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Issue 5.3

NEWS

News

Issue: 5.3 (March/April 2007)
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Article Length (in bytes): 16,567
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Article Number: 5301
Related Web Link(s):

http://www.hendricom.com/
http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/cameleon.html
http://www.ragesw.com/products/buttondesign.html
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml
http://www.realsoftware.com/realworld/
http://www.darkadapted.com/
http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/rwthememiner.html
http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Mask_R_Aid/maskraid.html
http://www.pariahware.com/elasticwindow.php
http://customsolutionsofmaryland.50megs.com/computerglasses.htm
http://www.realbasic.com/
http://www.intelliscanner.com/products/comics/
http://developer.chaoticbox.com/realbasic.php?tab=declares#fmodexclasses
http://www.excelsoftware.com/
http://www.benandruby.com/bens_software/mymoneyminder.html
http://www.realbasic.com/promotions/census/
http://www.dreammanifesto.com/wizard/

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Eliminate Spam with Em@ilCRX

Em@ilCRX enables everyone from novice end users to IT professionals working in complex networked environments to effectively reduce spam in their e-mail Inbox and on their network. It works by automatically filtering e-mail, forwarding valid e-mail, and tracing the source of spam and reporting offenders to their respective Internet Service Providers. Users will typically see the spam in their Inbox drop to near zero almost immediately. The Sidewinder Rating Engine does not require "training" as other content based filters do. It filters e-mail based on Reverse DNS facts and rules that are easily selected by the user in their Em@ilCRX configuration.

Product:

Em@ilCRX 1.5.6

Supported Platforms:

All

Price:

$29.95

Website:

http://www.hendricom.com/

Web Template and Theme Editor

Cameleon is a theme and template modification assistant. It enables users to edit or replace any text or graphic element of a theme or template. It provides a unified, user-friendly interface between the contents of theme and template folders and image and text editing applications. With Cameleon, making modifications is easy and intuitive.

Product:

Cameleon

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

$20

Website:

http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/cameleon.html

Create Professional Web Site Buttons

RAGE ButtonDesign is a web developer's tool for creating professional web site buttons with mouse over and mouse down effects. It includes over 75 pre-made button templates that web developers can use to create professional buttons for their web sites. Users can customize button templates to make sure they blend nicely with their current web site design. Buttons created with RAGE ButtonDesign use standard based CSS and provide mouse over and mouse down effects when web site visitors view them in their web browser.

Product:

RAGE ButtonDesign 1.5

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

$19.95

Website:

http://www.ragesw.com/products/buttondesign.html

Huge Plugin Collection For Developers

The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the REALbasic development environment with over 500 classes and 3 controls featuring over 12000 documented functions. This version adds CURL (down/uploading), GrowlMBS (user notifications) and CPUIDMBS (X86 detection) classes; rewritten PortAudio and PortMidi plugins; improved TIFF functions; and compatibility with REALbasic 2007r1.

Product:

MBS plug-in 7

Supported Platforms:

All (Varies)

Price:

From €40

Website:

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml

REAL World 2007

REAL World is the definitive event for anyone that wants to get the most out of REALbasic. REALbasic enables professional and non-professional programmers alike to quickly create software that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Sessions will cover topics like database reporting, object oriented programming, upcoming technology, and other hot industry topics. The conference is scheduled to take place at the Omni Hotel in Austin, TX on May 9-11, 2007. Purchase your pass before March 9th and you'll get $100 off the regular price.

Product:

REAL World

Price:

$599.95 (early-bird pricing)

Website:

http://www.realsoftware.com/realworld/

Gamma Control Program

DarkAdapted is being used by astronomers, planetarium operators, graphics professionals, medical professionals, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, and others worldwide to provide flexible, dynamic control over their monitor's gamma (screen color response). Users may define an unlimited number of gamma presets, and invoke them via global hotkeys, by menu selection, or by typing the first few letters of a preset's name. DarkAdapted offers two levels of functionality: DarkAdapted Standard and DarkAdapted Pro. Users may download a single package, and try DarkAdapted Pro's advanced features free of charge.

Product:

DarkAdapted 2.1

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

$10

Website:

http://www.darkadapted.com/

Rapidweaver Theme Editor

RWThemeMiner is a RapidWeaver theme editing assistant. It enables you to edit or replace any element in any RapidWeaver theme. It provides a user-friendly interface between the contents of your RW themes and your image and text editing applications. With RWThemeMiner making theme modification is easy and intuitive. RWThemeMiner assits you in editing or replacing theme image files as well as editing text files such as: css, html, js, plist, etc..

Product:

RWThemeMiner 1.3

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

$15

Website:

http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/rwthememiner.html

Mask Maker For Icons

Mask-R-Aid is a tool for creating masks. An icon consists of an icon image and a mask that tells the system how to render the transparency of the icon. Normally the icon image is rendered with no transparency for most of the icon image (the interior pixels). Transparency comes into play when you want to do shadows or use a photo-realistic icon.

Product:

Mask-R-Aid 4

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB), Win

Price:

$15

Website:

http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Mask_R_Aid/maskraid.html

Window Control Resizing Tool

Elastic Window is a set of classes for REALbasic developers which allows controls on a window to be resized proportionally with the window. Developers can design windows with a particular look in mind and ensure it will maintain a uniform look no matter what size the user makes the window. Possible uses: make your application more user-friendly for the visually impaired or for those whose eyesight is weakening with age, Full-screen kiosk applications, your window has been designed with a certain resolution in mind, or void having to manually adjust controls.

