Apps: Dossier, Red Cells, Solavant

• Dossier 2.1 ($25) is a full featured information organizational tool for the Mac designed to organize notes, passwords, and other information. Version 2 adds "Smart folders" to automatically organize information based on user-definable rules, as well as live search, Blogger support, LiveJournal support, and an integrated calendar to browse entries by date. The update includes an easy-to-use interface offering flexible views, along with drag-and-drop support. [Download - 2.3MB]


• Red Cells 1.0.1 ($15) is an action puzzle game for Mac OS X. Gameplay takes place on a grid of red and white cells, while players to click on a red cell to convert it to a white cell. Holding down the mouse button and dragging will cut a row or column of red cells, and every few seconds the red cells spread. Random white cells will mutate into red cells, and the object of the game is to clear the grid of red cells before they spread past the edges. Additionally, 20 percent of any purchase will be donated to the V Foundation for cancer research. [Download - 1.3MB]


• Solavant ($30) marks the first Mac OS X version of the solitaire game, designed for advanced players who enjoy mental challenges. The game is designed to fill the needs of players who believe that most solitaire games "come with training wheels," and offers over 150 games. Solavant does not provide easy games, stacked shuffles, hints, cheats, or hollow victories. [Download - 4.9MB]


• Squirt (unknown) reads in REALbasic source code that has been exported in XML format to generate C-plus-plus code. The application does not attempt to replicate the REALbasic runtime, but rather is aimed at converting core algorithms written by the REALbasic programmer. The software can alternatively be used as a learning tool, allowing users to write REALbasic code and then view the equivilant in C-plus-plus. Squirt can generate empty C-plus-plus wrappers for all REALbasic specific runtime objects, and is written to implement garbage collection in a flexible, expandible manner. [Download - 3.3MB]


• Oxygen XML Editor 7.1 ($180) updates the tool designed to edit XML and Schema files, and also serves as a XSLT/XQuery debugger. Version 7.1 adds support for Berkeley and eXist XML databases, a view for XSL templates to easily navigate through edited XSL stylesheets, and an XPath builder view for editing complex XPath expressions. The update optimizes document loading time, improving performance by up to four times that of the previous release. Oxygen XML Editor 7.1 also adds annotation tooltips for XML adttributes, and spell checking works faster for long documents as well as documents that have long lines consisting of thousands of characters. [Download - 31.6MB]

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