Apps: InCopy CS2, TechTool Pro, Typinator
updated 11:55 am EST, Tue December 13, 2005
Adobe InCopy CS2, TechTool
- (free) provides key fixes in the areas of text and fonts, inline graphics, German hyphenation, performance, SING glyphlets, text import, and others. The installer also includes the updates from the original InCopy CS2 4.0.1 update and the Central European Dictionary update (posted in May 2005), which provides hyphenation and spelling support for seven Central European languages. [Download - 36.7MB]
- TechTool Pro 4.1.1 ($100) helps recover, repair, and optimize hard disks. TechTool Pro 4 features a suite of S.M.A.R.T tests (Self Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology) that take advantage of modern hard drives. New features include faster volume structure testing/repair, faster directory maintenance rebuilds, updated eDrive creation and removal routines, and more. [Download - 19.9]
- Typinator 1.2 ($20) updates the typing automation software, adding insertion of formatted text. The application enables users to rapidly insert text or graphics into any type of application, and provides an easy-to-use graphical interface. The update also restores the clipboard content after insertion, and offers a number of other new features, improvements and fixes. [Download - 500KB]
- Clone X 2.0.2 ($50) is a disk copy utility for Mac OS X that can copy an entire disk to another disk or a set of CDs/DVDs, offers restoration features, and can create bootable CDs. Version 2.0.2 adds Mac OS X 10.4.3 compatibility, as well as the latest machines for the creation of Tiger's bootable CD. [Download - 2.1MB]
- WebcamTweaker 1.0 ($15) is "the iSight ultimate application," recording video messages or shooting pictures to be seen with an iPod or sent by email to friends. The software offers effects such as Bump, Glass, Pinch, Bloom, Crystallize, Dots, Halftone, Pixel, Pointilize, Thermal, TV, and more. WebcamTweaker also provides the ability to create custom effects using Quartz Composer composition. [Download - 1.7MB]
- MacMediaSift 1.0 (free) is a tool to organize Avid media files, sifting and copying them relative to a project or an Avid bin. The design of MacMediaSift is conservative; it will not erase a file, nor will it overwrite files which are already present at the destination. This latest version offers a bug fix related to NilObjectExceptions when sorting by date. [Download - 1.3MB]
