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GraphicConverter X 5.4 To View, Edit, Convert Most Image Formats [OS X 10.1.3 up]
DEVONnote 1.6 Note Pad, Bookmark Manager And Webcam Browser [OS 10.2.7 up]
ScrapX 1.3.5 Released [OS 10.2 up]
Konfabulator 1.8.1 JavaScript Runtime Engine To Run Widget Files [OS 10.2 up]
Pinch ol' Santa Perennial Favorite Game For The Christmas Season [OS X 10.1 up]
MacGhostView 3.1 General Purpose PostScript & PDF Previewer [OS 8.6 up]
SnapNDrag 1.5.1 Effortless Screen Capture [OS 10.2 up]
iCash X 2.2 Personal Finances And Money Manager [/url]
GraphicConverter X 5.4 To View, Edit, Convert Most Image Formats [OS X 10.1.3 up]
GraphicConverter X/Classic converts pictures to different formats. Also it contains many useful features for picture manipulation.
Key features of GraphicConverter X/Classic:
• 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 Mac OS 8, 9 and Mac OS X and optimized for G4 and G5
• Support of new technologies like the JPEG2000 format
New in this version:
• context menu entry to modify file type and creator added to the browser
• context menu item added for the Finder (Mac OS X) with automatic installation option
• info button added to the picture windows (to show/hide the info palette)
• show digital camera options added to the browser (shows flash, focal length...)
• canvas size change dialog added to the size submenu of the picture menu
• shadow effect added
• pointer tool = no tool added
• TIFF option added for recompressing many multipage TIFF files in batch conversion
• transparency option for selections added
• smart trim and canvas size change added as actions
• file name to iptc caption context menu item added
• Reset button for red eye options added
• GraphicConverter print options can now be displayed before the print dialog
• font size and name choice added to the print dialog
• option to display time since launch of slideshow added
• setting and changing of EXIF dates improved
• error handling for EXIF JPEG previews with incorrect length tag improved
• browser supports icl4 and ICN# resources
• lossless JPEG resolution values changes the xmp resolution value, too
• progress bar during scanning improved
• catalog creation function splitted in HTML and catalog in selected destination format; so a catalog can directly saves as JPEG or another selected format
• selected images in layout can be moved with the cursor keys
• browser search can search in the comment (of JPEGs)
• warning before opening more than 10 files at the same time can be disabled
• favorites can be hidden/shown via the context menu
• rename dialog tabs can be toggeled via keyboard
• ICC support in PICT import/export added
• index position for splitting multipage tiffs improved
• avi date corrected added (if the file contains a date tag)
• rename separator bug fixed
• scroll bug with metal look fixed
• refresh bug in folder list of browser after drag and drop of a folder fixed
• possible bug in changing EXIF date fixed (if various different date values are in the exif data)
• possible bug in bitmap psd import fixed
• possible crash upon selection of the line option on Classic fixed
• bug in import 16 bit grayscale binary PGMs fixed
• possible bug in display of exif preview (if the exif tag is after the xmp tag) fixed
• type and creator will be keeped after lossless rotation
• possible crash during display of icns icons without a 8 bit mask fixed
• slideshow bug during display of long comments fixed
• bug in text tool dialog fixed (hidden options)
• remove metadata keeps the long filenames
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1.3 or higher
GraphicConverter X is $30.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/graphcon.htm
DEVONnote 1.6 Note Pad, Bookmark Manager And Webcam Browser [OS 10.2.7 up]
With features like semi-automatic classification and merely no limit in the size of the database, DEVONnote leaves all other notepad applications for Mac OS X it its class far behind.
DEVONnote will be your best friend for writing down your ideas, organizing your personal information library or storing text snippets from web sites. Even more, DEVONnote comes with an integrated web browser which also makes it a powerful bookmark manager.
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DEVONnote is DEVONthink's little brother. It's the most sophisticated notepad application for Mac OS X, keeping all your ideas, documents, important information and even your bookmarks in one single, accessible place. Professional but easy-to-use features help you organize your notes and make structure out of chaos.
And with its integrated text and RTF editor you can even use it not only to enter short notes but to write letters, articles, books. Comfortable highlighting functions and character/word counters will help you, not to forget the split-screen view for navigating and editing even thousands of documents almost instantly.
And if you're surfing the net a lot, you'll love the tight integration of a complete web browser based on the Safari engine. Just select a bookmark and DEVONnote immediately opens the page in the preview/edit pane of its window. It can't be easier.
As with all DEVONtechnologies applications, DEVONnote is based on the solid DEVONtechnology database core and makes use of every major or minor applicable Mac OS X technology such as the Services menu, the dock menu, drag-and-drop, Cocoa, Aqua, the Quartz rendering engine, QuickTime and many, many more.
