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Issue 5.2

NEWS

News

Issue: 5.2 (January/February 2007)
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 14,742
Starting Page Number: 6
Article Number: 5201
Related Web Link(s):

http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/1-2tracker.html
http://developer.chaoticbox.com/
http://www.mosquitosw.com/
http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/ben_blake1/mymoneyminder.html
http://www.lavasoftware.com/
http://customsolutionsofmaryland.50megs.com/pyramidtease.htm
http://www.excelsoftware.com/
http://www.excelsoftware.com/
http://www.realsoftware.com/realworld/
http://www.realbasic.com/
http://fmteau.club.fr/rpgmapmaker/rpgmapmaker.htm
http://www.adpartnership.net/ScopeDriver/
http://www.sidewinderx.com/
http://customsolutionsofmaryland.50megs.com/subliminalmessage.htm
http://www.dreammanifesto.com/wizard/
http://www.intelliscanner.com/products/wine/

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Diabetes Tracking Solution

1-2Tracker is a Macintosh application designed specifically for people with diabetes. With 1-2Tracker users can easily track and graph their blood glucose tests as well as track their weight on a day by day basis. The program allows people with diabetes to keep food and exercise logs along with a handy journal. Version 1.2 features an all new graphing routine (faster, cleaner), added weight graphing, and readings are now displayed at graph nodes and are included in printouts.

Product:

1-2Tracker 1.2

Price:

$15

Website:

http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/1-2tracker.html

Video Plugin for Developers

Display Overlord version 2.0.1, an open source plugin for REALbasic 5.2 and up that provides global methods and classes to control video display resolution, refresh rate, colour depth, and brightness. Additional methods are provided to gather display information such as available modes and current screen metrics. Version 2.0.1 fixes issues with stretched (widescreen) display modes on Mac OS X. Stretched modes are now properly reported in modes lists, and can be specifically requested when changing resolutions.

Product:

Display Overlord 2.0.1

Price:

FREE

Website:

http://developer.chaoticbox.com/

Serial Number Plugin for Developers

GuancheMOS is a serial number creation/validation machine plug-in compatible with applications developed with REALbasic as Mac OS X Universal Binary, Carbon, Mach-O, Win32 or Linux executables. GuancheMOS allows developers to include in their applications the ability to generate and check unique serial numbers or license keys with a minimum effort and a minimum footprint in their executables.

Product:

GuancheMOS 1.6

Price:

$29.95

Website:

http://www.mosquitosw.com/

Help System for Developers

Easily create help systems for your software and web sites from a single source! HelpLogic's innovative design removes the development headaches usually associated with help authoring, providing an ideal solution for cross-platform software developers, web site designers, and documentation writers. Save time with the integrated Workshop, Visual TOC Builder, HTML Editor, and Link Manager to quickly generate Web-based Help, Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, UniHelp, and PDF.

Product:

HelpLogic 1.0

Price:

$99

Website:

http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/

Largest 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 11000 documented functions. The plug-ins require REALbasic 4.5 or newer. While all plug-in parts compile on Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X (universal), Linux and Windows, each function may depend on additional system requirements to work successfully.

Product:

MBS REALbasic plug-in 6.4

Price:

From €40

Website:

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

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. This release fixes many bugs. My Money Minder requires a Mac running Mac OS X v10.2 or greater. v1.7 can also run on Mac OS 8.5/9 with the Carbon Library v1.1 or higher installed.

Product:

My Money Minder 1.9.2

Price:

$12.50

Website:

http://www.geocities.com/ben_blake1/mymoneyminder.html

Password Manager

PasswordVault is a top-rated Password Manager which automates website logins and helps you organize and secure your passwords. It's very easy to use, but includes powerful features for advanced users and organizations. Many home users, businesses and major sites use PasswordVault. New in this version is a selection of button styles, increase web form auto-fill speed, improved Quick Start information and a more detailed manual for OS X users. Available for Mac OS X (Universal), Classic and Windows.

Product:

PasswordVault 5.2

Price:

From $14.95

Website:

http://www.lavasoftware.com/

Free Golf Game

Pyramid Tease is a computer version of a game normally played with 14 golf tees in a pyramid shape on a wooden board. The only move is to jump a tee, removing the jumped tee. The goal is to remove all tees but one. Ten points are awarded for each removed tee. High scores and the sound setting are saved between sessions.

Product:

Pyramid Tease 1.0

Price:

FREE

Website:

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

License System for Developers

The QuickLicense system, manage the secure, flexible licensing of Windows and Macintosh software. QuickLicense is used to configure hacker-proof evaluation, lease or full licenses, then manage each license and customer data to reduce cost and increase sales. With minimal programming, developers get flexible control over how many days or executions are allowed, which computers or users can run the software, the security features that protect it and how the registration process works.

