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Captain FTP 4.0 unveils New FTP Concept [OS X 10.3 up]
Quicksilver 1.0b35 launcher And More [OS X 10.3 up]
TextMate Text Editor - Code And Markup Brought Into The 21st Century [OS X 10.3 up]
Text Bucket 1.5.0 Persistent Clipboard To Manage Frequently Used Text [OS 10.2 up]
ImportServer Email Import Utility [OS 10.2.6 up]
CopyPaste + yType 2.5.3 Multiple Clipboard, Type Accelerator, Inline Calc [OS 10.3 up]
Scriboard 1.0.1 Draws On The Desktop, Good For Presentations [OS X 10.3 up]
Fire 1.5.1 Instant Messenger: AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Rendezvous [OS 10.2 up] [/url]
Captain FTP 4.0 unveils New FTP Concept [OS X 10.3 up]
Xnet Communications today announces the new release of its very first Cooperative FTP Client for Mac - Captain FTP Version 4.0, the first FTP Peer-to-Peer implementation for Mac on the market
Captain FTP 4.0 is the very first FTP Client to allow local network FTP users to share files directly between each other. The challenge behind this technology is to provide users with a platform to share their work, and collaborate on projects before their work is published on a remote FTP Server. As FTP is considered to be the most effective way to distribute files over the Internet, why not take it further and allow users to connect each other?
This requires a new approach, with the address book divided into separate parts, which resulted in the creation of the Public Address Book consisting of local Network users, Private FTP entries, and Public FTP entries that can be shared to share files, but only with users authorized and approved by the host.
This innovative solution also requires a new interface to facilitate FTP session management, which has led to the development of the tabbed interface supporting multiple FTP connections, allowing users to open multiple Tabs (each tab a separate FTP session) in a single browser window, or both browser windows (left and right).
Captain FTP 4.0 also has many other enhancements such as built-in file viewers for movies, sounds, pictures, PDF, a new browser column to show file attributes, and improved file/folder synchronization.
New in this version:
• Captain to Captain Direct Transfer - collaborative workgroup file-sharing for authorised LAN users.
• Graphical Tabbed Interface - incredible flexibility with tab to tab transfers, open new tabs for each new FTP session, and open as many as is needed in a single browser window.
• Public Address Book - local Network users, Public FTP entries, Private FTP entries, that can be shared with authorised LAN users.
• Internal viewers for movie, picture, sound and PDF
• Enhancements:
• New Browser Column to show file attributes
• Enhanced Synchronization module with visual browser
• Transfer Manager supports Accelerated Segmented Download-faster transfer with the Transfer Manager
• Main buttons NOW have configurable functions
• Key authentication for SFTP sessions
• Auto expanding folders during drag'n'drop process
• Make alias - aliases are displayed with an arrow icon
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Captain FTP is a shareware product and its license key costs $25. However, for those who have purchased Upgrade Protection, Captain FTP 4.0 the newest upgrade is FREE of charge. Users of previous generations without Upgrade Protection may purchase the Upgrade at a discounted price.
Upgrade Protection provides the user with all updates and upgrades for 12 months from date of purchase. For more information about Upgrade Protection, please see Purchasing Guide: http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/register/guide.php?lang=en
Similar to other shareware products Captain FTP is distributed only electronically and you can find it on versiontracker.com or macupdate.com under following links:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12941 http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6986
For more information, visit:
http://www.captainftp.com
or
http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/
Quicksilver 1.0b35 launcher And More [OS X 10.3 up]
Quicksilver is an evolving framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of personal data.
Discussion Forums - http://forums.blacktree.com/viewforum.php?f=8
Bug Reports - http://bugs.blacktree.com
Documentation - http://docs.blacktree.com
New in this version:
• Fixes install links, notifications, and other scripting issues.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Quicksilver is donationware
For more information, visit:
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
TextMate Text Editor - Code And Markup Brought Into The 21st Century [OS X 10.3 up]
TextMate attempts to bring Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike. With a wealth of exclusive features like tabs, foldings, and macros, TextMate is well ahead of other native, graphical editors on OS X — and you don't have to sell your bones to afford it.
