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Bare Bones Software Ships TextWrangler 2.1 Updated With Interface and Scripting Enhancements [OS 10.3.5 up}
SuperNotecard 1.6 Managse Writing Projects Using Notecards [OS 10.3 up}
VitaminSEE 0.6.4 Fast Image Browser [OS 10.3 up}
PrintMagic 4.0 for OS X [OS X 10.1 up]
Wx 2.54 Weather Conditions, Radar, Maps & Forecasts [OS 10.3 up}
Baseball Statbook 0.8.0 Baseball/Softball Statistics Tracking Software [OS 8 up}
Incomplete 1.0 searches iTunes for incomplete albums [OS 10.3 up}
iClip 3.6.1 Multiple Clipboard & Scrapbook [OSX 10.2 up]
Unsanity Releases ShapeShifter 2.1.1 [OS 10.3 up}




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Bare Bones Software Ships TextWrangler 2.1 Updated With Interface and Scripting Enhancements [OS 10.3.5 up}

Bare Bones Software, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of TextWrangler 2.1, their award-winning text editor. The updated version of this popular coder's and administrator's text processing tool includes fixes for reported issues, and various refinements and interface enhancements.

"TextWrangler's powerful engine, approachable interface, and strong feature set represent, in our view, the standard for freely available Mac software," explained Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software. "TextWrangler 2.1 includes a number of enhancements and refinements, particularly to the Documents Drawer, which were inspired by customer feedback. We are grateful to those customers who have taken the time to write in and share their thoughts."

TextWrangler 2.1 is available free of charge. An update package is available to all TextWrangler 2.0 users for download from the Bare Bones Software web site:

http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml

Crafted in Bare Bones Software's best traditions as a leading Mac software developer, TextWrangler 2 is a powerful general purpose text editor. It features a clean and easy to use interface and a rich set of features for composing and manipulating text.

New in this version:
http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/current_notes.shtml

TextWrangler's feature set includes such diverse elements as multi-file search and replace with optional regular expression ("Grep") pattern matching, function navigation and code coloring for numerous code languages, the ability to easily work with files on remote FTP and SFTP servers, and comprehensive support for AppleScript and Unix scripting. This makes it an ideal tool for composition, clerical tasks, system administration or software development. TextWrangler 2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger".

TextWrangler 2.1 is available immediately, free of charge for all Mac users.

Registered TextWrangler users may upgrade to BBEdit at a significant discount. BBEdit offers professionals even more power, from advanced HTML and CSS tools to seamless integration with version control systems, Text Factory, Glossaries and much more.

TextWrangler 2.1 may be obtained from Bare Bones Software at:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml








SuperNotecard 1.6 Managse Writing Projects Using Notecards [OS 10.3 up}

SuperNotecard is a writing application that uses virtual notecards to capture and organize content. This approach focuses on the basic parts of the composition while keeping the structure flexible so that it can change easily.

SuperNotecard presents several ways to view and organize notecards. The program makes it simple to find and revisit them. An intuitive color-coding system enables writers to link content to plots, categories, characters or references and these relationships can be reviewed from several perspectives.

SuperNotecard invites authors to begin to craft the whole composition for free.
 
Highlights

• Compose as you Outline
SuperNotecard is an hybrid application that lets writers capture and model their ideas without losing the ability to add detail, articulate specific points or begin to formulate the final draft. The ability to move between the outline and the composition make this tool special.
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• The Bigger the Screen
The latest release introduces more ways to spread out notecards. Use the entire screen for flattened mode and reshape the decks and cards so more can fit. Increase the size of the reference tags and highlight a particular category to better visualize the composition.
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• Screenwriting with Cards
Filmmakers depend on notecards, corkboards, and the stop watch for their craft. SuperNotecard 1.6 is poised to assist with features to take a film project from concept to brass-clipped script. Quickly punch out scenes, categorize & time them, and, for review, export in proper screenplay format.
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• What's Related
SuperNotecard helps writers profile characters and sources, assign traits and details, and link them to cards. Using the Factor and Reference keywords feature, writers have the flexibility and control to fully realize the power in seeing their composition from a variety of new perspectives.

The latest release introduces screenplay projects, reference keywords, auto-save, deck categorization, "flattened" deck display enhancements, export in MLA format, AppleScript, and really a lot more.

