Photo Layout, Genius

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• CrystalFire Wormhole 1.1 is a small application intended to provide near-trivial file transfer between Macs and/or PCs. It adds support for large files (> 2GB), improves some file transfers, adds better install/uninstall on Windows, provides send/receive speed indicators, etc. It is available for $15 per computer. [Classic, OSX]


• Black Cat Systems' shareware ($20) Audio Toolbox 1.5 adds white and pink noise generators and a frequency/amplitude display for current cursor position. Audio Toolbox is an audio function generator that can produce sine, square, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms of any frequency up to 22 kHz, as well as generate noise. [Classic, OSX]


• DX Toolbox 1.4 ($20) is a radio propagation and conditions analysis/forecasting tool. It adds the display of NCDFX/IARU Beacons in realtime; Great Circle path, distance, and beam heading calculations; the Sun Spot Number to Current Conditions; and a rotating the dock icon under Mac OS X to show important current conditions. [Classic, OSX]


• The freeware iCosmo is described as a "beautiful screensaver for Mac OS X that lets you view a sharp quality image of solar system! It has same engine that come in your Mac OS X package but it give you in high quality and in small sizes." It runs on Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. [4.5MB]


• abyssoft has released teleport PR1, a "simple utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers." It is free and runs on Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [182KB]


• PixxxGrabber 2.0 ($25) is a web media browser and download manager that allows you to surf to photo or movie gallery pages and batch download the images or other media from that page. It downloads much faster and much more conveniently than with conventional web browsers and also offers encrypted storage of your photo library. [Classic, OSX]


• Genius 1.5.1 is a learning tool that helps "you memorize things. It organizes your information using the Leitner 'learning cardfile' system.... For each quiz, Genius carefully chooses each question based on your past performance, by combining repetition intervals and weighted random selection." The freeware runs on Mac OS X 10.3. [158KB]


• Thumnailer 2.2 is a freeware application that creates and displays picture thumbnails, is a quick picture viewer, slideshow (with music) creator, and image converter. Version 2.3 is only available for Mac OS 9. [Classic v2.3, OSX v2.2]

by MacNN Staff