Key features:
• Stores plain and rich texts, text clippings, iChat logs, scripts, SimpleText documents, bookmarks etc.
• Supports dynamic Wiki-style links and static cross links
• Integrated browser based on Apple's WebKit (»Safari Engine«)
• Helps you to sort in new stuff (»Classify«, »See Also«)
• Advanced text editing including highlighting, realtime statistics or display of invisible characters
• User-defined labels
• Lightning-fast, intelligent search function
• Easy-to-user interface providing services and a Dock menu
• Supports services (like CalcService, WordService or BlueService)
• Supports drag-and-drop in both directions
What's unique:
• Im- and exports Finder comments
• Imports MS Word documents using Panther or AntiWordService
• Stores aliases to local files
• Captures contents from the built-in browser
• Displays and organises webcams, supports PhotoStickies
• Groups or ungroups contents, organises them in hierarchies
• Is able to clone contents to multiple groups (»Replicate«)
• Batch im- and exports data extremely fast
• Works flawlessly with huge databases (>200 MB)
• Does not need indexing but searches the data faster than the competition
• Uses all major features of the operating system
New in this version:
• NEW Command "Content > Merge" to merge multiple selected text documents and command "Edit > Insert > Picture..." (both are also available in contextual menus of text views)
• NEW Possibility to add/remove columns to/from vertical/horizontal views (see menu "View > Columns > ..."). By default the horizontal split view now displays "Modified", "Size" and "URL" columns. Note: "Comment", "Path" & "URL" columns are both editable and resizable.
• NEW Preference to keep up to n backups (created by "Backup & Optimize", "Rebuild" or automatic backups) (by default DEVONnote creates weekly backups and archives up to 3 backups). In addition, the "Restore Backup..." commands provide the possibility to select a backup (selector displays name, date and size of each backup).
• NEW Command "File > Import New Webcams" and preference "General > Startup > Import New Webcams" to import PhotoStickies' list of new cams on demand or automatically
• NEW Tooltips display the full name of items in split views
• NEW Export selector panel provides the possibility to create new folders (requires OS X 10.3.x)
• NEW Toolbar icons for "Home", "Up", "Verify", and "Capture Note" commands. In addition, the "Home" and "Up" items have been combined
• Improved Using "Take Plain/Rich Note" services inside a Web view of DEVONnote stores the URL
• Improved "Sort" menu moved to "View" menu
• Improved Header of column used for sorting is highlighted in all views
• Improved "Created" and "Modified" columns display the time too
• Improved Description of "Link" toolbar item is toggled between "Make Link" and "Remove Link" depending on the current selection
• Improved Current search settings are always displayed in empty search fields
• Improved "Top Level" command renamed to "Top Group" and "In top level or current group" preference renamed to "In top or current group"
• Improved Help buttons to "Info" and "Database Properties" panels added
• Improved Exporting files/folders updates existing DEVONtech_storage files
• Improved WebKit cache is now only RAM based (no more items are cached on disk)
• Improved Support for file selection by JavaScripts added
• Improved Checking for updates on startup is displayed in the launch panel
• Improved Much faster sorting by creation/modification date and much faster redrawing of most views (especially while dragging)
• Improved Faster communication between background server and DEVONnote
• Improved Some low level performance improvements speed up (among others) "No Case", "Phrase" and "Wildcard" searching
• Improved License codes aren't limited to a 30 days activation period anymore
• Improved Stability of kernel, memory management and frameworks
• Fixed URL field was not always updated after using the "Back" & "Forward" commands/buttons or not reset to the original address after moving the mouse outside of the WebKit view
• Fixed Link items were marked as duplicates if other non-link items used the same URL. Also, the number of duplicates of such link items displayed in the "Info" panel was not correct.
• Fixed Timeout between background server and DEVONnote did not work and therefore the application could freeze under rare circumstances
• Fixed Patch added to bypass a WebKit bug causing exceptions or stalled WebKit views
• Fixed DEVONappkit framework wasn't compatible to UFS filesystems
• Fixed Minor incompatibility of DEVONfoundation framework and Unix libraries
• Fixed Bug of RTF decoder related to certain unicode characters
• Fixed Rare crash after using "Go > Up/Top Level" commands
• Fixed Some minor localization and user interface glitches
• Fixed Minor bug of URL handling
• Fixed Minor memory leaks
Version 1.5 added more than 100 minor and major interface enhancements, functions, commands and file formats, including a completely revamped preferences panel, extended text editing capabilities, automatic Wiki-style links and user-defined lables. Also, the update improves speed, stability and data safety.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.7 or higher
DEVONnote is $20 demoware
For more information, visit:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonnote/devonnote.php
ScrapX 1.3.5 Released [OS 10.2 up]
ScrapX is a multi-media scrapbook built for Mac OS X. It stores, displays, organizes, and dispenses content that is in text, image, movie and sound formats. Supported types include: animated GIF, BMP, GIF, HTML, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, RTF, RTFD, TIFF, URL, plain text, movie, sound, and (classic) sound resource. Place content in ScrapX via the Clipboard using copy and paste or drag-and-drop, or drop clippings or files in supported formats onto a scrapbook. When content is dragged from Safari, the URL of the content (if there is one) and the URL and title of the web page are captured, and the URLs can be easily opened from ScrapX. Display, re-order, search and sort scrapbook items. To dispense content, copy and paste or drag-and-drop to a document, export to a file, or create a clipping. ScrapX will open Classic and ScrapIt scrapbooks.
