Apps: Copernicus, Key Xing, Kairos...
updated 08:55 am EST, Mon February 3, 2003
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- Parker Software's Archer 2.3.2 adds a custom background selection using the color picker to the free slide show player and image viewer for Mac OS X. [1.0MB]
- Bleu Rose has released Black & Bleu 7.1, an update to its comprehensive collection of Macintosh OS error codes with a detailed explanation and suggestions for dealing with many of the errors. It also includes 500 Sad Mac error codes and all 30 PostScript error codes. The standard version is $30 while the Pro version ($130) adds export features. [2.1MB]
- Key Xing 2.6 is an update to Luma Code's $7 shareware utility that allows you to launch files, programs, folders, URLs, and AppleScripts from the keyboard. Version 2.6 adds a Google search window, application-specific hot keys, UI improvements, and also disables the Force-Quit option while the screen saver is active. [891KB]
- MP3 Sushi beta allows you to turn your Mac into a Jukebox or a Radio broadcast station. The two application bundle can share and stream and share your music over a local network or the Internet. The Mac OS X-only software uses Rendezvous technology and can automatically locate other Jukebox and Radio servers. The "sushi-ware" product is now in beta. [1.1MB]
- Kairos 1.1 is a $15 weather graphing and monitoring application for Mac OS X: "[it] records the weather conditions for any location you specify and graphs the data. Current weather conditions can be spoken and displayed in the dock. In addition Kairos can monitor the temperature and send out warning emails if it detects the conditions are becoming icy." It adds dock-based display of weather info, UI enhancements to the preferences, and improved notification. [725KB]
- Version 4.1.2 of PowerMail can now import tab delimited or LDIF address files even, improves key word searching, has AppleScript improvements, and other enhancemens. The $50 email client offers Mac OS X Address Book integration, inline spell-checking and multi-level Undo as well as support for POP3, IMAP 4rev1, SMTP protocols as well as APOP and ESMTP authentication standards. [5.0MB]
- Red Stone Software's OSXvnc 1.1 is a full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client. It adds scroll wheel support, can be restricted to local connections, has enhanced keyboard mapping preferences, and other bug fixes. [206KB]
- Pith 1.0b2 is a utility for Safari that tracks the currently open sites and displays them in a window: "If Safari crashes, relaunch it, and Pith can recover the windows that were open." [156KB]
