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Xupport 2.1 Released [OS 10.2 up]
iTunes Library Manager v4.0
JunkMatcher 1.18 Spam Filter For Mail.app [OS X 10.3 up]
Adium X 0.59 Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client [OS 10.2.8 up]
iOrganizeX 5.5.0 Advanced Note Pad And Organization Tool [OS 10.2 up]
EazyDraw 1.6.2 Vector-based Drawing App [OS 10.2 up]
Mail.appetizer 1.0rc3 Incoming E-mail At A Glance [OS X 10.3 up]
Scripture Memory 1.0.1 Helps You Quickly Memorize Bible Verses [Mac OS X/OS 7 - 9]
Debtinator 1.1.0 Debt Management App [OS X 10.3 up]
TinyBooks 2.0.2 Accounting for Home and Small Businesses [OS 9/OS X][/url]
Xupport 2.1 Released [OS 10.2 up]
The "Swiss Army Knife" for Mac OS X. Xupport is a graphical user interface to configure many hidden Mac OS X and Unix options. It provides many functions to maintain, optimize, backup, clean, hack, enhance and secure Mac OS X.
Xupport Key Features:
- Activate hidden Finder, Dock and Exposé settings
- Browse and read unix manual entries (man) - Browser, delete and get Finder info for invisible files and folders
- Run Mac OS X maintain scripts and optimizations
- Change swap file location (virtual memory)
- Create bootable backups
- Configure "ipfw" firewall using all options
- Empty Trashes with administrator privileges
- Find and delete ".DS_Store" files
- Find and delete old log files and their backups
- Enable/Disable guest access and access log of Personal File Sharing
- Change access port of Personal File Sharing, Web Sharing, Remote Login (ssh)
- Clear "Launch Service" caches ("Rebuild Desktop" in OS 9)
- Enable/Disable "Disk Journaling"
- Set disk spindown time (AC and battery power)
- Optimize network settings for broadband connection
- Request new IP from a DHCP server
- Repair disk permissions
... many more features
New in Xupport 2.1:
- New: Maintenance jobs can be run in queue.
- New: Maintenance jobs now run in background (Xupport can be used while running)
- New: Shutdown option for maintenance and backup jobs
- New: Preference setting for enabling "xupport" as shell command
- Bugfix: Prevents Xupport losing log connection when running maintenance jobs
- Bugfix: Displays the backup log correctly (broke in Mac OS 10.3.4)
- Some other minor bugfixes and improvements
Existing users may use the integrated update function in order to download the latest update. Otherwise use the following download URL:
http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/download/Xupport2.sit
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Click the following link to get more detailed information about Xupport:
http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/info.html
Download:
http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/download.html
iTunes Library Manager v4.0
! This AppleScript applet makes backup copies of the current iTunes Library and Preferences, allowing you to easily save multiple iTunes Library and Preferences configurations that can be retrieved and loaded at any time. For OS X only.
With iTunes Library Manager v4.0 you can maintain two or more libraries each with its own associated Preferences settings. For example, you can have one "Main Library" which contains all your songs and playlists, and another which just contains your "Holiday Music" songs and playlists. Additionally, because each library is saved and loaded with its associated preferences, you can create many different configurations for different uses. For instance, you can assign each library its own designated Music folder, and keep a library of audio files on your computer and another distinct library of audio files on another volume, network drive or external drive; different libraries can have different Sharing, Burning or Importing settings, too. The flexibility is awesome. The download package contains examples of how you can set up these different configurations.
Updated Features In This Version:
Now saves iTunes Preferences with each backed up library, allowing each library to have its own settings, including Music folder location, Import settings, Effects, etcetera. All users of previous versions of iTLM are encouraged to update.
System requirements:
Mac OX X 10.2 or better and iTunes 4.0 or better required
Up until now, upgrading to a new version of iTunes Library Manager has always been free for registered users. However, this upgrade is not free. To create additional libraries with iTunes Library Manager v4.0 you must re-register by paying the $5 shareware fee. If you want to wait to upgrade, you'll still be OK. iTunes Library Manager v3.x.x is compatible through iTunes version 4.6. Please note: Versions prior to 4.0 cannot be upgraded.
For more information, visit:
http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/itinfo/ituneslibrarymanager.php
JunkMatcher 1.18 Spam Filter For Mail.app [OS X 10.3 up]
JunkMatcher filters spam using flexible regular expressions, IP query against multiple blacklists (such as SpamCop.net) and varoius other techniques such as email property matching, HTML final rendering matching etc. You can match against almost every bit of a message (including attachment filenames and charsets), and the raw material for matching is cleaned out for you to defeat some of the tricks spammers use to obfuscate their messages. <IMG>JunkMatcher icon Icon courtesy of Steve Caplin
JunkMatcher works with Mail.app via a rule so it can be used hand-in-hand with Mail.app's built-in (statistical) junk filter. Users can decide what actions to take on the matched messages (mark as junk/read/flagged/colored, move them to Junk/Trash mailbox etc.).
