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Fred Showker
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Safari Prairiefire 1.1 scans for dead or missing links in Safari's bookmarks. It allows the user to delete or edit any bookmarks. It helps users "clean up Safari's bookmarks jungle." Version 1.1 was released today and is compatible with Tiger including bookmarked RSS feeds.
Firefox is the latest version of the popular alternative Web browser for Mac OS X. Version 1.0.6 restores API compatibility for extensions and web applications that did not work in Firefox 1.0.5. USA Today says: "Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser... Forbs says: "Better than Internet Explorer by leaps and bounds" -- Firefox's built in popup blocker stops annoying popup ads in their tracks with.
Patent Grabber 3.6.1 is the latest version of the software for searching U.S. patents. Version 3.6.1 of Patent Grabber now offers searching of U.S. published patent applications and retrieves INPADOC family information for both US patents and published applications.
VVI released its Vvidget 10.1.6 -- A powerful point-and-click graph building tool that enables you to fine tune, add graphics, buildup specialized graphs and layout entire pages with multiple figures. Includes drawing widgets, tools, premade palette graphics, document layout features for creating and editing graphs and data-oriented and general graphics.
Custom Solutions of Maryland has released version 1.0.0 of Speed Reading III, which it says lets users try one method to increase reading speed and comprehension. It features ten built-in practice text sources as well as allows readers to select any other text file as the source. Reading speed can be adjusted from approximately 50 words per minute to 1500 words per minute using four radio buttons (very slow, slow, medium and high) and a slider. However, the company says that comprehension is not tested. "This utility displays full text very dimly with snapshots of normal black text moving across the page." It is available as freeware. Download the REALbasic* application for Macintosh
SMTPit Pro 4.0 is the first release of the next generation email plugin for FileMaker Pro 7, supporting email options to send simple text/HTML- based messages, dymanic attachments, support for large mail lists, header/footer functionality, merge fields (subject, header, body, and footer), and integrated SMTP functionality.
AB Transfer 1.8 updates turingart's contact data utility for import/export. Version 1.8 imports from MySQL database sources using a simple database browser directly and scans Tiger mailboxes of Apple.Mail to retrieve email addresses from saved emails. AB Transfer reads CSV-separated, TAB-separated, Act! DBF input files and MySQL databases and adds them to Mac OS X's Address Book; it also supports native Excel, WEB.DE, GMX and paxo.com export.
updates The Omni Group's outlining and organizational tool to include newly added Automator support and a number of fixes and improvements. Updates include improvements to recorded audio, HTML export, scrolling, and printing support under 10.2, as well as speed enhancements when editing large outlines. It is a free update to OmniOutliner ($ 40) and OmniOutliner Professional ($ 70).
is a unit conversion program that offers 2500 unit conversions, including currency. It features a scientific calculator, pi display, scratch pad for saving and quickly accessing frequently used conversions and online definitions and offers up to 10,000 significant digits of accuracy for the mathematical professionals.
Interarchy 7.3.3 is the latest version of the FTP, SFTP, and SSH client application. Version 7.3.3 includes the following: bug fixes, a Japanese language translation, support for SFTP servers that do not send UID/GID information, and more.
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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