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• MAKI Enterprise has released its parental control program, Kids GoGoGo 7.6. It offers an improved site judgement system, better restriction for Asian sites, and an improved CheckHistory function. It is a free update to the $30 application. [Classic, OSX]


• Finder Bookmarks is an editor for Web Location Files, browser-independent bookmarks that you can store URLs in files. It can edit locations and attach site icons to the Web Location's icon as well as adds a powerful new kind of location file, Dynamic Locations, for faster web searching and lookups. [1.0MB]


• Quadmation's PlayerPRO 5.9.8, a maintenance update, is a complete music editing program with a tracker, composer, and player. It supports dozens of sound formats, including WAV, AIFF, AIFC, SoundDesignerII, MP3, MuLaw, ALaw, AVI, MPEG (I, II and III), PAT (GUS), QDesign, and RAW Data. The freeware version is now open-source, with the complete C source code available on the Web.


• QuickConvert 2 ($10) offers processing of Finder files using Entourage/Mail-like rules. It change mac creator/type codes and also modify file names and move files. Version 2.0 features batch processing, folder scanning, a new rules engine with 20 conditions and 10 actions, support for unlimited rules, and improved speed. [915KB]


• DBCopy Tool for MySQL (Preview) offers functions to copy MySQL tables and databases. New features include the ability to make copies via a PHP Tunnel interface to copy MySQL databases hosted by an ISP without direct connection to the MySQL server. It is available as free add-on for specific editions of SQL4X Manager J, MySQL4X Manager and eSuite4X. [210KB]


• DVDxDV 1.053, the software which exports the audio/video from DVDs, is now available. The $25 application is designed to extract your home movies off of a DVD. This version improves audio sync, stability, and performance and Apple's MPEG2 plug-in is no longer required in order to extract video from a DVD. In addition, it offers better support for non-iDVD created DVDs. [1.1MB]


• Wine XT is a new wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. Users can manage wines and wine tasting notes, including sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine as well as manage the wine cellar racks and reviews. The Mac OS X application is $50; a limited demo is available. [4.4MB]


• Five12 has updated Numerology 1.14, a $50 modular MIDI sequencer for Mac OS X, to include improved MIDI Clock sync, MIDI NRPN generation, and several usability enhancements including new sequencer prototypes and automatic routing. It has also announced Audio Unit hosting for Numerology version 1.2, which is currently in beta testing. [2.5MB]


• Pixelglow Software's macstl 0.1 is a new C++ source library with extensive C++ template support. macstl ($100) offers an Altivec-optimized valarray implementation which it says is more than 14x faster than the standard gcc implementation: "AltiVec programmers get a clear, natural syntax without sacrificing speed or portability." [71KB]

by MacNN Staff