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TechTool Pro 4.5.3
TechTool Pro - Hard drive repair & maintenance tool more>>
TechTool Pro 4 now features a suite of S.M.A.R.T tests (Self Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology).
Most modern hard drives now support this industry standard that employs predictive diagnostics and analysis to help foresee a drive failure BEFORE it happens. TechTool Pro 4s SMART test allows you to automatically monitor this vital data and be forewarned of impending danger to your data, allowing you to back up critical information before disaster strikes.
The eDrive feature allows you to create an invisible emergency volume from your existing drive. This new partition is created WITHOUT the need to reformat your current drive and allows you to store a copy of your system, a copy of TechTool Pro and even allows you to make room for other utilities.
If you ever have trouble with your main drive, simply restart your computer and your system will start from your Emergency Drive giving you immediate access to the utilities youll need to resurrect your main drive. Now theres no more need for a bootable CD or ancillary hard drive for system drive repair or maintenance.
With the power of Mac OS X, TechTool Pro 4 is now the fastest version of the program weve ever made. With Mac OS Xs native multitasking capability, TechTool Pro 4 can now run its full battery of tests simultaneously. This means that repair and maintenance chores that once took minutes will only take seconds.
TechTool Pro 4 now offers a new optimization feature for your Mac OS X drive. The Mac OS X system contains thousands of files that fragment quickly. TechTool Pro 4 lets you quickly and safely unfragment these and other files so your system runs reliably at its peak.

pocket* 1.5.2
Has twittering turned into a chore? A twitter client for the rest of us. more>>
Has twittering turned into a chore? Pocket* is a twitter client for the rest of us.
- The simplest Twitter client.
- Easy post, easy Retweet.
- Stays under the menu bar constantly.
- Please use TwitterPod or the other twitter client at the same time to your likings.
- Change theme.
- (Optionally) Plays sound when new tweets come in.
Trash Tender 1.0b2
Trash Tender - Timed trash manager more>>
Outspring Mail 1.1.1
Email client with automation and learning features. more>>
Outspring Mail 1.1.1 is an email program which can help you in various ways. Like offering to reply to certain types of email messages using a response you've previously sent. Or giving you the option to auto-file a message you've read based on how you've filed similar messages in the past. What if you could defer a message from your inbox for a few days or weeks, so that it magically reappears later when you're ready to deal with it? What if this program had an amazing junk mail filter that would leave your inbox devoid of spam? And what if this program was as familiar and easy to use as Apple Mail?
Outspring Mail is the newest email client for Macintosh.This tool can include the best features of existing email programs and coupled them with our patent-pending intelligent functions to create a program that will make your email chores far easier. And since this is a current-generation application, it supports major email protocols including POP, IMAP, SMTP and SSL. It also runs natively on the latest Macintosh computers and OS X Leopard. Demo notes: Launching the program and pressing the DEMO button (instead of entering a serial number) will place the program in demo mode, which is: All functions and features of the program will operate for 10 days. A "This message was sent with Outspring Mail..." tag will be added to all outgoing messages sent with the program. After the 10-day demo period has expired, the program will still work, but the user will not be able to send out mail or receive new mail until reactivated with a serial number provided at purchase.
Major Features:
- Unique Features
- Auto-Filing
- Auto-Reply
- Find Similar Messages
- Reply with Template
- Message Deferment
- Message Preview with Intelligent Summary
- Tabbed Display
- Resize / Rotate Images
- Mail Account Icons
- Email With A Brain: Outspring Mail ushers in an entirely new category of software to the Macintosh: adaptive intelligent software. By using advanced database analysis and Bayesian logic, the program is able to ascertainImage patterns in the way you reply to and file your mail and make suggestions to assist you with your communications. Think about it...if you frequently reply to an email message that says, "How do I get to your office?" or words to that effect; shouldn't your email program be smart enough to know that you've replied to this same type of message before? And shouldn't it then offer to use one of these replies for the current message? The program also offers a similar technique for filing messages. Once the program has gone through a short learning process of observing your mail filing habits and cross-referencing message content, it will begin to suggest appropriate folders or mailboxes to file messages. Instead of dragging messages to folder icons, you'll be presented with one or more likely destination buttons that will automatically file your mail in an appropriate location.
- Message Deferment: Another unique feature of Outspring Mail is a function called Message Deferment. This is much like the "snooze" button on an alarm clock. Many people will receive a message, read it, make a mental note to handle it later and then leave it in their Inbox. ImageAfter a few weeks or months, their Inbox becomes an unmanageable mess. But what if you could instead read the message, decide you don't want to deal with it this week and send it "away" for a week? The deferment feature then moves the message to a special folder and the program waits for the selected amount of time. When that time period has elapsed, Outspring Mail then moves the message back into the Inbox with an indicator reminding you that the message is a deferred message that has been returned.