Whether you're a programmer or a designer, the production of code and markup is hard work. Without an editor dedicated to the task, it's also often cumbersome, overwhelming, and repetitive. Especially when you're dealing with a lot of files at once — like most projects do. TextMate puts you back in control, reduces the mental overhead, and turns manual work into something the computer does.
Before you can get any work done, you need to be on top of your artifacts, such as stylesheets, includes, libraries, and application code. By arranging your files in an outline that follows the existing directory structure, it's no longer necessary to switch back and forth between Finder and editor to locate the next thing you need to work on.
The file outline is automatically kept up to date with changes occurring on the file system, so if you have a build script or generator that sprinkles files across multiple directories, they're instantly available in the outline.
You can also move files from one directory to another in the outline and the change is reflected on the file system. Just as you can easily add new files to any directory you select and they'll be placed as you'd expect.
Once you've found the files you want, it's incredibly easy to jump between them using tabs that can be reordered as you see fit. Your new-found overview allows for a greater number of files to be open at the same time — without constantly resorting to ExposĂ©, minimizing, or other window managing techniques for the big picture.
Each time you copy something, it is thrown onto the stack, so all previous clips still exist. By holding down shift (⇧) when you paste, you go one step back on this stack, so you can easily do multiple cuts and paste them again, or you can open the clipboard history window to inspect the stack.
With foldings you can collapse method definitions in your class files or tables and divs in your markup. That way you only get the detailed view of the active segment while the rest is available at a glance.
The foldings automatically appear following a specification in the syntax files, so all you have to do is decide what to keep open and what to close.
Macros: Record and replay Whenever you find yourself repeating the same text or transformation, you have a good candidate for a macro. Macros let you record just about any editing task you perform, including piping the selection through a unix command, performing regular expression replaces, or just plain and simple movement of the insertion point.
Recordings are activated with menu items (or their key equivalents) and the recorded macro can be saved for later use and even be given an arbitrary key equivalent to recall it. A powerful way to extend the basic functionality of TextMate.
Expand triggers to full snippets Snippets allow you to quickly insert text you type a lot. In this text you can embed placeholders (with default values) for where the insertion point should move to when pressing tab.
A snippet can either be inserted from the menu, or simply by entering the "trigger" and pressing tab, so e.g. typing "nsA" and pressing tab could insert "NSMutableArray* array = [NSMutableArray array]" and leave the former "array" selected (the placeholder).
In the end it's all about the tactile experience. An editor needs to have a good fit. By going with Apple's Cocoa framework, but avoiding the basic NSTextView that most other Cocoa-editors on OS X uses, we've done our utmost to make TextMate feel good without compromising on the features.
With its Aqua GUI, UNIX underpinnings and vast customization possibilities, TextMate raises the bar for native text editors by offering features such as:
• folding of text blocks,
• recordable macros,
• snippets with dynamic content and tab-able placeholders,
• open files in tabs,
• column selection/typing,
• project management with file outline,
• smart-typing,
• extensive shell integration,
New in this version:
File chooser inspired by Quicksilver, column typing for lines with variable length, bundle editor which allow most actions related to bundles to be done from within TextMate, etc.
New in TextMate 1.0.1
New look with "real" tabs
The tabs actually looks like tabs now, the status bar had a facelift, file icons are prettier. Font rendering had a welcome touch too.
Support for ~30 languages
We've added a ton of syntax highlight definitions for languages such as Perl, Python, LaTeX, C#, and many more. We've also included bundles with macros, snippets, and commands for many languages.
More power to snippets
Embed shell commands in snippets and have commands executed to insert snippets when dragging e.g. images to html documents (to insert an <img> tag with correct width and height filled in)
Close to a hundred changes
We've fixed many, many minor issues, bugs, and annoyances that we've had reported since release.
Product Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3
TextMate is $49 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://macromates.com/
Text Bucket 1.5.0 Persistent Clipboard To Manage Frequently Used Text [OS 10.2 up]
Tired of having lots of little text clippings of semi-frequently used snippets of text cluttering up your desktop?
