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Shareware Beat - Monday, February 7, 2005
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xGestures 1.3 Mouse Gestures Suite For Mac OS X [OS X 10.3 up]
iSnip 1.2.1 One-click Access To Your Most Used Text Clippings [OS X 10.3 up]
PlaintextPaste 0.2 Adds ''Paste Plain Text'' Item To The Edit Menu [OS X 10.3 up]
Canada Screensaver 2.0 Pictures Of Canada [OS X]
Sunbird 0.2 iCal-like Calendar Based On Mozilla Calendar [OS X]
Blaze 2.5 Text Editor [OS 10.2 up]
Assignment Notebook 1.0.2 Homework Organizer [ OS 8 up/ OS X]
Meteorologist 1.4.3 Weather Access From The MenuBar or Dock [OS 10.2 up]
Mac Messenger 3.5.1 MSN Chat Client [Mac OS 9.x/ Mac OS X 10.0 up]
Teleporter X 1.0 File Transfer Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Avenir 2.1 Suite Of Tools For Writers, Primarily Novelists [OS X 10.3 up]
iPhoto Album Extractor 1.0v2 Extract Albums From Corrupt iPhoto Libraries [OS X 10.3 up] [/url]
xGestures 1.3 Mouse Gestures Suite For Mac OS X [OS X 10.3 up]
Mouse gestures are a neat user interface gimmick that allow you to perform common functions using quick mouse movements. They made their big break in web browsers such as Opera and Mozilla, though I can't say as of now who exactly pioneered them, since they have been around for a while in various forms. The basic idea, though, is that you can perform certain functions quickly and easily by combining mouse movement and pressing a mouse button. For example, if you wanted to "gesture left," it could be done by holding down the right mouse button, moving the mouse to the left, and then releasing the right mouse button. Or gesture up and right, by holding the right mouse button, moving the mouse up and then to the right, and then releasing the button. There are also "rocker" gestures that are performed by holding the right mouse button and then pressing the left button, or vise versa. It's a very quick, easy, and convenient way for interacting with your computer.
xGestures is a shareware program for Mac OS X 10.3 that allows you to use mouse gestures in all aspects of your Macintosh computer. You can define gestures for individual programs, or for the whole computer, and map them to useful functions like closing or minimizing windows, switching or launching applications, picking menu items or performing keystrokes, triggering Exposé, and much more!
It gives you a lot of control over how your computer will manage mouse gestures. You can specify global gestures that will apply to all applications, but you can also specify that certain applications shouldn't use global gestures. Also, if there's a program that you don't want gestures enabled in, possibly because you need to use your mouse and all of its buttons normally, you can disable gestures in that application and it will continue to function normally. Better still, you can enable gestures in a program without changing the functionality of any of the mouse buttons, allowing xGestures mouse gestures to be available in a program that already has its own mouse gestures, like Opera or Mozilla!
If you have a mouse with multiple buttons, you can specify that the third or fourth button be used to perform gestures if you want the right mouse button's functionality to remain the same. Also, you can specify a combination of modifier keys that need to be pressed in order for a gesture to happen, so that it's possible to perform mouse gestures even with a one button mouse.
The program works by installing a kernel extension that allows certain mouse buttons to remapped. By default, the extension is disabled and will not affect your system unless activated by the xGestures program. When xGestures is launched, it will then begin monitoring your mouse movements, and will perform specified actions and a mouse gesture is performed.
xGestures is known to be currently incompatible with some Kensington Mice and Wacom Tablets. The way the drivers for these particular products work unfortunately prohibits xGestures from being able to receive mouse events. Concerning Kensington Mice, users have reported that xGestures won't respond to the upper mouse buttons (i.e. buttons 3 and up), though the left and right buttons still function as normal. I am currently trying to fix this problem and hope to get it soon, but don't hold your breath just yet.
xGestures is currently entirely compatible with the following software: DoubleCommand, Sidetrack, USB Overdrive. (In USB Overdrive, be sure to set the gesturing mouse button to "click nth button" where n is the number of that button.)
xGestures is partially compatible with uControl. The features of uControl that affect the mouse currently do not work, but all other functions of uControl do work. If you want the functionality of both xGestures and uControl, consider getting Sidetrack, which is by the same author of uControl, provides the same functionality (and more), and is compatible with xGestures.
