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Speak! 1.5
Speak! brings you an easy to use and powerful toolbar menu with the ability to let you hear whatever you type, anywhere in your system! more>>
Speak! 1.5 brings you an easy to use and powerful toolbar menu with the ability to let you hear whatever you type, anywhere in your system! It's great if you have a disability and would like to hear what you just typed, or for just plain fun! It adds a voice to your computer and lets it talk. You can choose from any of your system voices and endless pitches to play with. It is very reasonably priced.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Speak Text CM 1.1.1
Speak Text CM is a beneficial and easy to use application which can let your computer read your e-mail to you. more>>
Speak Text CM 1.1.1 is a beneficial and easy to use application which can let your computer read your e-mail to you. Have you noticed that reading a paper out loud helps to find mistakes? Speak Text CM will speak the selected text in any program. Speak Text CM and Speak Text Engine are not INITs, but are a Contextual Menu plugin and an application, respectively, so they should not cause any conflicts.
PowerTask 2.11
PowerTask is described as a convenient, reliable and drag and drop task setting CRON utility for the Macintosh. more>>
PowerTask 2.11 is described as a convenient, reliable and drag and drop task setting CRON utility for the Macintosh.
Major Features:
- PowerTask launches application, documents or scripts automatically and at any time without any programming knowledge at all.
- As well, PowerTask posts reminders on the screen at any time.
- Tasks can run once or periodically and is flexible enough to run at the user's preference.
- Setting tasks is as easy as dragging files or text onto the task list window and then setting the time or period in which you want this task to run.
- PowerTask can launch files ranging from applications to web documents to AppleScripts and Frontier Scripts.
- With MRJ installed, PowerTask can also launch standalone Java Applications/Applets.
- Its uses are as varied as the number of Mac owners. As well, if your Mac crashes before a task is run, PowerTask will recover the tasks that needed to run and execute them while they are within their "run-until-stale" time window.
- Short cut menus store your most recently used tasks. Easy to install and simple to use.
Requirements:
- 68030 or greater
- PowerPC CPU
- MacOS 7.5 or greater
- AppleScript PlainTalk Optional (for speaking alerts)
- Java VM's Optional (for running Java Apps)
Sidekick 1.4.1
Sidekick is an effective program allowing you to get immediate access to AppleWorks features from a single point more>>
Sidekick 1.4.1 is an effective program allowing you to get immediate access to AppleWorks features from a single point
Major Features:
- Create a new document without first starting AppleWorks 6.
- Easily access your most recent documents.
- Use Mac OS X Services including Look Up in Dictionary, Spotlight, Speak Text, etc (Registered users only)
- Search Google, Britannica.com, online dictionaries or an online thesaurus from a word processing document.
- Speed up AppleWorks by automatically removing recent items
- Start Classic version of AppleWorks 6 (if installed).
- Reset AppleWorks to its factory state
- Find AppleWorks tips and help by opening popular Apple and third-party web sites.
- Quickly launch applications including Pages, Keynote, Address Book and Calculator.
RecipeBook 3.1
RecipeBook is such a simple yet useful software in which its interface is designed to be familiar if you have used applications such as the Apple Address Book. more>>
RecipeBook 3.1 is such a simple yet useful software in which its interface is designed to be familiar if you have used applications such as the Apple Address Book.
RecipeBook is easy to use with any recipe text files or clippings you already have and is simple to use with recipes you find on the internet.
RecipeBook is designed with ease and speed in mind. It's the perfect way for busy people to file away recipes without laborious typing of ingredient lists that many programs insist on, and the clean, simple interface doesn't get in your way.
Major Features:
- New recipe rating field added. Rate your recipes with one to five stars.
- New rich-text recipes. Use the fonts, sizes, styles and colors you want in your recipe text.
- New; printed recipes now respect your fonts and styles. The recipe picture is also printed, if you have one.
- Easy to use, familiar interface.
- Drag and drop text clippings or files onto the RecipeBook icon to automatically create new recipes. Put it in the dock for easy access and the ability to add recipes at any time.
