Apps: LetterWorks, UpFront, Remote Wonder
updated 01:00 pm EDT, Wed August 6, 2003
- Objectpark has released ]
- David Byrum's Absolute Backgammon 2.1 brings improved Speech Recognition (for game play), a game snapshot command, and other minor enhancements. The $25 shareware offers support for French, English, Italian, five skill levels, advanced graphics and sound effects, game statistics, and other features. [963KB]
- Publicspace.net's A Better Finder Launcher 1.0b1 offers the ability to launch application by simply typing the first few letters of the application. It offers a filter-as-you-type menu that narrows the list of matching application names. The $10 shareware runs on Mac OS X only. [4.1MB]
- Aron Nelson has released UpFront for Mac OS X (donationware), which brings back the Mac OS 9's windowing preferences when switching applications to Mac OS X: "In OS 9, you click on any application window and the application and all of its windows come forward." [626KB]
- ATI has posted Remote Wonder 1.2.1 drivers for its Remote Wonder, an RF-based remote control ($50). It adds customized button assignment and new actions to the USB handheld device for controlling iTunes, QuickTime Player, El Gato's EyeTV, PowerPoint, Keynoe, Safari, and IE. [2.8MB]
- Keith's Image Stacker 3.3 is an image processing program for improving signal-to-noise ratio using several images. Oriented primarily toward astrophotography, it can align many similar, overlapping images to create a single image that comprises either the sum, or the average, or some value in between of the individually stacked images. [549KB]
- Nmap 3.3 ("Network Mapper") is an open-source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It can scan large networks or single hosts and uses raw IP packets to determine what hosts are available on the network, and what services (ports) and OS is running as well as what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics."
