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Fred's Shareware Picks

From miniature golf to Japanese Text Editor...

• Convert Quicktime movies
• Drop Your Drawers
• Put Steel in your passwords
• Radio Operators get Toolbox
• Sambucus Time Tracking
• SignalScope Real-Time Audio
• Take command of your Drives

Convert Quicktime movies

Cheap-o-Scope is a small utility that will convert Quicktime movies into Adobe Filmstrip files and also convert Adobe Filmstrip files back into Quicktime movies. Adobe Filmstrip files are recognized by Photoshop and Premiere. [Download 48KB]

Drop Your Drawers

Drop Drawers 1.6.5, for both Mac OS X and the Classic Mac OS 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. How cool. [Download]

Put Steel in your passwords

Steel 1.0.4 is the latest version of the password organizer/personal information storage utility brings better performance and improvements to an already familiar iApp interface. [Download - Steel.dmg 673KB]

Radio Operators get Toolbox

DX Toolbox 2.3.0 is a radio propagation / conditions analysis and forecasting tool for amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners, and other radio enthusiasts. This version adds display of the long path on the Grayline map, as well as several bug fixes. [Picture / Download 2.8MB] ($25)

Sambucus Time Tracking

Sambucus 2.3.6 for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X is a time-tracking application that is flexible and easy to use, aimed at freelancers, small businesses or anyone else who might have the need to track the time spent on various tasks and then report about it. Through a very intuitive graphical interface, the user can manage multiple projects, and track time for different tasks inside each project. (Macworld and MacAddict "Shareware pick of the month") [Download: Sambucus200ME7.sit]

SignalScope Real-Time Audio

SignalScope 1.6 is the latest version of the $40 "award-winning 2-channel real-time audio signal analyzer, built for Mac OS X." This version adds support for audio devices with multiple, non-interleaved audio data streams, enhanced audio device input format controls, the option to turn off guardbanding, and more. [Pictures / Download 1.0MB]

Take command of your Drives

DriveGauge 3.2 will automatically build and then update a Drive List containing a list of all your currently mounted drives and relevant information about them. Version 3.2 adds support for customizable Growl powered notifications for drive usage, support for customizing the auto-updating interval, and double-click support for installing a GaugeStyle. [Picture / Download: 2.1MB | $5]

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      Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News

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