MouseWizard 5.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware)

MouseWizard 5.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware): "

MouseWizard 5.0

MouseWizard... Do you want more from your Magic Mouse? MouseWizard is a simple utility to enhance the use of your Magic Mouse. You can easily customize your Magic Mouse to increase your productivity.

By using MouseWizard, you can give your Magic Mouse three extra buttons, 'pinch', 'bloat' and 'tap to click' trackpad gestures, and special features such as 'coverup' to make your Mac go to sleep.

MagicWizard is the ultimate companion for the Magic Mouse.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 5.0:

• Battery Indicator


• Power PC support


• Improved Leopard support


• Doesn't interfere with Trackpad


• New Keyboard shortcut actions


• Function keys added as actions


• New clock action


• New Tap to Click gesture


• New three finger gesture


• Click checkboxes are saved correctly


• Mouse preview is faster updating


• Spaces works perfectly on all machines


• Expose works again with Leopard


• Dock icon removed


• Speed boosts


• Interface change


• New Icon


• Fixes expose issues


• Crashes have been fixed


• Middle click now functions correctly


• Graphics middle click added for graphics software


• Dashboard close fix


• New zoom and shrink algorithm


• Shrink now functions on Mac Books or iMacs with short keyboard


• Speed boosts due to major code changes


• New actions:
  
  
  
  • Sleep
  
  
  • Sleep Display
  
  
  • Screensaver
  
  
  • Increase volume
  
  
  • Decrease volume
  
  
  • Mute
  
  
  • F8
  
  
  • F9
  
  
  • F10
  
  
  • F11
  
  
  • F12
  
  
  • Custom->Key shortcut
  
  
  
  


• Handlers implemented for mouse connect/disconnect


• MouseWizard will restart when mouse is connected


• MouseWizard can detect when mouse is disconnected


• Middle click restrained to fit the picture
  MouseWizard plugins have been programmed in.


• Plugins add extra actions to the program


• Major code changes that improves the flexibility of the program


• Many bug fixes


• Many more enhancements

REQUIREMENTS

Magic Mouse

PRICE

$2.50

DEVELOPER

Samuco

DOWNLOADS

2987

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X-Plane 9.41 RC-2 - Fly an airplane in this OpenGL-based 3D environment. (Updater)

X-Plane 9.41 RC-2 - Fly an airplane in this OpenGL-based 3D environment. (Updater): "

X-Plane 9.41 RC-2

X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.

Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.

X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Space Shuttle. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several thousand more are freely downloadable from the internet. (See www.X-Plane.org as a good place to start).

X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between -60 and +74 degrees lattiude. We also have MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.

Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!

X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.

While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).

X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.

X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 9.41 RC-2:

• The current livery is now available in a dataref.
  
• Improved memory use with OBJs.
  
• Rosetta can be overridden via command-line.
  
• Default livery can now be picked again after a custom livery is selected.
  
• Cmd line --no_autovary option can be used to turn off dithering of urban textures.
  
• Multiplayer should not cause any problems with the FMS.
  

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later


• 1GHz G4 or faster


• 32MB video card

PRICE

$59.99

DEVELOPER

Laminar Research

DOWNLOADS

207354

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MediaInfo 0.7.25 - Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. (Free)

MediaInfo 0.7.25 - Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. (Free): "

MediaInfo 0.7.25

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
It is free software (free of charge and free access to source code: GPL or LGPL licence).

WHAT'S NEW

Version 0.7.25:

• [Added] MediaInfo (customized) with HTTP input: User Agent setting


• [Added] #2896693, MPEG-TS: skipping some malformed PMT (with elementary_PID=0)


• [Corrected] #2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS (again)


• [Corrected] #2894411, MPEG Audio: UserDefined Covers replace other covers types


• [Corrected] MPEG Audio: Some profiles were not displayed


• [Corrected] RealMedia: Some Titles were not displayed


• [Corrected] Matroska: Wrong detection of 6-channel Wavpack (detected as 2-channel)

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

mediainfo.sourceforge.net

DOWNLOADS

863

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

Tone-Foo 2.0.1 - Create ringtones for your iPhone. (Free)

Tone-Foo 2.0.1 - Create ringtones for your iPhone. (Free): "

Tone-Foo 2.0.1

Tone-Foo...Create iPhone ringtones from the high-quality and ringtone appropriate loops built into Tone-Foo. No more frowns and hateful gazes from your friends and co-workers when your iPhone is ringing off the hook!

