Apps: Media Rage, Movie Montage, Thumbs Up, ...

• Media Rage 2.0 ($30) is a collection of tools for media enthusiasts using Mac OS X. Users can read/edit info stored in MP3, AAC, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, and Ogg Vorbis audio files. It adds support for editing custom meta data (for Tiger only), easy access to commonly used functions, support for AIFF/WAVE/BWF/EXIF file tags, and more. Upgrades are $10. [Download - 2.8MB]


• Movie Montage 2.0 ($15) provides an iPhoto-like interface for movies clips and videos. It offers quick access to movies all in one window, automatic full screen slideshows, easy file renaming, and the ability to save favorite folders. Version 2.0 can quickly rename files, batch export QuickTime movies, supports drag & drop, and more. [Download - 1.4MB]


• ThumbsUp 4.2 (free) is a simple, drag-and-drop based utility to create thumbnails for pictures. In addition to support for all QuickTime formats, it offers size, quality, sharpening and antialiasing options. Images can be scaled by percentage or limited to a maximum size. Version 4.2 adds JPEG 200 export under Mac OS X Tiger. [Download - 208KB]


• Boom Recorder 1.4 (85€) is designed for "the sound engineer who wants to replace his tape based systems with a hard disk recorder. It was specificaly designed to record on a film-set or for recording of live-events with many channels in high resolution." It offers support for Mac OS X Tiger (only), simultaneous 64-channel recording, SMPTE timecodes, 96kHz sound, pre-recording functions, QuickTime 7, and three devices: MOTU 828mkII, macally iVoiceII, and Apple Built-in Audio. [Download - 149KB]


• ClamXav 1.0g (free) is a new virus checker for Mac OS X that uses the popular ClamAV open-source antivirus engine as a backend. It does not yet offer support for Mac OS X Server; new features include support for five languages (Danish, English, French, German, and Japanese), drag & drop support and the ability to monitor folders for changes to their contents. [Download - 6.6MB]


• SMTPit Pro 4.0 ($65) is the first release of the next generation email plugin for FileMaker Pro 7, supporting email options to send simple text/HTML- based messages, dymanic attachments, support for large mail lists, header/footer functionality, merge fields (subject, header, body, and footer), and integrated SMTP functionality. [Download - 8.8MB]

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