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Getting up to date with Tiger apps and more...
Fred Showker
With the announcement of TIGER (April 30) and its subsequent roll-out, the shareware authors are following suit with upgrades for all their excellent products...
SOHO Labels & Envelopes and SOHO Business Cards 1.3 ($30) offer an improved clip art browser, and brings Tiger compatibility. The application allows users to design and print professional labels, envelopes, and letterhead; it includes free Avery address & shipping labels, 13,000+ designer graphics, 50 Bitstreats fonts, and hundreds of ready-made designs.
The new Corel Painter IX plugin that supports Spotlight. "With the new Painter IX Spotlight plugin, Corel Painter IX customers using Mac OS X Tiger can quickly search their Painter files (.RIFF) and find exactly what they're looking for within seconds. All text within a .RIFF file, as well as layer names, file information, and image width and height data are automatically indexed, giving users the power to search for files as fast as they can type."
iPod.iTunes synchronizes tracks, playlist, song rating, dates and play counts from any iPod seamlessly into the iTunes music library. It checks which iPod tracks or playlists are not in the iTunes music library and only adds those seamlessly into the iTunes library. iPod.iTunes can also transfer song rating, date played and play count. Version 2.8 now supports Tiger.
Ovolab Phlink updates the telephony software for the Mac. Version 2.1 of Ovolab Phlink features full support for Mac OS X Tiger with Dashboard widgets, Spotlight searches and Automator actions. Additionally, the free update sports a new smart list editor that is "similar in concept to smart folders in Tiger's new Finder."
DiskWarrior brings Tiger-compatibility to the popular disk repair utility. This free (for registered users) 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. It will be available for purchase this week; upgrades from v1 or v2 are $40.
VelaClock is a world clock widget that provides local times, daylight hours and moon phase information for cities throughout the world. It displays an image of the moon (from the selected city) as well as the name of the current moon phase (and local times for the next and previous phase events). It leverages the public domain time zone database called "tz database" for both local and relative times.
SSH Helper v1.2, the only OpenSSH configuration utility for Mac OS X. SSH Helper allows you to easily : Control who's allowed to access your account, Generate new OpenSSH keys, View/Export your Public Keys, and Setup and Control the OpenSSH Server. SSH Helper also contains an Easy to use Wizard that allows you to get up and running with OpenSSH ( including Secure FTP ) in 4 mouse clicks. See website for release notes and download information. SSH Helper alleviates the need to use the command line to configure a working OpenSSH system. It's all point and click!
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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