Sticky Windows, SyBrowser

• NewsLife 1.0 ($17) RSS news reader with a clean minimal interface. Allows you to click the date that appears beneath each article's summary to immediately view everything published on that date from your feed library. There's also a news bin where you can drag a bunch of articles you want to deal with in one go. The program requires Mac OS X 10.4. [Download - 1.2MB]


• MacBreakZ 4.4 ($30) Personal Ergonomic Assistant designed to promote healthy and productive computer use by reminding the user to take a break. Based on your actual keyboard and mouse use and the time you have spent in front of the screen, MacBreakZ suggests rest and microbreaks at appropriate intervals. The new release was entirely re-implemented in Mac OS X's native Cocoa environment now ignores the "fake" user activity produced by Apple's DVD Player application and allows users to enjoy their DVDs without interruption. [Download - 5.2MB]


• What ToDo 1.2 ($30) task management application for MacOS X. Geared toward the popular work-life management system Getting Things Done, and designed to be flexible enough to be used for your own personal to-do system. You can assign a context, like errands or email, to each action and view all the actions that can be completed in given context.. Includes .Mac syncing, Extensive Drag and Drop support, Export to XML, Quicksilver integration and Automatic update. [Download - 1.8MB]


• Sticky Windows 2.3 ($16) extends the tab browsing experience to the Desktop by shrinking your windows into tabs when you drag a window towards the edge of your screen. By clicking on the tab the user can show and hide the window. The tab can be created by dragging a window to any edge of the screen (Sticky Windows also supports multiple screens). In this release, stability is improved, no more sporadic crashes, improved performance, tabs work nicely with applications in fullscreen mode (such iPhoto, DVD player, VLC, etc...) and there are UI improvements. [Download - 1.8MB]


• SyBrowser 8.3 ($90) can query Sybase, OpenBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC databases hosted on OSX, UNIX, Linux, and Windows servers. Offers Point and Click generated SQL, Database, Table, Column lists and an ER Diagramme module. In this release the autocomplete list is now loaded much faster (The table and column info is now cached at startup via a thread. This process is now much quicker as well as no longer blocking typing). Also, Microsoft SQL is no longer supported in Mac OS X. [Download - 7.5MB]


• PreFab UI Browser 2.0.5 ($price) assistant for Apple's AppleScript GUI Scripting and Accessibility technologies. It helps you to explore, manipulate and monitor the User Interface elements of most Mac OS X applications running on your computer. The new release fixes a bug introduced in version 2.0.4 that disabled the Command-W keyboard shortcut for closing subsidiary windows and that also disabled keyboard navigation in the main browser view. These features now again work as intended. [Download - 1.3MB]

by MacNN Staff