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Issue: 2.6 (July/August 2004)
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Math Flash Card Master released
Entertainment Plus More, Inc. has released an enhanced version of Math Flash Card Master, a shareware program that aids practice and testing of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Math Flash Card Master can be adjusted to different knowledge levels, and includes optional sounds and timer features. Math Flash Card Master is available for Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic and Microsoft Windows 95 to XP.
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Math Flash Card Master 2.0 Price:
$10 Website:
http://www.smartkidsclub.com/MFCMDownload.html Formation Released
Formation is a personal information organizer that harmoniously combines lists, notes, contacts, calendar, media browsers, scrapbook, smartlinks, and more, within an innovative customizable interface. Jot down some ideas, keep a journal, make a grocery list, track your DVD collection, manage passwords, or design entire creative projects. Formation can help you organize the many facets of your life, in an elegant and simplified way! Formation requires Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) or later.
Product:
Formation 1.0 Price:
$29 Website:
http://www.mekanica.com/overview.html DoThisNow by Radical Breeze
With DoThisNow you can easily setup your computer to run repetitive, time critical or simply mundane tasks for you. You can setup an action to occur every minute, or only at a specific date and time. It's all up to you! "This new version of DoThisNow adds new actions bringing the total number of unique actions up to 20," stated Bryan Lund, President of Radical Breeze. "No other application (on any platform) provides this wide an array of possible actions together with such a simple way to schedule them. Take timed screenshots every minute, run nightly backups scripts, change the desktop background to coincide with the time of day... or just about anything else you can think of."
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DoThisNow 1.2 Price:
$19 Website:
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/dothisnow/ FTP Suite User Forum
Pyramid Design announced that Developer Brad Rhine is now sponsoring the FTP Suite Discussion Board, an online discussion forum for users of Pyramid Design's FTP Suite for REALbasic. Forum Features The forum has five topic areas: Q and A, for specific FTP Suite questions; General, for FTP Suite discussions, How-To Guides, where user-submitted techniques; tutorials and guides can be submitted; FTP Chatter, for FTP protocol discussions; and RB Chatter for REALbasic discussions.
Product:
FTP Suite Forum Price:
FREE Website:
http://ftpsuite.truetech.org Barcode Automator Updated
Barcode Automator is a specialized barcoding suite specially designed for bulk generation and AppleScript automation. Barcode Automator supports 9 different symbologies, includes vectorized EPS, TIFF, and JPEG export capabilities, and comes bundled with OCR typography. New in this update: Enhanced barcode value editor, including faster import/export operations, a streamlined interface for step and repeat sequential value addition, a more readable text font for viewing, and keyboard-based record editing; Compatibility patch for recent versions of "haxie" software (or, technically speaking, products that specifically makes calls into the CFBundle); New PostScript name matching exports font names in EPS files using their PostScript equivalent, instead of their standard form; and Barcode value exports are now in Unicode (UTF-8).
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Barcode Automator 2.2 Price:
$499 Website:
http://www.intellisw.com/barcodeautomator/ SonicMood released
SonicMood bathes you in gentle tones played by selected instruments to calm and relax you while you work on your computer. You may select from 21 different "Moods" - combinations of instruments, note scales, and timings - designed to take your mind away from the stress of the day. SonicMood is available for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic.
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SonicMood 1.0 Price:
$10 Website:
http://homepage.mac.com/johnrhall/SonicMoodPage.htm FastTunes Announced
FastTunes is a little utility that helps you control iTunes. When you summon FastTunes, it will show the iTunes controls, floating over your screen. You can use these buttons just like you would use them in iTunes.
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FastTunes 1.0 Price:
FREE Website:
http://homepage.mac.com/barthold.van.acker/realbasic/ New runtime exe packer
MoleBox Pro is a runtime exe packer for Windows applications that processes software and all of it resource files in order to create a single executable file. In doing so, the program compresses and encrypts executable files, data, media files and DLLs, as well as embeds DLLs into executable file. After processing any software application with MoleBox, that data can not be viewed, extracted, copied or modified. In addition, reverse-engineering becomes extremely difficult. The program does not affect the functionality of the original application in any way nor requires any additional coding.
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MoleBox Pro 2.2 Price:
$99 Website:
http://www.molebox.com/ REAL Software updates REALbasic to 5.5.2
REALbasic is a powerful, easy-to-use development tool that enables Windows and Mac users to create software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. "In response to requests from customers, we've added new functionality to a few key features," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. "In addition to improved reliability, we added more database features, support for more graphics formats and we lessened the requirements for using console applications on Linux."
