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Living the iLife...
Fred Showker
This week it's all about Living the iLife from recording music to slide shows to tracking your health...
updates the slide show and presentation tool for multimedia files. It brings compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), display of basic IPTC tags (i.e, image metadata), and more. Apimac Slide Show lets users to customize presentations with custom backgroundsa and soundtracks for both Windows and Mac platforms; it is available in both Standard ($ 30) and Professional ($ 50) editions. [Classic
Boom Recorder 1.4 is designed for "the sound engineer who wants to replace his tape based systems with a hard disk recorder. It was specificaly designed to record on a film-set or for recording of live-events with many channels in high resolution." It offers support for Mac OS X Tiger (only), simultaneous 64-channel recording, SMPTE timecodes, 96kHz sound, pre-recording functions, QuickTime 7, and three devices: MOTU 828mkII, macally iVoiceII, and Apple Built-in Audio.
Health Tracker is a graphing program to track health-related measurements, such as weight, blood glucose levels, body fat, etc. Version 3.0.0 is a complete re-write, offering several UI enhancements and import/export features as well as allows virtually unlimited number of measurements to be tracked. (Classic)
HistoryHound is a utility for indexing and searching Web pages that you've bookmarked or visited recently. Version 1.8 offers a more refined user interface for tracking down pages you've viewed in Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, and Shiira web browsers or the built-in browsers of the NetNewsWire 2 and PulpFiction RSS readers.
iTMS Estimator shows the estimated current total of tracks sold on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) as well as an estimate of the time of the next milestone sale (every 100,000th track). The application will automatically update its estimate every 5 minutes and, "when there are 10 seconds or less until the next estimated milestone sale, the application will beep each second."
is an AppleScript applet that makes backup copies of the current iTunes Library and Preferences, allowing users to easily save multiple iTunes Library and Preferences configurations that can be retrieved and loaded at any time. Version 4.2 makes iTunes Library Manager compatible with iTunes 4.9.
LilyPond 2.6 is an open-source music notation program for creating music sheets that mimic traditional plate engraving. It offers text-based input, integration with LaTeX or HTML, automatic formatting, hand-engraved music fonts, extensibility through LISP, and more. Version 2.6 supports Unicode, creatiion of SVG files, and more.
LiveDictionary is a Safari extension that adds fast, convenient dictionary lookups to the web. Once installed, it becomes a transparent part of Safari; point to a word with the mouse cursor, and its definition or translation appears in a popup window. It offers a wide array of dictionaries for technical terms, general language, and bilingual usage. Version 1.1.3 adds a Korean-English dictionary and other changes.
Media Rage 2.0 is a collection of tools for media enthusiasts using Mac OS X. Users can read/edit info stored in MP3, AAC, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, and Ogg Vorbis audio files. It adds support for editing custom meta data (for Tiger only), easy access to commonly used functions, support for AIFF/WAVE/BWF/EXIF file tags, and more. Upgrades are $10.
Movie Montage 2.0 provides an iPhoto-like interface for movies clips and videos. It offers quick access to movies all in one window, automatic full screen slideshows, easy file renaming, and the ability to save favorite folders. Version 2.0 can quickly rename files, batch export QuickTime movies, supports drag & drop, and more. http://www.findleydesigns.com/moviemontage/screenshot/100_500x334.jpg Picture
piStabilize is a video stabilizer plug-in for Apple's iMovie. piStabilize removes unwanted shaky motion from movies as typically being introduced by hand-held cameras. piStabilize compensates for shaky motion in horizontal and vertical direction as well as for rotational shaking and abrupt zooming.
ShowMacster is an extension to Apple's iChat AV which enables the user to stream pictures, Quicktime movies and live screen captures during video conferences. ShowMacster is seamlessly integrated into iChat AV, adding a drawer to the video chat window.
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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