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2004 Reviews
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Shareware Manager: Business: MORE business apps for 2005, including StevePerfect 6 Word Processor & More, Graphing Calculator is Back!, iUnit Converts Measurement Units, TaskTime Time Billing, Synchronize your Mobile Phone and Entourage, Synchronize FileMaker and SQL on Web, GRASS GIS System, EvoBarcode iSight Barcoding, Troi File Plug-in, Redlien Account Executive, and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
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iGetter Download Manager iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator -- a nice replacement for your browser's download manager.
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Shareware Manager: Business, Home & School Getting ready for the new year with business apps, accounting, time tracking, stock investments and others -- plus some neat home apps, a macro program and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
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Easy Mac OS X Disk Images DropDMG is the easiest way to create Mac OS X disk images.
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Shareware Manager: Games, iPods Games, iPod and iLife top this week's Shareware Manager!
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Mac Gift Guide Fred reviews gifts for Mac users including Ford Racing, LensavRz, OmniCleanz, GarageKey, MIDI Keyboard, PodSleevz, Missing Sync, iKey and others.
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Audio Hijack Audio Hijack is the perfect tool to record any audio on your computer
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Shareware: Images & Audio Images and audio with Duotones, PhotoStickies, printing, RSS, and more
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Software Manager: OS Enhancements Finder aids, info organizers, note takers and a lot more
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Apple Shareware Faves for November 2004 - Contribute 3 * radioSHARK * Logic Express 7 * Apple Pro Training * Painter IX * NovaMind 2.4 * FotoMagico * MYOB * Daylite 1.7 * Delicious Library, and more!
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November Home & iLife This week we have something for everyone from home users to online mavins. Pop the Bubbles in Bubblomania, then collect online images and drag-and-drop their thumbnails. You can monitor all the eBay Action and improve your iTunes radio reception -- then share your iTunes online or not. Four others for business and productivity round out this week's download fun!
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SW: Business & Professionals This week we look at some new shareware for business and professional users including a new RSS reader to different Task/Time trackers, an invoicer and an ecommerce solution. We also see a media asset management add-on for FileMaker, a database viewer, and a pretty cool "visual thinking" outlining application.
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Shareware Manager: Photos, Alarms and More! This week's Shareware Manager looks at Photo Albums, prints from iPhoto, BodyPainting; and some new personal productivity updates in Alarms, examining your files, and the clipboard. Mariner is here with new stuff and we end with your garage sale on eBay!
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Mac OS X Innovators Contest managing editor Derrick Story announces this year's winners at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
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New Games from Ambrosia New Games from Ambrosia Darwinia & EV Nova games
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Software: Games and More! This week's Shareware Manager brings some Tricks and Treats for Halloween, and Recipes for the Holidays. Speaking of holidays, let's play golf with the Tiger, Beta test Ambrosia's new Darwinia, fly a Black Hawk and print some cool labels for your cd/dvds
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Automatic Font Detection PopChar X 2.2 - adds automatic font detection for many popular applications
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Shareware Manager: Movies & Security This week we look into a nifty way to convert Quicktime movies, ways to put Steel in your passwords, and taking command of your Drives. Then visit several more specialized programs including: Drop Your Drawers, Radio Toolbox, Sambucus Time Tracking, SignalScope Real-Time Audio
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Fred's Shareware Picks This week we play a little Golf, and see some dramatic results converting Photos to Art... other favorites include * Moving Tunes with iPodDownload * Parsnips new PIM * TextMate Text Editor * OmniWeb Gets Upgrade (Beta) * Japanese language text editor
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PhotoReviewer PhotoReviewer photo viewing for Mac OS X - not an iPhoto replacement, but an essential just the same!
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Fred's Shareware Picks These are all good picks! I think you'll like them ... plus a second file: More Shareware Picks for October Shareware Picks for October - Drop Drawers, MacDrive, Solarian, Quickie Web Album
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Shareware Picks: September This week's shareware picks include: eMail Bounce Handler 2.0 * Play Sound 1.4 * AutoCal 1.1 * ODLog * KoalaCalc * KaraTunes 2.0 * Intellisys Project Desktop * MacDopplerPRO 2.6 * Battlefield 1942 * BBEdit 8.0.1 * Skype 0.10.01, and Solarian II v1.1 ... see them all in the Shareware Department of UGN
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Visual Java/SWING Components Library Eltima Java Components greatly extend the set of components available in standard visual library
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Easy Aqua-Look Graphics ... Make your own Aqua-style images from simple stencils, or experiment with special effects! Jiggler keeps your Mac awake...
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Gideon's unique OS X utilities Reviews and access to Gideon's OS X utilities
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Apple Shareware Favorites Including: AutoAPOD * ChatBarrier * LazyMouse * Screenshot Helper * Mini-Golf * Salling Clicker v.2.1 * Lord of the Rings * Classic Icons * iWork * Maestro
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Good vs. Bad Presentations Powerbacks provides added social impact for religious groups, legal institutions and educational forums
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PandaWare TimeCache Gets Better Popular time billing application updated to version 5.2.1. Free PandaWare TimeCache update adds customization options, bug fix. (July 20, 2004)
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Software: Dump that web site a full featured internet tool that allows users to download web sites for offline browsing
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File Plug-in Boosts FileMaker New FileMaker Pro 7 plug-in lets you manipulate your files and folders and use file and folder information directly from your databases.
