InstantGallery, PhotoLight

• Simple Web Page Monitor 1.1 ($5) enables users to monitor a Web page, and notifies the user when any change is made. The software is particularly useful for checking a site's status by testing a static page. Simple Web Page Monitor 1.1 can test a page at a customizable interval, and provides notification via a simple beep or email. Version 1.1 adds the ability to send a text message to a mobile phone. [Download - 1.5MB]


• InstantGallery 1.0 ($15) a tool for quickly creating a Web-based gallery from a folder full of images. The software allows users to choose thumbnail and image sizes, watermarking, themes, thumbnail cropping and more. Users can add photocasts to galleries enabling visitors to subscribe to them in iPhoto '06, or their preferred RSS reader. [Download - 682KB]


• PhotoLight 2.5 ($70) is a plug-in for numerous graphical programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, enabling users to add natural light sources to any image. The plug-in boasts more than 500 realistic effects that consist of glows, fog, and many light or shadows cast through numerous kinds of shapes such as windows and grids. Photo-Light handles displacement of light according to the background, diffusing it through casts and following the underlying object.


• SuDoKu Master 1.0 ($10) is a SuDoKu game with some additional functionality over other SuDoKu games, such as support for hints on all editable fields and the ability to save or load games. Users can print or export the current puzzle and solution, and check solved puzzles. The game offers beginner, advanced, and master levels that can be changed to create custom difficulty levels. [Download - 1.3MB]


• FolderBrander 2.0 ($10) is a Universal Binary version of the folder icon utility. The application allows customization of folder icons for easy identification, which can prove useful in the Finder sidebar as well as the Dock. Users choose a base icon and type in a short text label. Two sliders rotate and skew the text to match the orientation and perspective of the base icon. [Download - 1.2MB]

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