Product:

QuickLicense 1.0

Price:

$195

Website:

http://www.excelsoftware.com/

Software Components for Developers

RbApp is a collection of reusable classes for writing Macintosh and Windows software with the REALbasic programming language from REAL Software. Version 2.0 adds the new RbGrid, RbChart and RbQuickLicense components plus enhancements to the current RbEdit, RbView, RbCommand, RbPalette, RbStringList, RbXML, RbHelp and RbLibrary. It supports the latest REALbasic 2006R4 for Universal Binaries.

Product:

RbApp 2.0

Price:

$295

Website:

http://www.excelsoftware.com/

REAL World 2007

The REALbasic User Conference, will be held May 9th, 2007 for three days at the Omni Hotel Downtown in Austin, Texas. Noted REALbasic authors, experts, and REAL Software engineers will be presenting at REAL World 2007. "REAL World is a great opportunity to expand your REALbasic knowledge and improve your skills as a developer," - Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software.

Product:

REAL World 2007

Price:

n/a

Website:

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

REALbasic Gains Intel Support

REALbasic 2006 Release 4 now enables more than 100,000 REALbasic users to build Universal Binaries for Mac OS X. A Universal Binary is a Macintosh executable that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. In addition, REALbasic itself is now a Universal Binary, which yields much higher performance on Intel-based Macs. In most cases, REALbasic 2006 Release 4 compiles more than twice as fast than the previous release when running on Intel.

Product:

REALbasic

Price:

n/a

Website:

http://www.realbasic.com/

RPG Mapping Solution

RPGMapMaker is a tool for drawing maps with polygonal grids. These maps are generally used in Role Playing games, and can be designed for any other purposes. In addition to having most of the capabilities of a real painting program, RPGMapMaker has also unique features that greatly simplify map-building, such as grids, static maps, interactive maps, layer managers, predefined terrain libraries, random maze, cavern and dungeon generator, and much more.

Product:

RPGMapMaker 5.0.0

Price:

$37

Website:

http://fmteau.club.fr/rpgmapmaker/rpgmapmaker.htm

Astronomical Telescope Control

ScopeDriver lets you connect your computer to your astronomical telescope. A computer-telescope connection adds many features to your telescope, harnessing the greater power of your computer to control your instrument. You can control your telescope from the comfort of indoors, or even across the Internet. You can also plan your observing in advance, on your computer, then instruct your telescope to take you on a tour of these objects, and log your observations from within the ScopeDriver package. This version adds over 100 enhancements.

Product:

ScopeDriver 3.0

Price:

$30

Website:

http://www.adpartnership.net/ScopeDriver/

Spam and Phishing Solution

SidewinderX is an automated, AppleScript-able spam and phishing tracing and reporting software tool for OS X. The Mac OS X Universal Binary is built on the company's popular Sidewinder Rating Engine, and designed to work with AppleMail, Entourage, Mailsmith, Eudora, and Powermail to trace and report spam and phishing e-mail, and "spamvertized" links embedded in e-mail messages. It will also allow the user to "categorize" spam by content, and send a different abuse complaint, and use a different CC list for abuse complaints from each category.

Product:

SidewinderX 1.0.5

Price:

$19.95

Website:

http://www.sidewinderx.com/

Subliminal Messages

Subliminal Message, which helps you explore the idea of subliminal messages. Version 2.0.0 is fully automatic. Set the message on-screen time (1 - 50 ms), the period between messages (1 - 30 sec) and the message font darkness and let the program run in the background. Use the default messages or enter your own messages. All settings and messages are saved between sessions. Because of its power and influence at the subliminal level, this effect is not allowed in TV advertisements in many countries.

Product:

Subliminal Message 2.0

Price:

FREE

Website:

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

Manifest Your Dreams

The Dream Manifestation Wizard is a windows 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:

The Dream Manifestation Wizard 1.1

Price:

$29.95

Website:

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

Wine Collection Management

Wine Collector 200 is a portable barcode scanner and companion software package for wine collection management. By scanning the retail barcode with the included portable USB or Bluetooth wireless barcode scanner, users can automatically identify detailed product information using an Internet-enabled AutoFill wine database. After scanning, collectors use the companion wine management software to track bottle locations, calculate wine maturity, view bottles on the color-coded Virtual Cellar grid, and add custom ratings. When the bottle is consumed, simply scan it again to mark it and add tasting notes.

Product:

Wine Collector 200

Price:

$299

Website:

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

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