Liquid Ledger, iReveal

• Liquid Ledger 1.5.1 ($75) is a free update to the personal finance software for Mac OS X to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. The personal accounting solution offers over a dozen time-saving features such as Transaction AutoComplete and the ability to import account activity downloaded from financial institutions. It offers reminders for bill payments, helps balance a checkbook, supports virtually any currency, and can generate PDF reports. Liquid Ledger is available as a free 60-day trial version and requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [form]


• Dobry Backuper 1.4 ($30) is now available as a Universal Binary; the easy-to-use backup solution for individuals, small home and corporate networks, will now run both on PowerPC Mac and on Intel Mac under Mac OS X. The software offers a friendly interface as well as powerful backup capabilities, such as automatic scheduled backups for full automation. The update also corrects the display of the files modification date-time in the backup content table. It runs on Mac OS X 10.3 or later. [880KB]


• iReveal 1.0 ($20) is a desktop file search utility designed to "scour corners of your hard drive that yoru system's built-in search tools may ignore." The application searches in real-time, and displays files that are invisible in the file manager. Additionally, iReveal 1.0 is available as a Universal Binary, offering compatibility with Apple's new Intel-based Macs. [Download - 4MB]


• Blog Thing (donationware) is a simple blogging application for the non-technical individual. The application contains just enough features to allow users with a single blog to make posts containing different fonts, coloured text and images. "If you can write an email you can now have a blog. It's that simple." Blog Thing has only been tested against WordPress, but it may work with other blog systems that support XML-RPC posting, and requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later. [Download - 168KB]


• Quartonian 0.45 ($price) is a specialized, simplified tool for creating beat-synced animations from folders full of still images. Created entirely with Quartz Composer and Interface Builder, the application is designed primarily as a live performance tool, but could be used for motion graphics design. Beats-per-minute (BPM) are set with four clicks of the mouse, and dual-screen output can be managed by setting up screen spanning and dragging the output display to completely fill the TV out. [Download - 2.3MB]


• Postal 2 for Mac OS X 1409.2 patch (free) updates Postal 2 as a Universal Binary, offering compatibility with the new Intel-based Macs. The update adds stencil buffer support which fixes mirrors not reflecting, includes other rendering fixes and enhancements from UT2004, and fixes some memory corruption crashes. The 1409.2 patch also updates OpenAL with several more fixes, disables mmap() for file input/output to repair memory issues, and fixes karma crashes usually seen in Apocalypse Weekend. [Download - 13.6MB]

by MacNN Staff