- Drag recipe text from internet recipes into the recipe text field of a new recipe for entry in seconds. Just type in the name and any keywords and you're set! Drag a recipe photo to the photo field for a visual representation of the recipe.
- Free form keywords let you organize recipes the way YOU want. Add as many as you'd like!
- Powerful search field works intuitively and it's search-as-you-type!
- "Kitchen mode" lets you see the recipe from afar to keep cooking ingredients away from your computer and can even read recipes back to you (Languages your computer can speak).
- Print recipes out for use when your computer isn't close by.
- Unit Converter aids you in preparing recipes written using "the other" measuring system.
- Automatic saving of data, just like in the Address Book.
- Easy backup and restore of the database to keep your data safe.
Requirements:
- Supported on MacOS X 10.4, 10.5; may run on earlier versions
- Earthrise RecipeBook is a Universal Binary.
Speedy File Renamer 1.0.0
Speedy File Renamer is developed to be a handy tool which helps with adding, modifying, and removing batch file name preffixs, suffixs and any matching text specified. more>>
Speedy File Renamer 1.0.0 is developed to be a handy tool which helps with adding, modifying, and removing batch file name preffixs, suffixs and any matching text specified. So if you have a folder full of files, that all start with the same text, such as "picture001", "Piture002" etc. you can use this program to remove the "Picture" text, or replace it with something else, or even add text after the file name !
This program is VERY fast, I tested this program on a duplicate folder of one I use for one of my websites, where there were almost 300 files, all of them starting with the text "m_", this program renamed all of the files, in about 1 second ! (I am using a PowerMac G4 1.2GHz with 1.3GB of RAM! so you may well see slightly slower speeds).
It can add text to the beginning or end of a file name, or search for a specific string (geek speak for text phrase), it can be used to remove existing text, or modify it, by replacing it with different text.
All you need to do is tell it what folder to use, it will load the file names into a list, and then you can set up the options as required.
LiSA 3.02T
LiSA is one of the most salutary programs that can let your Mac tell you in a real human voice when you have interesting email. No more beeps. more>>
LiSA 3.02T is one of the most salutary programs that can let your Mac tell you in a real human voice when you have interesting email. No more beeps.
LiSA, the Liquid Information Speaking Assistant tells you who your incoming messages are from and announces them as-&-when-they-arrive, not just when you log on to check your messages. So you can hear: "You've got a message from an important client". Or maybe "You've got a reply from your lover" all with a real human voice (not synthesized speech).
How can LiSA know which messages are interesting to you? You tell her: LiSA can be customized to announce all incoming messages, announce only messages from people in your Address Book or announce messages which are only from the users Address Book unless they are replies or the words 'important' or 'urgent' are in the message Subject.
You can also specify that she is to ignore emails from specified addresses all the time. She can talk a lot or a little - it's all up to you. She can even announce the time. LiSA is perfect for anyone with a permanent Internet connection but also useful for anyone who spends some time on regular dial-up connections. Works with POP & IMAP as well as any email client.
TalkTime 1.02
TalkTime is an beneficial and easy to use application which uses speech to remind you of events. more>>
TalkTime 1.02 is an beneficial and easy to use application which uses speech to remind you of events. It can remind you with a dialog or a spoken sentence, and supports up to 255 events. It can be helpful for someone really forgetful or the world's most organized person alike.
PixWriter 1.0
PixWriter - Writing program with text, pictures, and speech more>>
Main features:
- User selects a button, the word and picture appear, and the computer speaks!
- Making Vocabulary Setups is Easy - Just Type!
- 16, 36, and 64 Button Setups.
- Choose Voices, Rates, Pronunciations.
- Over 3000 Literacy Support Symbols and the Ability to Import Photos and other Clip Art.
- Save and Print documents.
- Accessable - Use Adapted Keyboard, Mouse, TouchWindow(R), and Single-Switch Scanning!
- Amazing tool for beginning writers! Win their interest and enable success!
