Text Count, PhotoToolCM

• ($100) is a Quark XTension that performs word counts and empty space word count estimates in QuarkXPress. It gives user full control over overflow text length, simplifies assigning space to future content and accelerates accounting connected to text materials. [v50, v60]


• PhotoToolCM 1.1 (freeware) is a contextual menu plugin that helps you manage/organize JPEG photo image files. It can display Exif info, copy Exif info of multiple images to the clipboard as text, performs lossless transform (rotate/flip) on selected multiple JPEG photo image files, and batch rename multiple JPEG photo image files. [548KB]


• MacQibla 3.0 ($20) is a Mac OS X-compatible version of the Islamic calendar and prayer time calculation tool. It allows usrs to determine the direction of Mecca from any city in the world, offers accurate prayer times, plays user-selected MP3 audio, has date conversion between Western and Islamic calendars, and includes a database of 10,000 cities. Upgrades are $10. [807KB]


• Snard 2.1 ($10) is an application launcher utility that provides many of the functionalities of Mac OS 9's Apple and Application menus, and also can be customized. It can be used as a system menu, from the dock or as a hot key activated popup menu. [menubar, dock]


• SimplyProjects 1.3 ($25 per user) adds an Project Assistant to help streamline the creation of a new project and also allows users to define minimum hardware and system requirements for each project feature. SimplyProjects is a project management system for small-scale and shareware software development. [2.3MB]


• EZxslt 1.5.2 ($130) simplifies the generation of Microsoft Word and RTF documents using data stored in FileMaker Pro 6 and FileMaker Pro 7 databases. It adds label row suppor, adds several additional character encodings, better import functions, and other bug fixes. Upgrades start at $30. [form]


• Pyramid Design's FTP Suite 3.2 is an upgrade to the company's FTP solution for REALbasic applications. Version 3.2 features text encoding support, additional FTP commands, REALbasic 4.5 support, etc. It is a gree upgrade for v3.0 owerns and $10 for others. Hobbyist and Professional pricing are $30/$60, respectively. [1.7MB]


• SQLitePlugin 1.5 ($40) is a simple-to-use database plugin for REALbasic that is built on top of SQLite, an embeddable, stand-alone SQL database library written in C with support for on-the-fly indexing and ACID transactions. SQLitePluginPro 1.06 ($120) supports REALbasic's database API and its database classes and controls. [Lite, Pro]

by MacNN Staff