Apps: Actual ODBC Driver, Ask the DJ, Audio Hijack
updated 11:20 am EDT, Mon April 5, 2004
Actual ODBC Driver...
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- DopeWars (free), a popular game for Palm OS, is now available for free for FileMaker 5, 6, and 7: "The most politically incorrect game in the world just got worse. Buy and sell drugs, work the loan shark, run from the cops, and loot unconscious dealers. Ain't life grand?" [multiple options]
- Ask the DJ 1.6 ($30) brings a Japanese localization, support for track titles in NiceCast (1.5.1 and up), and improved smoothness and stability. The sophisticated, yet easy to use mix engine which analyses the music's rhythm to perform DJ-like transitions between tracks. [1.6MB]
- Audio Hijack Pro 1.3 ($30) updates Rogue Amoeba's application for recording any audio; it includes a fix for recording iTunes when crossfades are on, as well as other small improvements. Audio Hijack Pro 2 is in "heavy" development, and is expected to be released sometime this summer. [2.7MB]
- Audio Hijack 2.1.1 ($16) sports several bug fixes, as well as an Advanced Hijacking feature, allowing audio to be pulled from some pro audio applications that were previously not hijackable. Nicecast 1.5.1 ($40), for broadcasting music from Mac OS X, also gains support for interaction with Ask The DJ, as well as improved AppleScript support and several bug fixes. [AH, OSX]
- Xenophaquinox 2.1 ($10) updates GoldfishSoft's "challenging but entertaining" puzle game that features one- and two-player modes, as well as five difficulty levels. It offers better computer intelligence, more complete documentation, and the option to play timed games. [596KB]
- WinSwitch 1.2 (freeware) updates the freeware opensource replacement for Apple's Fast User Switching menu on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. It now queries NetInfo to display only those local accounts accessible from the user's machine. Version 1.2 includes a major rewrite of the underlying mechanism, performance improvements, and new German and French localizations. [290KB]
- iTunes Library Manager 3.01 ($5) is an AppleScript application that makes backup copies of the iTunes Library database file, allowing users to easily save multiple iTunes Library configurations which can be retrieved and loaded at any time. Version 3.01 is a maintenance release and includes additional helper AppleScripts. [214KB]
- BasaOne 1.0.4 (€120) is an update to the Web Application Development Environment for Mac OS X. With BasaOne you can easily write Web Applications with database access without having to bother about different programming languages, server platforms, databases, etc. [888KB]
