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Cocktail 3.5 System Utility [OS 10.3 up]
Adobe Reader 6.0.3 To View & Print PDF Files [OS 10.2.2 up]
Impression 2.61 Backup Software [OS 10.2 up]
Text Bucket 1.1 Persistent Clipboard To Manage Frequently Used Text [OS 10.2 up]
Trapeze 1.2.2 Converts PDF files to HTML, RTF, ASCII Or Plain Text [OS X 10.3 up]
Gimp.app 2.0.6 GNU Image Manipulation Program [OS X 10.3 up]
AbiWord 2.2.2 Freeware Word Processor Edits Word & WordPerfect files [OS X 10.3 up]
DropCopy 0.2 Shares Files & Folders Between OS X Macs With Drag & Drop Ease [OS X 10.3 up]
Indigo 1.5.5 Home Automation Control Server integrates X10 Devices [OS 10.2.6 up]
Snowflakes 1.1 Adds Falling Snow To Your Desktop [OS X 10.3 up]
X-MasTree 1.2 Christmas Tree On Your Desktop [OS 10.2 up]
Jiggler 1.2 Freeware app for Mac OS X To Keep Your Computer Awake For Important Tasks[/url]
Cocktail 3.5 System Utility [OS 10.3 up]
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. 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 clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.
Disks
Enable or disable journaling.
Repair disk permissions.
Set disk spindown time.
System
Prebind and re-prebind entire system or selected folder.
Run cron scripts.
Change startup mode and lanugage.
Modify sleep settings.
Force empty trash.
Rebuild Launch Services database.
Update whatis and locate databases.
Files
Delete locked or inaccessible items.
Delete invisible DS Store files.
Clean system, user and Internet caches.
View, rotate, print and save logs.
Create symbolic links.
Recreate Mac OS 9 Desktop alias.
Lock or unlock files and folders.
Network
Change speed, duplex and MTU.
Optimize network settings for eight most common types of connections or apply the custom optimization.
Configure the Mac OS X file server
Interface
Customize look and features of Finder, Dock and login window.
Modify hidden settings of Exposé, Mail, Safari and other applications.
Pilot
Easily optimize your system.
Schedule maintenance tasks.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• BSD subsystem installed (included in default OS X install)
Cocktail is $14.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/
Adobe Reader 6.0.3 To View & Print PDF Files [OS 10.2.2 up]
Adobe Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. This new version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat Reader provides a host of rich features that enable you to:
• Submit Adobe PDF forms that are created with fillable form fields in such applications as Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Form Designer
• Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files
• Read and organize high-fidelity eBooks
• Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files
• Display Adobe Photoshop? Album slide shows and electronic cards and export images for online photo processing (online photo services vary regionally)
New in this version:
This update addresses several potential vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader versions 6.0.0-6.0.2. Note that currently there are no known malicious exploits of these vulnerabilities. Adobe recommends that all users of Adobe Reader 6.0 apply this update as a proactive measure.
This update addresses three issues:
• Preventing playback of malicious content in Flash media embedded in a PDF File.
• Vulnerabilities in the PNG library (libpng version 1.2.5) that could be exploited with malformed PNG images.
• An issue with how the eBook plug-in works with *.etd files during eBook transactions.
The platform and language combination specified will determine the version of Adobe Reader that you will receive.
Full version: You will receive the full-featured version of Adobe Reader software. Recommended for broadband users.
Basic version: You will receive a compact version of Adobe Reader software without all available options. This version will transfer more quickly over dial-up connections.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher
• Adobe Reader 6.0.2 English or Japanese (other localization updates will be available at a later date)
Adobe Reader is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Impression 2.61 Backup Software [OS 10.2 up]
Impression is a straightforward, reliable backup application that can back up directories to (and restore them from) multiple optical discs (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW) or disk images on any mounted hard drive (i.e. - iPod, FireWire drive, Network server, etc.). It offers incremental/differential backup options, bookmark based backup management, compressed/encrypted disk image options and MD5 checksum validation for files to guarantee their integrity and your peace of mind.
The following list offers a general overview of Impression's features:
• Full, incremental and differential backups.
• Back up files and folders to restorable, hfspax-based archives ('imps') or to plain, Finder-readable file archives.
• Back up to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW and disk images on any mounted hard disk (i.e. - iPod, FireWire drive, network server, etc.)
• Multi-session disc burning offers 'write until full' capabilities for supported optical disc formats to reduce disc waste when running multiple small or incremental backups.
• Encrypt disk images with AES-128 disk encryption and keep your passwords stored safely in the OS X Keychain.
