Apps: PDFpen, LiveIcon, FrakKalk, Biferno...
updated 08:20 am EST, Tue February 10, 2004
PDFpen, LiveIcon, FrakKalk
- SmileOnMyMac has updated its PDF manipulation utility: ]
- Extra Suites 1.1 ($10) is a faceless background application for AppleScripters containing more than eighty new AppleScript commands to Mac OS X. Version 1.1 adds commands to select menu items, get and set screen resolutions, get and set volume levels as well as restores the create thumbnail icon command. [962KB]
- 24U Software Email OSAX 3.0 is a Scripting Addition that allows you to automate e-mail communication directly using scripts. It adds support for sending attachments, support for Apple Single, Apple Double, BinHex and Base-64 encodings, and ability to authenticate with a POP3 server before connecting to SMTP server. Pricing starts at $17. [233KB]
- Panic has (again) updated its new Usenet newsreader for Mac OS X: Unison 1.02 ($25) improves the handling of message text when replying, adds better recovery when encountering errors with queued transfers, and adds support for encoded foreign characters in From: and Subject: lines, and more. [1.2MB]
- LiveIcon 1.0 adds animated icon support to iChat AV, allowing users to see animated icons in your AIM buddy list from within iChat AV 2.0 Users can control animation speed and count. Registration ($10) offers users the MyIcon application, which can set the iChat icon to be animated. [192KB]
- GoldfishSoft today updated its unique fraction calculator, FrakKalk 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.2: "Unlike most handheld and computer calculators, FrakKalk returns the results of its operations as simplified fractions, not decimals." Version 2.0 has been completely rewritten in Cocoa, offering significant speed improvements and a cleaner interface. [34KB]
- Infinisys has updated Mail Magic 2.3.3, its HTML email program that allows anyone to easily create and send out HTML mail greeting cards and personal newsletters. The free update offers bug fixes for sending and displaying email, better documentation for creating original HTML templates, and other improvements. It is $18 and runs on Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [1.1MB]
- Tabasoft has posted Biferno 1.0.3, an update to its new object-oriented, HTML embedded, scripting language for web development. It is an open-source, cross-platform project for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Classic that features a plug-in architecture. [Classic, OSX]