Download now and become a Tone-Foo Master!

Features:

• 96 high-quality loops to play with!
  
• Combine loops to make custom ringtones.
  
• Automatically loads ringtones into iTunes.
  

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0.1

• fixed issue with Snow Leopard

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6

iTunes 8

iPhone (for syncing ringtones)

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

LemonNut

DOWNLOADS

7460

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

Apple's 27-Inch iMac Is Big, Bright, Beautifully Fast

Apple's 27-Inch iMac Is Big, Bright, Beautifully Fast: "With a gigantic 27-inch screen and a screaming-fast Core i7 processor, Apple's biggest iMac is an all-in-one computer to reckon with."

(Via Wired News.)

It's Magic! The First Apple Mouse That Doesn't Suck

It's Magic! The First Apple Mouse That Doesn't Suck: "Apple's mashup of a multitouch trackpad and a wireless mouse makes for a surprisingly usable pointing device."

(Via Wired News.)

HandBrake 0.9.4 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more. (Free)

HandBrake 0.9.4 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more. (Free): "

HandBrake 0.9.4

HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded video encoding tool.

Supported Sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files


• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4 and MKV


• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)


• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection


• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)


• Integrated bitrate calculator


• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling


• Grayscale encoding

WHAT'S NEW

Version 0.9.4:

• New build system, allowing 64-bit binaries (around 10% faster)
  
• Soft subtitles and Closed Captions:
   
  • DVD Closed Captions
  • ATSC Closed Captions
  • SRT subtitle import
  • Text soft subtitles in MP4 and MKV output 
  • Bitmap soft subtitles in MKV output

• Better support for DVD inputs:
   
  • Uses libdvdnav
  • DVD angles support
  • Workaround for libdvdread malloc bomb on invalid PGC entry 
  • DVD drive region detection support in Linux 
  • Handles DVD programs with more than 16 streams - No longer tries to detect and discard duplicate titles when scanning 
  • Libdvdnav patched to perform read error recovery 
  • Libdvdread patched to allow raw device access in Windows 
  • Handles poorly mastered DVDs that had the menus ripped out of them
  
  
• Better support for non-DVD inputs:
  
  • Preserves MP4 metadata
  • TrueHD
  • DTS-HD demuxing 
  • 8 bit audio
  • Better handling of transport streams where audio starts first 
  • Better handling of transport streams that have been spliced together, leading to duplicate timestamps 
  • Better VC-1 frame detection
  • Fixes bug that was causing one sec. of audio to be dropped on many ffmpeg files 
  • Looks harder for aspect ratio info from DV sources
  • No longer truncates the last (dummy) chapter
  • Allows specifying field parity for detelecine and decomb
  
  
• Better AV sync
• Support for sources with no audio
• DTS passthrough for MKV
• x264 bumped from r1169 to r1347, which means speed optimizations, new default settings (see r2742 commit comment), the magic of macroblock tree rate control (mbtree), a new CRF curve (meaning you will get different, generally lower bitrates at the same RF, with similar quality metrics), and weighted P-Frames (disabled by default for Baseline encodes and the AppleTV preset).
• Better sample interleaving
• Better, optional deinterlacer for decomb (EEDI2)
• New mode structure for the decomb filter
• Variable verbose logging levels
• Fixed timing for first two frames coming out of filters
• Libtheora bumped to 1.1.0
• Improvements to our theora implementation (2 pass encoding + soft target rate control)
• Caters to Theora's insistence on content having mod16 framing dimensions specified
• Flushes LAME encoder's final packets
• Fixed interjob framerate calculation
• Fixed pthreads regression in cygwin
• Tweaks for packaging tools

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

Eric Petit

DOWNLOADS

556162

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

PopChar X 4.3 - Floating window shows available font characters. (Shareware)

PopChar X 4.3 - Floating window shows available font characters. (Shareware): "

PopChar X 4.3

PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented letters, umlauts, etc. from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document.

