defragmentation tool trial software / shareware for mac

The first software suite for creating, applying, and sharing effects on the Avid AVX architecture.

Start with 85 real-time AVX plug-ins included with the package. Reactor lends powerful compositing features to every effect: blend modes, apply to title, high-resolution external graphic files and built-in geometry controls.

Discover how to modify existing effects or create new ones using Factory Floor. Unleash the power of Core Image and Quartz Composer in your own AVX plug-in without writing a single line of code.

Expand your collection of AVX plug-ins with effects created by a growing community of talented artists. Let your effect-shopping instincts go wild!

Trackplan Tools is a plugin filter for Adobe Illustrator to quickly draw model railroad trackplans.
Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select your turnout size, the scale of your drawing, your curve radius, whether youre using easements, and your track centers (e.g., 2" for HO scale).
Trackwork is automatically joined and held tangent to the connecting track--no kinks! Trackplan Tools is an excellent companion to CADTools plugin from Hot Door software.
Enhancements:
- Universal Binary, updated for use with Adobe Illustrator CS3

Every computer user has noticed it; over time, your system slows down. This is particularly true in these days of constant security updates as replacing operating system components not only increases the potential for file fragmentation, but also creates a more insidious problem over time, the operating system itself ends up scattered all over your disk.
This, of course, doesnt show up as fragmentation after all, the files themselves are probably contiguous but nevertheless, it takes your machine longer to start up, it takes programs longer to start, and above all, it takes longer to get your work done.
iDefrag defragments and optimizes your disk for improved performance.
Add in the size of some of the files in common use today, especially music, video, graphics and computer games, and even the best filesystem has trouble keeping things contiguous.
Some people say that HFS+ is so good that you dont need to defragment. In a way, theyre right: HFS+ is pretty good at keeping small to medium sized files from getting fragmented it isnt particular good, however, at keeping large files or free space from fragmenting, a particular problem on the Mac because the swapfile must be contiguous on the disk, so you can actually run out of virtual memory long before you run out of disk space if your free space is fragmented.
Another objection, this time raised by Apple, is that existing defragmentation tools may actually slow your machine down by moving files into or out of the "Hot Band", defeating Panthers Adaptive Hot File Clustering code. As far as we know, iDefrag is the first defragmentation tool for the Mac that fully supports the Hot Zone, guaranteeing that this is not a problem.
Even if you arent interested in defragmenting your hard disk, if you produce products on CD-ROM disks, iDefrag will be of use. Seek times on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disks are many times slower than those of hard disk mechanisms, so fragmentation really hits performance, in some cases adding many minutes to read times. iDefrag can defragment disk images before they are burnt onto CD or DVD-ROM, optimizing access time and significantly reducing install or read times.
And, unlike other products, iDefrag provides a wealth of information about your files, so you can see which ones are most fragmented and even look where they are on the disk. The screenshots on this page are from a perfectly normal 120GB hard disk, installed in a PowerMac G4 that is used for software development, wordprocessing and other everyday tasks (writing this web page, for instance).
Look how fragmented it has become; most of that is actually down to one or two large files, like /usr/bin/emacs, shown on the right, with 96 fragments but there are a substantial number of less fragmented files, over 3,000 in fact.
Main features:
- Full support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDefrag is compatible with the latest versions of Mac OS X, and with the very latest hardware from Apple.
- Works with Time Machine
iDefrag is safe to use on Time Machine back-up volumes if you so wish.
- Native support for journaled filesystems
iDefrag knows about the journal and does the right thing automatically. No need to turn journaling off to defragment or optimize your disk.
- Support for case-sensitive HFS+
Using case-sensitive HFS+ for compatibility with legacy UNIX software? No problem. iDefrag knows what to do.
- Supports the Hot Zone
Mac OS X is smart about the files you use the most. It moves them to an area on the disk called the Hot Zone, for improved access times. Unlike older defragmentation tools, iDefrag understands the Hot Zone, and knows which files should be there.
- Thermal Monitoring
iDefrag watches the temperature of your disk while defragmenting. If things are getting a little toasty, iDefrag will wait for the disk to cool down before continuing.
- Four powerful defragmentation algorithms
Optimize or compact your disk as required. Includes a sophisticated programmable optimization engine-if youre an advanced user, you can rearrange the contents of your disk how you want.
- Defragment while the disk is in use
iDefrag can perform simple defragmentation while the disk is still in use. Good for situations where you dont need the full power of the optimizer, but have a few fragmented files you want to sort out.
- Per-block and accurate whole-disk display
See the individual blocks used by your files, watch iDefrag move them around in real time, and get an at-a-glance overview of the state of your disk.
- AppleScript and Automator support
iDefrag includes extensive AppleScript support and comes with an Automator action to help Automator users script defragmentation without needing to learn AppleScript.

