reference widgets trial software / shareware for mac

DPReview is a nice widget that allows you to keep up to date with the latest news from Digital Photography Review, the number one site for photography resources on the web.

Packed with authoritative news and reviews, DPReview is an excellent site for amateurs and professionals.

This widget streams the latest articles from DPReview to your Dashboard and provides a fully searchable interface.

Proxify Widget 2.3 provides dozens of output setting and features of a web-based anonymous proxy service which allows anyone to surf the Web privately and securely. The Proxify proxy widget provides easy access to the Proxify service, directly from your dashboard.

Proxify hides your IP address and our encrypted connection prevents monitoring of your network traffic. Once using Proxify, you can surf normally and forget that it is there, protecting you.

Enhancements:

• Regarding the Group SMS feature, the widget gives more feedback about which mobile numbers in the group were actually not sent (because of mistakes in the mobile numbers). Also, submitting the Group SMS to the gateways and report the invalid numbers afterwards.
• Improve the sorting of the contacts from the Address Book. It should be faster and case insensitive, which also should improve the launch and reload time of the widget.

Hardware Monitor Widget 2.7 won't make you disappointed because it is the Dashboard version of its "bigger brother" Hardware Monitor.

You need a working registered copy of Hardware Monitor in order to fully use this widget. The applications are designed to give you access to all sensor readings Mac OS X uses to monitor and cool your computer.

The widget allows you to select two of your computer's sensors which should be displayed via Dashboard. The sensor readouts are displayed in a compact panel.

Unlike other widgets, Hardware Monitor is capable of processing the hardware calibration data Apple stores individually into each G5-based computer. So it displays the exact readings Mac OS X internally uses for cooling control, not just an "educated guess".

The program can visualize the history graphs of the readings, display measured values in a large variety of fashions, or announce readings by speech output. It can also store and export readings. Depending on what sensors are built into your Macintosh system, the following data can be accessed:

• Temperature readings at different locations
• Battery data of portable computers
• Voltage sensors
• Current (amperage) sensors
• Fan speed sensors
• Sensors for pulse-width controlled fans
• Power and load sensors
• Ambient light sensors
• User-defined artificial sensors to monitor the operating system

Major Features:

1. Temperature display selectable in degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin
2. Display of many other sensors, if supported by Mac OS X on the specific computer model
3. Display of the sensor equipment of the system, and their permissible limits (if released by Apple)
4. Display of current readings in a horizontal or vertical window that can be customized
5. Display of current readings in a "floating" screen display or on the background of the Desktop
6. Output of no, one, or two selectable current readings in a Dock tile
7. Output of no, one, or up to eight selectable current readings in the menu-bar
8. Definition of an unlimited number of history graphs that visualize readings in a time interval between 12 minutes and 1 week
9. Adjustable refresh interval between 1 second and 1 hour
10. Customizable labels and display options for all sensors
11. Periodic automatic recording and safe storage of history data for defective, unstable computers
12. Customizable announcements of current readings via speech output
13. Customizable definition of alarm triggers for each sensor
14. Definition of alarm actions, e.g. opening an alert panel, speech warnings, Growl notification, launching an application or script
15. Export of readings or history data sets into text files or CSV files

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later

Amnesty Widget Browser is a handy tool that will allow Dashboard widgets to live directly on your Desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar.
Widgets loaded in Amnesty Widget Browser run completely independent of Apples Dashboard environment, maintain their own preferences and feature additional properties such as window level and opacity.
For widgets junkies, Amnesty Widget Browser is a great way to sample third-party widgets outside of Dashboard. And for widget developers, Amnesty Widget Browser makes a perfect rapid testing environment* (instead of loading widgets in Safari).
Version restrictions:
- Fully functional 30 day trial.
Enhancements:
- Improved plugin support.
- Addresses issues with some widgets (e.g. PCalc) that have trouble communicating with their widget plugins.

Stay in Touch with your Mailbox!
The new checkPOPmail-widget gives you easy to handle POP3-account checking with addressbook-pictures and growl-support. CheckPOPmail alerts you with a selectable sound every 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes (depending on your mailserver).
Stay up to date with the built-in auto-update-function that receives all necessary files.
Enhancements:
- Now supports Favicons.
- New in this version is keychain-support to safely store your pass.

RefSaver is for storing and formatting your reference information. You enter references, make edits to the data if needed, and then generate lists of formatted references based on the formatting style that you have selected.

RefSaver ships with formats described by: The Council of Biological Editors, The Chicago Manual of Style, and The Modern Language Association. You can enter information on books, periodicals and public documents. For those references that do not fit into one of these categories, there is an ‚Other‚ entry category to include these items.

Online RefSaver help is available or you can use a separately downloaded users guide (pdf). This application was designed to try and keep things simple yet still be able to properly handle most reference items.

Interarchy Network Status Widget allows you to watch how much data is being sent and received from your Mac.
To use, first launch Interarchy. Interarchy needs to be running to collect transfer statistics. Next, create an Interarchy Network Status widget on your Dashboard. Flip it over and select which network interface you wish to observer. Flip the widget back over. You should see a graph representing the data being transfered to and from your Mac. Clicking the front of the widget allows you to cycle through data for the last minute, 12 minutes, hour, four hours, or day.
You can create as many Interarchy Network Status widgets as you like and configure each for a different network interface.
System requirements:
- Interarchy 8.1 or higher.