If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

Features

• Simple to use, just click and select,
  
• Inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts,
  
• Automatic Font Detection,
  
• Full Unicode support,
  
• Character Search Function,
  
• Various Insertion Options,
  
• Insertion of HTML Symbols,
  
• Recent Characters View,
  
• Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters,
  
• Automatically starts at login.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 4.3:

• PopChar now supports the font collections defined in Font Book and the Mac OS X font panel.
  
  
• It is now possible to restrict the font list to only those fonts that contain the currently marked character.
  
  
• Improved compatibility with Snow Leopard.
  
  
• Support for Unicode 5.2.
  
  
• PopChar now displays standard space characters with a visible representation that indicates the width of the space.
  
  
• New 'Check for Updates' menu item in the PopChar pop-up menu.
  
  
• New technique for easy installation and update.
  
• 
  Improved version checking during beta tests.
  
  
• Clipboard saving and restoration is now done more efficiently.
  
  
• Works around a problem where invalid clipboard contents could lead to a high CPU load when PopChar was not currently used.
  
  
• Restoration of the clipboard can now be temporarily turned off by option-clicking characters.
  
  
• Improved handling of special cases for Java applications.
  
  
• More flexible adaptation to applications with special requirements.
  
  
• Internal unification of various application-specific configurations and font-detection techniques.
  
  
  
• Avoids warning messages about certain deprecated methods under Snow Leopard.
  
  
  
• PopChar now has a support interface that simplifies registration and various support activities.
  
  
• The version check now includes dynamic updates of special cases for certain applications.
  
  
• Default buttons in sheets are now correctly highlighted.
  
  
• Faster font list update when the set of installed fonts changes.
  
  
• PopChar now disables the 'As in Document' setting for Excel to avoid a bug in Excel that terminates editing of spreadsheet cells.
  
  
• Fixes an issue with overlapping items in the French localization.
  
  
• Works around a problem in MS Word that caused the creation of bookmarks for every copied piece of text when PopChar is active.
  
  
• Fixes a visual glitch where the magnifier could become larger than the screen for ASCII characters.
  
  
• Fixes an inconsistency between the status of the font drawer and the Show/Hide Font List menu command.
  
  
• Fixes some known memory leaks.
  
  
• Avoids a console log error message about unsupported style masks on Snow Leopard.
  
  
• Compact storage of application-specific settings.
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

$38.99

DEVELOPER

Ergonis Software

DOWNLOADS

82993

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

VideoSpec 0.8.2 - Displays video file info in detail. (Free)

VideoSpec 0.8.2 - Displays video file info in detail. (Free): "

VideoSpec 0.8.2

VideoSpec is a free AppleScript studio App (Xcode 3.0 on Leopard) making use of MediaInfo CLI, MPlayer, FFmpeg, qt_tools and AtomicParsley binaries to display detailed informations on video files. Compatibility of analyzed media file with QuickTime Player v.7.6 is provided with indication on the installation status of the displayed QuickTime Component and its download link as well as compatibility with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV. Suggestion on alternate movie player to QuickTime Player is proposed and preview of video files is available using mplayer binary tool. Furthermore, integration of Bitrate Pro adds calculation capacity with multimedia files.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 0.8.2:
MediaInfo (v. 0.7.24), ffmpeg (SVN-r20440) and mplayer (SVN-r29815) tools updated. Bugs fixed for compatibility with Snow Leopard. Contextual menu added in Finder ('Open with' command). New file formats of Final Cut Pro 6 added. Detailed Ogg Vorbis formats. Report backup in html format added. Compatibility with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV devices in case of direct copy. Bugs fixed in display and data rate selection menu of Bitrate Pro.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

houdini

DOWNLOADS

12544

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

MouseWizard 4.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware)

MouseWizard 4.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware): "

MouseWizard 4.0

MouseWizard... Do you want more from your Magic Mouse? MouseWizard is a simple utility to enhance the use of your Magic Mouse. You can easily customize your Magic Mouse to increase your productivity.

By using MouseWizard, you can give your Magic Mouse two extra buttons, 'pinch' and 'bloat' trackpad gestures, and special features such as 'coverup', to make your Mac go to sleep.

MagicWizard is the ultimate companion for the Magic Mouse.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 4.0:

• Added customizable actions
  
• Added new actions
  
• Important Bug fixes
  
• Interface upgrade
  
• Added click/tap option
  
• New icon
  
• German version added
  
• Russian version added
  
• Added Helpful tip
  
• Updated Mouse Icon
  
• Fixed middle click gesture problems
  
• Many more enhancements

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
  
• Magic Mouse (or Trackpad).
  

