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Synk 5.0 Backup, Synchronization And Archiving For The Macintosh [OS X 10.3 up]
Bible Reader Free 0.98 Bible Viewing Application [OS X]
Camino 0.8 Final Web Browser [OS X]
TabletMagic 1.0b3 Open Source Driver For Wacom Serial Tablets [OS 10.2 up]
NeoOffice/J 0.8.4 OS X Native Port Of OpenOffice [OS 10.2 up]
Mr. Tides X 2.1.2 Displays Tides, Currents For Locations Worldwide [OS X 10.1 up]
iNotePad 2.0 Note Pad With iPod Export [OS 10.2 up]
WorkStrip 3.2 Launcher, Previewer, Work Management Tool
Safari Task Bar 1.8 Lists Opened Safari Windows [OS X][/url]
Synk 5.0 Backup, Synchronization And Archiving For The Macintosh [OS X 10.3 up]
Synk is software that synchronizes the contents of two directories, or backs up one directory to another. The typical uses are:
• Keeping your laptop's files in synch with your desktop's files
• Backing up your home directory (or entire disk) to an external drive or backup server
Advantages:
• Easy-to-use interface without sacrificing any power
• Features and reliability on-par with high-end, $100+ software, but at a price deliberately chosen to be within the reach of a most people: single-user licenses are free to educational customers, $20 for non-commercial use, and $40 for commercial use, which is over six times cheaper than Retrospect for non-commercial users
• Fast, highly-accessible, personal support; no "form letter," automatic replies
• You will be supporting a starving student and independent software development on the Mac
Features
• native Cocoa file synchronization application
• clear, user-friendly interface usable by (advanced) grandmothers yet powerful enough for system administrators
• informative preview window gives you full control over what will happen
• intelligent synchronization knows when you have removed a file from a folder or added one in
• rule based inclusion and exclusion allow detailed control over synchronization
• powerful archival feature can keep and organize every modified document
• integrated scheduling support allows synchronizations to be run automatically
• can execute as root to bypass permissions and ownership
• properly synchronizes packages as single units, avoiding data corruption
• safe copy helps prevent data loss in case of lost connections
• unconditional satisfaction and bug-free guarantee
• localized in French, German, Italian, and Japanese
New in this version:
Synk 5.0 is a complete rewrite of the software, with innumerable improvements. Among the many improvements are dramatically widened compatibility with foreign filesystems and networking protocols, comprehensive inclusion/exclusion rules, a sophisticated new preview panel, integrated scheduling, and full alias and symbolic link support.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Synk is $20/$40 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.decimus.net/synk/
Bible Reader Free 0.98 Bible Viewing Application [OS X]
Bible Reader Free is a free Bible viewing application for Mac OS X, giving access to multiple books/chapters simultaneously. Features include the ability to search for words across all or select parts of the Bible, and apply 'swaps' automatically (where one word can be changed for another - like 'you' for 'thee').
New in this version:
• Fixed the window/drawer bug when viewing Strongs, where the window would always jump ontop of other windows.
• Added a quick 'Jump to' option, allowing navigation theough the keyboard only.
• Fixed 'Save As' -- it never worked; Fixed 'Copy' from Search results; improved keyboard navigation code; improved some other stuff!
• Many minor tweaks and additions.
System requirements:
Mac OS X
Bible Reader Free is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.hiddenfield.com/
Camino 0.8 Final Web Browser [OS X]
Camino (formerly known as Chimera) is a web browser for Mac OS X that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a simple, small and fast browser for Mac OS X.
Camino practices the art of simplicity with an uncluttered user interface but with the features you expect from a modern browser like tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking settings. Integrated with Google, Camino's Google search field lets you find what you need faster. We take your security and privacy seriously. That's why Camino comes with advanced cookie settings. Camino also helps you recognize when entering and leaving secure web sites. One of the fastest browsers on MacOS X -innovative features enhance what you get out of the internet. The power behind Camino is the Gecko rendering engine, built and tested by thousands of volunteers, incorporating the absolute cutting edge in web innovations.
The following changes and improvements have been made since the Chimera 0.7 release. The list of improvements and bug-fixes are too numerous to name individually.