Quick Points

• Assemble fiction, non-fiction and screenplay projects
• Drag-n-drop to reorganize and refine the flow
• Efficiently define and track characters, plots, and references in your writing
• Instantly find sections of writing by keyword, category, character or source.
• Use the trash to put bad ideas in their place
• Create elaborate outlines and hide the hierarchy with one click
• Available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Enjoy perfect file compatibility across platforms

Characters and Facts
SuperNotecard includes deluxe features to help profile your characters and itemize your sources.

New in this version:
• Screenplay Mode
• Better Deck Display Controls
• Reference & Factor Keywords
• MLA Reference Formatting
• Automatic Save
• AppleScript and Keyboard Shortcuts
• More Help
• Flag & Categorize Decks as well as Cards

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

SuperNotecard is $29.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mindola.com/








VitaminSEE 0.6.4 Fast Image Browser [OS 10.3 up}

VitaminSEE is an image viewer for OSX that focuses on interface responsiveness and speed. It has sorting features and the ability to add IPTC keywords to JPEG files. It generates thumbnails for all supported image files (these thumbnails are stored in the file's resource fork so the image file isn't modified and so the Finder will use them.

Features
• VitaminSEE is quick. I've strived to make this the fastest image viewer available for the Mac.
• VitaminSEE automatically thumbnails your images. These thumbnails are used not only by VitaminSEE, but also by the Finder.
• VitaminSEE allows you to quickly organize your pictures into different directories with it's integrated Sort Manager.
• VitaminSEE allows you to quickly tag your pictures with keywords.

New in this version:
• You can now generate thumbnails, without storing them on disk. (The default behavior is to write thumbnails to disk.)
• Massivly reduce RAM consumption when building thumbnails.
• Bug fix: Program could get stuck on "Loading..." if computer was never named. (Kudos to "L S" for the bug report.)
• Add three Automator actions. Most importantly, there are actions to add and remove thumbnails so if you have some sort of image moving workflow, you can have thumbnails generated then, and not when you start VitaminSEE up.
• The Tiger GIF loader isn't as resiliant against broken animated GIFs as the Panther one was. Add a workaround that fixes *some* animated GIFs that work under Panther. These images will play slowly, but at least they'll play.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

VitaminSEE is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~glaysher/VitaminSEE.html








PrintMagic 4.0 for OS X [OS X 10.1 up]

The highly rated PrintMagic utility has been completely rewritten to provide even better performance, new features, and an improved interface.

PrintMagic is a powerful tool that gives users instant control over the information that they print. With PrintMagic, users can print just the selected information (either text or images ) that they want—even in programs that can't always print their own data. And PrintMagic is very easy to use—users just select the material they want to print and then can use a system-wide keyboard shortcut PrintMagic adds to OS X, click a button, or drag-and-drop their selections to print them. With PrintMagic, users don't waste time, ink/toner, and paper printing unnecessary data.

PrintMagic also lets users create on-the-fly print projects—they can instantly collect any number of selections of text/images from any number of sources and place them on PrintMagic’s PrintBoard where they can save them, edit them, or print them. (The PrintBoard is a great tool when doing research and for combining non-contiguous selections of data.)

The tools PrintMagic adds to OS X work with virtually all OS X applications, stay out of the user's way, and are designed always to be just a single mouse click or keyboard shortcut away. PrintMagic offers users several customizable interface options so they can use PrintMagic in the ways that are most comfortable to them and best fits the ways they work.

Additionally, PrintMagic adds a Desktop Printer to OS X that both supports drag-and-drop printing of either text or images and instantly can print the contents of the Clipboard. Users also can print clipping files by dropping them onto the Desktop Printer. PrintMagic’s Desktop Printer is designed to work with virtually all printers, so users don’t need to configure anything when they use PrintMagic either with one or with multiple printers.

PrintMagic includes many additional productivity-enhancing features, such as letting users add time-date stamps, a URL stamp, and notes of any length to anything they print (including images).

The cost savings, productivity enhancements, and environmental benefits provided by using PrintMagic are multiplied for schools, businesses, and other organizations that use many computers! (Special site license pricing is available.)

New Features in PrintMagic 4.0 Include:

• A Drawer Display mode has been added to PrintMagic.
• The Drawer Display (even in its retracted state) supports drag-and-drop printing.
• The Drawer Display (even in its retracted state) supports adding selections to the PrintBoard (even when the PrintBoard is closed) via drag-and-drop.
• The system-wide keyboard shortcuts PrintMagic adds to OS X are now user configurable and include a shortcut for instantly toggling PrintMagic's visibility (PrintMagic works even when it's not visible).
• New preference options for customizing PrintMagic have been added.
• PrintMagic now can be configured to automatically include a URL stamp when printing from Safari.
• PrintMagic's PrintBoard now accepts dragged and dropped pictures from Safari as well as from most other programs.
• The contents of the PrintBoard now can be saved.
• A View menu and new menu options have been added.
• The keyboard shortcut PrintMagic adds to OS X for printing users' selections now also can be configured to include a note and/or a time-date stamp.
• PrintMagic now includes a PDF User's Guide.
• Many additional enhancements and refinements have been added to PrintMagic.

