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Desktop Publishing, Presentations, Imaging and more...
Fred Showker
This week, an assortment of visual production apps for desktop publishing, presentations, preparing your image files, Jif, JPG, and even publishing calendars, and GPS images. Enjoy this week's download fun!
Who needs a laptop to give a presentation? Make your next pitch using your iPod photo. With iPresent It you can convert your PowerPoint, PDF and Keynote presentations into slideshows that are synced with your iPod photo. Never carry a laptop into a presentation again; it's all on your iPod! - Trial version limits slideshows to the first 6 slides of a presentation, Requires Mac OS X 10.3 or greater
SmallImage is a simple and efficient tool to batch process JPEG files, resize them, recompress them, remove embedded profiles and make them ready for the Web. Version 2 was completely rewritten from scratch" all options are now available on the main window, making them much easier to access.
Capture One 3.6 allows users to open and edit RAW files from the most commonly used DSLR cameras and convert them into TIFF or JPEG. Version 3.6 supports Konica Minolta 7D, A1, A2, Olympus C8080, Fuji S3 Pro, and Canon 1Ds MKII, 20D, Pro 1, G5, G3, G2 cameras.
ColorSafe 1.7 is a filter plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and compatible applications that provides fully interactive color pickers for the easy creation of almost limitless 'hybrid' colors from the 216 colors in the Web safe palette. Version 1.7 introduces Mac OS X support.
GPSPhotoLinker allows users to directly embed latitude and longitude from a GPS receiver into the metadata of digital photos. Version 1.1 now supports a batch mode for automatically processing multiple photos and the ability to manually link waypoints and track points to photos.
iCalPublish allows users to combine several iCal calendars and publish them as one calendar to your .Mac account or another WebDAV server for viewing on the Web. Version 2.0 allows multiple sets of combined calendars, WebDAV support, multiple servers, and import back into iCal.
IconLab is the latest version of the Photoshop plug-in for editing Mac OS X's native icon format. Version 1.1 allows exported icons to be manipulated using the Finder's "Get info" window.
IconLab 1.0 is a Photoshop plug-in that adds full support for Mac OS X's native icon format to Adobe Photoshop. IconLab allows icons to be constructed with the full power of Photoshop, automatically flattening layers and resizing images to produce professional quality icons.
InDesign Font Catalog 1.0 is an application for makimg compact grouped font samples using Adobe InDesign CS. Font Catalog is different from other font sample generators because it displays the "regular" version of the font family as the large primary sample in one line/sentence, and groups the remaining styles in a short, name-only listing (in the style's style) below the main sample of characters.
No, this is NOT shareware... but notable, just the same! Toast Titanium 6.0.9 is the latest version of the popular CD and DVD authoring software. The new release addresses several bugs and issues, including an unexpected quit when preparing a disc, left and right audio channel reversing, artifacts when encoding using High Quality, and an issue over 90% of CPU cycles is used while erasing a disc.
iSnip is the latest version of the popular text clipping organization utility. The latest version introduces "Clipboard History," which keeps track of changes to the system clipboard. Alex, at MacUpdate says: "This is one of the greatest pieces of freeware I have ever seen; It has a clean intuitive interface, loads quickly, has a great price (what user could complain about free?) and is an overall great tool. It is a useful for programmers and other people who need/want this sort of organization."
Skype is a program that uses the latest P2P technology to bring "affordable and high-quality voice communications" to Internet users. "If your Mac has a built in microphone you can start making calls with a simple set of headphones."
SyBrowser 6.6 is a table browser, SQL generator and ER diagramming tool for OpenBase, FrontBase, MS SQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL databases. The latest version adds a pie graph showing data distribution, UTF-8 support, and more.
4D WebSTAR V is an update to address a security vulnerability recently discovered on Mac OSX HFS+ volumes. This security update prevents the potential use of the 4D WebSTAR V Web server to retrieve hidden file contents from within Web site folders. The update requires 4D WebSTAR V 5.3.3.
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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