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GraphicConverter 5.0.1 To View, Edit, Convert Most Graphic File Formats [OS X]
SweetMail X 2.2r4 Email Client [System 7 through OS X]
Cocktail 3.4.5 System Modify/Repair Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Check Preference Files 1.3.1 Check Preference Files For Corruption [OS 10.2 up]
Knowledgetank 1.0.1 Information Managment Software [OS X 10.3 up]
ecto 1.0.5.2 Next Generation Blogging Client [OS 10.2 up]
txt2pdf 7.2 Converter From Text To PDF
FoldersSynchronizer 3.4.7 Syncs & Backsup Files, Folders, Disks [OS 10.2.6 up]
Freaky Trash Manager 1.0b4 Manages Multiple Trash Folders [OS X 10.1 up] [/url]
GraphicConverter 5.0.1 To View, Edit, Convert Most Graphic File Formats [OS X]
GraphicConverter converts pictures to different formats. Also it contains many useful features for picture manipulation.
Key features of GraphicConverter:
• Imports about 175 graphic file formats
• Exports about 75 graphic file formats
• Browser
• Batch conversion with additional actions
• Slide show
• Easy creation of optimized images for the internet
• Basic images manipulation
• Enhanced images manipulation
• AppleScript support
• Support for the special features of MacOS 8, 9 and MacOS X and optimized for G4 and G5
• Support of new technologies like LuraWave LWF format
New in this version:
possible error -109 upon saving fixed
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
GraphicConverter is $30.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/graphcon.htm
http://www.lemkesoft.de
http://www.graphicconverter.net
SweetMail X 2.2r4 Email Client [System 7 through OS X]
After a hiatus when Sweetmail sort of dropped off the map, its developer, Mr. S. Ichise, has re-released it as freeware (formerly $28.00 shareware).
System requirements:
Hardware
• Macintosh ( 68K or PPC )
• Display
• Memory :4MB
System Software
• System 7.5 or later
• Carbon version requires MacOS X.
Following software is required for system7.
• OpenTransport
http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html
• Appearance Manager
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html
ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/Appearance_SDK_1.0.4.sit.hqx
• Thread Manager
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html
ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/Thread_Manager.sit.hqx
• InternetConfig (Optional)
ftp://ftp.quinn.echidna.id.au/Others/Quinn/Config/InternetConfig2.0.2.sit
• QuickTime (Optional)
http://www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/download/
index.html
SweetMail X is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~sweet/mail/
Cocktail 3.4.5 System Modify/Repair Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X 10.2 or later. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset. It is a smooth and powerful utility that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions.
All of Cocktail's major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a "Pilot" lets you optimize your system with one click of the button and schedule miscellaneous maintenance tasks.
• Disks Enable or disable journaling on selected disk.
Set disk spindown time.
• System Prebind and re-prebind system or selected folder/disk.
Repair permissions.
Manually run cron scripts.
Clean system, user and Internet cache.
Change system startup mode.
Choose startup language.
Force empty trash from selected disk.
• Files Delete locked or inaccessible items.
Remove invisible "DS_Store" files.
Remove archived logs.
View, rotate, print and save logs.
Create symbolic links.
Lock or unlock files and folders.
• Network Change speed, duplex and MTU settings.
Optimize network settings for dialup or broadband connection.
Change network ports.
Renew DHCP lease.
• Interface Customize look and features of Finder and Dock.
Modify hidden Login Window, Mail and Safari settings.
Set window resize speed for all Cocoa applications.
• Pilot Easily optimize your system.
Schedule maintenance tasks.
New in this version:
• Added Restart and Shut Down options to Pilot scheduler
• Added Chinese, Japanese and Korean to Startup Language setting
• Added compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.3
• Addresses an issue in which Buss Speed may not be read on some iBook models
• Other minor improvements
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or later, BSD subsystem (included in default Mac OS X installation).
Cocktail is $9.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/index.html
Check Preference Files 1.3.1 Check Preference Files For Corruption [OS 10.2 up]
Building on a discussion at [url=http://www.macintouch.com]http://www.macintouch.com,[/url] this script will check your preference files (both in your user’s preference folder and the system’s preference folder) for corruption. If it finds corrupt files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder, move them to the trash, or open them in the application of your choice.
Notes:
• Deleting the preference file (.plist) of some applications may mean you will have to re-enter a registration code and/or preferences (such as server and network settings for Mail.app) for the deleted preference file’s application to work properly.
• You must have administrative permission to open many system preferences.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2+
Check Preference Files is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/html/Check_Pref_Files.html
Knowledgetank 1.0.1 Information Managment Software [OS X 10.3 up]
Knowledgetank is information management software, a software that helps you keep track of information like URLs, files, projects, recipies, books, DVDs, CDs, sourcecode... (With other words: Keep track of your stuff) and can be used as a Journal.
