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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a Enhanced Mozilla Email Client [OS X]
ScholarWord 1.1.4 Academic Writing Tool [OS X 10.1 up]
Tumult HyperEdit 1.0.2 HTML & PHP Editor With Live Preview Pane [OS 10.2 up]
iBackup 1.1.3 Scheduled Backup/Restore Tool For Files, Folders, Apps... [OS X 10.3 up]
FTPeel 1.1.4 FTP Client With Mirroring [OS 10.2 up]
Cyberduck 2.3.1 FTP and SFTP Browser [OS X 10.3 up]
Dock-It 2.0 Multi-Functional Launcher & Finder Enhancer [OS X 10.1 up]
FireFix 1.0.1 Download Client For FireFox Nightly Builds [OS X 10.1.5 up]
CaminoKnight 2.3.2 Auto Download For Camino Nightly Builds [OS X 10.1.5 up] [/url]
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a Enhanced Mozilla Email Client [OS X]
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.
In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:
• The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
• UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experience with specific features and enhancements that you need. Support for extensions. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
• A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
• An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convenient to add address book contacts to emails.
• Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
• Simplified preferences UI and menus.
• Footprint and performance improvements.
New in this version:
• Talkback is a part of the the builds for all 3 platforms. Talkback is a tool that generates crash report data which helps us measure the stability of the product and figure out where crashes are happening.
• Thunderbird 0.7 bits use the new Extension Manager developed for Firefox. When installing a theme or extension, it must be written to the new EM APIs that Ben Goodger has document for Firefox or it will not install.
• Static builds for all platforms. Yielding a smaller disk size and a really nice performance win across the board. OS X bits also use pre-binding now giving yet another big performance boost.
• Multiple Identity UI for creating multiple identities for a given account.
• New inline vCard UI
• New profile manager including new profile manager UI.
• Signature gets styled in the compose window with the same styles used when you view a signature in the message window.
• Color quoting for message qutoes.
• OS X fix for Thunderbird locking up when coming out of sleep mode (top 0.6 issue)
• OS X: if no Thunderbird windows are open and you click on the system dock icon, we re-open the main mail window. (top 0.6 issue)
• LDAP fix for users using LDAP version 2 servers. In 0.6 you could not access these servers without manually changing some preferences. Now if we don't detect version 3, we gracefully fall back and use version 2 (top 0.6 issue).
• The download more option in the spell checker dialog now takes you to a web page with various localized dictionaries.
• Junk mail fix where sometimes the junk mail filter would mark a message as junk but fail to move it to the Junk folder.
• Minor improvements to the junk mail algorithm.
• If you do a custom windows install with the windows installer you now see a screen which asks you if you want desktop/start bar/quick launch icons for the installation.
• Sorting is now supported in the news subscribe dialog.
• Opening a vCard attachment now opens the vCard internally in our addresss book UI instead of launching an external application.
• In the offline settings panel, some of the settings were not being saved (like the one for compacting a folder if it saves X KB"
• DOM Inspector is no longer part of the windows installer. It is still part of the full .zip build
• On Windows, Thunderbird properly handles mailto url clicks (from a browser or another app) that contain raw unencoded spaces.
• Continued IMAP improvements and bug fixes including a potential hang when reading imap over SSL.
• All of the 1.7 final bug fixes that weren't in 1.7 RC1 (which 0.6 was based on)
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
Mozilla Thunderbird is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
ScholarWord 1.1.4 Academic Writing Tool [OS X 10.1 up]
ScholarWord is a Multi-Platform, Microsoft Word integration that helps you write your papers faster and easier. ScholarWord accomplishes this by seamlessly integrating powerful tools and information into your writing environment.
ScholarWord was developed from the ground up to help all students. Your grade, writing ability, and assignment are irrelevant - ScholarWord can help you.
ScholarWord automatically formats MLA and APA Style citations. ScholarWord instantly formats and inserts these citations to your Work Cited page, and the program provides explanations and examples for citing sources in your text. ScholarWord even saves your citations so you can easily insert or modify the references in the future!
Writing Help
ScholarWord provides nearly thirty "paper guides" to help you understand, structure, and write any type of assignment. Our paper guides provide rich information on the assignment's Purpose & Objective, Style, Format, and Structure (i.e. Introduction, Body, and Conclusion).
Formatting Tools
ScholarWord's formatting capabilities reach beyond citations. With ScholarWord, you can also develop perfect cover pages in seconds. ScholarWord even remembers your information so you don't have to enter it more than once.
Editing Tools
ScholarWord provides explanations and examples of "common errors" that can easily add up to a full letter grade off your paper.
Other Tools for the Writer
Differentiate & authenticate your paper with academic inserts like our Honor Code and Confidentiality Notice.
New in this version:
ScholarWord Now includes writing and formatting tools for quick and easy APA Style compliance.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
ScholarWord is $19.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.xumbrus.com/product_scholarword_NN4.htm
Tumult HyperEdit 1.0.2 HTML & PHP Editor With Live Preview Pane [OS 10.2 up]
Tumult HyperEdit is a lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type. HyperEdit breaks the tedious cycle of writing html, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser by combining the writing phase with the viewing phase. This clarifies the effects of your changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast.
