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Cocktail 3.1.1 General Purpose System Utility [OS 10.2 up]
GPSNavX 1.60 GPS & Charting Application [OS 10.2 up]
FaxEmailHelper 1.0 Enhances FAX Forwarding By Email In Panther [OS X 10.3 up]
BatteryStatsX 2.0b1 Battery Status Program With Dock Menu And Icon [OS X 10.1 up]
Back up user prefs 4.0.6 Backs Up/Restores Prefs, Browser, Addresses [OS 10.2 up]
NeoAlarm 2.5.2 Easy To Use Alarm Clock And Reminder Application [OS 8.6 - OS X]
Teal pp4 Entry Level Paint And Image Editing Application [OS 10.2 up]
Guiffy 5.4 File & Folder Comparison/Merging Tool
CopyPaste-X 1.6.1 beta Multiple Clipboard Editing, Archiving & Display [OS X]
Icy Juice 1.0d1 ICQ Client [/url]
Cocktail 3.1.1 General Purpose System Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X 10.2 or later. The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily optimize your system.
It is a smooth, powerful and simple to use utility with all major features arranged in five basic categories and a "Pilot" that lets you maintain your system with one click of the button.
New in this version:
Cocktail 3.1.1 includes few improvements, bug fixes and minor speed optimization. Cocktail Uninstaller located in Extras folder lets you easily remove any version of Cocktail and restore default Mac OS X settings.
• Address an issue in which Cocktail may not launch if Japanese is primary system language
• Address an issue in which Cups Error log could not be saved
• Address an issue in which Cocktail may crash when forcing trash to empty
• Date is now displayed in output logs
• Paths are now displayed in confirmation panels that appears when removing locked items or DS Store files
• Minor improvements and fixes
• Minor speed optimization
• Cocktail Uninstaller (Extras)
• Run Daily, Weekly and Monthly scripts (Extras).
Features
Disks
• enable or disable journaling on selected disk
• set disk spindown time
System
• reprebind system or selected folder/disk
• repair permissions
• manually run cron scripts
• clean system, user and internet cache
• change system startup mode
• choose startup language
• recreate Mac OS 9 desktop alias
• update whatis and locate databases
• force empty trash from selected disk
Files
• delete locked items
• remove DS Store files
• remove archived logs
• view, print and save logs
• create symbolic links
• lock or unlock files and folder
Network
• change speed, duplex and MTU settings
• optimize network settings
• change network ports
• renew DHCP lease
Interface
• customize look and features of Finder and Dock
• set window resize speed
• enable hidden features in miscellaneous applications
Pilot
• easily optimize your system
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
BSD subsystem installed
Cocktail is $12.00 shareware
Version 3.1.1 is available as a free update for all registered users.
For more information, visit:
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/
GPSNavX 1.60 GPS & Charting Application [OS 10.2 up]
GPSNavX is the solution for the boater that wants to take the Macintosh aboard for real-time display of position on full color charts. Just plug your GPS into your Macintosh and watch as your boat moves along in real-time, plotting a track behind the boat and logging your historic position on a digital chart. GPSNavX™ is loaded with many features. GPSNavX™ is also right at home for planning trips and charting out new destinations. Note: GPSNavX™ does not require a GPS to work with charts.
Features:
GPS Realtime display of current LAT/LON (position), SOG (Speed over Ground), COG (Course over Ground) , BTW (Bearing to Waypoint), DTW (Distance to Waypoint), VMG (Velocity Made Good), XTE (Cross Track Error) and a Satellite graph.
Charting Current position, waypoints, routes and track history are plotted. Chart scrolls keeping current position centered. Auto Open feature makes sure the most detailed chart is displayed for the current position.
Zooming Show charts at 200%, 100%, 50%, 25% and 12%.
Waypoints Create, edit, drag and goto. Waypoints include a name, icon, and description. Waypoints can be saved, exported/imported and transfered to/from the GPS.
Routes Create, edit, and goto. Routes include a name and total distance. For each waypoint in the route the bearing and distance from the previous waypoint is given. Routes can be saved and transfered from the GPS.
Measure Position, distance and bearing (true or magnetic) anywhere on the chart including great circle routing.
Help Provided through Help Viewer.
A world chart is include with GPSNavX. Other charts must be purchased separately.
New in this version:
• Resolved a bug that prevented some charts from being loaded from folders that had extended characters in their name.
• The Time setting in the preferences folder applies to the next chart to be loaded. If the setting is changed one can select the "Open" on the "File" menu to reload the chart with the new setting. If Autoload is enabled then the chart will automatically be loaded with the new Time setting.
• When "Show Charts with Current Position" is selected in the Chart List Panel, the charts will be sorted with the most detailed (smallest area) first.
• Icons have been added to folders and charts in the chart list panel and to routes in the routes window.
• Double clicking a chart in the Chart List Panel will open it.
• Chart Settings Panel now has a check box for showing the active waypoint. When this checked, the information about the active waypoint will be displayed in the Chart Settings Panel. Otherwise the cursor position, or selected waypoint or bearing and distance will be displayed.