ScrapX 1.3 is localized in English and French. Individual, Family, Multiple, and Educational Licenses available.
Possible Uses:
• Import the content you have compiled in classic scrapbooks and continue to use it in Mac OS X.
• Organize content that you use frequently: paragraphs for form letters, signatures, images, and graphics (headers and signatures) for faxes.
• Create Internet scrapbooks with visual web page bookmarks. When an image is dropped from Safari the title and URL of the web page and the link URL (if any) are captured.
• Store content related to particular projects: emails, web URLs, news stories, cartoons, music, digital photos, etc.
• Store and display statements and confirmations in PDF format that you receive from your bank or brokerage. When running under Panther even PDF content can be searched.
• Gather and organize project materials. Use the new slideshow feature to test alternative orders of presenting materials, then copy and paste or drag-and-drop content to word processing, image editing, and other applications to publish it.
With ScrapX 1.3.5 "promised files" are inserted into the scrapbook when images are dragged from Safari or other web browsers, and duplicate and redundant types are automatically stripped from new items. As a result, the sizes of items created by dragging from a web browser are reduced significantly.
Other ScrapX 1.3.5 enhancements include:
• The ability to export an item by holding down the "option" key as you drag it to the Finder.
• "Quick Memo Find,” which allows "on-the-fly" searches of the Memo field.
• A progress indicator for insertion of files.
• The ability to drag one or more images from iPhoto to a scrapbook.
• Automatic creation of Memos from the content of text items.
• Speed improvements resulting from elimination of memory leaks.
Development of version 1.3.6 is underway. This update will make it much simpler to open scrapbook content in apps where it can be modified. The new option-drag capability in v1.3.5 is a step in this direction, but v1.3.6 will be even better.
In addition, ScrapX 1.3.5 fixes a bug with searching PDF content and a bug with auto-saving when a PDF was the current item.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
ScrapX is $20.00 shareware
You are entitled to use this update at no additional cost. ScrapX 1.3.5 is available for download at http://www.aqueoussoftware.com/scrapx/download.lasso
You also can download just documentation from: http://www.aqueoussoftware.com/scrapx/support.html
Konfabulator 1.8.1 JavaScript Runtime Engine To Run Widget Files [OS 10.2 up]
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of Apple's Quartz rendering. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Mac OS X.
The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.
For the "skinning" crowd, Konfabulator is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.
New in this version:
• Reduced our memory footprint in Task Manager.
• Upgraded the URL object to support POSTing, outputting to a file and returning the HTTP response code (see the Release Notes).
• Made the Below window level stick to the desktop when choosing Show Desktop from the Task Bar.
• We now react properly to monitor configuration changes and move widgets appropriately. We also remember where they were per screen config.
• We now store our unzipped widgets in the local app data folder, not the system's temporary folder. This avoids the problems people experience when running temp file cleaners, essentially wiping out all the support files for a running widget.
• Fixed problem where click-through was not working. This meant you had to click twice if a widget was not already active.
• Redid CPU monitoring code to avoid issues with performance counters. It should work on all machines now.
• Attempted to solve the occasional spontaneous unregistering issue. If you do become unregistered after installing this release, enter your registration again. We have an alternate solution in place, so if you re-register, it will do it a bit differently and will hopefully be permanent.
• Added automatic check for updates, with ability to 'skip' a version.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Konfabulator is $25.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.konfabulator.com/downloads/
Pinch ol' Santa Perennial Favorite Game For The Christmas Season [OS X 10.1 up]
Pinch ol' Santa 2 is a small Christmas game made by SwordLord - the coding crew. It is Christmas Eve and the time is nearing 9 o' clock in the evening. There can only be seconds until Santa starts to deliver his parcels to the chimneys of your town.
You look through your window, out of your room at the roofs of a town somewhere in Switzerland. As you admire the lamps and the scenery in general, you see Santa. And there he is, running across that roof on the left of your window.