HyperEdit can be used for:
• Testing HTML to make sure it looks exactly as you want it.
• Testing and executing PHP code.
• Writing forum, blog, or journal entries.
• Interactively trying out CSS code.
• Running and debugging Javascript.
• Creating whole websites.
Main Features:
• Preview pane quickly renders HTML, CSS, Javascript, or PHP as typed.
• Live HTML W3C-based validation with red underlines and an error drawer
• Code Snippets palette allows commonly used code and tags (open and close) to be saved and recalled using custom key stroke combinations
• Syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript with custom colors and fonts
• Files attached to the table in the Linked Filed drawer will cause a refresh of the web view when they are saved.
• Javascript code evaluator.
• View HTML source code generated by the PHP engine
• Regular expression find and replace (thanks to OgreKit)
• Option to not cache data, so externally changed files are reloaded every time.
• Style sheet menu allows pages to use different styles
New in this version:
• Much improved stability and many bugs fixed
• Fixed bug in syntax highlighting where colors would be shifted over, or incorrect
• Command-Shift-Right/Left is restored to its usual purpose
• Opens files properly from dragging onto the dock or application icon
• Does not use package installer anymore and overall size decreased
• Individual editor background color can be changed by dragging a color swatch into the line number gutter
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Safari 1.0
Tumult HyperEdit is $19.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/
iBackup 1.1.3 Scheduled Backup/Restore Tool For Files, Folders, Apps... [OS X 10.3 up]
iBackup is a simple to use OS X (10.3) scheduled backup and restore tool.
Features:
• Files
• Folders
• Applications
• Application Settings
• Adress Book
• iCal
• iChat
• Keychains
• System Preferences
• Safari
New in this version:
• Add iBackup to Startup Items
• scheduled backup
• set max number of backup folder
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
iBackup is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.grapefruit.ch/grapefruit/iBackup/
FTPeel 1.1.4 FTP Client With Mirroring [OS 10.2 up]
Developers' comments:
There are a lot of FTP clients for the Mac. None, however, worked as we wanted FTP to work, and that's why we created FTPeel. We spend 50% of our time in traditional FTP clients switching to the right directory (or site), so we created the MagicMirror. We were annoyed with how complex bookmark management was, so we have a single checkbox. We were annoyed at the choices available for navigation, so we created an FTP client that switches seamlessly between column and list view. We like to view files in a variety of ways, so we put in a wealth of preferences (and a quick filter box too).
There's a reason we say that FTPeel is Simply Powerful FTP.
We use FTP apps too! We spent 50% of our time using our FTP appliations simply navigating to the right directory. Accidentally upload over "index.html" in the wrong directory? Oops! "Mirroring" has been a feature of nearly every FTP app to hit the market, but they force you to maintain identical mirrors. That's not always practical! FTPeel's "MagicMirror" elevates mirroring to the next level. It works quite simply:
1. Define a local folder as a site root.
2. Define a remote server as the mirror.
3. Drag any files you want mirrored to FTPeel's dock icon!
That's it! FTPeel automagically creates any intermediate directories, mirroring your local site with the remote one. Don't switch between directories. Don't even switch between servers! Just drag any file for which you've defined a mirror to the FTPeel icon and let the MagicMirror feature do the work for you.
MagicMirror leaves you in control without requiring you to do any work. Avoid lengthy "synchronization" processes that upload 200 MB of Photoshop documents you don't want on your server. You drag, you drop, and you reload your site to see the changes. MagicMirror is mirroring the way it should be - fast, painless, and obedient.
Many FTP clients on the Mac show you both the local and the remote files in one window. While they may call this "standard," we call it clutter. Many FTP clients on the Mac give you only a list view of your files. We give you two: list and column. Many FTP clients mirror entire directory structures. Many FTP clients lack pervasive AppleScriptability. Many FTP clients lack the eye-popping sizzle of FTPeel.
FTPeel is a fresh take on FTP. We've done away with the crufty "local files." We've included column view. We've built an incredible MagicMirror feature, included deep AppleScriptability, and gorgeous icons.
MagicMirror is a great feature, but it's not all we've got packed inside FTPeel! Here's our Top Ten, nine of which aren't MagicMirror <grin>:
1. Written with Cocoa for a smooth, rich, fully-featured Mac OS X experience.
2. MagicMirror saves you time and frustration.
3. Multiple views - column and list - allow you to see your data as you want to see it.
4. "Edit in External Application" supports both BBEdit and PageSpinner.
5. It's freakin' fast!
6. Download and upload queues ease server burden works nicely with servers that limit connections.
7. Bookmark and Keychain support allow you to quickly connect to servers without repeatedly typing passwords.
8. Multi-threading support allows multiple tasks to run at once, and makes the program run faster on computers with two or more processors.