• The degrees symbol ? is used for displaying waypoints in format: DDD?MM.MM'H. When editing waypoints in the waypoint window the [Option] [0] can be used to create ? or a * may be used in it's place.
• Track Capture state is now preserved.
• Track menu has an Open menuitem which displays a table of the track history. Selecting an individual Track record will display it's position on the chart (assuming that position is on the open chart). Track history now also contains speed and course. The track file has been renamed to /home/Library/Preferences/GPSNavXTracks.plist
System Requirements
Macintosh PowerPC G3 (G4 recommended)
Operating System OS X 10.2 or 10.3
Memory 256MB or more
Display 1024 x 768 or higher, "Millions" of Colors
GPS Compatibility
Any GPS that transmits NMEA and the appropriate data cable (typically available through GPS manufacturer
USB GPS TN-200 with an available OS-X driver.
GPSNavX is $49.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://gpsnavx.osxdownloads.com/html/index.htm
FaxEmailHelper 1.0 Enhances FAX Forwarding By Email In Panther [OS X 10.3 up]
FaxEmailHelper does 5 things:
• It fixes some configuration problems, usually due to upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3 from earlier verrsions of the operating system.
• Fixes a bug which prevents many email clients (including Mail) from recognizing the attachment to the emailed fax.
• Allows you to specify the e-mail address from which faxed appear to be forwarded. Without this, the fax appears to come from and many ISPs will reject such mail as it comes from an invalid address.
• Allows you to specify an outgoing mail server to be used for fax forwarding. Without this, the fax is forwarded directly from your computer and many ISPs will reject such mail from an untrusted mail server.
• Allows you to simulate what will happen when a fax is received, so you can test that everything is working as expected.
Instructions for use:
Download the application.
Open the FaxEmailHelper application.
You may be asked for your administrator password if repairs are necessary, or you change the outgoing mail server or you simulate receiving a fax.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
FaxEmailHelper is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.rwts.com.au/FaxEmailHelper/
BatteryStatsX 2.0b1 Battery Status Program With Dock Menu And Icon [OS X 10.1 up]
BatteryStatsX is a little utility that gathers detailed information about your computer battery (if any). The program only runs on a PowerBook or iBook in Mac OS X 10.1 and higher. BatteryStatsX works by using the shell command ioreg. ioreg provides information about various parts of the computer. The full command that is used is:
"ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n battery -w 0| grep IOBatteryInfo |cut -d'{' -f2 | cut -d'}' -f1 | tr -d '"' | tr , 'n'"
Open up terminal.app (or Oxygen O2 then go to "Command-Line") and type in the above command. It will return the same results as you see in the program.
Explanation of the "flags" field: Flags indicate whether the computer is running from the battery or the charger.
Tips for prolonging battery life:
Zap the PRAM several times (hold apple-option-p-r as soon as you turn on the computer)
If zapping the PRAM doesn't help try:
• restart the computer
• go into open firmware (hold apple-option-o-f as soon as you start up the computer)
• type reset-nvram and then hit return
• type reset-all and then hit return
• finally type mac-boot to continue regular startup
Upcoming features:
• A help section
• A graph showing the battery stats
• A changing dock icon
New in this version:
• Remade application window with battery display
• Dock Icon with percent charge and charging indicator
• Dock menu
• Battery Charge Graph (still in development)
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
PowerBook or iBook
For more information, visit:
http://www.anomalyindustries.net/dev/pb/bsx.php
Back up user prefs 4.0.6 Backs Up/Restores Prefs, Browser, Addresses [OS 10.2 up]
Back up user prefs 4.0.6 is a Mac OS X AppleScript shareware application that backs up and restores a user's preferences and related folders for safety in the event of corruption of either individual preferences or the entire folder.
Back up user prefs allows the user to elect to save a set of previously backed-up preferences in the event that something goes wrong during the backup process.
In addition to backing up preferences and related files, Back up user prefs can also restore your system using either of the two sets of previously-saved preferences, provided that two sets exist within the user's Backup_preferences folder. This feature is a very important one, since it can save the user the hours of agony required by a full system reinstallation by replacing the corrupted files that are usually the cause of serious system failures. Also, this replacement is selective: you do not have to restore everything, but can instead select, for example, only the ~/Library/Preferences folder, the browser files, the ~/Library/Mail files, etc. (see the list below). Beginning with v 2.4.8, Back up user prefs added a feature called "Auto-pilot" which enables the experienced user of the application to eliminate nearly all dialog boxes except those that are absolutely necessary for the proper operation of the application.
This software is compatible with Mac OS 10.3 ("Panther")--but you should not use it with FileVault enabled.
New in this version:
Included with Back up user prefs 4.0.6 is a new addition to this application: BUUP_for_cron, a new version of the backup portion of Back up user prefs 4.0.6 that enables the scheduling of unattended backups using the Unix script "cron" or the very useful freeware GUI version called CronniX. If you decide to use BUUP4_for_cron, then you will need to register; BUUP4_for_cron will run only ten times without a serial number.
