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Fred Showker
This week everything for the web from new web databases to security plug-ins and several full featured backup programs.
OmniOutliner 3.0.1 is an update to the organizational tool for Mac OS X. The update brings stability and performance improvments, enhanced importing and exporting, as well as minor interface and usability changes. A Japanese localization is also included with this release. Download Pro Version Or the regular version:
GmailStatus is a handy utility for users of Google's new email service Gmail. It installs itself in the Mac OS X menubar and shows the number of unread messages in the inbox. It offers a user-definable hotkey opens Gmail inbox in browser, an option to manually check for new messages and/or open the Gmail inbox, support for proxy servers, and localization in several languages.
Transmit 3.02 updates the popular FTP client, bringing more reliable import from Fetch and old Transmit, better reconnection to and compatibility with SFTP servers, more compatibility with FTP servers, more AppleScript options, and more. Version 3 offers a new column view, multiple connections in a single window, improved bookmarking, iDisk/WebDAV support, Docksend functions, server-to-server transfers, and more.
URLwell 1.0 is a utility that allows users to store URLs. It supports drag & drop to URLwell's menu bar icon as well as the ability to manually edit the saved list: for removal or marked as visited.
Agitprop is a Mac OS X application for separating your blog entries from Lifli Software's iBlog application. iBlog (1.4.x and earlier) does not readily provide any form of export functionality that preserves blog entry information, such as category and posting date.
FruitMenu 3.3 is the latest version of the Apple menu and contextual menus utillity that fixes a number of bugs, updates the preferences interface, and works with the latest Application Enhancer.
is a set of powerful performance tools for measuring and optimizing software performance on Mac OS X as well as for hardware bringup and system benchmarking. The tools work with Mac OS X 10.3 and Xcode. It offers bug fixes, support for 64-bit Mach-O 2.0 apps, improved code analysis, and more.
iPatch 3.5 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 able to compress data using zlib and fully supports prebinding and is able to launch Applescripts before or after patching. It includes a tool to compare files and folders.
iTerm 0.8.1 is a full featured terminal emulation program written for Mac OS X using Cocoa. iTerm was merged from two projects, CTerminal and TerminalX, both of which were based on JTerminal project. This release fixes a few issues from the previous version, adds support to show bookmarks in a drawer of terminal window, and more.
Dobry Backuper 1.0.1 is an efficient backup software utillity for Mac that helps automate the creation of backups. Dobry Backuper combines friendly interface with powerful backup capabilities, such as automatic scheduled backups. Thanks to customizable scheduling tools, the user can fully automate backup process.
Disk Order 1.1 is the latest version of the advanced file manager with built-in FTP for Mac OS X. This version adds a built-in FTP client, two file selection modes, eject buttons by volume and FTP session names on file listings.
SoftRAID 3.1.3 provides a software RAID backup solution for Mac OS X. Version 3.1.3 fixes bugs and also incorporates several changes which bring the product closer to full Mac OS X 10.4 compatability.
(Not Shareware) DiskWarrior brings Tiger-compatibility to the popular disk repair utility. The free update will support Tiger's new Access Control Lists (ACL) and extended file attributes as well as improved journaling support and enhanced RAID support, including the new concatenated RAID volumes.
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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