A self-contained GUI - JunkMatcher Central is also included so you can conduct "Email forensics": testing and building your regular expression patterns, browsing the log file of the past matchings, etc. You can even report spam to SpamCop.net directly from the log window. Many settings are also available in JunkMatcher Central so you can customize the entire matching process to your heart's content.
New in this version:
1. Fast User Switching Support: now multiple users can run Mail.app at the same time with JunkMatcher. JM now uses port range 50000-59999 - it should work as long as there're enough ports available in this range (each user will consume one port).
2. Improved back-end bootstrapping and shutdown: Mail.app should start and stop faster.
3. When importing patterns in JMC, tabs containing changes are now marked with '*'.
4. Bug fix (JM): due to Apple Security Update 2004-06-07, hitting ctrl-shift-J in Mail.app to launch JMC resulted in error message "Finder got an error: An error of type -10814 has occurred".
5. Bug fix (JM): Very rarely JM may crash Mail.app (technical: recv() returns a signed instead of unsigned integer).
6. Bug fix (JMC): Patterns import/export with a path name containing space character(s) works now.
7. Bug fix (JMC): Clicking on "Update" button in the Safe Senders window without selecting a row in the list first resulted in an AppleScript error "the variable theRow is not defined".
8. Bug fix (JMC): If users never set a default browser, attempting to report spam from JMC will cause "Type 1" AppleScript error.
9. Bug fix (JMC): Revert to the default window position if it was dragged outside of screen.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
JunkMatcher is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Home/index.html
Adium X 0.59 Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client [OS 10.2.8 up]
Adium X is an open source multi-protocol instant messaging application. It has been in active development for over a year; improved versions are released on a weekly basis. Join the instant messaging revolution!
• Support for AIM (OSCAR), ICQ, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Japan, MSN, Jabber, Trepia, Novell GroupWise, Napster, and Gadu-Gadu
• Unlimited accounts, as many names on as many services as you want
• Draggable tabs; any number of tabs in any number of windows
• Highly customizable, yet very intuitive preferences
• Address book integration
• iTunes and other Applescript substitution
• Buddy icons and away messages in AIM
• The beginnings of file transfer support for AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber
• Much, much more.
New in this version:
Adium 0.59 has arrived. Tons of bug and crash fixing in this release, so it should prove pretty nice. 0.59 fixes the issues with crashing on launch and tabs occasionally not appearing, along with many other issues. We've also added support for assigning custom icons to contacts, and have added a preference for choosing the tab switching keys.
• Added support for changing user icons via the Get Info window
• Added preferences for tab switching hotkeys
• Restored Cmd-I shortcut for Get Info window
• Restored Get Info toolbar icon
• Improved link detection
• Improved HTML support
• Improved user icon caching
• Improved server-side alias and notes storage
• Fixed several crashes/freezes on launch
• Fixed several bugs with tabs disappearing, message windows not opening
• Fixed an issue with saving away messages
• Fixed an issue with consecutive emoticons not appearing
• Fixed issue with tab text coloring
• Fixed issue with text colors bleeding in profiles/messages
• Fixed issue with crash reporter (on systems with GNU fileutils installed)
• Fixed issue with safari scripts for users who've uninstalled safari.
• Fixed issue with away messages sending in chat rooms
• Fixed issue with the webkit 'name format' preference
• Fixed crash when deleting emoticons, dock icons
• Fixed crash on quit
• Fixed crash closing message window, preferences
• Fixed crash when denying a file transfer
• Fixed crash in 10.2 message display preferences
• Many other small fixes and improvements
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher
Adium X is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.adiumx.com/
iOrganizeX 5.5.0 Advanced Note Pad And Organization Tool [OS 10.2 up]
iOrganize is the perfect application to store all the notes, ideas, text extracts, web links... you find while working daily, but without knowing exactly what to do with them.
Thanks to its great user interface, iOrganize lets you quickly and easily store what you want. Advanced users can take advantage of advanced features such as the services menu or the dock menu to quickly create new notes.
Its powerful search functions let you retrieve nearly instantly what you were looking for, even months after storing it.
New in this version:
• New "Insert link" command
• Embedded files are now double-clickable
• Stored pictures are now double-clickable, so you can see them in Preview to easily copy them in other applications
• Fixed "Find" toolbar icon
• New "Duplicate Note" command
• Improvements to the Preferences panel
• New "move in" command (available in the contextual menu) to quickly move a text extract
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
iOrganizeX is $19.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://iorganize.brunoblondeau.com/
EazyDraw 1.6.2 Vector-based Drawing App [OS 10.2 up]
Make Drawing Fun on OS X
Think... MacDraw on Steroids
Drafting, DTP, Illustrations, Technical Drawings, Web Art, Organization Charts, Family Trees, House Plans, Math Curves ....
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
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.
