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• MonkeyByte's Galactica 2.1.2 ($20) is "a fun and challenging game of galactic colonization and warfare! Use your superior technology and great fleets of starships to re-unite the surviving factions of the once great human empire!" The company is also taking sign-ups for a new Galatica Tournament. It runs on Mac OS 9/X. [4.3MB]


• My Favorite Things 0.9 is a self-configuring launch utility that tracks applications, documents, folders, bookmarks, and even terminal commands that users use most often. It places these most used things into a custom menu available either from the menu bar or via a universal hot key. It is free during the beta period. [660KB]


• The freeware SmallImage will "reduce the size of your JPEG files, without changing the quality or resizing your images" by removing metadata from the file--a savings of up to 40% without recompression. [900KB]


• GPSNavX 1.3 is a $50 Mac application designed for boaters to display realtime position on full color charts: "Just plug your GPS into your Macintosh and watch as your boat moves along in real-time, plotting a track behind the boat and logging your historic position on a digital chart." [250KB]


• piDog Software's TelnetLauncher 2.6 adds keyboard shortcuts for session launching to the application for managing telnet/SSH sessions. The $20 helper application can assign custom shortcuts to sessions, offers simple setup of ssh port forwarding, and other custom settings for session (as well as dock-based access and organization). [1.3MB]

by MacNN Staff