Enter Text Bucket. Just press your hotkey combo (command-option-control-B by default, but user configurable) to bring up the window.
Text Bucket is a background application that provides quick, centralized access to frequently used bits of text (up to 260 items!) via a simple hotkey combination. Think of it as BBEdit's glossary, but for your entire system. Hit the hotkey combo, press the number of the slot containing the text you need, and the window vanishes, placing your text on the clipboard for you, ready for use.
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 v1.1 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
There is extensive help (along with tutorials, faqs, and walkthroughs) built into the application. Just open the app, and click the "Help" button to find out more.
New in this version:
• Added drag and drop support to and from the slots
• Added edit buttons to the slots (you can still click-to-edit on empty slots)
• Label names are now editable
• Labels in the slot editor and label editor now stay in sync
• If a label is deleted, all slots with that label will lose it
• Now properly remembers window position
• Various internal improvements
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Text Bucket is $5.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bassetsoftware.com/osx/textbucket/
ImportServer Email Import Utility [OS 10.2.6 up]
ImportServer helps you import email in standard mbox format into email applications that otherwise cannot. Specifically, the ImportServer acts like an email server that holds all your old email, ready to be downloaded as if you were checking email for the first time.
Email programs often can only import 1 or 2 different formats, and even then, sometimes they don't do it very accurately. So, how do you get your old email into your new email program? If your new email program uses the standard mbox format, then it's usually as simple as using Emailchemy and copying the mbox files to some directory. However, many email programs use closed, proprietary formats, and when these programs don't have a universal import facility, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to import your old email.
ImportServer bypasses the import procedures by hosting your old email on a local, secure email server. You then "import" your old email by telling your new email program to download mail from the ImportServer. All your old email will appear in your new email program, with all the correct formatting, dates, and attachments.
New in this version:
First official release.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher
Java 1.4.1 or higher
ImportServer is $10.00 shareware
ImportServer is free for purchasers of Emailchemy, with no separate registration required.
Otherwise, ImportServer will run as a fully-functional demo, with a limitation of 10 emails per mailbox, until a license is purchased.
For more information, visit:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/importserver/index.html
CopyPaste + yType 2.5.3 Multiple Clipboard, Type Accelerator, Inline Calc [OS 10.3 up]
CopyPaste is the original, one and only award winning multiple clipboard editor and archival utility. Along with iKey and iClock, CopyPaste it is one of the 3 essential utilities for OS X.
CopyPaste is essential for beginners, writers, editors, graphic designers, lawyers, students, home businesses, digital photographers, anyone who uses the clipboard.
CopyPaste is a digital hub for clipboard material and many other kinds of data. It is easy to use, saves time and allows you to do less and accomplish more. Try it and see how critical a clipboard manager is for OS X.
Once upon a time operating systems had no interapplication communication. Then along came the Mac and one of its incredible features was the clipboard which allowed you to copy an item from one application then open another and paste. That was revolutionary in 1985 but now it is the next century and copying and pasting in the Mac OS has not evolved any further - even in the modern OS X. How many times have you found yourself switching back and forth between applications copying one item at a time, wishing that you could copy not just one but two or more items at a time?
With CopyPaste you can do this with ease! Multiple clipboards are now accessible via menu command, keyboard ( C and a number between 0-9) or drag and drop. The previous copy ability and the normal clipboard is still available but now instead of just one clipboard you have a Clip Set of ten; and after that an unlimited number of sets of ten clipboards. But there is more...
Have you ever wanted to view and edit the clipboard? Does the idea of saving all your clipboards and any text or pictures thru restarts sound useful? Did you ever wish you could get back something you cut from a document yesterday? Have you ever want to forward an email that contained lots of HTML or garbage characters as a clean clear message? CopyPaste gives you the solution to all these questions but has many more features some of which are listed below.
FEATURES
Clipboard and Text Tools
• Multiple (up to 100) clipboards available by hotkey, menu and palette.
