Apps: DragThing, SpamSieve, Isadora

• DragThing 5.6.4 ($30) updates the alternative Dock application that offers native support for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. The software is designed to make items on a Mac such as files, folders, applications, disks, URLs, clippings, and windows easily accessible, while taking up as little space on your screen as possible. Version 5 includes English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese language support. The update is free for registered users of DragThing 5. [Download - 5.5MB]


• SpamSieve 2.4.3 ($25) is a free update to the application that adds Bayesian spam filtering to many popular e-mail clients. Version 2.4.3 offers improved accuracy by counteracting various spammer tricks, removes the delay when using Apple Mail on Tiger between choosing "Train as Good" or "Train as Spam," and Entourage scripts now report progress partway through bulk trainings while allowing users to cancel the process. The update also includes Growl notifications, improved error messages, and a bug fix that caused part of SpamSieve's corpus to be written to disk incorrectly when running on Intel Macs. [Download - 3.6MB]


• EntourageABMenu 1.2 ($10) offers an intuitive way to utilize the Microsoft Entourage address book data through a system-wide menu. Version 1.2 adds an option to disable any of the contact submenus, and offers support for contacts stored in Exchange-based address books. The update includes Outlook Web access global address list lookup capability, an option to normalize company names, the ability to use icons that more closely resemble the Entourage interface, and an option to quit Entourage after loading data. [Download - 712KB]


• MenuCalendarClock 2.5 ($20) is a pair of integrated menu calendar and clock applications for Mac OS X. Version 2.5 of both applications brings native support for Intel-based Macs as Universal Binaries, and adds Polish localization to the existing list of 18 languages. The update is free to all registered and unregistered versions of the iCal and Entourage variants. [Download - 903KB (for iCal) and 911KB (for Entourage)]


• Music Man 1.7.6 ($20) is a Universal Binary version of the digital music software for Mac OS X. The application can rip, convert, burn and play MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AIF, Audio CD and Ogg Vorbis file formats. Music Man provides burning capability to Audio CD, MP3 CD, DVD and USB Flash drives. The update adds various new features, as well as audio CD burning capability. [Download - 7.5MB]


• Isadora 1.1b39 ($350) is a graphic programming environment for Macintosh that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on the real-time manipulation of digital video. The update offers built-in LanBox actors for video to DMX and direct DMX support, using the LanBox UDP over Ethernet protocol. The LanBox RGB actor can convert and output thousands of pixels into LanBox UDP packets, and data can be transported over a standard TCP/IP connection to LanBoxes, which generates the actual DMX data. [Download - 2.4MB]

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