New in this version:
• "Apply to window where gesture occurred" feature added for hiding/quitting applications.
• Compose email works with most email clients now
• Can add MS Office applications in pref pane now
• Menu item gestures perform better
• Bug fix: some keystrokes shouldn't be delayed anymore
• Bug fix: defining keystroke gestures works better now
• Various UI bug fixes concerning pref pane
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
xGestures is $5.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://stout.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/xGestures/
iSnip 1.2.1 One-click Access To Your Most Used Text Clippings [OS X 10.3 up]
Writing a paper and wishing you had a bigger clipboard? Researching something online and having an endless stream of text clips to work with?
iSnip is a new freeware application that allows users to manage and edit a collection of text clippings that can be easily accessed from a system wide menu. iSnip includes the ability to create a snippet from the clipboard contents using a global hotkey, inserting or copying of the selected snippet, instant filtering of your snippet collection, full drag and drop organization, integrated software updating, import and export of the users snippet database, and more.
iSnip is the easiest way to manage and access your text snippets. iSnip lives in the menu bar, right next to the Time, Volume, and similar menus. From the iSnip menu, you have easy access to any of your text clippings. There's a Snippet Manager window that allows you to organize and modify your snippets with ease. Once you're done, just go to the menu, select a snippet, and it's inserted directly into the frontmost application or copied to the clipboard! It's that easy.
Redefine Your Workflow Do you have a section of text you need constantly? How about 3 or 4 or 5? Whichever clipping you need is just a click away, instantly accessible from any program. iSnip lets you work faster than you ever have before.
iSnip will work with any application. Just select a snippet and it's added right where you're working. It's just that easy.
iSnip allows you to quickly find any snippet you're looking for. Just type in what you're looking for, and it finds it right away.
iSnip lets you organize your snippets how you like. You can have as many categories as you want, each containing as many snippets as you'd like.
All you have to do is select a snippet from the global menu, and it's automatically added to the frontmost application or the clipboard.
Built For OS X 100% Cocoa. 100% Mac. iSnip blends into your Mac perfectly, allowing you to work the way you've always wanted to.
iSnip now has a handy "Print" button, so you can take your snippets with you wherever you go: to work, a golf course, a football stadium. Snippets to go
iSnip 1.2 introduces Clipboard History, so if you copy something, then forget about it and copy something else, never fear! Your text has already been saved for you in the History folder.
New in this version:
• You can now drag selections of text or text clipping onto folders to add them as snippets inside the target folder
• You can now disable clipboard history
• Pressing Command-P when the snippet manager has focus now properly prints your snippets
• When dragging a new snippet into the item list the snippet pane now updates properly
• When removing folders or items the snippet pane now updates properly
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or later
iSnip is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.isnip.net/
PlaintextPaste 0.2 Adds ''Paste Plain Text'' Item To The Edit Menu [OS X 10.3 up]
PlaintextPaste is a very simple SIMBL plugin that accomplishes only one thing: it adds a "Paste Plain Text" item to the Edit menu of all Cocoa applications. Normally the Paste menu item will preserve all colors, styles, fonts and formatting of so-called "rich text." However, sometimes, you don't want all this formatting, especially when copying text from the web. Thus, "Paste Plain Text."
New in this version:
• Adds 3 new menu items: Copy Plain Text, Paste 7-bit ASCII, and Swap Selection with Clipboard
• Re-enables the "Special Characters" menu item
• Allows you to easily prevent PlaintextPaste from loading in certain applications
• Allows you to enable or disable menu items at will
• Allows you to put the new menu items in a submenu
• Does not add keyboard shortcuts when the application already uses that shortcut
Installing PlaintextPaste is pretty easy. Just run the installer program provided in the zip file. A file called "PlaintextPaste.bundle" will be installed in your /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins folder, and SIMBL itself is installed in /Library/InputManagers. Your applications will be left untouched, so if you ever have problems with PlaintextPaste, uninstalling it is as easy as deleting the files mentioned above.