System requirements:
- 500MHz PowerPC G3 or better.
- 512MB RAM.

Version restrictions:
- Demo version will not defrag disks over 100MB in size.

Enhancements
- Fixed a problem introduced in 1.6.8 where iDefrag was unable to move hard link folder files in Quick (on-line) mode.
- Added compatibility for PGP whole disk encryption.
- Updated the error messages for the on-line defrag routine.
- Prevent iDefrag from appearing to hang on completion when DNS is misconfigured (obviously its better to fix your DNS settings...).

The ARTIS Screen Tools are a collection of four utilities, useful for everyone who is designing visual content for on-screen use, like website developers, graphic designers, and photographers. They include: ARTIS Screen Ruler - Screen Ruler is a desktop utility displaying translucent rulers on top of all your windows on your screen.
The rulers measure in pixels, inches, and centimeters, have no window shadow, may be translucent, and float on display the mouse coordinates relative to the ruler origins.
ARTIS Small Screen - Small Screen displays the size of small screens on you desktop. This is useful to evaluate your design on smaller screen sizes while working on a large screen. This classic tool for web designers is finally available for Mac OS X now.
ARTIS Screen Loupe - Screen Loupe is a desktop utility that displays a magnified view of whatever is underneath your mouse cursor. It allows to measure the color of the pixel underneath the mouse pointer and copy it in HTML and other formats to the clipboard.
Additionally it has a "move away from mouse" option to be newer in your way.ARTIS Screen Guides - Screen Guides display visual guides on top of all windows that help aligning objects in all applications that dont offer guides.
Enhancements:
- click-through when in background
- optional display of the screen size
- workaround for a problem with some WACOM tablets.

LinkAssistant SEO Tool 3.0 is recognized as a comprehensive SEO software suite for webmasters and SEOs who need to promote their sites in Google, Yahoo! and MSN. By using LinkAssistant, you can dramatically boost your site's link popularity, which is the single most important factor search engines use to rank your site. The direct result of increased link popularity is higher Google and Yahoo! rankings, more visitors and more sales.

Here's how LinkAssistant makes your job as a search engine optimizer the whole lot easier: A free trial version of LinkAssistant is available which you can download and use for 15 days to evaluate the product. Just get your copy of LinkAssistant for Mac OS X, and take it for a FREE test drive right now!

Major Features:

1. Finds thousands of relevant, high-quality link partners for you in a variety of ways.
2. Discovers online link submission forms in 5 major link partnership networks (that's over 25,000 sites to choose from!) and automatically fills in the forms for you. Use this method to put hundreds of links to your site fast.
3. Shows the Google PageRank, the Alexa Rank, and link popularity of every link partner so you can easily see who's worth your time.
4. Lets you easily design a professional link directory that matches the rest of your site.
5. Automatically and intelligently publishes your pages via FTP so you don't have to.
6. Lets you create personalized emails with link partnership offers and send them all in a few clicks.
7. Checks if your link partners are still linking back, or if they are using dirty SEO tricks against you.
8. Monitors your site's rankings in all the major search engines so you can see when they are high or when they ever slip for whatever reason.
9. Shows your site's Google PR, Alexa Rank and link popularity in Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
10. Lets you import and export your link building project so you can transfer it to another machine.
11. Runs flawlessly on Mac OS X (last time we checked, LinkAssistant was the only real SEO software for Mac users.)

Requirements: Apple's Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or above (ships with Mac OS X Panther or better).

Net Tool Box is a full set of Networking tools for Network Administrators, Software Developers and enthusiasts.
It can perform all sorts of tasks, from simple DNS resolution, to full blown Host Interrogation. You can graphically map the loaction of an IP address, you can traceroute to almost any compuer on the internet, you can use the Terminals to perform protocol analysis and development.
Version restrictions:
- 5 Second Startup Screen.
Enhancements:
- New Ping, Ping Scan and Traceroute - completely rewritten for speed and reliability
- Application-wide contextual menu - access IP info and call-up other tools instantly
- Tool Presets - Net Tool Box now remembers your settings for each tool
- Tiger Compatible - Net Tool Box is now completely Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" compatible.