System requirements:
OS 10.1 or later (including Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger)

A free, fully functional demonstration version of PrintMagic 4.0 for OS X is available at:
http://www.macease.com

PrintMagic 4.0 for OS X may be ordered at:
http://order.kagi.com/?L8T>

PrintMagic 4.0 for OS X includes a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee and costs only $24.95. (Registered users of PrintMagic for OS X can upgrade to PrintMagic 4.0 for only $12.95.)

The direct link to the PrintMagic for OS X page is:
http://www.macease.com/printmagic_for_os_x_main_p.html







Wx 2.54 Weather Conditions, Radar, Maps & Forecasts [OS 10.3 up}

Wx is a specialized internet weather station app for Mac OS X that downloads and processes weather information and forecasts for the United States. The software links to free XML and WML data on the internet from the US National Weather Service, and presents it in an attractive user-friendly interface. Wx 2.5 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

Wx can be configured to track weather conditions, watches/warnings/advisories, live RADAR, and forecast information for five locations, and it can download up to five weather maps or images. The information can be downloaded manually, or the software can be configured to download the information automatically, on a periodic basis. Current weather conditions are summarized in the app's dock icon and dock menu, and a floating "MiniWx" panel. An optional data logging feature records weather information to text files.

Wx has a transparent "tinted-glass" main window. There are seven tabs in the main window -- one for each of five tracked locations (these are called "tracks"), one containing a tab subview with five weather maps or images, and one containing preferences and configuration information. The main window is shown below with features illustrated. Wx also has an an auxiliary RADAR console window for viewing live RADAR animations.

Clicking on the RADAR image in any track will activate the RADAR console -- this loads a sequence of the last 10 RADAR images for the track into the RADAR console window, where they are animated at 620x620 resolution using a Java applet (normally, the NWS updates RADAR every 6-10 minutes). The animation can be started or paused by clicking on the radar image, and a scroller can be used to manually scan through the images. The RADAR console caches the last 10 RADAR images for each track, resulting in faster loads when RADAR is viewed frequently.

Wx will download up to five weather maps or images. Users can take advantage of this feature to monitor the big picture of weather locally or nationally. An example showing a national weather map from weather.com is given below:

Wx summarizes weather conditions using the app's dock icon and dock menu (activated by click+hold, ctrl-click, or right-mouse-click on the Wx dock icon). The user can choose various modes for displaying info in the dock.

New in this version:
• added warnings/watches/advisories
• shorter check intervals allowed (down to 6 minutes)
• workaround for font smoothing issues in certain cases (app may double launch the first time to set a smoothing pref)
• added MiniWx remote display panel with floating option
• added dew point to current conditions display
• updated wind display to report "zero" gusts more properly
• dock icon now reverts back to default when app is quit
• inactive track/map tabs are now blanked out
• faster XML processing of current conditions and graphical forecast feeds
• some new weather icons
• new two-stage guess routines
• Lon/Lat guess uses new server (old server no longer online)
• added network activity indicator

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Tiger compatible

Wx is $10 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.solusinc.com/hunter-associates/wx/








Baseball Statbook 0.8.0 Baseball/Softball Statistics Tracking Software [OS 8 up}

Baseball Statbook allows you to keep track of baseball or softball statistics. The program was originally developed to take the statistics from a little league game scorebook and enter them into an application so that overall hitting and pitching statistics could easily be generated.

Baseball Statbook could be used for Pony League baseball and softball as well as any other leagues (High School, Club Teams, etc).

If Baseball Statbook does not have enough features or stats, be sure to submit a feature request. Before doing so, make sure you check out the features that are planned in future updates.

Baseball Statbook runs on the following operating systems:

• MacOS X
• Mac OS 8 and 9
• Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT)
• Linux

This program is currently in zero-release stage but that only means more features are going to be added. The program, in its current state, has been tested over the last month and all known bugs and issues have been fixed.

With BBStatbook, you first have to manually add in team name and roster information. Once your roster is completely filled in, you will then start manually adding in game information.

As soon as one game is added, you can then view, print and save (as tab-delimited text) reports. Two reports are currently available with many more planned in the future:

1. Overall (season) batting statistics
2. Overall (season) pitching statistics

There are also options that allow you to add header and footer information to your reports.