To configure PlaintextPaste, open the System Preferences application, and select SparkPlug. Once the SparkPlaug pane opens, select PlaintextPaste from the list on the left. You can view help by clicking on the "Help" tab, or configure which applications PlaintextPaste opens in with the "Applications" tab. Select which menu items are enabled by selecting the "Settings" tab.
To uninstall PlaintextPaste, open the installer (if you saved it) and click the uninstall button, or simply delete /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PlaintextPaste.bundle and optionally the entire /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL directory.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (Do not install on earlier versions, it WILL crash!)
PlaintextPaste is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.pozytron.com/plaintextpaste
Canada Screensaver 2.0 Pictures Of Canada [OS X]
A very common OS X Screensaver as Apple makes them with most beautiful pictures of Canada.
New in this version:
New are the pictures in this screensaver. Previous Canada Screensaver Module has been downloaded more than 5400 times now. If you liked version 1.0. You will absolutely like Canada Screensaver 2.0
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10 or higher
Canada Screensaver is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/pnut/downloads/Canada2.dmg
DisplayConfigX 1.04 Refresh Rate & Resolution Configuration Tool [OS 10.2 up]
Your monitor flickers, stressing your eyes? The usual resolutions aren't enough? Then this program is probably what you need.
Mac OS X provides only rather few resolutions and often only at refresh rates below 100Hz. With this program you can adjust your Mac to optimally match your monitor. You get arbitrary resolutions at as high refresh rates as your monitor supports. Without registration only low to mid size resolutions are supported.
New in this version:
• Verified compatibility with Mac mini.
• Allows to use the test screen feature without administrator password (to check displays in a shop).
• Allows to import the currently active timing (and shows its details).
• Added a hint about how to manually remove the settings.
• Rewrote japanese documentation.
System requirements:
System:
• Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x (10.3.x or better recommended)
• PowerMac G3, G4, G4 dual, G5, G5 dual, Mac mini
• PowerBook G4 (external monitor connector)
• iMac G5 (with mirror patch)
• eMac (no big gain, though)
• NOT SUPPORTED: PowerBook G3, iMac CRT version, iBook
Graphics card:
• ATI Radeon, Rage Pro 128 (apparently not all Rage Pro 128 versions work)
• NVIDIA FX, FX Go, 4MX (2MX seems to require 10.3.x)
• others, if sufficiently integrated in MacOSX (old NDRV style drivers won't work).
• NOT SUPPORTED: ATI Rage, Rage Mobility, Rage Pro (drivers lack required features).
Monitor:
• Analog multi-sync monitor, TFT, HDTV (given adequate connectors)
• VGA or BNC, DVI connector
• Monitor with automatic frequency check recommended
• Supports analog and digital projectors, HDTV, LCD/TFT displays and fixed frequency monitors
• NOT SUPPORTED: TV output (svideo), interlaced timings, composite sync or sync on green
DisplayConfigX is $12.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.3dexpress.de/displayconfigx/
Sunbird 0.2 iCal-like Calendar Based On Mozilla Calendar [OS X]
The Sunbird team has announced its first official release: Sunbird 0.2 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the moment the Sunbird name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
Our intended user is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.
In addition, by focusing solely on standalone calendar, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the calendar application by removing components and chrome we don't need.
At the moment Sunbird is in an experimental stage. Although it is quite stable, we recommend it for testing purposes only.
System requirements:
Mac OS X
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html
Blaze 2.5 Text Editor [OS 10.2 up]
With the Mac OS X version of this powerful text editor you're able to use Apple's Mac OS X built-in Text to Speech feature with any text document. But this isn't the only feature integrated with operating systems. While we do not have a Microsoft Windows version of Blaze, you can easily convert your text into a PC-DOS or UNIX format using the convert feature.
When Apple released Mac OS X, they killed the SimpleText file format and introduced the powerful Rich Text (RTF) file format. Cross compatibility is a big issue these days. Blaze can natively read and write to RTF files on the fly, without any hassle, change characteristics of text from size and font to color and style, instantly change anentire report to lowercase, uppercase or titlecase.
One of the most important features, but missing from most text editors, is the ability to save your document as an HTML file or send it as an email. Blaze can do this with ease. Just select the appropriate item from the menu, and upload the file to your web server.