Version 4.0.6 should eliminate incompatibilities caused by the differences in the way in which "Panther" and "Jaguar" handle folder and file preferences.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher (v1.2 is still available for those who have not upgraded to Jaguar)
Back up user prefs is $5.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.m-t-software.com/
NeoAlarm 2.5.2 Easy To Use Alarm Clock And Reminder Application [OS 8.6 - OS X]
NeoAlarm is a simple, easy to use alarm clock, that is growing in features in each new version. Although features are added, the goal remains the same: ease of use and elegant simplicity. I made NeoAlarm to provide me with a simple alarm clock. I know their are a ton of alarm clock apps out there, but I thought it would be fun to make my own.
This app allows you to set the alarm time and choose a sound and or a message. At the set time the program will play the sound, display your message and can speak a reminder to you. Supports a prefs features, MP3 alarm sounds, snooze settings and 24 hour alarm format settings.
New in this version:
• Bug Fixes for Panther
System requirements:
Mac OS 8.6 - OS X
NeoAlarm is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.zonestation.com/
Teal pp4 Entry Level Paint And Image Editing Application [OS 10.2 up]
Teal is an entry level paint and image editing application for Mac OS X. Its features include a number of brush types (clone brush, smudge, effect brush, threshold fill, etc), non-contiguous constructive selection, and image wide effects.
This is a preview release, intended to show the project's current progress, and to solicit outside feedback and suggestions. Please read the release notes accessible through the help menu. You can contact the developer using the email address in the release notes.
New in Teal Public Preview 4:
• Greyscale (8-bit) support
• New from pasteboard
• Save panel file extension bug fixed
• Resample UI bug fixed
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Teal is freeware
System requirements:
http://www.unspacy.demon.co.uk/software/
Guiffy 5.4 File & Folder Comparison/Merging Tool
Guiffy's focus is Advanced Cross-Platform Compare/Merge software. Its utilities and components make merging and upgrading as easy as possible. Guiffy is used around the world by collaborative communities in more than 20 countries on a variety of Java capable platforms (Including: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Unix, OpenVMS, and OS/2). Downloads are packaged as InstallAnywhere kits to make setup a snap.
• Guiffy can be used to diff and compare/merge source files of any type (with builtin support of UNICODE, MBCS, and over 150 File Encoding and character set formats).
• Guiffy implements a blend of 3 diff algorithms to provide the best visual compare results and trusted smart merge capabilities.
• Guiffy also provides sophisticated folder and file tree compare and synchronization capabilities.
• Plus, a command line interface is included for automation and integration with CM systems.
• Guiffy's smart 3-way diff/merge, called SureMerge, surpasses all other merge tools with its intelligent functionality and ease-of-use.
• And, Guiffy comes with a Java API package, so you can use it as a component in your application.
New in Guiffy 5.4
• [Cancel] file/folder compare/merges
• Merge "ClickShift" [R N D]
• Performance: 24-52% faster compare/merges
• Ignore Field 2
• Folder compares: Jiff utility and GuiffyDiff API
• Screen painting/status/progress improvements
• Added a Save Merge button in toolbar
• NEW F1 - F12 shortcut HotKeys
• Bug Fixes
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Guiffy is $75.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.guiffy.com/
CopyPaste-X 1.6.1 beta Multiple Clipboard Editing, Archiving & Display [OS X]
The easy to use multiple clipboard editing and display utility. Use menu commands, drag and drop and contextual menus to access clipboards. Save all clipboards through restarts. Tools to act on clipboard data. Essential timesaver for beginners and advanced users. Unique features on every platform.
CopyPaste-X augments the good old Mac OS Clipboard in all kinds of ways: It lets you record and remember Clipboard items, edit Clipboard contents, save copied text (and picture) to an archive, and the main attraction: use ten Clipboards simultaneously, typing Command-C and a number to differentiate between them. Handy floating palettes keep your clippings onscreen; you can minimize the palettes, or hide them entirely and access your boards via keystrokes, contextual menus, and the CopyPaste Dock icon.
CopyPaste's main features can save you minutes in copying and pasting each time all day long but the tools built into CopyPaste might save you hours of your precious time. One example is the powerful Email Extractor Tool (in CopyPaste X it is within the Create Word List Tool). To try it out copy from any document that contains text and within the text many email addresses like this (copied from a web page):
New in this version:
• This beta version mainly fixes one bug with Panther where CopyPaste disabled the c and v keys.
• The iconized palettes are now tranlucent which makes them even less obtrusive on a clustered desktop. When they open to full size they return to the normal look.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
CopyPaste-X is $20.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/
Icy Juice 1.0d1 ICQ Client
Icy Juice is an ICQ client for Mac OS X. Icy Juice is still not feature-complete, and the current release is a preview and an invitation for users to express their needs and expectations from an ICQ client and for developers to take part in this open-source project in one way or another.
Replacing Icy Juice's contact icons is currently possible only by replacing the icon files inside the application package. You can do this by control-clicking the Icy Juice icon in the Finder and choosing Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, opening the Contents folder and the Resources folder inside it, then replacing the appropriate files with the alternatives.
New in this version:
• Added file transfer support.
• Several minor bug fixes and enhancements.
System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.1 or later
Icy Juice is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mitzpettel.com/software/icyjuice.html
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