Features Include

• Tracks over 30 hitting and pitching statistics (more can be added on request!)
• Ability to create Web Reports and Print the following (with more reports to be added in the future):
° Overall Hitting Statistics
° Overall Pitching Statistics
° Results
° Box Scores (Batting, Pitching)
• Ability to save reports to a tab-delimited text file for easy importing into Excel, for example.
• Customizable Reports
° Re-ordering of Report fields (simply by selecting and dragging the field to a new position)
° Ability to show or not show selected any field
° Editable Report and fields name
° Additional Preferences for more control
• Simple and intuitive interface for adding team, player and game information
• Set batting orders for each game (select and drag)
• Double-clicking on selected lists put you into editing mode

New in this version:
• NOTE: This version contains numerous internal changes. When using this version be sure to OPEN A COPY of your current Statbook files
• ADD: Ability to create (and delete) custom reports (This version contains a new custom report example called "Abbreviations")
• ADD: Page Setup (Print) settings are now saved with document
• CHG: Significant speed improvements when creating Web Reports
• FIX: (WINDOWS) Double-clicking on Report List now opens an Edit Report dialog (as it should)
• FIX: Print All function now prints all checked reports, including all sub reports
• FIX: Printing player stats or box scores now carries over to next page when necessary
• FIX: Links are now valid for reports (for some cases, links were mixed up)
• CHG: Last 10 games (or some other number) feature was based on order entered into Statbook, now it is based on the date
• CHG: UTF-8 encoding in Web documents is now capitalized
• NOTE II: The Reports have changed so any modifications you made on the "Statistics & Reports" tab (Report and Field order, Showing a field) may have to be updated. In addition, Windows users may need to re-enter Header and Footer fields.
• NOTE III: Versions 0.8.x will be the last version which will not eventually require a Registration Number. This version will expire within 30 days however.

System requirements:
Mac OS 8 - 9.2.2, or
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Baseball Statbook is :$12.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.pachysoft.com/statbook/







Incomplete 1.0 searches iTunes for incomplete albums [OS 10.3 up}

So when I first imported all my CDs into iTunes, some of the tracks couldn't be ripped, and I meant to come back to them. Four years on, not only have I never bothered, but more tracks have been lost through one mishap or another. Alas iTunes doesn't provide any way to locate missing songs, and Google and Versiontracker didn't offer any help.

Incomplete, as well as being perhaps the first Mac utility named after a Backstreet Boys song, can scan your iTunes library for incomplete albums. In doing so it also picks up on other anomalies, which you may or may not agree are important, but you can easily ignore. It's free and you can download it here.

(I knocked it up yesterday afternoon in less time than it took me to get nowhere with an Applescript, via the magic of Cocoa Bindings)

-- Graham, July 5th, 2005 6:58 PM.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Incomplete is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.fondantfancies.com/blog/3000153/








iClip 3.6.1 Multiple Clipboard & Scrapbook [OSX 10.2 up]

Quickly gather snippets of information that just aren’t practical to save as entire documents…

iClip is a new multiple clipboard/scrapbook software application for Apple Macintosh computers with OS X.

With iClip, you can drag & drop or copy & paste all kinds of information into its “clipping bins”. You can store:

clipping types
• text
• pictures
• URLs
• sounds
• movies
• and much more

Everything gets automatically saved for you so you stay focused on what you’re accomplishing.

Whatever you store is accessible the instant you need it. You save time and improve your workflow.

iClip is so much more than just an OS X version of the Scrapbook.

It has multiple clipping bins that are visible at the same time—quickly find what you’re looking for.

It floats above all other windows. You don’t have to go crazy searching for it. You stay right in the application you’re working in when you want to access it. iClip is right there when you need it.

It takes up very little of your precious screen space. iClip leaves more room for the applications you’re working in.

You get to set up iClip exactly how you want it:

• change clipping bin sizes
• change the number of clipping bins
• make it appear either vertically or horizontally
• change the position of the controls so you can comfortably use it wherever you put it—top, bottom, or side of your screen

iClip can be collapsed or hidden in an instant. You can even set a Hot Key to hide and show iClip. Keep it out of your way when you’re not using it…quickly access it the moment you need to.

Create text clippings with ease. Just click an empty bin and type away. There’s hardly a better way to make a note in an instant.

Need to modify a text clipping you’ve stored? It’s easy with iClip.