Warrior Kings
Warrior Kings is an epic real-time strategy game that uses true 3D to propel you into a living, bleeding medieval fantasy world. more>>
Imagine another time, another place, another earth. An earth that has shaped itself in d ifferent ways, where history has taken a different path. Our tale begins with the Empire of the One God, a mighty Empire currently at the peak of its power, an empire that controls much of the continent called Orbis.
This Empire is jointly ruled by the secular and religious authorities - the Holy Protector, the commander of the army, and the Supreme Patriarch, spiritual ruler of the Empire.
For centuries, the Holy Protector has kept the barbarians and pagans of Outer Orbis at bay and the Supreme Patriarch has ensured that the True Way of the One God has prevailed throughout the Empire. Tensions and political infighting have dogged the empire from time to time, as different Protectors and Patriarchs have vied for control. Yet, broadly speaking, the Empire has benefited from a long period of peace and stability.
All that has suddenly changed. When the old Patriarch died, the Great Cardinals went into seclusion to elect a new Patriarch. However, the Cardinals made an unexpected choice: Icthyus Granitas was elected as the Supreme Patriarch, in somewhat unusual circumstances. Five of the Cardinals died of a mysterious fever during the election process and several votes had to be retaken due to procedural irregularities. Rumours abound about the past of this new Patriarch - but nothing has ever been proven or charges ever levelled against him.
Under Icthyus Granitas, power and wealth has been strongly centralised at Telamagna, the City of the One God, but the Empire as a whole has begun to crack at the seams. The Holy Protector, Karlem Agnus, once a vigorous and mighty warrior, seems more interested in affairs of the body, rather than affairs of state. He follows the orders of the new Patriarch almost blindly, no matter how nonsensical they seem to the army and the Assembly of the Tribunes. People in the city whisper of dark deeds at the Palace of the Holy Patriarch, of order and civilization sacrificed on the altar of ambition.
Those Great Cardinals who object to the Patriarchs rule disappear, fall ill, or seem to change their minds overnight. Others are replaced with stooges and lickspittles of his choosing. Nobles who oppose him are arrested on trumped up charges of treason or heresy, and summarily executed or exiled. The restless people live in fear. The murder of Tribunes and Captains who oppose the Patriarchs rule is almost a daily occurrence. The army has turned from protecting the Empire from enemies without, to suppressing so-called enemies within.
The Outer Provinces of the Empire have been stripped of their garrisons to police the richer, wealthier and more taxable provinces of the interior, with inevitable consequences. Barbarians and raiders plunder almost at will. Petty princelings and mercenary adventurers from beyond the borders of the Empire grow bolder day by day.
There is much discontent, and the aristocracy have turned to one of the most respected members of the Senate to act as their leader, the Baron Amalric of Cravant.
Unfortunately this has only served to present the Patriarch with a clear target. On the pretext of rampant heresy in the province of Cravant, the Patriarch issued a new edict, stating that the Baron of Cravant has been led astray, and calling on true followers of the faith to stamp out witchcraft and heresy in that province. Shortly after, one of the Patriarchs henchmen, Lothar, the Bishop of Ostrovir, moved against the Duke. Backed by many mercenaries and Imperial troops, he arrested the Duke on false charges, and put him to the sword. But the Dukes son, Artos, escaped with his life, swearing to avenge his fathers death...
You control Artos and the future of House Cravant. Can the young Artos prevail against the might of the Empire, or will he fall victim to the power of the corrupt Patriarch and his evil minions? His destiny, and the future of the Empire are in your hands...
Main features:
- A true 3D game environment with terrain that matters - that is it allows for actual strategic advantage. You can exploit this realistic 3D terrain of rolling hills, deep forests and hidden valleys to out manoeuvre your enemy.
- A highly developed game interface that enables intuitive play by using positive visual cues.
- An evolving game path - that is the game becomes more complex as it develops.
- Rich graphics rendered with historical accuracy.
- A choice of 3 races to join - Imperial, Pagan and Renaissance - each with their own unique features, strengths and weaknesses.
- A massive single-player campaign with three separate and distinct paths.
