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January Business for a new year

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!

StevePerfect 6 Word Processor & More

StevePerfect 6 is a word processor, picture viewer, email client, and dictionary, MP3 player, and more. Version 6 offers a new interface, Mac OS X-style toolbars, scaling in picture viewer, iTunes controller, steaming audio, and speech recognition. Picture Price: $ free.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 1.5MB]

Graphing Calculator is Back!

Graphing Calculator 2.5 is now available as a native Mac OS X application. It requires Mac OS X 10.3.6. It is a " a tool for quickly visualizing math" and allows users to "graph functions in two, three, and four dimensions, explicit, implicit, or parametric." Version 1 is a free release for Mac OS. It features: 2D curves; 3D surfaces; Save movies; Save for Web saves HTML & PNG files and more. Version 3 is a commercial product with more functionality Price: $ 60.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 2.5MB]

iUnit Converts Measurement Units

iUnit 3.0.0 is a measurement unit conversion program that converts between 1545 different units of distance, mass, volume, velocity, density, currency, and other types of measurements. The latest version of iUnit adds additional unit conversions and constants, as well as a new user interface. iUnit is available for both Mac OS X as well as MacOS 8 and 9. [Classic: 386 KB] Price: $ 20.
[Click for complete details, or download now: Mac OS X - 366 KB]

TaskTime Time Billing

TaskTime 3.0 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 is a major upgrade from previous versions, featuring a projects menu, 12 or 24 hour clock support, enhanced session and controller windows, and more. Price: $ 15.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 2.4 MB]

Synchronize your Mobile Phone and Entourage

e2Sync 0.9 is a utility to synchronize data between Entourage and and your mobile phone using Apple's iSync application. "e2Sync brings your Entourage Contacts, Tasks and Calendar items to over thirty cell phone models, as well as multiple Macs, your iPod, PDA, and .Mac." A latest public beta version is now available. (Picture) Price: Beta.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 329KB]

Synchronize FileMaker and SQL on Web

fmSQL Synch 1.0 is a utility to synchronize data from your FileMaker and (SQL) web databases. Data is compared on a record by record as well as field by field basis. Existing databases can be configured for synchronizing with few modifications. Picture Price: $ 130.
[Click for complete details, or download now: form]

GRASS GIS System

GRASS 5.4.0 is a Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through a graphical user interface and/or command line. A state-of-the-art NVIZ 3-D visualization program is also included. The new version offers an optional installation of the experimental GRASS 5.7.0 - a preview of GRASS 5.1. Price: $ 40.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 19.1 MB]

EvoBarcode iSight Barcoding

EvoBarcode 1.0 is new product which allows you to use your iSight camera as a barcode scanner with any application. The application supports UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13 and EAN-8 barcode symbologies, and can send scanned barcodes to another application, to the clipboard, or to an AppleScript. EvoBarcode 1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later. Price: $ 25.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 236 KB]

Troi File Plug-in

Troi File Plug-in 3.0.3 is a FileMaker Pro 7 plug-in for Mac and Windows that lets you manipulate your files and folders directly from your databases. This new version adds a "New Folder" button to the TrFile_SelectFolderDialog as well as an TrFile_Exists function that will return 1 if a file or folder exists. The release also fixes several bugs associated with Unicode paths, TrFile_DeleteFolder, TrFile_SetContents and TrFile_Append. Price: $ 29.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 1.7 MB]

Redlien Account Executive

Redlien Account Executive 1.0 combines powerful features with an easy to use interface to make tracking and managing your business contact relationships easy and productive. You can track, time and set follow-up dates for phone calls, schedule events, record meeting notes and more using the software's activity tracking capabilities. Redlien Account Executive also allows you to create custom views, group contacts easily, use preview and info panes to easily find the contact you want. Price: $ 70.
[Click for complete details, or download now: 5.7 MB]

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Fred Showker
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