Apps: Aperture to Picasa, Jotter

Aperture to Picasa Web Albums 1.3 ($25) tool for uploading your images to Picasa Web Albums from Aperture. This release features a substantial increase in the performance of the export / upload component of the plug-in. The developer says "Users will see a substantial improvement in the export / upload portion of the plug-in, especially when exporting images with lots of tags." [Download - 4.1MB]

Jotter 1.4.1 ($13) simple and to the point note taking. No overcomplicated interfaces. No unnecessary features. Just jot down what you want to remember. The new release fixes an intermittent crash when updating the note title. [Download - 918KB]

Montage 1.3 ($140) tool to create, edit, and manage screenplays on a Macintosh. The new release adds the ability to export Montage scripts to Screenwriter (.sex), adds support for French, German, Italian and Spanish and has significant improvements in importing Final Draft import, speed enhancements, and several bug fixes [Download - form]

PandaWare Simple Help Editor 2.5 ($50) cross-platform help authoring application. This release emphasizes easier repurposing of content, allowing users to more easily leverage their work on different platforms and in different media. The new version can save HTML files with indexing information and other tags for display in Apple Help Viewer or in a Web browser. It can also prepare the files necessary for compilation into a CHM file to display the content in Windows' HTML. [Download - 8.1MB]

iBank 2.3.5 ($50) personal and small business financial manager made exclusively for Mac OS X. The new release has a host of new features and improvements. Most notably, the import speed of downloaded bank transactions has been greatly improved. Other highlights include improvements to the smart accounts feature, and the ability to manage money market accounts. In addition, several small bugs have been fixed. [Download - 8.5MB]

Password Repository 2.1 ($25) let users store and manage all their passwords in documents protected and encrypted. The new release adds a search Info display, a new 'Instant Lock' feature and a new Opening Sort by' feature. [Download - 337KB]