- Over 35 building types and over 60 different types of unit (pikeman, peasant, etc).
- Internet Play supports up to 8 simultaneous players to participate in on-line tournament matches, playing full-on multi-player games.
PhoneValet Anywhere 1.0
PhoneValet Anywhere - Global telephony hub and telecommunications server more>>
With PhoneValet Anywhere, Internet-ready PhoneValet users across your premises or around the world can access phone messages and reports, call log and phone book information from a Mac, PC, Linux, or Solaris-based computer using a standard Web browser like Safari or Internet Explorer.
Mac and PC users also enjoy caller ID popups that announce caller names and numbers as calls come in, and Mac users can additionally hear voice announcements for those incoming calls.
PhoneValet Anywhere offers a familiar Web-based interface to your PhoneValet telephony information.
From the Web you have access to your phone book and call log. You can edit call notes and play messages and recordings. You can also sort, search and run reports on the call log the same way you do with your PhoneValet desktop application.
PhoneValet Anywhere can send call announcements to Macintosh and Windows machines across the Internet. Triggered by Caller ID coming in for a call, these announcements allow people to know who is calling and decide whether to take the call. Macintosh computers will even speak the name of the caller, as well as displaying the name on-screen.
PhoneValet Anywhere takes full advantage of Apples Bonjour networking (formerly called "Rendezvous") to make it simple to configure remote Web access.
Configuring clients is as simple as installing one small client application and then choosing your client computers from a list. No more hunting for IP addresses, and no more reconfiguring when IP addresses change.
iListen MX 1.7
iListen MX - Adds MouseAnywhereTN ScriptPak and a VXi TalkPro or TalkPro Xpress Headset to iListen more>>
Main features:
- Easy to install, train and use
- Continuous Speech Recognition - Dictation in normal tone of voice and at a normal pace using the Philips FreeSpeech 2000 speech engine
- Direct Dictation - Dictate, edit and format text directly in any Application
- Correction - Correct and Update your Voice Model in almost any Application.
- Hands Free Correction - Correct using your voice, no need to use the keyboard or mouse!, (Mac OS X only)
- Correction Playback - Hear what you said - in your own Voice!
- Adapts to your Speech - iListen adapts to your pronunciation of words faster and more accurately!
- Transcription - Use a Digital Voice Recorder such as the Olympus DM-1, DS-330, or DS-2000 with your Mac. Let iListen read and transcribe your AIFF or WAV audio files into text.
- Huge Vocabulary - Vocabulary of more than 330,000 words developed in cooperation with Oxford University
- Command and Control - Speech control of the computer through built-in normal language and individually created commands
- Constant Feedback - The iListen Floating Palette provides you with constant feedback.
- Dock Menu - You can even use the Dock to access iListen functions on Mac OS X.
- Multiple Profiles - Everyone in your home can create their own voice profile, now everyone can use it!
- Text Macro Capabilities - Insert (up to 32,000 character) standardized or predetermined phrases and text - with a single spoken phrase
- Speech Navigation - Open, close and control applications and navigate the desktop by speech
- AppleScript Compatible - Ability to take advantage of Apples built-in scripting language
- Internet Ready - Surf the web with your voice.
Enhancements:
- In addition to iListen and a VXi TalkPro Xpress USB headset, this CD includes the following set of ScriptPaks : MouseAnywhere, and the "iLife ScriptPak bundle" which includes: iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand! You get all these ScriptPaks for 40% off the standard retail price.
MessageMan 1.5
MessageMan brings a highly flexible, feature-rich application which works as a home messaging system. more>>
MessageMan 1.5 brings a highly flexible, feature-rich application which works as a home messaging system. Set up an account and mail box for each user, and you're good to go. Now, why would you need a home messaging system? If you get a phone call and the family member it's for isn't available, forget the notepad! Use MessageMan and when they get home they'll know where to look. Maybe you need to go somewhere and nobody else is home. No problem! They'll know where you went because you left a message with MessageMan's Public Box!
