Apps: Jon's Phone Tool, Computer Glasses
updated 04:10 pm EST, Fri January 5, 2007
Jon's Phone Tool, iGlasses
- Jon's Phone Tool 3.7 ($23) is a versatile phone dialer for Mac systems that can dial a Bluetooth mobile phone or regular land line through the Mac's modem or speakers. The software also makes calls via Vonage, CallVantage, Skype, Ovolab Phlink, Parliant's PhoneValet, Asterisk PBX servers, IP Phones from Cisco, and others. Jon's Phone Tool 3.7 also supports dialing through numerous VoIP (Voice over IP) services by integrating with softphones from the Gizmo Project, CounterPath, JackenIAX, LoudHush, and ohphoneX. [Download - 3.6MB]
- Computer Glasses 1.0 (free) magnifies a portion of the screen, enabling users to more easily read fine print or view a blown-up portion of an image. The software produces a red circle that users can click-and-drag across the screen, presenting crosshairs to signal the center of the magnification area. Computer Glasses requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [Download - 2.9MB]
- Server Scout build 0.9.8/28 ($price) enhances the graphical network monitoring solution for Mac OS X, adding a 'MySQL explorer' to quickly inspect a MySQL database, as well as an optimized graphical user interface and a log-file database. The application monitors TCP latency for IPs as well as fully qualified domain names, HTTP as specified by URLs, Apache Web server status, and generic Web-servers. [Download - 7.6MB]
- Universal Translation Dictionaries ($price) bring Apimac's English-Italian, English-Spanish, and English-German shareware translation dictionaries to versions 9.0, 6.0, and 5.0 respectively. The Apimac Dictionaries are tools designed for students or enthusiasts interested in foreign languages, with the latest updates primarily adding support for Intel-based Macs. [Download - size]
- Diet Sleuth 4.8.0 ($35) adds the printout of a daily summary of foods eaten to the nutritional database and personal health logbook software. Version 4.8.0 also includes a pie chart showing carbs, fat, and protein while incorporating some general improvements to the user interface. The update also includes several bug fixes. [Download - 2.7MB]
- iGlasses 1.4 ($8) allows iSight or iMage users to adjust video settings from within popular video applications such as iChat AV, Skype, and iMovie. The latest revision adds support for applying iGlasses enhancements in Comic Life, Delicious Library, Camfrog, jmeeting, WebcamTweaker, CamSpinner, Funny Photographer, CamGrabber, and more. iGlasses 1.4 also allows users to control settings using AppleScript. [Download - 3.2MB]