- Intelligent Summary:The product also contains a unique "Intelligent Summary" view. By using advanced summarizing algorithms, this feature allows you to quickly review email by a list of the summarized content, negating the need to open each message to see the heart of that content.
- Spam Control:ImageOutspring Mail also contains an advanced spam filter that can eliminate 98% of your incoming junk mail. Having developed a server-side spam blocker for a number of years, Outspring has leveraged this experience into the spam filter which is included with the product.
- Data Detectors For Calendar & Address Book: Another useful feature is data detection on incoming messages that link to the Macintosh built in Imagecalendar, iCal. If you receive a message that contains a phrase like, "Let's meet for lunch next Friday...", Outspring Mail will convert the phrase "next Friday" into a hot link. Clicking that link will take you to the iCal entry for the following Friday (based on the send date of the message). This Imagefeature works with literal dates like 1/15/09, May 15, 2008 and also with relative dates like "next Friday", "last Tuesday", etc.
- Outspring Mail also links to your Apple address book, so contact data will be displayed within messages (like the contacts photo, if present). Clicking on that contact's image will take you to that entry in the address book.
- Easy Transition From Apple Mail & QuickMailImage: Whether you are an existing Apple Mail or QuickMail user, you'll find it easy to import all of your existing email data into Outspring Mail. Our import assistant allows you to select which accounts you wish to import into Outspring Mail while leaving the database of the prior program intact. Import works with both POP and IMAP accounts.
- ImageSpell Check Outspring Mail utilizes the the Macintosh system dictionary for spelling, corrections, synonyms and definitions. Misspelled words are highlighted as they are typed, which reduces the need to proof-read your outgoing messages. You can also check the definitions of words by simply control-clicking the word in question. By using the system dictionary, Outspring Mail is compatible with any language supported by OS X.
Enhancements: Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented adding/removing columns in the message list.
- Fixed missing message headers when switching rapidly between messages.
- Fixed an issue with demo serial number invalid.
NuFile 1.9
NuFile - Contextual Menu Plugin to create an empty file with two clicks more>>
If you like this program, and want to see its improvement please consider making a donation.
For example, I usually take notes in TEX.
By using NuFile, I can just right click on a finder windows and choose a new TEX File to create a TEX file with all the template stuff at the folder the finder window points to.
Main features:
- Contextual Menu Plugin (just right click on finder background)
- Create a New Empty Text file with two clicks
- Create a New Html file with all header and footer with two clicks
- Create a New TEX file with all template stuff with two clicks
- Custom template. Its quite a chore in this release though.
Enhancements:
- Now the templates has icons in the contextual menu
Optusnet Usage Meter 0.3 Beta
Optusnet Usage Meter - Checks how much of an Optusnet Broadband accounts monthly download limit has been used. more>> Use My Bills to help manage your finances and make sure you never forget to pay a bill. Entering text on a Palm is never easy, so in My Bills you enter a bill just once. My Bills will enter it for you on each day it is due for the entire year. Bills are listed for each month of the year, and marking a bill as paid is as simple as tapping on it in the list.
My Bills has many functions to help you make this chore easier. You can easily put a reminder, with or without an alarm, in your datebook so you wont forget. Customize My Bills with your own preferences. Users all over the world have downloaded and registered because they found My Bills so helpful.<<less

SmartShuno 1.1
SmartShuno is a high-speed and powerful program which puts files away for you. Set rules like smart folder or rules in Mail.app. SmartShuno will then do chores for you. more>> SmartShuno 1.1 is a high-speed and powerful program which puts files away for you. Set rules like smart folder or rules in Mail.app. SmartShuno will then do chores for you.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
SimpleTimer 1.2
SimpleTimer - Create reminders & double-click them from the desktop more>>
This software is free software under the GNU GPL. Source code is freely available as a tarball or zipfile or directly at the CVS repository.
Main features:
- One window for every timer.
- Set up the entire behavior of the timer just like you would do with a "real" kitchen timer.
- Open as many timers as you desire.
- When timer goes off, you can open a message, and/or open a web page, and/or play a sound file.
- Each timer can have its own individual messages, URLs, sounds.
- Save your frequent reminder messages and URLs.
- Able to read any standard sound format (MP3, AIFF, SND, NeXT, etc.).
- Ability to program cyclic timers, with a custom repeat cycle (eventually after a specified date).
- Once timers are set, you may close their windows and forget them: they will run in the background, while you do your work. (You cant close the app though.)
- Save timers on the disk, and double click them from the Desktop (or from anywhere on the Finder). You can set them to auto-start once opened.
- Summary panel that shows the status of every open timer, with countdown, reminder name, actions that will be performed and repeatitions settings.