• Compress disk images for local archive storage.
• MD5 file checksum validation to ensure restoration accuracy.
• Segment large files between two optical discs.
• 'Root' user runtime authority to avoid permissions issues.
• Powerful grep-based regex filename pattern exclusion system.
• Bookmarked session backup management system.
• Preflight system to verify, check validity and estimate backup routines.
• Preservation of all Macintosh HFS/HFS+ file meta-data.
• The ability to back up hidden and system files.
• CD-RW/DVD-RW disc erasing utility.
• Full, detailed logging of all application actions.
• Restore files from 'imps' archives (hfspax-based) back in place, or to a location of your choosing.
• Choose to overwrite or leave existing files in place during restoration.
• Restore UNIX files with original permissions.
• Provide you with a streamlined, beautiful UI to accomplish these tasks.
Impression is being developed as an absolutely reliable, open-standards solution to back up/archive personal files to optical discs and locally-mounted media. It uses the 'hfspax' archiving tool, which offers a reliable method for preserving all the facets and attributes of a complex Mac-based file. In addition, Impression offers the option to copy files to the destination media (using 'ditto') for archiving purposes. Large files are automatically segmented to span multiple discs with no need for operator input, save swapping CDs/DVDs when requested.
Both propellerheads and infrequent computer users should find that this application addresses their needs for a reliable, reasonably priced, open-standard personal backup solution. We all need to back up our data to keep it safe, and a single ~650MB CD is proving too limited to hold the multitude of files that we generate from our various digital input sources (video, music, photo, etc.)
New in this version:
All reported, reproducible bugs have been fixed for this release.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.x or 10.3.x
• BSD subsystem (part of a default OS X install)
• iTunes/Disc Burner-supported CD-R/W or DVD-R drive (if archiving to CD/DVD)
• Free space on a operator-definable scratch drive, estimated at runtime based on backup size
Impression is $25.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://babelcompany.com/impression/
Text Bucket 1.1 Persistent Clipboard To Manage Frequently Used Text [OS 10.2 up]
With a quick hotkey combination, the text bucket pops up giving you one key access to frequently used text. Copy your text to the clipboard, bring up the bucket, and hit the slot number you want to store it in. Hit the number of a taken slot and the window closes, while the text automatically appears on the clipboard, ready to be pasted.
Just press your hotkey combo (command-option-control-T by default, but user configurable) to bring up the window.
Press a number slot (or any key for the infinite slot!) to paste whatever text is on the clipboard into the slot. It then remains in Text Bucket until you delete it (by pressing the little "-" button next to the slot). When you want to recall a snippet, again simply press the number of the slot you need and the text will go to the clipboard, the window will close, and you're back where you are to use the text. Easy as pie.
New in this version:
• You can add macros to your slots. There are two types, clipboard and macro:
• C#CLIPBOARD#If you insert the literal string C#CLIPBOARD# into your slot, it will be replaced with the current clipboard value. For example, if your slot contains "This is my C#CLIPBOARD#", and the clipboard contains "value", then you would end up pasting "This is my value".
• M#MACRO#This is more exciting. If your slot contains the phrase M#(letters), that's interpreted as a macro. When a macro slot is activated, you are presented with a new window allowing you to fill in the values of the macro slots.
System requirements:
Mac OS 10.2 or higher
Text Bucket is $5.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bassetsoftware.com/osx/textbucket/
Trapeze 1.2.2 Converts PDF files to HTML, RTF, ASCII Or Plain Text [OS X 10.3 up]
Trapeze is a drag-and-drop text extraction utility that converts PDF files to editable HTML, RTF, ASCII or plain text.
Trapeze puts you in control over the conversion process, with options for white space stripping, paragraph rewrapping and page break marking. Additional features include advanced text encoding, targeted RTF optimization (TextEdit or Microsoft Word), and support for encrypted (password protected) PDF.
Trapeze's powerful reformatting engine is capable of standard HTML conversion, high quality RTF rendering and faithful plain text reproduction; a must for users interested in PDF web publishing, content data mining or repurposing.
A limited trial version of Trapeze converts up to three pages of any PDF and may be evaluated free of charge.