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iDive manages digital video (DV) clips iDive, a new Mac OS X application just released is set to redefine the standards in managing digital video (DV) clips
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The Macintosh Paddle Game Returns Brickles is back in a faithful revival, the Pro v1.0.5 version - Brickles Pro, the Classic Ball and Paddle Game for Macintosh (the successor to Brickles3000.)
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Disk Jockey Expander SubRosaSoft.com Ltd. has rolled out an all new version of DiskJockeyExpander
More from 2004
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GraphicConverter Now Updated GraphicConverter views, edits, converts most image formats
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Software / Shareware June 14 Here are short, bursts of new stuff you'll like
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Protect your images from theft cross-platform application that creates allows you to easily watermark images allowing you to protect your images
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Better Expense Tracking You don't know how much to charge until you know how much it cost!
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After Dark is back for X After Dark is back for X with new modules
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Software / Shareware Notes for June 1 Shareware shorts: RapidWeaver web design; FileXaminer v2.2; KeyCue; Listen Later
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MaxNews Usenet newsreader for Mac MaxNews is a very flexible and effective Mac OS 9.x / Mac OS X based Usenet newsreader supporting reading and composing both news articles and e-mail messages.
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Ultimate SlotZone Parrot Interactive has rolled out Ultimate SlotZone for Mac and Windows users.
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Mac Scan MacScan is detection and removal for keystroke Loggers and Trojans from your Macintosh
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Restore lost MP3 files SubRosaSoft Ships Version 1.0 of MP3... Restore The new utility recovers MP3 files accidentally erased from MP3 players and other media.
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OpenOSX Ships Gimp 2.0.0 OpenOSX brings popular Unix software to both the "Unix-challenged" and the seasoned, Mac user
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Design, Color and Type Tools for OS X New tool fills design void in OS X for graphics professionals
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GPS Comes to OS X Mac users who are interested in GPS can have their own interface-mapping software -- MacGPS Pro 5.0.
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If you like iPhoto, You'll Love PhotoReviewer PhotoReviewer is Blazingly fast photo viewing, organizing app adds support for raw images from any source including digital cameras
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PhotoShow for Mac... PhotoShow lets you arrange and display your digital pictures in a slide show, making your Mac a true digital photo album
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QuickMix Video Editing QuickMix Edits any video, sound, and music formats supported by QuickTime, including DV
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Mapping the World with Azimuth Azimuth software is designed by a cartographer who makes maps in a design and graphics environment
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Merging Email Made Easy Email Merge is a program for creating mailings of individualized email messages. It combines a database and an email message template to create customized email messages.
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iMsafe 2: Backup for Mac OS X - iMsafe 2, the backup tool for Mac OS X makes quick work of backing up your Mac, iPods, Pendrives and remote Macs on the network to your USB or FireWire HD.
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Trisection Game with Aqua Style - Trisection top-quality shareware Game
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OS X Support now with Xupport Laurent Muller has sent out his latest public beta of Xupport 2.0 -- the All-In-One Interface for Mac OS X.
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Smart Scroll X Smart Scroll X 1.1 brings Live Scrolling and Proportional Thumbs to AppleWorks 6. Following in the steps of the classic Smart Scroll, Smart Scroll X brings new scrolling options and enhancements to Mac OS X.
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Interarchy 7.0 Mac users get a new high-speed FTP download utility for easier file transfers FTP, SFTP, SSH
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Valentine's Edition of the Swap game... Here's a special Valentine's Edition of a favorite game, Swap
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Phelios Updates a Favorite: Drip Drop Drip Drop is a game collection of 3 falling object puzzles: Wipe out your foe with FLOOD and cast him away with watery waves
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SnapWeb... The new version of SnapWeb makes superb Web screen captures in Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"
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Quickie Web Albums Quickie Web Albums are easy to create with a lot of power including CSS style sheets!
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ViewIt is fast and easy OS X native, fast and easy to use image viewer that supports most popular image formats
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iClip v2.6 iClip is the natural evolution of ScrapBook for OS X in a high powered clipboard
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PostCard from Steve Dekorte PostCard customizes electronic postcards for sending digital photos!
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Audio Postcard�for OSX Audio Postcard sends pictures and voice messages over the internet!
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Nik Color Efex Pro Dan East takes a look at Nik Color Efex Pro, from Nik Multimedia
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eMail Extractor 1.6.3 Dan East reviews eMail Extractor 1.6.3 by MacProg - a direct emailing program
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Stupendous Bundle: iMovie Plug Ins 1.15 A huge collection of iMovie plug ins to do just about anything you can think of with iMovie - from titles to effects to PIP
Shareware of Note in 2003
- Shareware: Free EasyFind and ThumbsUp - Quick searches, bulk thumbnails
- Get a Maid for ten bucks? - MacMaid will do the cleaning for you
- Dejal says Time Out! - give it a break
- Stitching Files Made Easy - ...graphics or MP3 files they've got you in stitches!
- DropDMG solution for Disc Images the easiest way to create ".dmg", ".img", and ".smi" disk images... (0310-20)
- The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements -- Photoshop Elements is a lot more powerful than most people think. With the help of some tools and techniques from the book The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2, Elements can do 95% of what Photoshop can -- with this book and these tools!
- PageSpinner spins up version 4.5 - A new version of the HTML Editor for Macintosh has hit the streets enhanced for OS X (7/7/2003)
- Pixeltoy is back... with fantastic live performance video -- Long-time favorite image generator for the Mac is back with all new goodies and eye-candy (6/9/2003)
- iClip 2.1 multi-clipboard - iClip 2.1 multi-clipboard scrapbook utility for Mac OS X helps you get past the limitations of having a single Clipboard.
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