Get rid of whatever you’re done with in just one click. iClip prevents clean-up from becoming a chore.

iClip is $19.95 shareware

Quickly store, organize, and access snippets of information without having to save them as entire documents...

Be more productive.
iClip helps you save time and be more efficient with most everything you do on your Mac. Store various types of clippings in iClip's bins and access them whenever you need them. You'll improve your workflow and stay focused on what you're accomplishing.

Access instantly.
iClip stays out of your crowded Dock. You access it via a menu bar button that's available in every application. Get to your information the second you need it.

Avoid repetition.
With iClip, you avoid redundant typing, such as when filling out web forms. If you regularly complete forms like search engine submissions, etc., then iClip is perfect for you. You'll eliminate repetitive typing and typos by storing your commonly accessed info in iClip. You'll be pleased with the time you save and the mistakes you prevent.

Take note.
There's hardly a faster way to take a note than with iClip...just click and type.

Stay organized.
Arrange your clippings into groups so you can quickly find what you're looking for. There's even a special group that automatically records everything you copy to the Clipboard, for even more efficiency.

This is a free upgrade to all registered users.

New in this version:
• the clipping bins now automatically scroll when dragging a clipping above and below the top and bottom bin, making it much easier to rearrange your clippings
• fixed a bug where the menu bar would sometimes be partially erased after quitting iClip

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later

For more information, visit:
http://inventive.us/iClip/








Unsanity Releases ShapeShifter 2.1.1 [OS 10.3 up}

Unsanity LLC announces the availability of ShapeShifter 2.1.1. This update brings new features, additional theme capabilities, and bug fixes.

ShapeShifter lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. You don't wear the same clothes everyday, your house doesn't look exactly like your neighbor's - why should the computing interface you use everyday be any different. You personalize your physical workspace to suit your tastes and whims, so why not your Mac?

New in Version 2.1.1
Features
- The sheet shown when installation of mods has successfully completed now includes an option to skip the sheet in the future.
- The ShapeShifter preference pane now remembers the last selected tab.
- The list of themes, icon sets, etc. in the ShapeShifter preference pane now responds to the Home and End keys.
- Themes that modify the appearance of the Dock now give precedence to ClearDock or Transparent Dock.
- ShapeShifter now "badges" the System Preferences Dock icon when it's loaded.
- ShapeShifter now relaunches the SystemUIServer process more politely when the user requests that Menu Extras be restarted after applying a theme. - Added French localization to the ShapeShifter installer.
- ShapeShifter is no longer supported for computers running Mac OS X 10.2.x Jaguar.

New Theme Capabilities
- Sidebar, list view, column view and status bar etched text in Tiger's Finder are now themed properly.
- The Sidebar background in both Cocoa and Carbon open/save panels is again themed properly.
- The Tiger Finder's Copy dialogs now use the proper alternating row color backgrounds.
- The iChat buddy list text and alternating row colors are properly themed now on all supported operating system versions.
- Segmented button control text now uses the same text color settings as tab buttons.
- Pre-Tiger themes that modify the Sync menu extra now display those elements correctly in Tiger.
- The Fast User Switching menu extra is now displayed using the correct menu text color on all supported operating system versions.

Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that caused the window server to work harder than it should have, caused clicks to pass through Adobe Illustrator documents, and caused assorted other visual and behavioral glitches.
- Fixed visual glitches in the background of Menu Extras for themes that use a horizontally non-uniform or partially transparent menubar.
- Resolved an issue that prevented menubar transparency from working properly in the Finder.
- Resolved an issue that could cause Cocoa-Java applications using customized contextual menus with separators to crash.
- Resolved an issue that prevented the Spotlight menu extra from being themed unless the theme modified both the Aqua and the Graphite menu extra image.
- Resolved an issue that prevented guiKit icon sets created on Tiger from working properly.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent menus from displaying in the correct color, specifically the Dock popup menu and certain Menu Extra menus.
- Resolved an issue that could cause improper operation if ShapeShifter was installed for all users.
- Menubars in running applications now switch properly when the appearance color changes between Aqua and Graphite.
- Cleaned up an unpleasant interaction that would occur when a new version of ShapeShifter was installed after an existing version had been disabled by the Application Enhancer preference pane.
- Fixed grammatical errors with Dutch translation, courtesy of Tom Klaver.
- Removed a small memory leak in the APE module.

ShapeShifter is available for download at:
http://www.unsanity.net/shapeshifter-211.dmg

More information on ShapeShifter can be found here:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter/

ShapeShifter is priced at $20. For more information on Unsanity haxies, please visit:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/




Charles W. Moore

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