• MacDraw import, full support for MacDrawII and MacDrawPro files including layers and patterns. MacDrawPro support will be available in late May and ClarisDraw import is planned release is June 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.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
9 month license ($20) or single user license ($95)
$20 Trial License
• Full use license for only $20 - for 9 months. Great way to try out EazyDraw.
• Free updates for the full 9 months.
• Lock in the purchase price. You will be able to purchase a full license of the professional grade version of EazyDraw at the current price of $95 - even if there is a price increase.
• 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.biz/
Mail.appetizer 1.0rc3 Incoming E-mail At A Glance [OS X 10.3 up]
Have a look at your incoming email without switching to Mail. Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
New in this version:
• Resizable notification window to fit your desktop.©Ë†
• Custom font for the message body.©Ë†
• Displays sender's photo signature (from Address Book or .Mac).
• Counter showing number of outstanding messages.
• Shows mailbox name (optionally©Ë†).
Mail.appetizer is no longer limited to your inbox. You'll receive notification for every incoming message, not including spam. The notification is shown after rules have been applied.
Fixes:
• Major crashing condition when showing a notification resolved
• Selects a font family's normal font variant instead of the first one
• The "Show notification when new messages arrive" option is no longer ignored
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.x
Apple Mail client
Mail.appetizer is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer/
Scripture Memory 1.0.1 Helps You Quickly Memorize Bible Verses [Mac OS X/OS 7 - 9]
Use this program to very quickly memorize Bible verses. Choose from 7 different interactive drills and quizzes. Add your own verses in your favorite translation. Scripture Memory can also be used to memorize poems and short speeches.
Scripture Memory is $6.00 demoware. Demo version is fully functional except for saving verse lists to disk.
For more information, visit:
http://www.onetimesoftware.com/
LogMaster 6.11 Log File Viewer And Monitor With Search, Filter, And Email Options
Log file viewer for system, Apache, CUPS, SAMBA, and CrashReporter logs, and user defined logs. Functions include automatic update, filter, search, and monitor mode to detect user defined strings in log files. Syslogd like daemon, view logs via web browser.
New in this version:
• AND and OR can now be used in filter string and search strings in monitor mode
LogMaster is $8.50 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.brightlightsoftware.com/products.html
Debtinator 1.1.0 Debt Management App [OS X 10.3 up]
Debtinator helps you chart out your debts and finances and generate payment schedules for you. Type in your information, and a few clicks later, you can see how quickly you can target your resources to get out of debt fast.
Debtinator will be constantly evolving with new features, and please let me know if you have any suggestions for future enhancements.
And, in the spirit of helping to make you a more debt-free, happier you, upgrades will always be free for the lifetime of the product. Register once, use forever!
New in this version:
• Added support for variable rate sub-balances
• More color coding
• Now remembers window size and position
• Minor calculation and bug fixes
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Debtinator is $10.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bassetsoftware.com/osx/debtinator/
TinyBooks 2.0.2 Accounting for Home and Small Businesses [OS 9/OS X]
TinyBooks (currently for Macintosh only) is an ultra-simple accounting and bookkeeping program designed for home and small businesses and perfect for Sole Proprietors.
TinyBooks is a flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping program and the perfect companion to help with taxes throughout and especially at the end of the year. Though designed with small businesses in mind, it can also be used in the home to help with the family finances.
TinyBooks can be used year in and year out. Annual revisions are not necessary. Many tax-related programs (such as TurboTax, or TaxCut) are tied to particular tax year and must be purchased every single year. TinyBooks is NOT tied to a particular tax year. Tax laws may change, but the need to keep track of expenses, income and profits never seems to change!
TinyBooks actually works by itself. All you have to do is enter each expense or income item, as it happens, or at month end, and the program calculates everything else, automatically and instantly. The new non-modal Reports Dialog allows you to create Income and Expense Reports, Account Listings (with profitability automatically calculated), Custom Reports and more. All transactions can also be exported, as desired.
TinyBooks works by keeping track of multiple accounts. There are four basic types of accounts: Deductible Expenses, Non-Deductible Expenses, Taxable Income and Non-Taxable Income. For a typical small business, that's about all that's required. In fact, the non-deductible expenses and non-taxable income accounts are just included for your bookkeeping convenience, as they are not included in profit computations. If you are using this program for home use, rather than small business, such account types are very handy. Business Profit is calculated by subtracting the sum of the deductible expenses from the sum of the taxable income. You never have to request a calculation, all calculations are performed instantly any time you add, delete or modify any item.
Note: TinyBooks is an Apple Carbon Application and works equally well in either Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X.
New in this version:
Improved window handling (windows/dialogs now remember their favored positions and sizes). Also added a new preference allowing the personalization of the Safety-Backup file
System Requirements:
• Mac OS 9 - OS X 10.0 or higher
TinyBooks is $49.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.winograd.com
or
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/spacetime/
Charles W. Moore
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