The information is organised in categories, topics and date. The textbody of a information-post can contain a template, earlier created by you, for your convenience while entering information and for making the post more searchable.
Knowledgetank is easy to use and has very similar GUI to Apple Computers, Inc Mail.app that is included in Mac OS X.
Knowledgetank is shareware (30-day Trial): - USD 29.95 Single user license.
New in this version:
Fixed some minor errors.
System requirements: Knowledgetank requires Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Knowledgetank is $29.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.memsculpt.com
ecto 1.0.5.2 Next Generation Blogging Client [OS 10.2 up]
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX (Windows version in the works), supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice in the MacWorld July 2003 issue, a 4.7 rating by users of VersionTracker.com, and a 5.0 rating by users of MacUpdate.com.
ecto features
• support for multiple weblogs and servers (with easy-to-use Account Manager)
• intuitive interface for creating and editing weblog entries (customizable with spellcheck, syntax-coloring, and find-replace)
• full local control of recently posted entries and drafts (with search function)
• quick access toolbar menu with HTML tag templates plus keyboard shortcuts (fully modifiable)
• support of all available remote control options of MovableType and TypePad (posting entries with continuation, summary, keywords, multiple categories, trackback, text-formatting, comment options)
• easily change the posting date of entries
• full-featured HTML-rendered preview of entries using Safari's WebKit
• advanced file and image upload tool with iPhoto support (supports converting and thumbnailing images, with history of uploaded files)
• save settings on a per-blog basis
• send notifications by email (with Address Book support)
• insert details of the currently playing iTunes song in your entry
• embedded debug console to troubleshoot server connections
• extensive help documentation accessible from within ecto
• hate the metal and icons? Set the window texture via the Preferences window and change icons with the supplied switcher
New in this version:
• Several fixes to del.icio.us support, including the following two: It's now possible to submit a link using multiple tags. Also, description of a link is smartly determined from text or title of a link.
• Fixed a potential problem when servers return null fields for some blog entry data. These null fields would prevent ecto from storing data locally. This is now solved.
• Updated French and German localization.
• Fixed issue where localized strings would show up in IMG tag's align attribute.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher.
• Servers that run any weblog system supporting the MovableType, metaWeblog, and Blogger XML-RPC API.
• iPhoto 4.0 or higher for the iPhoto import feature
ecto is $17.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.kung-foo.tv/ecto/
txt2pdf 7.2 Converter From Text To PDF
txt2pdf is a very flexible PERL5 program. It allows you to convert all your old .TXT files into PDF format, and is flexible enough to run on any platform that supports PERL. It can be used alone, or you can use it with other applications to convert your documents on the fly.
Most of your documents are text files. Usually, your reports from legacy applications, COBOL applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are textual. txt2pdf allows you to take those old text files and turn them into PDF's using only PERL, which means you don't even need to pass the data through PostScript first.
You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL, but it has been tested and is verified to work on many operating systems.
Here there are some of the things that you can achieve with txt2pdf:
• You can mark coloured (using PERL regular expressions) sentences in the produced PDF files.
• You can mark bold, italic and bold italic sentences in the produced PDFfiles.
• You can add page numbers on every page.
• You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file.
• You can add a border to every page.
• Internet specific phrases such as http://... ftp://... mailto:...file:... ldap:... news:... will automatically be made into clickable URL's.
• You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document just adding http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
• Every word like MIME:... will automatically become a link that launches the correct application to open that file.
• You can use background and foreground layers.
• All predefined encoding (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the Unix default are supported by txt2pdf.
• It's possible to run through txt2pdf infinitely (every configured second, sleep feature) on a specific directory (and also its recursive directories) moving the produced PDF to a specific directory, and the original text to a specific directory.
• txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT.
• Support for Japanese fonts (HeiseiMin-W3-90ms-RKSJ-H and HeiseiKakuGo-W5-90ms-RKSJ-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic and Japanese paper formats (JISB4 and JISB5).
• Support for Korean font (HYSMyeongJoStd KSCms-UHC-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
• Support for simplified Chinese font (STSong GB-EUC-H) and traditional Chinese font (PMingLiU ETen-B5-H) normal, italic, bold, bolditalic.
• mailto (mailcc, mailbcc) options: the possibility to send to the specified users (to, cc, bcc) the created PDF like attach. It's possible to specify the title, the body, the SMTP host, the from user (at the moment you can use these features only with the executable versions).
• EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside the background layer.
• A PE (Personal Edition) License is $39.
• SANFACE Software is going to give you a free license for every good idea or good modify to txt2pdf.Â
New in this version:
• email notify option: the possibility to set the email where you want to receive the notify of email reading.
• mail_body_file option: the possibility to specify an external file that contains the email body.