New in this version:
• fixed problem with excessive spacing when "relaxed spacing" option is off
• trailing white space in copy-and-pasted registration fields is now stripped before validating
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Trapeze is $29.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mesadynamics.com/trapeze.htm
Gimp.app 2.0.6 GNU Image Manipulation Program [OS X 10.3 up]
Gimp.app is a self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Mac OS X. It requires Apple's X11. Gimp.app is droppable, uses the gimp-print package built into OS X, and uses the system's default web browser for help and web browsing requests.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• Apple X11 1.0 or higher
Gimp.app is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
AbiWord 2.2.2 Freeware Word Processor Edits Word & WordPerfect files [OS X 10.3 up]
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.
AbiWord 2.2 has been released. This milestone brings in its wake Tables of Contents, Text Boxes, a native OS X frontend, and a whole lot more
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
AbiWord is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.abiword.com/
DropCopy 0.2 Shares Files & Folders Between OS X Macs With Drag & Drop Ease [OS X 10.3 up]
Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window. The easiest way to get things from one place to another quickly without dialogs, passwords or confirmations. DropCopy is currently a free public beta.
DropCopy uses OpenTalk (Rendezvous) technology to help you to easily and quickly share files and folders between multiple machines across your LAN. You simply drag to where you would like it to go from a list that appears in a popup window. As an added bonus you can also grab another machine's current clipboard, as long as it is text.
New in this version:
• asks for permission if someone tries to read your clipboard, unless you have specified "don't bother me for any reason"
• ability to manually add destination machines by host or IP number for times when rendezvous is being testy
• interface tweaks - animation support so you can customize the application's appearance during copies
• free date with Paris Hilton offer changed to free design consulting session with Maddox
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
DropCopy is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://10base-t.com/dropcopy.html
Indigo 1.5.5 Home Automation Control Server integrates X10 Devices [OS 10.2.6 up]
Automate your home with Indigo
Indigo is an intelligent home control server that integrates an assortment of popular X10 hardware devices to provide unprecedented control of your home. Indigo is the only Mac home automation software to support the PowerLinc USB interface. Finally, a Mac home automation solution that does not need costly USB to serial adapters!
Using Indigo’s intuitive user interface you can quickly define complex control logic to automate your home. With Indigo you can:
• Remotely control lights, fans, appliances, sprinkler systems, etc., from a variety of handheld remote controls (including the X10 “Entertainment Anywhere” remote control!)
• Remotely control any appliance or light, even your hot tub, from your mobile phone by sending Indigo an email, by using a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone and Salling Clicker, or by using the intuitive Ovolab Phlink support.
• Remotely control iTunes and dozens of other applications
• Create unlimited sprinkler schedules
• Incorporate motion detectors to turn on lights or other devices
• Automatically send emails based on events, like power failure or motion detection
• Automatically turn on landscape or holiday lighting at sunset and off at sunrise
• Create different lighting scenes, for example “Party,” “Movie,” “Sleeping,” “Away,” for perfect multi-room lighting levels at the touch of a button
• Incredible flexibility for thousands of other uses -- use your imagination!
Indigo was developed from the ground up to be a robust, Mac OS X native, home control server. Mac OS X, with its preemptive multi-tasking and protected memory, makes for an outstanding home control operating system. When idle, Indigo uses a very small percentage of your computer's CPU cycles. This means you will not have any problems running Indigo in the background while you use your computer to do other tasks.
Indigo's intuitive user interface allows you to create complex actions without complex scripting languages. Below are a few screen shots from Indigo.
Indigo has native support for the following X10 compatible devices:
• PowerLinc USB, PowerLinc, CM-11, and LynX-PLC interfaces
• MR 26a RF receiver interface
• W800RF32 RF receiver interface
• SwitchLinc, LampLinc modules
• Leviton (extended dim) modules
• Lightolier Compose switches (in "Compatible Mode" mode only)
• Generic appliance/lamp modules
Other feature highlights:
• Supports uploading of control logic and schedules to the PowerLinc Controller (1132CU), giving you basic home control even when your Mac is turned off
• Integrated support with Salling Clicker and Ovolab Phlink -- remotely control Devices and execute Action Groups from a bluetooth-enabled mobile phone or over any remote telephone
• Trigger actions by sending Indigo emails (build-in POP3 client)
• Send emails for remote notification of triggers, such as motion detection or power failure (built-in SMTP client)
• Remote control of iTunes using the X10 "Entertainment Anywhere" kit.
• Unlimited action groups to define lighting scenes with unlimited action steps
• Sunset and sunrise events for automated lighting
• Native variable list to easily keep track of automation states, such as "atHome"
• Extensive AppleScript dictionary, including object model and plug-in architecture
• Threaded architecture minimizes CPU usage and prevents UI from becoming blocked (no busy cursor!), even when sending slow dim or brighten commands
• ...and much, much more! See our website for all the details.