Better yet, you don't even need to login to see if you have new messages. Just open the application and check on the fly with the "scoreboard!" MessageMan uses strong encryption methods to keep messages private. MessageMan also has plenty of options that can be configured for each person's mailbox, including: automatic speaking of messages, auto-logout, deletion of read messages after a period of time, and many others. There's nothing else like it.
Emblematic 0.96
Emblematic is developed to be an interesting tool with which you can add a funny, distinctive and visual emblem on top of a file, folder or app icon as the same time you specify a color label more>>
Emblematic 0.96 is developed to be an interesting tool with which you can add a funny, distinctive and visual emblem on top of a file, folder or app icon as the same time you specify a color label for it. You can, for instance add a "red heart" picture for files tagged with the red label or a "forbidden" symbol on top of those files marked as gray. You can leave a recycle symbol for those colored as green.
You can configure everything easily from a control panel for the seven Finder label colors: purple, red, green, yellow, gray, blue and orange. Besides that, Emblematic will display a funny and colorful animation on top of the icon and, play a "pop" sound (as if you had lipped a stamp) and "speak" the label content with the Mac OS speech synthesizer. Moreover, Emblematic will tune itself everyday with Idiopathical, downloading and suggesting you new cool emblems for each label.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher
Lightsoft Weather Center 0.5.1
Lightsoft Weather Center comes as an effective weather graphing, monitoring and analysis application for Mac OS X. more>>
Lightsoft Weather Center 0.5.1 comes as an effective weather graphing, monitoring and analysis application for Mac OS X. LWC is designed to work with the Davis Vantage and WS-2300 series of hardware weather stations as well as using Internet based weather sources to monitor two other locations.
As data is gathered and stored in its database LWC allows you to view weather statistics such as the lowest temperature, or the highest wind speed over any time period stored in the database. In addition LWC contains a journal for weather notes and can generate web pages containing current conditions, graphs, statistics and a web-cam image. LWC can upload these web pages to your server for display via a web browser anywhere in the world.
LWC also monitors the weather and can run a set of pre-defined and user programmed alerts that can trigger emails, send SMS messages to your mobile phone and/or run scripts should an alert trigger.
Major Features:
- Integration with Davis Vantage and WS 23xx range of weather stations.
- Wunderground PWS upload support
- A local network client can display weather station gauges on any machine on your local network.
- CWOP upload - user programmable server list, ports and upload time (with random variation).
- Simple web page generation and upload to web server of current conditions, graphs, web cam image, statistics and journal - just fill in a few details and have your weather pages on-line in a few minutes
- Custom web page processing - takes your web pages, replaces weather tags with current data, graphs, dials, web-cam imagery and FTP to your web server with up to 3 upload streams simultaneously.
- Custom CGI driver - can drive a CGI on your web server with current weather data in close to real time. Simple example php scripts included.
- Continuous and unlimited recording, monitoring and analysis of weather data for up to three locations.
- Provides graphs of temperature, dew point, wind chill, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation and barometric pressure.
- Can graph and display conditions for any date in the database; dates can be entered using natural language; for example 'last wednesday'. Graph scales range from 1 to 56 days.
- Continuous statistics calculation and display.
- Continuous database timeline maintenance; if LWC misses samples, data is interpolated between last know good sample and the latest.
- Database query facility; for example querying the total rainfaill over a given date range.
- A journal, linked to the database for recording your own weather notes.
- Export of data from any date range within the database.
- Additional sources of weather data for comparison purposes or keeping an eye on other locations include weather.com, The Weather Underground, The Weather Underground Personal Weather Pages, METAR and NOAA. Backup sources can be specified.
- Three pre-programmed alerts; ice, rain and clear sky.
- Unlimited number of user programmed alerts.
- LWC can send email, SMS message (via modem) and run scripts when an alert is triggered.
- In-built test system for custom alerts.
- Independent units for each of the six main data types.
- The current weather can be spoken.
- Daily data email; sends tab-delimited data email for any or all locations.
- LWC can collect, display and animate satellite imagery.
- Weather records can be notified via email.
Requirements: Mac (all)
