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Drop Drawers, MacDrive, Solarian, Quickie Web Album
Fred Showker
Sig Software is proud to announce the release of Drop Drawers 1.6.5, for both Mac OS X and the Classic Mac OS.
Drop Drawers provides floating pull-out, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen to store text, URLs, aliases, scripts, pictures, sounds, movies and anything else. Information in drawers can be edited, viewed, drag-and-dropped or launched at the press of a key.
O'Reilly's Mac OS X Hacks recently described Drop Drawers as "One of those applications you have to try to believe." MacUser (UK) described it as "the most elegant solution yet to the launcher concept."
Version 1.6.5 has many interface improvements on OS X. It also improves decoding of URL names dragged from modern browsers, adds support for using Finder icons as thumbnails and backgrounds, and allows drawers with no tabs to be used with drag and drop.
More information and the download are available at sigsoftware.com
The Drop Drawers survey is available at: sigsoftware.com/dropdrawers
Mediafour presents the latest release of MacDrive 6 the cross-platform file sharing software enabling Macs and Windows PCs to easily exchange files.
Burn, baby, burn!!! Now Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 users can burn recordable and rewritable Mac CDs and Mac DVDs, making it easy to transfer files and make backups.
Divide and conquer!!! In addition to formatting, Windows users are now empowered to partition Mac hard drives.
We've got your back!!! We've added a great way to make backups of Mac disks through Windows thanks to a special file naming mode that causes MacDrive to spit out pristine Unicode file names.
Catch me if you can!!! We've not only made MacDrive easier to use, it handles more Mac file types and it's fast, even with huge sets of files.
Think globally...act locally!!! MacDrive used to be awash in global settings that can now be adjusted on a drive-by-drive basis.
Parlez-vous Fran¨ais??? We've upped support for international file names.Requirements Use of MacDrive 6 requires Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server, Me or 98SE.
MacDrive 6 is available for online purchase for $49.95 at mediafour.com
Stick Software announced version 1.1 of Solarian II, the classic Mac video game. Solarian II was one of the first games out for the color Macintoshes introduced in 1988, and swept the gaming world, winning awards and accolades; but it has not been able to run on OS X because Classic couldn't handle it. Now, by popular demand, Solarian II has been ported to OS X and re-released!
Version 1.1 of Solarian II requires OS X 10.3 to run. It is very faithful to the original; all the old sounds are there (but with their hiss and static cleaned up), all the old graphics are there (but it will now run at any resolution, in thousands or millions of colors), and the gameplay is exactly the same. Just the way you remember it.
Solarian II joins Stick Software products such as Eyeballs, Fracture, PhotoReviewer, Aquatint, Trisection and Constrictor. It is shareware, with a price of only $10, and it's free to try.
Solarian II's home page<
Direct download: Solarian.dmg.gz
LAJ Design has released the latest and greatest Quickie Web Albums version 4.1
Quickie Web Albums is cross-platform application that creates custom Web Photo (and movie) albums.
New features and powers: High Quality scaling now used for image scaling * new watermarking features to let the watermark scale to the image * free update for version 4 users and paid update for previous registered owners.
Quickie Web Albums lets you easily create custom web photo and movie albums. You can add a description for images or movies, pick from different album types, set image option and many other options.
Simple enough for a three step process.
1.Import the images.
2. Select where you want the web album located
3. Hit the create button.
Quickie Web Albums is shareware software, and costs US$23 to purchase. A fully-functional demo version, which expires after 45 days, is available.
Quickie Web Albums runs on Windows (95,98,ME,NT,2000, and XP) and Macintosh (8,9,X).
QuickTime is required if you want to use image types other than JPEG for products (QuickTime only needed on the computer running Quickie Web Albums). Movies also require QuickTime.
Mac OS X QuickieX_4.sit
Mac OS (classic) Quickie_4.sit
Free trial version: lajdesignsw.com
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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