Highlights
• A new look and icon set (a graphite set will be made available shortly)
• Upgraded Gecko HTML rendering engine to 1.7 final from 1.0, yielding performance and web page rendering enhancements, as well as a large number of bug-fixes
• A more-compact download manager UI
• Entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support
• "Top Ten" bookmark collection, based on your ten most-visited sites
• Searchable bookmarks
• Google Search field in toolbar
• Ability to manage individual cookies, sorting and editing cookie allow/deny lists
• Ability to unblock popups on a per-site basis (popup white-listing)
• User profile migrated to ~/Library/Application Support/Camino
• Incremental, type-ahead find in the content area
• Automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area
• Hundreds of smaller improvements and bug-fixes to the user interface
Since the 0.8 beta release, have added the following:
• Click-hold session history menus on the Back and Forward buttons
• XSLT support
• Startup speed improvements with a large bookmark set
• Security fixes for Mac OS X protocol exploit
• Tabbing from URL field to Google Search field works correctly
• Improved bookmark importing
• "View Frame Source" correctly displays the frame's html instead of that of the frame set
• New keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs that work better with non-US keyboards
• More bugfixes and general enhancements to the UI and Gecko rendering engine
User Interface
• If you've customized your toolbar, the Google search field might not show up automatically. Use "View:Customize Toolbar" to add it.
• The list of search engines can be easily customized, see "Help:Customizing Search Engines"
• The bookmark sidebar has been replaced by an in-window bookmark organizer, allowing many more features and better management
• Site "favicons" (small images specified by the web page that display in the bookmarks bar and menu) are removed when Camino crashes because Gecko invalidates the disk cache.
• Activate type-ahead find by typing a "/" when the content area has focus. As you type, the nearest text matching the current find string will be highlighted. To find the next occurrence, use "Edit:Find again". To cancel type-ahead find, press Escape.
• Even though there is a user interface for automatic bookmark checking, the backend code has been disabled. It may return once we get the kinks worked out.
Migrating from Camino 0.7
• The user profile has moved to ~/Library/Application Support/Camino and no longer contains a nested "salted" (xxxxx.slt) profile directory.
• The profile will be migrated at first run and the original profile will not be touched. The disk cache will not be copied, but cookies and bookmarks will.
• By default, the dock menu shows the contents of the "Top Ten" bookmark container and will appear empty when upgrading from 0.7 (which did not have this container). Visiting web pages will populate the container and the menu.
Product Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher
Camino is freeware
The latest Camino stable release is 0.8, and you can download it from:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/releases/Camino-0.8.dmg.gz
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org
TabletMagic 1.0b3 Open Source Driver For Wacom Serial Tablets [OS 10.2 up]
TabletMagic is an open source driver and configuration program that allows Mac OS X to communicate with older model Wacom tablets with a serial interface. Supported tablets include the UD, UD-II, ArtPad, and ArtPad-II (ArtZ-II) models. This is an ongoing open source project to bring full support for all serial Wacoms. See the accompanying documentation for details. Source Code is included.
ADB support is a number one priority for the future.
New in this version:
• Better Presets behavior
• Added button mapping options
• Preliminary support for undocumented protocols (CT - PenPartner)
• More reliable daemon startup
System requirements:
• System version 10.2 or later
• USB or PCI serial adapter required for newer Macs
TabletMagic is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/slahteine/macosx/software.html
NeoOffice/J 0.8.4 OS X Native Port Of OpenOffice [OS 10.2 up]
NeoOffice/J is one of the open source development projects that are a part ofNeoOffice.org. NeoOffice/J's primary goal is eliminating OpenOffice.org's dependency on X11 using Java technologies.
As this project is focused on removing OpenOffice.org's X11 dependency, NeoOffice/J does not include any Aquafication of OpenOffice.org. Aquafication of OpenOffice.org is being actively pursued in the NeoOffice/J's sister project: NeoOffice.
As this is a development project, NeoOffice/J is intended for software engineers and is not yet complete enough for regular users.
As this is a development project, NeoOffice/J is intended for software engineers and is not yet complete enough for regular users.
New in this version:
This release contains fixes for the bugs in NeoOffice/J 0.8.3 that were reported by users. No new features are included in this release.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• 256 MB RAM
NeoOffice/J is Betaware
For more information, visit:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
Mr. Tides X 2.1.2 Displays Tides, Currents For Locations Worldwide [OS X 10.1 up]
Mr. Tides displays tide and current information for a variety of locations around the world. It can display the day's tides, the week's tides, or the month's tides in two different ways. You select a station via the maps presented by Mr. Tides, or by searching the station list.
New in this version:
• Maps (especially Africa) don't size themselves bigger than the screen.
• Hydralic stations (those oddball ones with units of knots^2) can be converted to knots. The Preference pane for Display has a new setting for the current's default value, it is set to Knots by default.
• Reference stations now show the proper scale as set in Preferences.