Looking at Santa you get an idea: Maybe if you pinch him now, he will lose a parcel or two which you then can take for yourself. You open the window and start to Pinch ol' Santa.
New in this version:
New time factor, new graphics and now running on all major platforms.
System requirements:
OS X 10.1 or later
It runs fine on a G4 processors or a Pentium running at at least 1 GHz (and subsequent hardware). If you happen to have a G3 or a slower Pentium, Pinch ol' Santa 2 will behave a bit hesitant but runs nevertheless.
Good sound system is optional but definitely worth it.
Pinch ol' Santa is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.swordlord.com/?go=posa.xml
MacGhostView 3.1 General Purpose PostScript & PDF Previewer [OS 8.6 up]
MacGhostView is a general purpose Postscript and PDF previewer for the Macintosh and is based on ghostscript 7.05. If a Postscript document conforms to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions, the pages of the document can be displayed in any order. The program includes installation and registration instructions.
Included with MacGhostView is macps2pdf, a Postscript to PDF converter based on ghostscript 8.00. Beginning with version 6.0 ghostscript is capable of embedding Type1 fonts in a PDF document, making it a viable alternative to Adobe's Distiller. Prior to 6.0 ghostscript could only convert Type1 fonts to bitmaps, resulting in PDF documents which displayed poorly in Acrobat Reader. Macps2pdf is really ghostscript 8.00 without any viewing capability. Experienced users of ghostscript can access the full conversion features of macps2pdf. Since most users will want to just convert Postscript to PDF and don't wish to learn the intricacies of ghostscript, I have made the ps to pdf conversion the default.
New in this version:
• When the user clicks the zoom control the preview window is resized to be the smallest window that fits on the computer screen and displays as much of the document page as possible.
• An obscure bug that could cause MacGhostView to crash has been fixed.
Product Requirements:
• PPC
• Mac OS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLib or
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
MacGhostView is a large program and can require huge amounts of RAM if you want to preview documents in color and at high resolution.
MacGhostView is $20.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.kiffe.com/macghostview.html
SnapNDrag 1.5.1 Effortless Screen Capture [OS 10.2 up]
SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.
Supports PNG and TIFF for times when image quality cannot be compromised. Or use JPEG with adjustable quality for smaller file sizes.
SnapNDrag is a fully-functional freeware. If you like SnapNDrag, consider upgrading to SnapNDrag Pro for even more features:
• Ability to scale down screenshots
• Global hot keys for quick access
• Option to turn off sponsor's message
New in this version:
• Cross-hair for capture by Selection now works across multiple screens
• Workaround an issue with EasyCrop not launching correctly when sending captured screen to it
• Note that this version introduces a small and hopefully unobtrusive sponsor's message at the bottom of the window. SnapNDrag Pro users can turn this message off in the preferences.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
SnapNDrag is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.yellowmug.com/snapndrag/
iCash X 2.2 Personal Finances And Money Manager
iCash is software intended to control your personal finances, keeping track of
incomes, expenses, credits, debts and Banks transactions for you. As simple as creating the accounts you need and move money between them! You don't even need to know about accounting or even care about it! Your finances depend largely on good organization that lets you know where your money comes from and to where it goes.
iCash is an easy-to-use, full featured and multi-purpose Personal Finance Manager tool for Macintosh and Windows intended to help you control all kinds of money issues. iCash can serve several small accounting needs for either private users, or clubs, associations, self-employed, small businesses or simply to be used at home, making keeping track of incomes, expenses and Banks transactions a snap. With a few clicks you can begin creating accounts and making transactions in minutes.
iCash is versatile and user-friendly. For this reason it doesn't use the principle of double-entry bookkeeping making it much easier to be used by people with very little or no accounting knowledge at all. Simply create accounts for all your expenses, incomes, Banks... and start moving money between them! iCash will then allow you to find out where all your money comes from and where it goes. All accounts are well organized according to user-defined categories and built-in types so reports can be tailored to include all records or only ones meeting specified criteria. iCash also allows you to have as many money manager documents as necessary so you can control almost anything from Clubs, associations, home and so on at the same time.
Available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
New in this version:
• It is now possible to customize transaction group comment.
• Text Import now supports encodings.
• Localized French, German and Spanish manuals.
• Added Swedish localization.
• Database operations are now twice as fast as before.
• Database schema update between versions has been optimized.
• Transaction printout now includes reconciled status.
• Query printout now includes reconciled status.
• It is now possible to save import preset changes.
• Account statement report printout now includes reconciled status.
• Query panel lets you display transactions as grouped or not.
• When the date of a transaction is changed the list is now re-sorted properly.
• Transaction breakdown quantity format problems on non-US systems.
• Several German and Swedish localization fixes.
iCash X is $24.90 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.maxprog.com/iCash.html
Charles W. Moore
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