Casper Suite, WorldTimes

• (unknown) updates the computer maintenance suit adding the ability to centrally manage scheduled tasks, authenticate users on the system from an LDAP server, and build comprehensive change reports from inventory. The update also includes simplified printer support for remotely mapping printers, as well as the ability to make policies available offline.


• WorldTimes 1.0 (free) is a clear, compact world clock for Mac OS X that displays up to 12 different time zones from a database of over 420 worldwide locations. WorldTimes handles each location's daylight savings changes automatically, offers customizable location names, and incorporates the system settings for the default time zone and format. [Download - 204KB]


• Seagull 3 Public Beta 8 ($30) updates the video organization and presentation application, providing the ability to output video playlists to a device such as a digital video bridge, or a FireWire-ready DVD recorder. Version 3 Public Beta 8 also includes a "Take Snapshot" feature, which can save an image to the desktop that contains the current frame of the movie being watched. [Download - 834KB]


• iEmulator 1.7.8 ($24) adds audio support to the PC emulator for Mac OS X, improving physical CDrom handling. The update adds the ability to assign up to 1GB of RAM to each emulated PC, fast PC state saving and loading, full-screen and windowed modes, printing support, support for international keyboards, CD image and physical CD-ROM support, the ability to access Mac files and folders from Windows, and support for running multiple instances of iEmulator simultaneously.


• Wx 3.1 ($10) updates the weather information application, adding interface themes to enhance the wall-mounted weather station look, a "pop" mode to temporarily fade weather updates on-screen, and various small improvements. [Download - 588KB]


• Find A Word 2.0 (free) is a word game with five turns that can be set for 30, 60 or 90 second durations with the goal of entering as many valid words as possible before time runs out. The update adds an additional bonus for unused seconds in the turn, as well as numerous other minor enhancements. [Download - 1.7MB]

by MacNN Staff