• Exporting to iCal and then to the iPod now shows the time correctly. The (rather critical) timezone information was not set for substations and the times would come out wrong (by hours!) when syncing to the iPod.
• Improved the iCal export by adding the station name to the summary. This way you can see what station you are looking at on a PalmPilot.
• Fixed a bug where a station that didn't use DST at all still had an offset applied anyway. This affected Hawaii rather badly.
• Changed the color of the unit string to red to make it more apparent if you were on a tide station or a current station, and added the units to the calendar view as well.
• Fixed the Save function for Day Views, and added left margins to all the save commands so the image looks better.
For more information, visit:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Mr. Tides X is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.exmsft.com/~augusth/
iNotePad 2.0 Note Pad With iPod Export [OS 10.2 up]
iNotePad is an alternative to Apple's NotePad. It has many more features but it keeps simplicity and ease of use of Apple Note Pad. It can store styled text notes with pictures, save them, print them and even export them to your iPod! And, it's really easy to use.
New in this version:
• export to iPod
• iPublish to a .Mac or FTP account
• locked notes and folders
• AES-128 encryption
• notes can include pictures
• tabs, spellchecker, links,...
System requirements:
iNotePad 2 runs on any Power Macintosh with Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
iNotepad 1.6.2 is still available for Mac OS 8/9/X in English, French and Japanese.
iNotePad is $14.00 shareware
iNotePad 2 is a free update to iNotePad 1.x registered users.
For more information, visit:
http://www.vojousoftware.com/products.html#inotepad
WorkStrip 3.2 Launcher, Previewer, Work Management Tool
WorkStrip 3 is a multifaceted “file management tool” that through its intuitive file tracking system, not only handles the mundane task of all filing requirements, but also, using its innovative file preview feature, enables quick and easy access to them.
Floating above your desktop, WorkStrip 3 is a sophisticated alternative to the Dock, providing a host of intuitive features:
Intelligent File Management Tool
Workstrip is the ‘Ultimate File Management Tool’ that organises files into ‘Workspaces’ to represent a project, a client or a different aspect of the work that you do. Workstrip can be customised and provides everything from advanced Tracking, date hierarchy in recent items to bookmarks for folders, files and websites.
Innovative Previewer
WorkStrip Instantly Previews to facilitate access to files without loading an application.
WorkStrip will automatically provide instant previews of the following files:
Documents, Images, Audio and Movies
Powerful Launcher
All Applications, folders and files can be kept on the strip for instant one click access and running applications are autmatically added to the strip.
WorkStrip provides a host of intuitive features:
• Multiple Workspaces to organize your work
• Instant file previews without loading an application
• Advanced tracking of applications, documents & web sites
• Bookmarked favorite items for ease of access
• Instant panel views of recent files, folders and bookmarks
• Ability to place folders and files directly on the strip
• Instant access to all your document windows, across all applications*
• Keep track of the documents you are using on a per-project (workspace) basis*
(* requires Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later)
New in this version:
• HotMenus - HotMenus are a great new way of quickly accessing many of the features of WorkStrip without having to move your mouse to the WorkStrip strip. HotMenus are accessed using a keyboard shortcut and will appear wherever your mouse currently is, regardless of which application is at the front.
• Instant previews of files in Finder- When you control-click on a file in the Finder, WorkStrip can now show an instant preview of that file before the standard Contextual menu for that item appears.
• The speed of launching WorkStrip and switching Workspaces has been dramatically improved.
• It is now possible to have WorkStrip's Trash appear directly on the strip instead of/as well as floating on your Desktop.
• Whenever applications appear in WorkStrip's menus (e.g Recent Applications) the submenus for those applications will now show their recent items instead of the application icon.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
WorkStrip is $37 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.softchaos.com/products/ws3/ove.html
Safari Task Bar 1.8 Lists Opened Safari Windows [OS X]
Safari Task Bar allows you to list Safari opened windows and to navigate easily among them.
You want to display the list of all your opened Safari windows? You want to swap from one window to another in one single click? You want to automatically scroll through all opened windows?
Then Safari Task Bar is what you need!
Features:
- It displays the list of all Safari opened windows.
- It works in a global floating window to be always accessible in the foreground.
- You can swap from one window to another in one single click.
- You can automatically scroll through all opened windows.
- You can change the transparency of the list.
- You can make the list appear and disappear like a drawer on the side of the screen.
- It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use.
- It is available in English and in French.
- It is compatible with Extended Software Updater.
New in this version:
A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with Panther.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X
For more information, visit:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/safaritaskbar/Safari%20Task%20Bar.html
Charles W. Moore
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