With Blaze, there's no catch like with most shareware applications. Blaze will stay out of your face when you're working in it, and allow you to access the goldmine of features hidden inside even if you decide not to register. Though, we ask you to please pay the shareware fee to encourage future development.
Basic Feature List
• Recent File List
• Import Text
• Export as HTML or Plain Text
• Print Document
• Show/Clear Clipboard
• Find, Find in Selection
• Replace All
• Insert Date or Time
• Smarten or Stupefy Quotes
• Go to Top, Bottom, Line
• Send via Email
• Set Font, Size Color, and Style
• Switch to Titlecase/Lowecase/Uppercase
• Text Shortcuts
• Cross Platform Conversation Utilities
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
For more information, visit:
http://www.koingosw.com/products/blaze.php
Assignment Notebook 1.0.2 Homework Organizer [ OS 8 up/ OS X]
A tool to help you organize your assignments.
New in this version:
• fixed bug where it would replace rows with "true" or "false"
• fixed bug where you would get an OutOfBoundsException when you tried to cycle through the assignments while there was nothing in the list
System requirements:
• Mac OS 8 or higher, or
• Mac OS X or higher
Assignment Notebook is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://vlavilla.phreakforums.net/
Meteorologist 1.4.3 Weather Access From The MenuBar or Dock [OS 10.2 up]
Meteorologist is a free weather program for OS X. It allows users total control over their weather viewing, including simultaneous interlaced weather reports from multiple weather servers, multiple weather locations, weather alerts and many more features.
Meteorologist represents both the efforts of the developers and the helpful and insightful comments of those who use this program.
The Meteorologist project is hosted by SourceForge. SourceForge is a community for open source developers to collaborate on their projects, keep track of bug and feature requests, and other really cool things. To check out the SourceForge page, head to: http://heat-meteo.sourceforge.net/
New in this version:
• Fixed ? icon
• Fixed crash when no city name and no temperature are displayed in the menu.
• Fixed a crash caused when spaces were contained in the download url
• Fixed bug where windspeed would be displayed as: "CALM mph"
• Fixed bug for default city of Cupertino, CA during first launch.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Meteorologist is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo
Mac Messenger 3.5.1 MSN Chat Client [Mac OS 9.x/ Mac OS X 10.0 up]
A chat program that uses the MSN protocol.
System requirements:
Mac OS 9.x, or Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
Mac Messenger is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.sparktech.tk/
Download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/macmessenger/macmessenger351.sit?download
Teleporter X 1.0 File Transfer Utility [OS 10.2 up]
Teleporter X is a free file-transfer utility. It is (sort of) a replacement to AIM's file transfer feature. It was made because the AIM file transfer feature in Fire (my favorite AIM client) didn't work. It works by registering your username and IP address on a server. To send a file to somebody, you can either enter the IP or the username in the "send to" field. One thing that we haven't figured out is getting around firewalls. So, you will have to open port 3000 on your firewall to receive files. Please note that Teleporter X is not compatable with AIM file transfer.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Internet connection
Firewall you have access to
Teleporter X is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://ohno3.websiteallies.com/devproj/TeleporterX.dmg
Avenir 2.1 Suite Of Tools For Writers, Primarily Novelists [OS X 10.3 up]
Avenir is a suite of tools for writers, primarily novelists. It consists of an editor and an outliner, giving you the capability to organize your ideas in an intuitive way. Multi-level filtering and search allow you to view your information in ways that will help you be more productive and creative.
New in this version:
• Added menu items for frequently used toolbar actions (everything except search - it's on my to-do list)
• The ability to export chapters to RTF and MS Word formats.
• You can now perform word counts on multiple chapters at once.
• A new word frequency analysis feature.
• Updated help, FAQ, and Quick Start Guide.
• An "editor and agent friendly" default style.
• A new preference for setting the default font size and typeface for the editor.
• A handful of minor bug fixes and feature updates.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Avenir is $20.00 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/toddransom/avenir/
iPhoto Album Extractor 1.0v2 Extract Albums From Corrupt iPhoto Libraries [OS X 10.3 up]
An application which allows you to restore Album from corrupted iPhoto Libraries.
New in this version:
Compiling problem fixed.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
iPhoto 5.0 or higher
iPhoto Album Extractor is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.ribuoli.it/
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