Apps: Horizon, Project X, Osk

• Horizon 1.2 ($30) personal finance organizer that shows due dates for bills and other monetary events. Click on a date, and enter an amount for a clear simple view of where your money comes from and where it is going. Change any value and all related values update automatically. You can hide and show different categories to focus on different aspects of your finances. The new release has a pop-out summary view that automatically totals each category as you go. [Download - 9.4MB]


• Project X 1.1.2 ($200) project management utility. Includes story-boarding capabilities on the Network view, the iChat awareness, and robust scheduling and costing features of the application. Lets users create and edit projects graphically, allows one-click project updates via its unique Web App, and has the ability to embed media files such as video, MP3, still images and more directly into tasks. In the new release an Import button has been implemented in the Specs section of the Inspector. You can now import TXT, RTF and DOC files. Also the Export menu now specifies CSV for New and Existing Reports. [Download - 166MB]


• Osk 4.7 ($30) person oriented family research software. Allows you to keep track on family, friends, celebrities or any people you want to, fact or fiction. Allows you to track things like multiple marriages, adoptions, all kinds of relationships. Used to find common ancestors, print and save family trees and import Gedcom data. You can also create a family web site and print reports, store multimedia information, sounds, pictures and movies.  [Download (demo) - 6MB]


• Cursorcerer 1.0 (free) allows you to hide the cursor at any time by use of a global hotkey. It can also autohide an idle cursor and bring it back as soon as you move the mouse.  It was designed specifically for banishing the cursor when using the OS X control-scrollwheel zoom trick, but works well in any full screen situation where the cursor becomes an eyesore. [Download - 270KB]
 

• Floola (free) freeware application to manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It's a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation on a Desktop. Supports all the most common used iPod features including podcasts, smart playlists artwork and lyrics. The new release fixes several bugs. [Download - 10.7MB]

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