Archive for March, 2008

Inkscape - Free OS X Vector Graphics Editor

Inkscape 0.46 is a free vector graphics editor for OS X, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF and others. It also exports PNG as well as multiple vector based formats.

There are new versions available for both Tiger and Leopard.

FEATURES

  • Almost 100 Features/Bugfixes In This Release (New)
  • Import PDF Files
  • Paths, Markers, Clones
  • Alpha Blending And Transforms
  • Gradients, Patterns, Shapes
  • Grouping And Node Editing
  • Complex Path Operations And Layers
  • Bitmap Tracing, Text-On-Path
  • Direct XML Editing
  • Much More



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Duplicate Files Searcher - Find And Delete Duplicate Files And Much More

Duplicate Files Searcher 2.0 is a free application for OS X, that finds and deletes duplicate files on your Mac and removable media devices. You can also download versions for Windows and Linux.

FEATURES

  • Find Duplicates On Your Mac, CD, DVD And More
  • Easy To Use
  • Any Number Of Files, File Size, Folders Or Drives,
  • Works With All Removable Media Devices
  • Allows For Manual Files Selection
  • Byte For Byte File Comparison - Ensures 100% Accuracy
  • Several Files Comparison Methods Supported
  • Supports English, French, German And Polish
  • Much More



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LiteIcon - Change Folder Or System Icons

LiteIcon 1.3.1 is an excellent free application that allows you to change icons on your Mac, as well as restore your system icons to their default state. It also allows you to save and open iContainers now. There are versions for both Tiger and Leopard.



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Media Snap - Search For And Download Videos From YouTube

Media Snap 2.1 is an excellent free application for Leopard only, that allows you to you easily search for, download and save videos from YouTube. You can save your downloaded YouTube videos as QuickTime movies or as MP3 files (audio only) and put them on your iPod.



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SafariTabs - Excellent Safari Plugin

SafariTabs 0.61 is a free plugin, that displays a warning when you attempt to quit or close a window that contains multiple tabs. One of the best features is the tab restore function, it saves all of your open tabs/windows and will reopen them when you relaunch Safari.



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Google Sketchup - Free 3D Modeling Application

Google SketchUp is a free OS X application for creating, viewing and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. With just a few simple tools, you can create models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects and even space ships.

Once you have finished building your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse or print them. There are version available in several languages and you can download a Windows version as well.



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Refresh Basic - Free Icon Set For Leopard

Refresh Basic is a free icon set for Leopard, that includes 22 glossy and translucent icons. Each icon is designed in the Leopard standard resolution for maximum quality image display. You can also download a version for Windows Vista.



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VLC RAR Loader - Play RAR/Zip Compressed Movies Using VLC

VLC RAR Loader 1.3 is an excellent free application for OS X downloaded over 120,000 times, that allows you to play RAR/Zip compressed movies, using VLC without having to extract them first.

FEATURES

  • Supports Single/Multi Segmented RAR Archives
  • Easy To Install And Use
  • VLC RAR-Loader Automatically Locates Your Copy Of VLC
  • Drag And Drop Support
  • Subtitle Support
  • Zip File Support
  • Much More



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Eye Theme - Free RapidWeaver Theme

A to G - Export Your Apple Address Book To Gmail

A to G 1.3.5 is a free utility for OS X that exports your Apple Address Book contacts into a Gmail readable text file. Once exported, simply click Import in the Contacts section of your Gmail account, choose the file you exported, and you are done.

FEATURES

  • Additional Address Fields Added (New)
  • Middle Name Added (New)
  • Nickname Added (New)
  • AIM, Yahoo And MSN Added (New)
  • Exports Phone Numbers, Email Addresses And Physical Address
  • Exports Home Fax/Work Fax
  • Exports Company, Job Title And Notes



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Chandra X-Ray - Free iPhone Wallpaper Set

SoundAsleep - Automatically Mutes/Unmutes The Sound On Your Mac

SoundAsleep 1.0 is a free application for OS X that sits in your menu bar and will automatically mute your Macs sound at bedtime, and unmutes it in the morning - based off of the settings you put in its preference panel. It can also be used as an alarm clock when iTunes is left playing.



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Measuring Cup - Free OS X Recipe Manager

Measuring Cup 1.2.3 is a free recipe management program written in Cocoa. It features a nice user interface and is easy to use.

FEATURES

  • Support For Leopard (New)
  • Share Recipes Via Import/Export (New)
  • Stores Files In XML Format (New)
  • Simple Organization Of Recipes
  • User Defined Categories/Sub-Categories
  • Fully Searchable
  • Undo/Redo Support
  • Full View Of Recipes On One Screen
  • Much More



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Shockwave Player - Free Browser Plugin

DrawIt Lite - Free OS X Vector Drawing Application

DrawIt Lite 1.1.1 is a free image editing and drawing application for Leopard Only. It includes vector tools, standard shapes, layer blending and special shapes. It also supports over 50 Core Image filters.

