Apps: PDFClerk, LaunchBar, Downfall

• PDFClerk 1.0 (15€) is a PDF manipulation tool that allows you to join multiple PDF documents together, rearrange the page order, delete individual pages, impose multiple pages onto a sheet of paper and rotate pages on imposed sheets, making it easy to create own books, booklets and magazines. Users can create prints for languages that read from right to left like Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew. The Universal Binary software runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or later. [Download - 674KB]


• Jon's Phone Tool v3.5 ($15) is a Universal Binary of the versatile phone dialer for Mac OS X. Users can use it to dial their Bluetooth mobile phone or a standard land line through the Mac's modem or speakers. JPT can also make calls via Vonage, CallVantage, Skype, Ovolab Phlink, Parliant's PhoneValet, an Asterisk PBX server, IP Phones from Cisco and others. JPT features extensive AppleScript support, Bonjour notifications, caller ID, a call log, a notepad, and call timers. It runs on Mac OS X 10.3 or later. [Download - 3.4MB]


• LaunchBar 4.1.1 ($20) is a maintenance update for the company's popular, award winning search and system utility. The update includes a number of improvements and bug fixes, improves compatibility with Xcode 2.3 (supports the new ADC Reference Library structure), and provides a couple of new web-search templates in the factory configuration. The softwarwe provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to a music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. [Download - 866KB]


• PreemptiveThreadTD 2.0 ($20) is an update to the toolkit which makes it easy for REALbasic users to execute code in OS native, preemptive threads on Mac OS X and Windows. Version 2.0 fixes numerous bugs which could lead to crashes when using version 1.0. The PreemptiveThreadTD toolkit includes 4 classes for implementing and communicating with preemptive threads: PreemptiveThreadTD, CriticalSectionTD, SemaphoreTD, and ThreadCompletionTimerTD. Using these classes REALbasic users can create threads that execute code which would block a standard Thread and lead to sluggish behavior or a frozen UI. [Download - 272KB]


• Veenix Font Tools 5.1 ($50) updates the Type Book Creator tool. Type Book Creator that allows users to easily create type books/catalogs/printouts of any font collections--whether activated or not. Version 5.1 brings a Visual Font Database/Font List Auto-scroll to quickly view or preview fonts. The update also adds type-specing information to the Font Measurements feature, new type-specing information to Type Book layouts, a new Type Book layout, and other interface refinements. It runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or later. [Download - 1.0MB]


• Downfall 2.6 ($20) is a fun arcade puzzle game, that uses the latest technology to produce stunning 3D graphics. The Tetris-like game consists of over 30 different boards to play, with smooth 3D animations and endless replayability. All the boards have special blocks like indestructibles, dynamite sticks, snow shovels, wrecking balls etc. This updated version includes a new board called 'Petrified' that has been added to the 'Demolition' category and fixes a number of other bugs. [Download - 1.1MB]

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