New in this version:
• Fixed bug that caused the PowerLinc Controller (1132CU) to freeze when Indigo was trying to upload the sunset/sunrise data.
• Fixed bug that caused problems accessing some Time/Date Actions from AppleScript.
• Fixed bug that caused some AppleScript commands to fail when setting properties to an empty string.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher
X10 Interface (either PowerLinc 1132U/CU (USB), PowerLinc 1132A (Serial), CM-11, or LynX-PLC)
Indigo is $89.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/indigo/
Snowflakes 1.1 Adds Falling Snow To Your Desktop [OS X 10.3 up]
Snowflakes is a simple little program that displays snow on your desktop, offering a festive look to any Mac OS X desktop.
Launch Snowflakes and the snow begins to fall. Open Preferences and choose whether you want the snowflakes to be above all windows, or below all windows. You can also choose how many flakes are on screen at once and how fast they fall on average.
New in this version:
Now doesn't come forward when you accidentally click on a snowflake.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Snowflakes is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.gooddoug.com/product_pages/snowflakes.html
Download
http://www.gooddoug.com/product_pages/downloads/Snowflakes.dmg
X-MasTree 1.2 Christmas Tree On Your Desktop [OS 10.2 up]
X-MasTree is a small (or medium, or large) floating Christmas tree for your desktop. Since YourHead software, maker of Christi's Tree, seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.
Double click the icon to launch. There are many options, including which color lights to display, lighting modes (static, blinking or fading), a few ornaments, and a badge displaying days left until Christmas. WARNING: setting the lighting mode to "fade" will beat the living snot out of your CPU.
If you are familiar with browsing application bundles, you can add your own custom ornaments to X-MasTree. Simply create a transparent image 200 x 275 pixels and draw your custom ornaments on that. Make sure to save the file as a TIFF image with transparency turned on and LZW compressed. The file name must be either "CustomTop.tif" or "CustomBottom.tif", or both. "CustomTop" images are drawn above all other ornaments and lights, and "CutomBottom" images are below all other ornaments and lights. Now place the image file in the "Resources" folder of the X-MasTree application bundle. Note: it may help to use one of the tree images (Tree0.tiff) from the resource bundle as a guide for placing your ornaments around the tree.
If you want to hide the custom ornaments but don't want to remove them from the bundle, open up the terminal and type in:
defaults write com.stimpsoft.xmastree _drawCustomObjects -integer 0
and to turn them back on:
defaults write com.stimpsoft.xmastree _drawCustomObjects -integer 1
New in this version:
• Reduced CPU usage.
• Images optimized for smaller file size.
New in version 1.1:
• Colored Trees! Woo-boy.
• Decided to go for broke and use high quality images. It increased the file size, but hey, it's Christmas.
• New lights. You can still use the old style if you want, however
• Much needed popcorn strands option added.
• Purple ornaments added. Dunno why they weren't in there in the first place.
• If no lights are set to blink/fade, X-MasTree will treat your CPU very nicely.
• Toggling the shadow no longer leaves weird dropouts behind.
• Added the option to set Christmas to the 24th for some European nations.
• Japanese localization added courtesy of Yuzuru Shiraiwa
• Lots and lots of code cleanup, if you care about those things.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
X-MasTree is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.jschilling.net/sw_xmastree.php
Jiggler 1.2 Freeware app for Mac OS X To Keep Your Computer Awake For Important Tasks
Stick Software has announced version 1.2 of Jiggler, a freeware utility for Mac OS X. Jiggler keeps your Mac awake through those lengthy tasks when it would rather fall asleep, by jiggling your mouse periodically. No more having to open System Preferences to change your sleep time and your screensaver delay, only to have to change them back again at the end. Just jiggle!
Version 1.2 of Jiggler has lots of bells and whistles. You can jiggle for a preset period of time and then stop, to keep your machine awake through a long job and then allow it to fall asleep at the end. You can set Jiggler to jiggle automatically whenever your machine's processor is busy, or whenever a CD or DVD is being burned, or whenever a particular application is running. And there's an onscreen indication that Jiggler is active, to reassure you that your machine is being kept awake!
Jiggler joins Stick Software products such as PhotoReviewer, Eyeballs, Trisection, Fracture, BigFoot, Measles, Aquatint and Constrictor. It is freeware; if you like it, please check out our shareware products, and pay for the shareware you use.
For more information, visit:
http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html
Direct download URL:
http://downloads.sticksoftware.com/Jiggler.dmg.gz
Charles W. Moore
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