FEATURES

  • UI Overhauled (New)
  • Improved Vector Tool (New)
  • Non-Destructive Editing
  • Mask Support
  • Object Styles
  • Vector Tools
  • Standard Shapes And Effects
  • Bitmap Tools, Layer Blending And Text Tools
  • Export To PNG, TIF And More
  • Much More



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iPod Reset Utility - Restores 1st And 2nd Generation iPod Shuffles Back To Their Factory Settings

iPod Reset Utility 1.0.3 is a free application for OS X, that restores the following iPod models back to their factory settings, when iTunes is unable to do so.

WORKS ON

  • iPod Shuffle (1st Generation)
  • iPod Shuffle (2nd Generation)

The restore process completely erases all music and data on your iPod, and installs the most current iPod software on it.

Note: iPod Reset Utility 1.0.3 is intended for use only with the iPod models listed above, other iPods are not supported. If you are not sure which iPod you have, see Apple Support article 61688.



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Mail.Appetizer - See Your Incoming Mail Without Having To Switch To Mail.App

Mail.appetizer 1.3b1 is an excellent free Apple Mail plug-in, that allows you to see your incoming email without having to switch to Apple Mail. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It shows you the sender, the subject and gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the email message requires your immediate attention or not.

The prominence of the notification can be defined by adjusting the transparency and the display time within the Apple Mail preference panel. There are versions available for Tiger and Leopard.

Note: This is a beta release.

FEATURES

  • Resizable Notification Window
  • Custom Font For The Message Body
  • Displays Senders Photo - If Available
  • Counter Shows Unread Messages
  • Shows The Mailbox Name

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED

  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese



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TranslateIt! Deluxe - FREE License Winners

A week ago we reviewed TranslateIt! Deluxe, an excellent OS X dictionary that allows you to translate any word from any language! We would like to express our sincere appreciation to RealSofts for donating 1 FREE license of TranslateIt! Deluxe for our giveaway. We had an excellent response and thank everyone that participated in the giveaway.

RealSofts just contacted us and let us know that they were going to give everyone that entered a comment - 1 FREE license!

So instead of there only being one winner, we have 6 Winners!

WINNERS

  • ngaloppo - We need your first and last name for your license
  • froger8604
  • Skeezer - We need your first and last name for your license
  • pem
  • Ian
  • everplastic - We need your first and last name for your license

Congratulations to you all!

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Leap - 1 FREE License Giveaway - Winner Announced

To learn more about Leap - Click Here

Flat Is The New Black

Folders and rigid hierarchies might have made sense back when we had hundreds of files, but we are now swimming in images, files, movies and other data. That is where tags come in. Tags are keywords that you assign to a file. This makes it extremely easy to find documents, regardless of their location. Why hunt through an arcane hierarchy of folders and files to find the document we want? Apple’s Finder first came out over 20 years ago and we think it is time for a new approach to finding, organizing and browsing your most important documents.

In addition to the tags you enter, Leap will find keywords associated with a file from XMP metadata, from Spotlight metadata, from its folder location and from its creation date.

Leap is the perfect tool for adding tags to your files. Tag files from within Leap or by dragging a file into Leaps drop zone at the side of your screen. You can elect to have Leap keep your tags in Spotlight comments or in its own very fast, exportable, database. If you have already tagged some of your files using QuickSilver, Punakea, TagBot and others or yourself using Spotlight comments, Leap can usually find those tags too.

A More Natural Way

With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court or Something I tagged important or A word document somewhere in my documents folder (feel free to substitute your own here). With the Finder though, it is more like you think it might be called bball.psd and that I put it in the originals folder in images in the Project 29 folder which I think I put in Documents… nope, not there… where did I put it?

Serendipity

Wikipedia defines serendipity as the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

Leaps ability to quickly browse like documents allows you to stumble upon not only the file you were looking for but sometimes an even better one that you were not looking for. Leaps search results show up as beautiful, scalable thumbnails that can be ordered anyway you want.

Use Leaps loupe tool to inspect the document in perfect detail. On Leopard you can also browse through your documents using the new Quicklook feature.