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REALbasic 5.5.2 Price:
See Site Website:
http://www.realbasic.com/ Microsoft Office 2004 includes REALbasic
REAL Software, Inc. announced thata demo version of REALbasic 5.5 is included on the new Microsoft Office:Mac 2004 CD. "Anyone familiar with VBA programming for Microsoft Office can benefit from using REALbasic," states Sean Arney, of Rules Software, who uses REALbasic in addition to VBA and C++ to create Office automation software. "The central theme of my projects is to gather and display data or organize and distribute complex sets of documents, all by automating functions in Microsoft Office," adds Arney. "REALbasic eliminates the complexity associated with distributing my applications. I don't have to worry about the versioning of dependent files or adding system-level components to make sure things work right. REALbasic makes the whole process easier."
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REALbasic and Microsoft Office 2004 Price:
n/a Website:
http://www.realbasic.com/mactopia Map tool for RPGs
RPGMapMaker is a tool for drawing maps with polygonal grids. This kind of maps are used in Role Playing Games, but can be designed for any other purposes. In addition to having most of the capabilities of a real painting program (such as lines, rectangles, ovals and round rectangles, drawing and filling with color and pattern, text, rubber, pipettes tools, etc.), RPGMapMaker has also unique features that greatly simplify map-building.
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RPGMapMaker 3.5 Price:
$37 Website:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/fmteau/rpgmapmaker/rpgmapmaker.htm 2D OpenGL Game Engine
SuperSpriteSurface is a middleware solution for REALbasic developers that allows REALbasic developers to create Macintosh games that utilize OpenGL and advanced collision detection. SuperSpriteSurface provides a savvy, modern alternative to REALbasic's built-in 2D game and graphics capabilities.
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SuperSpriteSurface 1.0 Price:
$29.95 Website:
http://www.tinrocket.com/content/superspritesurface/ MonkeyBreadSoftware Plugin
The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the REALbasic development environment with over 380 classes and 4 controls featuring over 7500 documented functions. Major changes in this version: Added Rendezvous for Windows (AutoDiscoveryMBS classes); Added Picture Effect classes; Added a Clipboard class for Mac OS; Improved Mac OS X support: in StatusItem, CoreAudio, Webkit, QuickTime and CoreGraphics; and Improved compatibility to Realbasic 5.5.
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MonkeyBreadSoftware Plugin 4.1 Price:
€40 Website:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml Apple Event Monitoring
AE Monitor allows Mac OS X developers to capture, analyze, and recreate Apple Events. Users can examine the internal workings of each event and create source code to replicate the event from their applications. Many development environments are supported, including REALbasic, Perl, Tcl, and any environment that can use the AEBuild() command with an AEGizmo string. Additionally, AE Monitor can create native REALbasic code to send Apple Events.
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AE Monitor 1.6 Price:
$30 Website:
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor/ Stock Analysis Software
Churr Software has released an update to Stock Investment Guide (SIG), the only stock club analysis software for OS X. Version 1.5 includes significant improvements and enhancements. This update adds online integration with the Online Premium Service database of more than 10,000 companies. The user enters a stock symbol, clicks a button, then the stock data is imported directly into SIG. Performing securities analysis for stock investment clubs has never been easier.
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Stock Investment Guide 1.5 Price:
$39.95 Website:
http://churr.com/ Volume Logic for iTunes
Volume Logic for Windows and an upgraded version for Mac, the first audio digital re-mastering plug-in for the Apple iTunes player, lets music lovers hear their favorite iTunes music with high-quality sound every time -- even when listening on puny computer speakers or MP3 players. Pump up the Volume with Real-Time Digital Remastering for iTunes Now with Support for Windows, Mac, and the Griffin PowerMate USB Knob for Easy Volume Adjustments
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Volume Logic 1.0.1 Price:
$19.95 Website:
http://www.octiv.com/index.asp?content=iTunes Mac Image Viewer and Editor
ZeboPhoto is a mac image viewer featuring various image editing effects. This digital photo software displays pictures without borders, and provides easy access to your photos with it's file browser. Captioned full screen or multiple picture slide shows are available as well as a movie maker, print layout templates, a word processor and more. Featured in the 1.5 release: A Quick Capture menu item has been added to the Edit menu which uses the settings from your last capture, allowing you to bypass Screen Capture window; ZeboPhoto now can save screen captures in BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PDF, PICT, PNG, PSD, QuickTime Image, SGI and TIFF formats or send them to the Clipboard.
Product:
ZeboPhoto 1.5 Price:
$7.50 Website:
http://bobbysoftware.com/ New FTP Suite Release
New in this version of the FTP Suite: Text Encoding Support -- All communications from the FTP server can be converted to and from the server's native text encoding. This allows files with special characters in their file names to transferred and listed; DeleteDir, PutDir, GetDir -- These additional FTP commands have been added to allow the ability to get, put and delete entire directory structures without automatic login and logout. As with their full sequence counterparts, these commands work recursively, transferring or deleting all levels of files and directories contained in the initial directory; REALbasic 4.5 Support -- This version features the return of classes for REALbasic 4.5 that can use the older Socket class instead of the CoreSocket class introduced in REALbasic 5.0.
Product:
FTP Suite 3.2 Price:
$19.95 Website:
http://www.pyramiddesign.us/ftpsuite
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