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Issue 4.1

NEWS

News

Issue: 4.1 (September/October 2005)
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 13,884
Starting Page Number: 6
Article Number: 4101
Related Web Link(s):

http://www.logicalvue.com/products/ultratoolbar/ultratoolbar.html
http://www.realbasic.com/
http://www.pariahware.com/podcasttuner.shtml
http://customsolutionsofmaryland.50megs.com/datamining.htm
http://www.sybrex.com/products/versypdf.php
http://www.nettoolbox.net/
http://www.excelsoftware.com/
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/discblazewin/
http://www.logicalvue.com/products/rbunit/rbunit.html
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/
http://www.sqlaccessories.com/Products.aspx
http://www.intellisw.com/barcodeproducer/
http://homepage.mac.com/vanhoek/
http://developer.chaoticbox.com/
http://www.strout.net/info/coding/rb/
http://www.turingart.com/webbeaver_lan__en.htm
http://www.pariahware.com/daysaway.shtml

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Cross-platform Toolbar Solution

UltraToolBar is a set of classes that allow REALbasic developers to include cross-platform toolbars in their applications. They mimic the look of the toolbars in REALbasic 2005, cross-platform (Mac, Windows and Linux), full user customization and there are no deployment restrictions. UltraToolBar includes a complete HTML library reference and sample code so that you can quickly begin using it.

Product:

UltraToolBar 1.0

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://www.logicalvue.com/products/ultratoolbar/ultratoolbar.html

New REALbasic 2005 release

REAL Software is now shipping REALbasic 2005 Release 2. Arriving just 49 days after REALbasic 2005 Release 1, this release clearly demonstrates the company's ability to deliver value to customers via the REALbasic Rapid Release Model. This release delivers reliability improvements in the code editor, window editor, menu editor, compiler and debugger. It introduces a new type of property, the Computed Property, which automatically provides Get and Set methods. Other features and bug fixes are included too.

Product:

REALbasic 2005 release 2

Price:

See Site

Website:

http://www.realbasic.com/

Podcast Utility

Pariahware has released Podcast Tuner for MacOS X and Windows. Podcast Tuner provides a new approach to finding Podcasts. Podcast Tuner downloads a list of Podcasts to the users computer and displays them in similar fashion to the online guide format used in cable boxes and personal video recorders of today. A free subscription is included. After the trial subscription is over, guide update subscriptions may be purchased from within the application. A monthly guide subscription is $10.00, while an annual guide subscription is only $100.00. That is a twenty dollar savings per year!

Product:

Podcast Tuner 1.0

Price:

See Above

Website:

http://www.pariahware.com/podcasttuner.shtml

Search Utility

Data Mining was developed to find the number of Hits (string occurrences) within a large text. Data Mining can find up to 28 search strings on a single pass. Search strings are saved automatically when you quit the application and reloaded automatically when you relaunch the application. There is also an Ad Hoc search capability. Data Mining is optimized for speed; a search of one million characters for 28 strings takes approximately one second.

Product:

Data Mining 2.1

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://customsolutionsofmaryland.50megs.com/datamining.htm

PDF add-on for your apps

VersyPDF is a high quality PDF library that allows software developers to PDF-enable their applications with ease. More specifically, it makes it possible to create and edit PDF files, including multiple images and vector art features, support for Type1 and TrueType fonts, both Unicode and standard PDF encodings. It was made with speed and smallest memory usage in mind. Moreover VersyPDF library generates web-ready linearized PDF documents.

Product:

VersyPDF 1.0

Price:

$499

Website:

http://www.sybrex.com/products/versypdf.php

Swiss-army knife of networking tools

NetToolBox is designed for everyone from networking professionals and software and web developers to enthusiasts and educators, it is the 'swiss-army knife' of networking tools. With over two dozen tools uniquely integrated in one application, Net Tool Box makes previously laborious, complicated tasks a synch, easing your workload and letting you get on with what's important. This version brings Tiger compatibility, revised ping, ping scan and traceroute functions, application-wide contextual menu and many more features and fixes.

Product:

Net Tool Box 3.1

Price:

$35

Website:

http://www.nettoolbox.net/

Deploy help in your apps

QuickHelp is unique in its ability to author, maintain and test application help in a single tabbed window running on your platform of choice, then deploy the help system to virtually any computer. Help information resides in an XML file distributed with a royalty-free, native viewer executable for each platform (Mac, Windows and Linux). This version adds configurable actions, tables, parameters, default options, precompiled indexes and other performance enhancements making it 2 to 3 times faster than previous versions.

