other applications

06/14/2006, 6:20pm, EDT

Wednesday, June 14th

Apps: Sandvox, Jiggler, Wx, Mori

  • Sandvox 1.0.2 ($40) updates the website creation tool for Mac OS X, replacing the Style menu with a full-featured Format menu. Users can enable or disable autosave, and the update includes a preference to automatically maintain a backup of open site documents. Sandvox 1.0.2 also includes incremental publishing. [Download - 14.4MB]

  • Jiggler 1.3 (free) is a freeware utility that keeps Macs awake through lengthy tasks when it would otherwise fall asleep by jiggling the mouse periodically. The latest iteration of Jiggler runs natively on Intel-based Macs as a Universal Binary, and adds the ability to jiggle the mouse when iTunes is playing to ensure music isn't interrupted. [Download - 168KB]

  • Wx 3.42 ($10) is a major update to the Universal application that displays weather information from the U.S. National Weather Service in a transparent window, as well as the dock. Version 3.42 offers an expanded live radar console with panning, national radar mosaics, and five radar types. [Download - 808KB]

  • BetterZip 1.1 ($20) updates the archiving tool, allowing users to quickly inspect archives without first extracting their contents. BetterZip 1.1 features faster archive creation, the ability to create tar archives, support for password encrypted zip files, and German localization. [Download - 954KB]

  • iVisualize 1.5 (unknown) enables iTunes to utilize Mac OS X's Quartz Composer graphical routines, creating graphical effects that react to music and display song information. The update offers five visualizations and a template, as well as clips bait for users wanting to try their creative hand. [Download - 9MB]

  • Mori 1.2 ($30) is a digital notebook designed to ease the process of recording and organizing notes. Mori 1.2 features improved performance, a more flexible user interface, and better support for user-defined columns. The update also offers a widescreen view layout option that enables users to collapse the interface into a simple text view in one click. [Download - 2.3MB]


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