PRICE

$2.50

DEVELOPER

Samuco

DOWNLOADS

1926

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

iMac 27" Bildschirmflackern - oder nicht?

Poll: Does Your 27 inch have a screen problem?

• Yes
• No

View Results
Create a Blog Poll

Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731 - View & control dynamic satellite imagery of the world. (Free)

Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731 - View & control dynamic satellite imagery of the world. (Free): "

Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731

Google Earth gives you a wealth of imagery and geographic information. Explore destinations like Maui and Paris, or browse content from Wikipedia, National Geographic, and more.

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

• Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you'll zoom right in.
  
• Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
  
• Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
  
• Save and share your searches and favorites.
  

WHAT'S NEW

Version 5.1.3533.1731:

• a few more tweaks and bug fixes

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

Google

DOWNLOADS

650175

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

PTGui 8.3.2 - Panoramic photo stitching software, Pro version available. (Demo)

PTGui 8.3.2 - Panoramic photo stitching software, Pro version available. (Demo): "

PTGui 8.3.2

PTGui is panoramic photo stitching software. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

Use PTGui to stitch any number of photos into a panoramic image. Some benefits of PTGui, when compared to other stitching software:

• PTGui can stitch multiple rows of images
  
• Create 360 degree cylindrical panoramas, 'flat' partial panoramas and even spherical 360x180 degree panoramas
  
• No need to keep the camera level: PTGui can stitch rotated and tilted images
  
• Virtually unlimited output size: create Gigapixel panoramas from hundreds of images!
  
• Layered output allows full control over the final stitched result
  
• PTGui stitches most panoramas fully automatically, but at the same time provides full manual control over every single parameter. This enables stitching of 'difficult' scenes, where other programs fail.
  
• Full 16 bit workflow for best image quality
  
• And much more...
  

WHAT'S NEW

Version 8.3.2:

• Fix: occasional crashes
  
• Fix: 'out of memory' errors
  
• Fix: 'failed to create a temporary file' errors
  
• Fix: Windows: 'View in default viewer' could fail
  
• Fix: Color/brightness faults when creating HDR panoramas with Panorama Tools warping
  
• Fix: the text in the HDR box (Exposure/HDR tab) was not always updated when necessary
  
• Mac: now supports drag & drop of image files onto the PTGui icon in the Dock
  
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

New House Internet Services B.V.

DOWNLOADS

16552

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

All2MP3 2.071 - Convert APE, MPC, FLAC, WV, AIFF, WAV music files to MP3. (Free)

All2MP3 2.071 - Convert APE, MPC, FLAC, WV, AIFF, WAV music files to MP3. (Free): "

All2MP3 2.071

All2MP3 is a simple drag & drop application that allows you to easily convert every APE, MPC, FLAC, WV, OGG, WMA, AIFF or WAV music file, direct to MP3.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.071: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

TresRRR

DOWNLOADS

20865

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

MouseWizard 2.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware)

MouseWizard 2.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware): "

MouseWizard 2.0

MouseWizard... Do you want more from your Magic Mouse? MouseWizard is a simple utility to enhance the use of your Magic Mouse. You can easily customize your Magic Mouse to increase your productivity.

By using MouseWizard, you can give your Magic Mouse two extra buttons, 'pinch' and 'bloat' trackpad gestures, and special features such as 'coverup', to make your Mac go to sleep.

MagicWizard is the ultimate companion for the Magic Mouse.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0:

• Added mouse touch preview
  
• Added mouse touch help
  
• Added Leopard support
  
• Added new functions
  
• Renamed Function keys to usual task
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.6 or later

i386 Intel Machine

Magic Mouse (Or Trackpad)

PRICE

$2.50

DEVELOPER

Samuco

DOWNLOADS

491

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

MouseWizard 1.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware)

MouseWizard 1.0 - Get more from your Magic Mouse or trackpad. (Shareware): "

MouseWizard 1.0

MouseWizard... Do you want more from your Magic Mouse? MouseWizard is a simple utility to enhance the use of your Magic Mouse. You can easily customize your Magic Mouse to increase your productivity.