• New Windows GUI Visual_txt2pdf.
txt2pdf is $39.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
FoldersSynchronizer 3.4.7 Syncs & Backsup Files, Folders, Disks [OS 10.2.6 up]
FoldersSynchronizer is a utility for Macintosh (Classic and MacOSX Jaguar and Panther) which synchronizes and backs-up files, folders and disks. The user can choose one or more pairs of files/folders/disks and then they will be synchronized/backed-up exactly. FoldersSynchronizer is available also as lite version.
When synchronizing, the old files will be replaced with the newest files in both directions. The new files (new entries) will be copied in both directions, as well as new Folders. The old Folders will not be replaced entirely by the newer ones, as the Finder used to do, but their content will be updated with the newest files, the new files (new entries) and new Folders (new entries).
FoldersSynchronizer can execute incremental or exact synchronizations. The incremental synchronization (default) never deletes items from the folders. The exact synchronization deletes from a folder, all the items no longer existing in the specular folder.
When backing up, the destination folder will be upgraded with the newest files, the new files (new entries) and the new Folders (new entries) coming from the source folder; the source folder will be left untouched.
FoldersSynchronizer can execute incremental or exact backups. The incremental backup (default) never deletes items. The exact backup deletes from the destination folder, all the items no longer existing in the source folder, and it never deletes items nested inside the source folder.
FoldersSynchronizer Lite is the lite version) which synchronizes and backs-up files, folders and disks. The user can choose one or more pairs of files/folders/disks and then they will be synchronized/backed-up exactly. This lite version grants some feature less than the full version. It has the standard features one would expect from sync/backup software.
Some features:
• FS can backup the whole MacOS X boot disk and make it bootable.
• FS can sync/backup the deleted files/folders (Exact Sync feature and Exact Backup feature).
• FS allows creating, renaming, duplicating, deleting, editing of multiple Sessions in a single document.
• FS can execute in a single task, all the Sessions defined in the Session List.
• FS can assign to each session, different Settings, Multiple List, Timers, Exclude List, Filters, Conflicts.
• FS can create, save and open ?Sessions Files?.
• FS can execute a Session at the time you specify in the timer list.
• FS can execute multiple synchronizations/backup (up to 32 pairs of folders) specified by a single Session.
• FS can filter the documents to copy by FileName, Type, Creator, Creation and Modification Date and Kind.
• FS can exclude, from the sync or backup, the folders and files you specify in the Excluding item list.
• FS can copy invisible Files and Folders.
• FS can include/unlock the locked files, so it can delete/replace also the locked files.
• FS can resolve aliases and SYM links.
• FS can check whether both the files have been modified after the last Backup.
• FS can stop or skip or ask for further instruction, if an error occurs.
• FS can show the "Items to be copied" Preview List.
• FS can save/display short or detailed Log Files (always or only if an error occurred).
• FS can send the Log Text via Email to a custom email address (always or only if an error occurred).
• FS can work with root privileges, even if the user is not the root (it asks for the root password).
• FS works properly on Long file names, Unix permissions, Multiple forks, Forks > 2GBytes, SYM links and GMT Date/Time.
• FS allows drag and drop of source and destination folders/files.
• FS can work in background (multithreading).
• Registered copies have no limit to the amount of files/bytes to be copied. FS uses a buffer memory when copying each file. Never needing additional memory, it can quickly copy GBs and GBs of data.
New in this version:
• As requested, now FS at the end of a backup of the whole boot disk, will bless the destination backup disk. This way, just after the backup, the user will be able to restart the machine (holding down the option key) and select the backup disk as boot disk, without the need to select that disk in the System Preferences as boot disk. Hovever, he can still select the boot disk in the System Preferences in order to "bless" the backup boot disk.
• As requested, now the Preview window shows the whole pathnames of the selected files.
• On the Preview window we added 4 buttons to reveal the select files in the Finder and to open the files with their applications.
• As requested, we added a control on the Set Filter window, so now the user cannot set an End time/date earlier than the Start date.
• Added the option "Delete the last Log files" to the FS "Preferences:Log" panel. The user can choose to delete all the Log files older than a given number of days, or to leave in the Log folder a fixed number of files (e.g. the last 3 Log files).
• Other minor improvements at the objects tooltips.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher
FoldersSynchronizer is $40.00 shareware
FoldersSynchronizer Lite is $20 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.softobe.com/products/flsy/pp.html
Freaky Trash Manager 1.0b4 Manages Multiple Trash Folders [OS X 10.1 up]
Freaky Trash Manager manages files and folders inside of specified trash and "virtual" trash folders by deleting them based on rules. Instead of periodically emptying the trash manually, you can set up Freaky Trash Manager to delete files from the trash based on how long they've been in the trash, how big the trash is, how much room is available on your hard drive, or how many files/folders are in the trash.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1
For more information, visit:
[url=http://www.freakysw.com/FreakyTrashManager.sit]http://www.freakysw.com/FreakyTrashManager.sit[/url]
Charles W. Moore
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