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Fred Showker
This week we give special attention to some of those less-known apps that prove very useful for many businesses and home business users -- from barcode readers to text editors to and online course/forms generator... and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
Barcoder allows users to create many types of barcodes and print them on any of the Avery label templates provided. Users can choose one of the pre-formatted labels, or create a new label from scratch.
Blaze is a text editor that allows users to convert document to HTML from text, send files as an email, convert line endings between platforms, toggle curly/straight quotes, and more. Version 2.5 is a complete re-write and overhaul.
CourseWizard is the latest version of the online registration system. Version 5.2 lets administrators enroll and/or drop participants to or from courses, authenticate a participant at the time of enrollment, manage waiting lists for courses, and more.
Creative Manager Pro is the latest version of the Web-based integrated project management software and job tracking solution for advertising agencies. The update adds features for calculating project milestone dates using the projects end date and upgraded support for the security enhancements in Apple's new Mac OS X v10.3.7 and iCal 1.5.5, among other upgrades.
Direct Mail is mailing-list management and bulk email software for Mac OS X. This version is a bug-fix release addressing the following: message encoding problems, crashes deleting groups and addresses, incompatibilities with Entourage, and interface bugs.
Hardware Monitor allow users to read out all available hardware sensors in a Macintosh. Version 2.4 adds support for many new hard disk models, support for some previously undetected sensors of the Xserve, and bug fixes.
iBiz 2.3 is an intuitive time-billing and invoicing application with Address Book and iCal integration. New features in iBiz 2.3 include a new client status column, client filtering, greatly improved iBank integration, improved contextual menus and several other enhancements.
FormMate enables users to fill out PDF files on the computer. Version 1.2 adds continuous scrolling, thumbnails, export to PDF, a GoTo toolbar item, and the capability to print only the added forms.
NewsFan is an RSS/Blog reader for Mac OS X. Major changes in version 1.7.0 include: smart descriptions, importing Firefox's LiveBookmark, smart subscribe by key words, and more.
PulpFiction is an easy-to-use, powerful RSS/Atom feed reader. PulpFiction 1.2 adds several new features, including Smart Folders, Wide View, Enclosures Support, Authenticated Feed support, and much, much more.
Scheduler is a sophisticated reminder with many scheduling options, such as customizable pre-warnings, repeats, sounds, fonts and text size. This latest beta release adopts new technologies available in Mac OS X, such as full unicode support, compatibilty with long file names and full adoption of the Carbon event model.
Virex provides the latest data to the Virex antivirus suite for Mac in order to defend against the latest viruses, trojans, worms, and other malicious software.
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Check these out and let us know how you like them. Remember, all UGN readers would like to know your opinion on the best shareware and freeware... send in your reviews and have them published here in the User Group Network!
Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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