/url]
RadicalPhoto 1.1
RadicalPhoto is an easy to use photo enhancer and image converter.
Pick from any number of possible enhancements : From your standard options (Brightness, Contrast and Red/Green/Blue levels) to some of the more interesting ones (Hue/Saturation for individual colors, Smooth, Sharpen, Emboss, Blur, Motion Blur/Zoom, Wave and Twirl effects and many more). Or combine any (or all) of the options to get just the right effect.
If you don't like the changes you make, just hit the "Reset Photo" button and try something new.
In addition to photo enhancement, RadicalPhoto also supports reading and writing of JPEG (including 2000), BMP, MacPaint, Photoshop, Pict, Png, SGI, TGA and Tiff image files.
System Requirements :
MacOS X 10.2 or higher (including 10.3)
You can download a free demo. If you want to buy, RadicalPhoto costs $15.
For more information, visit:
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/radicalphoto/index.html
Unsanity Releases Menu Master 1.1
Unsanity LLC has announced the release of Menu Master 1.1. The update brings Panther compatibility to the menu shortcut customization tool and other enhancements.
Menu Master is a haxie that allows you to change or remove menu shortcut keys in any application with ease. It takes about 15 seconds to learn how to use Menu Master, and saves you lots of time later because you can use the shortcuts you defined and do not bother remembering which ones the developer of the software invented for you. Additionally, you can set shortcuts to any menu item that had no shortcuts, or remove shortcuts from menu items. Menu Master gives you a complete control over your menus, all just for $10.
New in version 1.1
- Panther Compatible;
- Completely rewrote menu handling. This may break apps that used to work with Menu Master. This may fix apps that didn't. Old preferences are not carried over;
- Fixed a problem that would cause menu hilights to be drawn incorrectly when setting or deleting a shortcut;
- Fixed a slowdown that would occur if you tried to set more than a few shortcuts for an application at once or tried to use the arrow keys to move through menus;
- Much better handling of moving menu items;
Menu Master is priced at $10
Menu Master 1.1 is available at:
http://www.unsanity.net/menumaster-11.dmg
More information on Menu Master:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/menumaster/
Auntie 1.2.1 BBC News Ticker [OS 10.2 up]
Auntie is a freeware BBC News ticker for MacOS X. It has no relationship to the (apparently no longer supported) MacOS 7 program of the same name, other than having the same function.
Many aspects of the ticker are configurable, including font, color, opacity and ticker speed. Clicking on a scrolling headline will take you to the associated web page. Headlines are also listed in a dock menu to jump to any one of them.
Auntie is provided free of charge because you really ought to pay attention to what's going on in the world.
New in this version:
Well, version 1.2 was sort of short-lived. It turns out that on Panther, if you use a floating-window style ('Utility Window') smaller window frame, the window will ALWAYS hide when the program is deactivated, whether you have that setting turned on or not internally.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Auntie is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://brianhill.dyndns.org/site/index.php
or
http://brianhill.dyndns.org/BetaStuff/Auntie_1.2.1.tar.gz
osXigen 2.6 Cocoa FTP/SFTP Client With Several Power User Options [OS 10.2 up]
osXigen is a fully featured FTP/SFTP client application with lots of advanced features. All this power is hidden under a beatiful and easy-to-use UI that can be customized with 4 different icon sets.
It has time-saving features for web developers and of course AppleScript support to make them part of your workflow.
And in the true shareware spirit it comes with free upgrades
For a one time fee of $20 you get the best FTP/SFTP client for Mac OS X and all the future releases.Features:
• Native, cocoa-based
• FTP and SFTP support
• Fully multithreaded
• Synchronization (including in different time zones)
• Web site management
• Queue based download & uploads
• BBEdit integration
• Active bookmarks - bookmarks that react to drag'n'drops on them - will maximize your productivity
• Filters - filter-out / filter-in files matching a regular expression
• Supports most Ftp servers: UNIX/Linux, Mac (NetPresenz) , Windows (NT Server and Windows FTP Service), Novell NetWare and VMS and others
• Firewall support: SOCKS, HTTP Tunneling and FTP proxy are now supported
• 4 Icon sets to choose from
• Customized sounds for error and task finished alerts
• Fully integrated with Mac OS X features: AppleScript, Keychain, Help System, etc.
• French, German, Italian and Spanish localizations
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
(Download osXigen 1.2.2 for earlier versions of Mac OS X)
osXigen is $20.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.jomosoft.com/osxigen/osXigen.html
inkBook 0.4.0a1 Takes Handwritten Notes That You Can Search Later [OS X 10.3 up]
inkBook is a note-taking application. Using a tablet and Apple's Ink technology, you write your notes on the inkBook. Your notes remain as handwritten ink, yet you can search all of your notes as if they were typed text! Copy and paste your notes as text to word processors and export your whole inkBook to a text file.
New in this version:
• Initial support for tabs.
• Export to RTFD file (export with images)
• Copy as RTFD
• Set default window size.