9. Integrates with Mac OS X. Set FTPeel as your FTP helper app and never worry about Finder hangs, crashes, or the inability to upload again!
10. AppleScriptability, baby!
New in this version:
Fixes several issues and adds some improvements.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or later
FTPeel is $19.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/products/ftpeel/
Cyberduck 2.3.1 FTP and SFTP Browser [OS X 10.3 up]
Cyberduck is an open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licenced under the GPL. It has been built from the ground up with usability in mind, having the same consistent graphical user interface for both SFTP and FTP browsing. Multiple connections are supported. Drag and drop is supported consequently for transferring files between server and client. A transfer queue keeps track of the pending file transfers and supports resuming of both downloads and uploads. A simple bookmark manager ensures manageability. Core system technologies such as the Keychain and Rendezvous are supported. Cyberduck integrates seamlessly with external editors such as SubEthaEdit and BBEdit. Cyberduck has been translated into numerous languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Finnish.
New in this version:
• Chinese (Simplified) Localization
• Rendezvous services in Bookmark menu
• Upper level directories had to be listed first when uploading files
• Changes to bookmarks won't be saved
• Preference item to disable the update check
• Toolbar item to open downloaded files with default application
• Graceful application termination (Properly ask to close all connections and then quit)
• Remembering choosen directories in open and save dialogs
For more information, visit:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Cyberduck is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://icu.unizh.ch/~dkocher/cyberduck/
Dock-It 2.0 Multi-Functional Launcher & Finder Enhancer [OS X 10.1 up]
Dock-It is a multifunctional dock and Finder enhancer for the Mac OS X operating system. We decided to take a different path in regards to Dock-Its feature set. Many of our competitors clutter their offerings. Dock-It is simple and to the point. It has everything one would look for in a dock application and nothing else. The end result is an easy to use, yet powerful alternative to the competition. Major Features include :
• Create more than one dock.
• Docks can be used to hold files, folders, applications, scripts etc...
• Dock-It shelf space can be used to streamline drag and drop of files/folders.
• Dock-It shelf space can be used to streamline copy and pasting of text clippings and URLs.
• Streamline drive access by placing all mounted drives in a dock. No more moving windows just to get at your desktop to open your hard drive.
• Navigate folder contents without opening a single finder window.
• Works with your favorite "Get Info" utility - you aren't locked into one.
• Multiple Monitor aware.
• Docks can be customized with custom colors or background images and transparency.
• Built in Applets
° Preference Applet - fast access to all your system preferences.
° Clipping Applet - Once place for all your image and text clippings.
° Clock Applet - Time in the dock.
° Shelf Applet - Pause complex Finder file operations
• Backward compatible with all your favorite Mac OS X docklings
New in this version:
• Added support for Mac OS X docklings
• Media enabled docks no longer show twice ( ie flicker )
• Added support for changing label size
• Reorganized Dock editor UI
° Removed Skin tab
° Moved skin items to Advanced tab
° Removed Shelf preference from advanced tab - functionality replaced by Shelf applet
• Pressing F11 ( Expose ) no longer hides dock windows
• Added Clock applet
• Added Clipping applet
• Added Shelf space applet
• Added Preferences applet
• Many internal bug fixes and speedups
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Dock-It is $12.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/dockit.html
FireFix 1.0.1 Download Client For FireFox Nightly Builds [OS X 10.1.5 up]
FireFix automatically updates Firefox to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.
• Downloads Firefox nightly build from FTP server
• Unzips the downloaded file and mounts the disk image
• Creates a backup archive of the original application on disk
• Copies the new nightly build to its default location
• Optionally launches the new version of Firefox
• Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
• Option to show the change log for past week
• Makes backups of bookmarks and cookie files
New in this version:
• new icon (thanks to Jon Hicks)
• now completely ejects the Firefox disk image
• launch of Firefox on quit now works under 10.3.4
Note that FireFix looks for the latest nightly version of Firefox in the latest trunk directory:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/Firefox-mac.dmg.gz
However, as of this writing, the latest nightlies are only updated in:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.9/Firefox-mac.dmg.gz
So you may want to change the default URL in FireFix's Preferences pane to the latter until the updates resume in the default location
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher (including OS X 10.3)
Applescript 1.8.3 or higher
BSD subsystem installed (default OS X install)
FireFix is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/
CaminoKnight 2.3.2 Auto Download For Camino Nightly Builds [OS X 10.1.5 up]
CaminoKnight automatically updates Camino to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.
• Downloads Camino nightly build from FTP server
• Unzips the downloaded file and mounts the disk image
• Creates a backup archive of the original application on disk
• Copies the new nightly build to its default location
• Optionally installs icon themes
• Launches the new version of Camino
• Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
• Option to show the change log for past week
• Option to show Camino's Read Me and Release Notes
• Makes backups of bookmarks and cookie files
New in this version:
• Now completely ejects the disk image
• Launch Camino on quit now works again under OS X 10.3.4
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher (including OS X 10.3)
BSD subsystem installed (default OS X install)
CaminoKnight is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/
Charles W. Moore
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