By using MouseWizard, you can give your Magic Mouse two extra buttons, 'pinch' and 'bloat' trackpad gestures, and special features such as 'coverup', to make your Mac go to sleep.

MagicWizard is the ultimate companion for the Magic Mouse.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.6 or later

i386 Intel Machine

Magic Mouse (Or Trackpad)

PRICE

$2.50

DEVELOPER

Samuco

DOWNLOADS

139

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

IP Locator 1.6.2 - Widget to find location of IP addresses. (Free)

IP Locator 1.6.2 - Widget to find location of IP addresses. (Free): "

IP Locator 1.6.2

IP Locator... Ever check your web logs and wonder where in the world is 84.112.1.125? (Answer: Vienna, Austria) How about 118.90.58.217? (Answer: Kerikeri, New Zealand) Wonder no more! Through the magic of geolocation, IP Locator takes that mysterious IP address and tells you where that hit to your web site (or intruder on your network!) resides.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.6.2:

• Fixed a bug where latitude and longitude were sent to Google Maps in the wrong order for HostIP requests
• Added IPGP.net as a geolocation provider

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

Andrew Hedges

DOWNLOADS

10324

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

Holding Pattern Coach Class 2.3 - Screensaver with a moving aerial view. (Free)

Holding Pattern Coach Class 2.3 - Screensaver with a moving aerial view. (Free): "

Holding Pattern Coach Class 2.3

Holding Pattern Coach Class turns your idle computer screen into an airplane window, complete with a moving aerial view. Each time it plays, the screensaver creates a unique flight sequence.

Realistic, gentle animation and superb photography make it a truly distinctive screen saver. Enjoy the visual splendor of 15 fresh aerial locations, from the majestic American West to lush Hawaii.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.3:

• Works with Snow Leopard
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Flash Player 10 installed.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

Idle Time Software

DOWNLOADS

13930

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

heise online - Marktforscher: Apple ist profitabelster Mobiltelefon-Hersteller

heise online - Marktforscher: Apple ist profitabelster Mobiltelefon-Hersteller: "Apple bleibt mit seinem iPhone trotz angespannter Lage im Mobilfunkmarkt weiter auf der Überholspur. Nach jüngsten Erhebungen zog der Computer- und iPod-Hersteller im vergangenen Quartal sogar erstmals an Weltmarktführer Nokia als profitabelster Anbieter vorbei.

Das iPhone habe einen operativen Gewinn in Höhe von 1,6 Milliarden Dollar eingefahren gegenüber 1,1 Milliarden Dollar, die Nokia erwirtschaftete, ermittelte das Marktforschungsunternehmen Strategy Analytics aus Boston. Vergleichsweise hohe Preise, kombiniert mit einer guten Kostenkontrolle habe wesentlich zum Erfolg beigetragen, so die Analysten."

(Via .)

Smart Scroll 3.4 - Enhances window scrolling, scroll from keyboard and much more. (Shareware)

Smart Scroll 3.4 - Enhances window scrolling, scroll from keyboard and much more. (Shareware): "

Smart Scroll 3.4

Smart Scroll makes scrolling smoother, faster and more comfortable:

• Super Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
  


• Hover Scroll makes scrolling as easy as pointing to the top or bottom edge of a window.


• Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move (and 'throw'!) any window's contents.

Other features include Universal Scroll Keys, trackpad and scroll wheel accelerator, and more.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 3.4:

• Support for Mac OS X 10.6.2


• New check for updates feature.


• Various fixes and improvements.




• For Mac OS X 10.3.9, please use Smart Scroll 2.8.5 for Panther.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.

PRICE

$19.00

DEVELOPER

Marc Moini

DOWNLOADS

32997

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself

Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself: "It may not seem like it, but your MacBook hard drive is no different than that of any other laptop. Replacing it without Apple's help might void your warranty, but it sure is a lot cheaper if you do it yourself.

(Via Wired News.)

Ionic batteries could multiply battery life by 11

Ionic batteries could multiply battery life by 11: "A new development by partly government-backed Fluidic Energy could potentially extend the battery life of notebooks, cars and other devices well beyond existing lithium-ion cells. Known as Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL), it would improve energy storage beyond relatively efficient zinc-air batteries by using an ionic liquid salt to conduct electricity that is much more stable and isn't prone to drying out either by accident or by eventual decay. The move would let battery makers use metals denser than zinc and therefore hold a much larger charge in a given volume....