- Countdown is shown also printed on individual timer windows.
- Quickly glance at the status of all your timers with a single Control-click on the dock icon. (Isnt it annoying when you have to bring an application window visible to the front just to see the status of one window?)
- Since you can save a timer as an independent file on your disk, you can create reminders for other people too: employees, friends, and others (provided they have SimpleTimer installed on their computers).
- Low CPU usage: SimpleTimer doesnt keep your CPU busy, and has a small memory footprint.
- Being a native Cocoa application, SimpleTimer blends nicely into the traditional "Aqua" user experience.
Enhancements:
- Universal binary build.
- Removed redundant warning functionalities.
- Cleaned up the main UI (a little bit).
- Some bug fixes.
Add File Extension 1.0
Add File Extension - Select a list of files you want to convert and drop them on the magic hat icon more>>
As you begin to use your IMS computers you will probably want to transfer documents created on your Macintosh to your IMS network folder. If your file name does not include the correct three-letter file extension then your IMS computer may not know which application to use to open the file. That means you will have to select the correct application each time you open a transferred file. You can add the correct file extension for each file manually if you want to. Not a big deal for a handful of documents. But could be a real chore if you have lots and lots of files. Or you can just let this magic little application do it for you.
How does it work?
Magic of course! Just select a list of files you want to convert and drop them on the magic hat icon. Then watch it perform.
It auto-magically checks the file type and adds the correct file extension to the file name. Because some operating systems cant handle file names longer than 31 characters, it will also truncate the file name to 27 characters (the dot and the three-letter extension make it 31).
If the new 31 character file name is already used a dialog box will appear asking you to select a different name. If the name you select is already in use then the operation will stop. You will have to check your files and try again with any files that were not already converted.
What files does it convert?
It will currently work with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents; AppleWorks documents and FileMaker Pro documents. All other files will be ignored. If you have a lot of documents from another application, let me know and I will add them to the list and send you an update.
peekabot 0.6.0 RC1 / 0.5.2
3D visualization tool aimed at aiding roboticists in their daily chores peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool targeted at robotics researchers and developers more>> 3D visualization tool aimed at aiding roboticists in their daily chores
peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool targeted at robotics researchers and developers.
Its multi-platform, easily extendable, general purpose, scalable, free as in free speech and does not depend on any other frameworks to function. peekabot also provides some functionality for interacting with your robots using the GUI.
Testing your algorithms in both simulated and real environments? No problem, with peekabot you get the same visualization at no extra charge. Our only requirement is that the device can talk TCP/IP.
Enhancements
- This is a bugfix-only release of peekabot that mainly fixes issues relating to building and running peekabot on Mac OS X.

Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS 1.1.3
Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS can be seen as a good-quality communications platform with a lot of features which is used for exchanging disks and disk images between the Apple 8-bit family computers and the modern world. more>>
Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS 1.1.3 can be seen as a good-quality communications platform with a lot of features which is used for exchanging disks and disk images between the Apple 8-bit family computers and the modern world.
ADTPro has two main purposes in life:
- Transferring Apple disk images
- Bootstrapping Apple II computers when boot diskettes are long gone
ADTPro uses any of three communications mechanisms:
- Serial (RS-232, USB) hardware
- A2Retrosystems "Uthernet" ethernet card
- Audio/Cassette ports
Bootstrapping chores can occur with zero software at the Apple II end over serial and audio communications links. Extensive help and tutorials are available on the ADTPro website: adtpro.sourceforge.net
Major Features:
- Transfers any storage device ProDOS or SOS can access
- Runs on any Apple II, Apple ///, or clone computer with 64k of memory
- Runs on Linux, Mac OSX, OS/2, Windows, and probably Solaris
- Understands many digital disk formats: .DSK, .PO, .NIB, 2IMG
- Serves the original ADT client as well as the updated ADTPro client
- Bootstraps Apple II and Apple /// computers from bare metal over serial or cassette ports
- Sends floppies in "batch" mode without having to name each one
- Formats media on the Apple II or Apple ///
Enhancements:
- New functionality:
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- [Server] OSX distribution now comes with a double-clickable .app that automatically does all the magic to start a Java program under the covers with no terminal window
- [Client] Enabled ProDOS booting (and bootstrapping) on the Franklin Ace 1000/1200
- Bug fixes:
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- [Client] Space bar wasn't cycling through configuration items on machines without up/down arrow keys
- [Server] Fixed breathtakingly slow operations with FTDI-based USB serial adapters
- [Server] Integrated new level (2.2Pre2 + fixes) of RXTX serial library; this offers 64-bit Windows support as well as improved Mac OS X support, including Snow Leopard
- [Server] Made the "change working directory" work a little more sensibly on OSX - allowing you to navigate "into" a directory and pick that as the current working directory
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