• Fix occasional crash on open or new document
• Better Multi-page PDF support
• Warn if Ink is not turned on.
• Fixed clicking through to Desktop / other apps
• Fixed inking under color selection window
• Fixed some printing issues
• Maintain cursor icon while inking.
This is an alpha version. This means that inkBook is not yet feature complete. However inkBook is fast approaching beta. Once inkBook hits beta, the feature set will be locked down.
System requirements:
• MacOS X 10.3 (Panther)
• Ink-aware input device. (Wacom tablets work best)
inkBook will cost $20 US when completed
For more information, visit:
http://www.magesw.com/inkbook/
teleport Preview 1 Controls Several Macs With The Same Mouse & Keyboard [OS 10.2 up]
teleport is a simple utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac. The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
teleport is currently a Public Preview. Please feel free to contact me for comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc..
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
teleport is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/
WinJack 1.1 Remotely Controls Windows From A Mac [OS X 10.1 up]
WinJack is a powerful remote control tool. It allows Mac OS X users to navigate through files and volumes on a Windows-based machine: delete, move, rename, remote open, cut/copy/paste, and show/hide them. The client can also send messages, create folders, open URLs, shutdown, restart, logout, or alert the Windows machine. It even allows screenshot taking and managing, picture and textfile opening, or picture and textfile sending, as well as process viewing and keyboard+mouse simulating. WinJack(client) also includes powerful logging capabilities and advanced user-notification sound capabilities. What makes WinJack(Server) even more powerful, is its ability to write itself into the Registry, so that it will automatically run on startup. An innovative feature of WinJack(Server), is that it can store the IP of its main client, to which it will always try to connect. That way, the main client (Mac OS X) will always know whether the server(s) are online or not.
New in this version:
• Added Remote System Info viewing
• Added Remote Printer List viewing
• Added ability to search for WinJack Servers
• Added Mod.Date info on files
• Added new Sounds
• Added 'eMail file' function
• Added some more preferences when sending Messages and Shutting Down the PC
• Added Registry Browsing and Manipulating
• Added File Upload and Download ability
• Added ServerName to WinJack Server
• Improved Installer
• Added 'Save as' function to many Sections
• Many Bug fixes and Interface improvements
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher (client)
Windows 95 or higher (server)
Firewall disabled on ports 19996-20021 on both server and client
WinJack is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.digitalcalamity.com/software/WinJack/winjack.html
Spydisk FTP 0.5b Client For Spymac's Web Hosting /Spychat 2.3 IRC chatting app for Spymac.com and SNN members [OS 10.2 up]
Spydisk is SCOT's newest adventure in software. Spydisk is meant to partner Spymac's new free webhosting. You can use Spydisk for FTP to your free Spymac disk. Zero configuration. All you will have to do is enter your Spymac username and password, click connect, and upload/download.
SpyChat 2.3 is the second rendition of a chatting application for Spymac.com members, the largest mac community on the internet. Download it now to chat with your spymac friends. We will hold events and weekly things. Now in conjunction with Spymac News Network.
New in this version:
• Safari Style buttons
• Safari Style UI
• Bug fixes
• Speed improvements
• Added Emoticons
System requirements:
° Mac OS X 10.2 and higher
° Spymac Account
Freeware
For more information, visit:
http://spychat.sourceforge.net/
Fire Instant Messaging Client
Fire is a multi-protocol internet Instant Messaging client based on freely available libraries for each service. It is released under the GNU GPL. All services are built off of GPL’d libraries, including firetalk, libicq2000, libmsn, jabber, and libyahoo (Linux libraries).
Fire can handle similtaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, MSN and Jabber.
Fire is freeware.
For more information, visit:
http://fire.sourceforge.net/
Dockless 1.3.0 Makes Running Apps Show/Not Show Dock [OS X 10.3 up]
Dockless is a little app that does what some people have always wanted - remove certain applications from their dock. Dock real estate can become precious, and some apps don't make a whole lot of sense sitting there. That's where Dockless comes in. With Dockless, any OS X application can be made to show in the Dock or not.
New in this version:
• Panther compatability
• Dockless now updates the LaunchServices cache
• Fixed several grimmey bugs from 1.2.1 that made Dockless sometimes work and sometimes not
• Some apps (like IE) seem to still not work, and I have no idea why
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Dockless is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/dockless/dockless.html
Omicron Software Systems updates "ToDo X"
Omicron Software Systems has released an updated version of ToDo X, a dedicated to-do list application written in native Cocoa for Mac OS X.
Version 1.5 can import to-do items from iCal and other Mac or Windows applications that generate industry-standard ".ics" data files.
The release also addresses Panther compatibility issues and adds a number of user interface refinements, user-requested features, and a German UI translation by Magnus Rembold.
The 1.5 upgrade is free to registered users of earlier versions, and can be downloaded at:
http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/
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 1.4 rated 5 stars on VersionTracker and MacUpdate.
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 requires Mac OS X version 10.1 or later
Full release notes are at:
http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/releasenotes.html
Charles W. Moore
