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• cosmicsoft has updated its $15 shareware reminder tool: starTime 1.5.4 can create powerful, repeating reminders that run shell scripts, launch files, and run macros. [3.9MB]


• Loud by Design has released Stop-Motion Studio 1.01, which gives users the ability to use your video FireWire camera to create stop-frame films easily and quickly: "Stop-frame movies are shot frame-by-frame, where each image is a little different from the previous one, creating the illusion of animation." The $40 utility can be used to create claymation movies as well. [Classic, OSX]


• Magister Ludi's YourSQL 1.0 is a free, open-source application for Mac OS X that users create a MySQL database with a few mouse clicks. YourSQL supports activation of some of the more advanced features of MySQL, such as indices and primary keys. [1.7MB]


• Trailerpark QT 1.1.0's playlist popup menu now automatically excludes disabled items from the listing (also always includes folders for quick navigation). The $13 shareware offers global floating windows, one-click contextual menu access, one-key control, and other display and playlist options. It provides a compact, convenient, border-less environment for reviewing, renaming and reorganizing multiple QuickTime-supported files. [Classic, OSX]


• HCrescendo Software's Picture Play 1.7 is a "major" update to the $15 shareware image composition tool for OS X. Picture Play lets you combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other graphics to create rich and diverse compositions with editable text content, backgrounds, and effects. Version 1.7 features a new graphics engine, rulers, and improved object editing. [1.1MB]


• Serial Storage 2.5 helps users organize your serial numbers, passwords, credit cards, and other personal info into different folders. Version 2.5 features BlowFish 448-bit encryption, an improved interface, new print features, and other enhancements. it is a free upgrade to the $10 utility for Mac OS X. [1.4MB]


• Haxial today released Haxial Calculator 0.902, a beta version of its advanced calculator that can evaluate complex expressions, offering free-form text editing of mathematical expressions. (Pricing not yet set.) It also released an update to its fast and efficient editor for plain text files, adding a sorting feature, new appearance options, and other improvements. Haxial TextEdit 1.2 can edit text files in Mac, DOS/Windows, and Unix formats and includes a Find/Replace and counting functions. [HC, TE]

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