• Save all clipboards thru restarts. - Clipboard recorder maintains a stack of all recent regular copies.
• Clipboard editor which also is an excellent word processor.
• Fastest spell checker in the world highlights every mistake in a document.
• Calculator that works on any equation typed within any application.
• Clipboard Archives which allow appending text via a copy to one file.
• Tools to act on clipboard data in dozens of useful ways that save time like: - Email extractor which grabs email addresses from large amounts of text - Url extractor grabs url's from large chunks of text.
• Text Cleaner which cleans/formats text in many ways. - and many other unique and useful tools.
• The palettes allow viewing the contents of any clipboard.
• The clipboard editor allows immediate editing of any clipboard.
• See thumbnails of the pictures on the clipboard.
• Ability to create word lists out of a document or many documents.
• Browse and act on folders or files with the CopyPaste tools.
Conversion Tools.
• Encrypt/Decrypt tool to protect text that you email to others.
• Find in clipboard not just one found item but all highlighted at once.
• Fuzzy search to find many items based on a close approximation.
• Print any clipboard.
• Drag and drop any clipboard between palettes and to/from applications
• Contextual menus to give easy access to the clipboards from anywhere
• Open text, pictures, pdf, image and many other file types
• Easy ways to organize and make available all the clipboard data for reuse.
CopyPaste's main features can save you minutes in copying and pasting each time all day long but the tools built into CopyPaste might save you hours of your precious time. One example is the powerful Email Extractor Tool (in CopyPaste X it is within the Create Word List Tool). Say you copy 10 pages of text containing text and email addresses and the email addresses have <anAddress@someplace.com> backets around each one. You just want a list of the email addresses with none of the other <> or text. Copying out all the email addresses would be tedious time consuming work. With CopyPaste it is instantaneous just click the Email Extractor Tool and instantly you get a return delimited list of the emails saving you hours. What is your time worth? The same tool can be used to extract URL's or other word patterns.
New in this version:
• Corrections of the behavior of yType.
• Many corrections to the English Spellchecker file
• Many Additions to the English AutoCorrectorData file thanks to user input
• Bugfixes in the Editor which led to crashes
• Speed up the Editor.
• Auto Corrections can be turned off temporally by pressing any of the modifier keys (i.e. shift, option, ctrl, capslock, command)
• Languages in yType can be switched by hotkey combination. Press command-Y-# to select the language. Numbering starts with 1 at the bottom of the language menu.
• Two new hotkey are introduced to show the palettes. The Clip Sets palette is shown by ctrl-alt-command-c, and the Clip Recorder palette is shown by ctrl-alt-command-v.
• a new command to import TypeIt4Me data bases is located in the "File" menu under "Edit Dictionaries"
• A new icon button in the floating toolbar to show and hide invisible characters.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
CopyPaste + yType is $30.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste/
Scriboard 1.0.1 Draws On The Desktop, Good For Presentations [OS X 10.3 up]
Scriboard is an application which allows you to draw on your Macintosh desktop: windows, Dock, menus, and floating pallets... It is a tool which can be very useful when doing video-projection to quickly highlight some of the projected elements. Scriboard has four markers with customizable colors. Each marker also has three line weights as well as four different levels of opacity. It is also possible to place text labels. Scriboard is simply activated by a simple keys combination. Scriboard also supports multiple monitors.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Scriboard is $20 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.galaxi.org/Scriboard/Scriboard.dmg
Fire 1.5.1 Instant Messenger: AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Rendezvous [OS 10.2 up]
Fire is a free Instant Messaging client for Mac OS X. It supports the seven most popular Instant Messaging services:
• AIM®
• ICQ®
• irc
• Jabber
• MSN®
• Yahoo! Messenger®
• Apple Rendezvous (New!)
New in this version:
This update to improves compatibility with 10.2 systems, and fixes some problems with the following areas:
• MSN not working on 10.2
• Single Chat Window Mode unavailable
• Zero Height For Text entry area
• Jabber Buddies won't show as online
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Fire is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://fire.sourceforge.net/
Charles W. Moore
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