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Business, Home & School...
Fred Showker
Getting ready for the new year with business apps, accounting, time tracking, stock investments and others -- plus some neat home apps, a macro program and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
Quicken 2005 for Mac, Release 2 is a major maintenance update to the money management software for Mac OS X. Release 2 offers improvements to home inventory, account setup, tax reports, and scheduled updates
iPresent It 1.0 allows users to convert PowerPoint, PDF and Keynote presentations into slideshows that are synced with an iPod Photo. Never carry a laptop into a presentation again; it's all on your iPod!
Stock Investment Guide is an application that allows stock investment club members to perform NAIC-style securities analysis. The latest version adds the current 52-week High & Low price bar to the Graph and printed Report, and modifies the the user interface to provide one-button retrieval of online stock data. Version 1.5.6 also alters the ssg data file import routine and packs several bug fixes. [Classic - 1.2 MB]
TaskTime provides a straightforward method of tracking time spent on jobs you do for your clients. It can generate personalized invoices which can be emailed, printed, and saved to disk. The new version includes bug fixes, adds session log printing, and allows invoices to be saved and sent in PDF format. The software also delivers a new preference option to send invoices as email via Mail or TaskTime.
Office 1.5.1 for Mac OS X "Panther" that is an easy-to-use solution for configuring, installing and utilizing the proven open source GNOME Office. This minor update brings AbiWord to version 2.2.0, Gnumeric to 1.4.0 and Dia to 0.94, and is the first version of the OpenOSX product to include an optional preview Cocoa version of AbiWord. The product is available immediately for $40 on CD-ROM, with download-only delivery available for $30.
TimeClock Professional 5.0 is a major upgrade to Redcort Software's employee time and attendance software for Mac and Windows, which takes the work out of tracking worker hours, overtime and leave. In the new version, the user interface and administrative functions have been simplified for users and managers alike. Additionlly, the client-server architecture was engineered from the ground up to make connecting time clocks so easy that almost anyone can setup a Virtual TimeClock network. [Classic - 2.7MB]
FileWrangler is a batch file renaming utility for Mac OS X 10.3 with user-definable folder recursion, use of a file's "enclosing folder" as part of the file name, natural language date input, and more. New features include file list export with optional tags, tool tips, automatic filename truncation to 31 characters, and speed improvements.
updates the iCal integrated menu calendar and clock application for Mac OS X. Version 1.5 improves the event and 'to do' item overview by adding options to display "to do" items above or below the events of the selected day. In addition, users can now configure an event look-ahead in providing more context.
PDFast 1.02 is a fast simple PDF viewer that renders the entire file to ram at once rather than as it is viewed, offering a significant speed improvement over Preview when viewing graphically heavy PDFs. The company says that large files will consume large amounts of memory, recommending 1GB of installed RAM. free.
SimpleKeys 2.0.6 is an easy to use macro program, designed to provide the power of more complex programs. The latest update allows users to include shortcuts (macros) in a menu next to the system clock in addition to programing your function keys.
Sticky Windows is an utility for Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" which extends the tab browsing experience to the Desktop, transforming your windows into tabs. The new version adds support for systems with multiple screens, new preferences, Auto-hiding tabs, improved windows management. The release also marks the debut of a new software update system.
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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