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Games, art & photo manipulation, online iLife enhancements and more...
Fred Showker
This week we have something for everyone from home users to online mavins. Pop the Bubbles in Bubblomania, then collect online images and drag-and-drop their thumbnails. You can monitor all the eBay Action and improve your iTunes radio reception -- then share your iTunes online or not. Four others for business and productivity round out this week's download fun!
Bubblomania X 1.0 is a fast arcade/action game, with subtle game-play, flashy graphics and music. Colorful bubbles floating up the screen, and you have to pop them by moving the pin on top. Some bubbles contain goodies like lasers, bombs or an extra pin, while others give bonus points. The game requires MacOS X 10.1 and at least a PowerPC G3 500MHz. ($15) [Download -17.0MB] www.swordlord.com
NetScrape 1.6.2 is an update to the image collector's web spider and search agent for Mac OS X. The new version will scour a selected directory for images to browse. The update also includes improved statistics, an enhanced preview menu, a safe Google image search option, and several bug fixes. [Download - 783KB] positivespinmedia.com
ThumbsUp 4.0.1 is a free, drag-and-drop based utility to create thumbnails for a multiple pictures and supports all image formats used by Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents). ThumpsUp 4.0.1 brings an Italian language localization.[Download - 189KB] ThumbsUp 4.0.1
Auction Monitor 2.0is a utility for eBay sellers which provides a unique way to track bidding activity on open auctions. Retired at the end of 2002, Auction Monitor is back with an improved user interface and a number of new features including activity highlighting, seller feedback monitoring, incremental audio cues for new bids, and significantly faster updating. Registered users of Auction Monitor 1.x can upgrade to Auction Monitor 2.0 for $20. ($25) [Mac OS X 10.3 -1.6MB / Mac OS X 10.2 -1.6MB / Classic -1.6MB ] www.blackmagik.com
radioSHARK 1.0.3 is an update to the AM-FM radio software for Mac. This software will allow you to play, pause, and record live radio on your Mac. Please note that this software requires the radioSHARK hardware. The free software update dramatically improves AM reception, adds blue light 'switch' and more. ($100) [Download - 4.3MB] www.griffintechnology.com
Ever found that your iTunes music library wasn't quite as shared as you wanted? Annoyed that you can't copy a song from your server to your laptop quickly and easily, from with everyone's favourite music jukebox application? Want to make a playlist with shared tracks? Blue Coconut is for you -- it allows you to copy tracks from iTunes shared libraries to your Mac, so that you can make playlists or listen to them at a later date. The new version makes changes for compatibility with iTunes 4.7 while still working with older versions of the jukebox software. Blue Coconut 1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3, and is free. [Download - 563KB] Blue Coconut
iURL 1.3b6 is a universal URL management system for Internet power users and multimedia designers. The latest version includes, in addition to graphics preview, a new Quicktime preview feature, which reads files from local volumes or streams media through the Internet. [Download - 1.9MB] www.turingart.com
iPatch 3.0 can compare the resources of two applications to produce a self-applying patch to update an older version of an application to a newer version. iPatch is now able to compress data using zlib and fully supports prebinding. It now includes a tool to compare files and folders. [Download - 3.8MB ($10)] www.ipatch.org
SuperDuper 1.5 is the latest update to the disk duplication utility for Mac OS X. SuperDuper! performs backup and clone operations quickly and easily. The new release includes AppleScript support, pre-authentication, on-the-fly permission verification, interface improvements, copy improvements and an expanded manual. ($20) [2.4MB] shirt-pocket.com
(Commercial) SuperCard 4.5, a major upgrade to the popular authoring environment for Mac, is now available to the public in a Beta release. "We didn't just add a few bug fixes and cosmetic touchups and slap on a dot-five version number here, this new release adds eye-popping performance increases plus scores of cool new features that take xtalk to places it's never been before!" www.supercard.us
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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