Product:

Elastic Window 1.2

Supported Platforms:

All

Price:

$195

Website:

http://www.pariahware.com/elasticwindow.php

Magnify Part Of Your Screen

Computer Glasses is a utility that lets you magnify a portion of the screen so that you can read fine print or magnify an image. When you open Computer Glasses, you see a red circle. When you click and drag the circle, you see cross hairs. Drag the circle until the cross hairs are over the area of interest. When you release the mouse, the area under the circle is magnified.

Product:

Computer Glasses

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

FREE

Website:

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

First REALbasic release for 2007

REALbasic and applications built with REALbasic 2007 will now run on Windows Vista. Applications built on previous versions of REALbasic will run on Vista, but the current release has some added functionality to make it more consistent with Windows Vista's user interface guidelines. In addition, any Windows application created with REALbasic2007 will run on Windows dating back to 98. Also new is Office Automation capabilities, which now support Microsoft Office 2007, enabling REALbasic developers to create applications that interoperate with the latest version of Microsoft Office. In addition to improved reliability for building Universal Binary applications, REALbasic 2007 Release 1 improves support for MySQL, PostreSQL and ODBC compliant databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server. This release also improves support for QuickTime and making network connections via proxy servers.

Product:

REALbasic 2007r1

Supported Platforms:

All

Price:

From $99

Website:

http://www.realbasic.com/

Personal Comic Organization System

IntelliScanner has announced the upcoming release of IntelliScanner Comic Collector, its personal barcode scanner and companion software package for automatic comic collection management. Built for both PCs and Macs, Comic Collector automatically pulls up detailed information and artwork for each series and issue, then makes it easy to sort, organize, inventory, categorize, and share comic details with friends. The package will include both an IntelliScanner Collector barcode reader and the Comic Collector software. IntelliScanner Comic Collector will be available in April.

Product:

IntelliScanner Comic Collector

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB), Win

Price:

Not available at this time

Website:

http://www.intelliscanner.com/products/comics/

Audio Classes for Developers

These open source classes hook into the cross-platform FMOD Ex audio library and support a wide range of audio formats with advanced playback options, including physically correct 3D positional audio. This version fixes compatibility issues with the new FMOD Ex 4.06.00 release. General improvements and a new error logging interface are also included, plus updated documentation with detailed instructions on how to get FMOD Ex working with Mac OS X Universal Binary targets.

Product:

FMOD Ex Audio Classes 0.5

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB), Win, Linux

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://developer.chaoticbox.com/realbasic.php?tab=declares#fmodexclasses

System And Software Modeling

MacA&D is a tool for system modeling and simulation, requirements management, structured analysis and design, object-oriented modeling with UML and data modeling of information systems. It has diagram editors for process, data, class, state, object, structure and task models. Each model shows a different view of the software system integrated through a global data dictionary. C++, Java, Delphi, Objective-C and SQL code can be generated from model and dictionary data. Dynamic systems can be modeled, parameterized, simulated and then presented with live charts, graphs and tables. An integrated report generator offers standard reports plus scriptable custom reports.

Product:

MacA&D 2.1

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

From $495

Website:

http://www.excelsoftware.com/

Personal Finance Manager

My Money Minder is the easiest way to manage your personal finances! It allows you to easily keep track of all your expenses, income and bank account balances. All your data can be quickly viewed in either a spreadsheet-style grid or as a Line, Bar, Pie or Area graph. Whether you already have existing personal finance data stored electronically or just beginning, My Money Minder can get you going quickly. Once you have entered your tax rate (so your Sales Tax, GST or VAT can be calculated automatically) and start of financial year into the Preferences new entries are entered via a single dialog.

Product:

My Money Minder 1.9.4

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB), Classic (older version)

Price:

$12.50

Website:

http://www.benandruby.com/bens_software/mymoneyminder.html

REALbasic Application Census

The goal of this project is to To achieve this ambitious goal we would like you to tell us about the applications you've developed with REALbasic. You have put a lot of hard work into the applications you've created and this is your chance to show them off. Your applications may be large or small. They may be utilities you have developed just for yourself or large applications sold commercially to thousands of people. All of them are important to REAL Software. Also... if you develop for the Mac and you give us your permission, we will share some information about your Mac applications with Apple who will consider them for inclusion in the Mac Product Guide, Apple's online catalog of Mac applications. Inclusion in Apple's Mac Product Guide is one of the best ways to promote your Mac applications to new users.

Product:

REALbasic

Website:

http://www.realbasic.com/promotions/census/

Manifest Your Dreams On Your Mac

The Dream Manifestation Wizard is a Mac application to manifest your dreams and to create abundance and prosperity in your life. Once started, the Wizard will ask you what dream you want to manifest in your life. If you are not certain about it, you can use the built-in 'Dream Questionnaire' to find one or more powerful dreams that you would like to manifest in your life. Learn the simplicity of creating your dream template that consists of text, an image and your voice. This template will function as your dream blueprint.

Product:

Dream Manifestation Wizard 1.1

Supported Platforms:

OS X (UB)

Price:

$29.95

Website:

http://www.dreammanifesto.com/wizard/

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