1 FREE LICENSE GIVEAWAY

Ironic Software Incorporated has generously given us 1 license of Leap to giveaway on our site - Retail Value $59.00

All you have to do is leave a comment with at least one feature you would like to see added to Leap, and you will automatically be entered into the random giveaway. The giveaway will end on April 1, 2008 and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

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ChocoFlop - Free OS X Photo And Image Editor

ChocoFlop 0.78 is a free photo and image editor for OS X, that reads and writes all the popular file formats. The license is free until the application is no longer in an alpha state. The download page includes more free filters and third party plugins.

SERIAL NUMBER TO USE REGISTER
First Name: ForNow
Name: FreeLicense
Serial Number: 89xZ9F911Z29D74E35BD84156C5635688CZ

NOTE: The serial number might change from time to time. You can read the post on the application developers site by clicking here to get the latest serial number.

FEATURE

  • Text Can Now Be Scaled (New)
  • Easier Color Picker (New)
  • Text Rendering Faster (New)
  • Small Dowload - Launches Quickly - Easy To Use
  • Painting Tools With Tablet Support
  • Rich Text Layers
  • Transformation Tools
  • Live Layers. Layer Masks, Selection Tools
  • Color Adjustment
  • Large Group Of Filters
  • Much More



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Journler - Free Notebook/Information Manager

Journler 2.54 is a free OS X notebook and information manager, that is simple to use and very powerful. It allows you to combine text and media easily. It is a wonderful application to store your thoughts and ideas while connecting them with media of any kind. There are versions available for Leopard and Tiger.

FEATURES

  • Leopard Improvements And Fixes (New)
  • Improved Tiger Performance And Fixes (New)
  • Token Based Tagging (New)
  • Built-In Blogging Removed (New)
  • Support For 3rd Party Weblog Apps Added (New)
  • Support For MailTag Keywords (New)
  • Faster PDF Importing (New)
  • Supports Audio, Video, PDF Files
  • Supports iWeb, iPod And iLife Integration
  • Supports Apple Mail/Address Book Contacts
  • Supports Importing/Exporting
  • Supports Spotlight And AppleScript
  • Much More

Note: Journler is still free for non-commercial use. When version 2.6 is released, all copies of Journler will require a license.



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Yep - 1 FREE License Giveaway - Winner Announced

To learn more about Yep - Click Here

FOR PDF FILES
Photos have iPhoto. Music has iTunes. But when it comes to PDF files, you are on your own. That is, until now. Now there is Yep and there is no looking back.

Start Yep for the first time and it automatically shows you all your PDF files tagged based on where they were found on your hard disk. But the real fun begins when you start adding your own tags. You will never go back to a hierarchical filing system again!

And you might even think that iPhoto, iTunes and the Finder could learn a thing or two from Yep.

FOR PAPER
Every house has cardboard boxes and filing cabinets full of receipts, important medical records, old letters and income tax returns, usually inconveniently stuck in the basement somewhere.

Now that Yep makes it so easy to keep all your PDF documents in one place, instantly retrievable and searchable, it might just be time to start scanning some of those paper documents into your computer and Yep will help you do it!

LIKE iPhoto FOR YOUR PDF FILES

SCAN IN DOCUMENTS USING THE BUILT IN SCANNER INTERFACE

Scan in new documents using Yep’s built in scanner interface. Or use the scanning software that came with your scanner. Either way, your PDF files show up in Yep for easy tagging and organizing.

1 FREE LICENSE GIVEAWAY

Ironic Software Incorporated has generously given us 1 license of Yep to giveaway on our site - Retail Value $34.00.

All you have to do is leave a comment with at least one feature you would like to see added to Yep, and you will automatically be entered into the random giveaway. The giveaway will end on April 1, 2008 and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

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Klondike Forever - Beautiful 3D Solitaire Game

Klondike Forever is a beautiful free 3D solitaire game for OS X. Instead of dragging the cards where they need to go, just click on the card and it will fly automatically to where it is supposed to go. There are versions available for OS X and Windows.

FEATURES
Windows Version Released (New)
Auto Flip Cards (New)
Shows Available Moves (New)
Unlimited Undo/Redo
Full Screen Mode
Single Or Double Click To Auto Move Cards
Auto Play To Foundations
Much More



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Carbon Copy Cloner - OS X Backup/Cloning Utility

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1 is a free application for OS X, that makes the cloning and backup procedure more intuitive. You have complete control over what gets backed up, and you are provided with detailed information about the progress of the backup. In addition to performing a general backup, it can also copy every block to create an exact replica of your source hard drive.

FEATURES

  • Support For Block Level Disk-To-Disk Cloning
  • Built-In Synchronization
  • Backup Across The Network To Another Mac
  • Advanced Scheduling Capabilities
  • Schedule Hourly, Daily, Weekly Or Monthly Backups
  • iPod Backup Support
  • Drill Down Into Folders To Select What Gets Copied
  • Much More



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