Product:

QuickHelp 2.0

Price:

See Site

Website:

http://www.excelsoftware.com/

DiscBlaze for Windows

Radical Breeze has released DiscBlaze for Windows, the CD and DVD burning software. DiscBlaze supports several file systems (Joliet, ISO 9660 and UDF), burning multiple sessions to the same discs, erasing re-writable media (such as CDRW and DVDRW) and creating/burning ISO disc images. It is faster than burning from Windows XP's Explorer (DiscBlaze does not need to create any temporary files prior to burning), supports a number of formats (Joliet, ISO 9660 and UDF), multiple sessions, create/burn .iso disc images, erase any CDRW/DVDRW - all easy to use, in an attractive interface.

Product:

DiscBlaze 1.1 for Windows

Price:

$19.95

Website:

http://www.radicalbreeze.com/discblazewin/

Unit Testing Framework for REALbasic

Unit testing and unit testing frameworks are part of test-driven development methodologies. A unit testing framework makes it simple to write and reuse tests that can ensure the quality of your software. After every change, the tests can be run again to ensure everything continues to work as expected. Unit Testing Frameworks are extremely popular with both Java and .NET developers. RBUnit brings the power of a unit testing framework to REALbasic. Version 2.0 features a completely redesigned testing API that is extraordinarily easy to use. In addition, RBUnit now has thorough online help with a tutorial to get you started.

Product:

RBUnit 2.0

Price:

$49.95

Website:

http://www.logicalvue.com/products/rbunit/rbunit.html

Studiometry 3.0.4

Studiometry is the best, most complete solution for companies to organize, plan, invoice, track and create with Client and Project data. The most recent update to Studiometry adds new ability to set clients to non-active, removing them from lists while keeping their information in the database. Other new features and enhancements have also been added, but this update focuses mainly on stability and performance. Studiometry is available for Mac OS X 10.3 or later and Windows 98 or later.

Product:

Studiometry 3.0.4

Price:

$99.95

Website:

http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/

SQL Database Utility for Windows

SQL Examiner is a new software application created to compare and/or synchronize different databases versions. The program will highlight the differences between two different databases and provide a way to synchronize the two. What's more convenient, SQL Examiner is capable of comparing live databases with the database backups, without having to restore the database first.

Product:

SQL Examiner 1.0

Price:

$199

Website:

http://www.sqlaccessories.com/Products.aspx

Barcode Production Software

Barcode Producer is the award-winning Mac barcode creation software suite from Intelli Innovations. Barcode Producer offers a wide array of easy-to-use tools including vector EPS barcode generation, PDF stamping, inventory lists, and asset tag creation. This update adds Spotlight integration, enhanced 13-digit ISBN support, POSTNET preview, enhanced printing, and other improvements.

Product:

Barcode Producer 3.6

Price:

$149

Website:

http://www.intellisw.com/barcodeproducer/

Video Streaming Plugin

VanHoek Software is pleased to announce a novel version of VideoOut plugin for REALbasic. VideoOut Plugin, based on QuickTime Video Output Components enables RB programmers to output DV and DVCPRO video streams via the FireWire port (also known as iLink or IEEE-1394) of your Macintosh and Windows computers. New in this version of the plugin is its compatibility with RB2005, and the addition of a novel method that will allow switching movies, without destruction and reastablishing ownership of the VOut.

Product:

VideoOut Plugin 1.2

Price:

$100 for suite

Website:

http://homepage.mac.com/vanhoek/

Display Plugin

The Display Overlord plugin adds numerous global methods to REALbasic that control video display resolution, refresh rate, colour depth, and brightness (gamma). Additional methods are provided to gather display information such as available modes, current screen geometry/depth, and refresh rates. Version 1.1 adds native Mach-O support, and a few new options that can come in handy if more advanced display manipulation is required through declares (when using fullsceen OpenGL for example). Some minor bug fixes and general code clean-ups are also included in this release.

Product:

Display Overlord 1.1

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://developer.chaoticbox.com/

Strings Plugin

StringUtils is a public-domain module of string functions, including ways to reverse a string, remove or delete certain characters, convert a string into hex, handle fields containing quotes, measure the similarity of two strings, and more. This version fixes a bug in the Sprintf function in the StringUtils module.

Product:

StringUtils 1.3

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://www.strout.net/info/coding/rb/

WebBeaver updated

WebBeaver verifies, downloads and visualizes internet media files, which share a common name. Using a single link/URL, it generates all related links, verifies availability of the media files and finally downloads them. Version 2.3.1 fixes several small problems, optimizes application responsiveness and enhances speed of downloads.

Product:

WebBeaver 2.3.1

Price:

€10

Website:

http://www.turingart.com/webbeaver_lan__en.htm

Event Notification App

Days Away periodically reminds the user of upcoming events by discreetly fading in to focus, pausing for you to read the events, and discreetly fading back out. This release bring Tiger Compatibility, online help, events can now be removed from the Events List via the standard delete keys and the list display has been updated.

Product:

Days Away 1.4

Price:

$12

Website:

http://www.pariahware.com/daysaway.shtml

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