(Via MacNN.)

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 - Rip DVD media for display on personal devices. (Shareware)

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 - Rip DVD media for display on personal devices. (Shareware): "

ZippyRippy 1.0.4

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls.

If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when ZippyRippy is launched, it will start going into action based on previously established preferences.

• Create an .iso disk image of the DVD for archiving or backup.


• Convert for all Apple devices including: iPod, iPhone/iPod touch, AppleTV.


• Rip the main feature of a DVD squeeze itself to a standard 4.3 GB DVD. This is also handy to skip menus and previews on most DVD’s.


• h.264 mpeg4 encoding option, great for AppleTV


• Set it up to launch when a video DVD is inserted into the drive for automatic ripping and encoding.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0.4:

• Fixes an issue where some users were getting AppleScript errors depending on the speed of their computer. This was caused by a process holding for a fixed amount of time before proceeding. Adjusted that process to look for certain attributes of the disk state before moving on.
  
• Fixes some GUI issues
  
• Adds an ‘Eject Disc’ option in the preferences which will eject the disc when the conversion is complete.
  
• Fixed an issue where the program would not quit when the conversion was done even if the checkbox was selected.
  
• Streamlined some code so the program would be more efficient.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later

PRICE

$5.99

DEVELOPER

ZippyRippy

DOWNLOADS

1168

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

Default Folder X 4.3.3 - Enhances Open and Save dialog boxes. (Shareware)

Default Folder X 4.3.3 - Enhances Open and Save dialog boxes. (Shareware): "

Default Folder X 4.3.3

Default Folder X... Recently rated 5 mice by MacUser UK and 4.5 mice by Macworld, Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application. The toolbar gives you fast access to various folders and commands. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.

Default Folder also fixes a number of problems in Open and Save dialogs, 'rebounding' back to the last selected file, putting the path listing back in the top menu, and correcting bugs in scrolling column views.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 4.3.3:

• 
  Corrected a bug which could cause Default Folder X to use excessive amounts of CPU time when a file server was mounted on the Desktop under Mac OS 10.5.
  


• 
  The shift key now works in the menus for Finder Windows, Disks, and Favorites to reverse the order of the menu items.
  


• 
  The installer now automatically starts Default Folder X after installation, and provides a tip on how to get started.
  


• 
  Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to stop working in Carbon applications when running under Mac OS 10.4.
  


• 
  Safeguarded against possible errors which might cause a file dialog to be reset to have a zero width.
  


• 
  Enabled Default Folder X in Jing.
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PRICE

$34.95

DEVELOPER

St. Clair Software

DOWNLOADS

196173

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

heise Security - Gehackte iPhones via Mobilfunk-Netz gehackt

heise Security - Gehackte iPhones via Mobilfunk-Netz gehackt: "In holländischen Foren wie tweakers.net suchten am Wochenende viele Anwender Hilfe, weil ihr iPhone ganz offensichtlich gehackt wurde. Der Bildschirm zeigte dies als 'Wichtige Warnung' an. Dahinter steckte anscheinend ein Jugendlicher, der anfänglich 4,95 Dollar für die Anleitung wollte, wie man das iPhone wieder säubern und anschließend sichern könnte.

Es stellte sich heraus, dass er ein längst bekanntes Sicherheitsproblem ausgenutzt hatte, das nur auf iPhones mit Jailbreak zum Tragen kommt. Die beiden Benutzer-Accounts root und mobile haben auf allen iPhones das gleiche Passwort. Auf der geschlossenen Plattform spielt das keine große Rolle, da man ohnehin nicht an die Benutzerzugänge herankommt. Installiert der Anwender jedoch nach einem Jailbreak den SSH-Server, kann erstmal jeder von außen als Administrator auf sein iPhone zugreifen."

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BlackSn0w für den Jailbreak eines iPhones mit OS 3.2.1 und Baseband v05.11.07

BlackSn0w für den Jailbreak eines iPhones mit OS 3.2.1 und Baseband v05.11.07: "Während viele Besitzer eines iPhones gar nicht erst daran denken, die softwareseitigen Limitierungen zu entfernen um dann unter anderem freie Hand bei der Installation von Software bzw. der Freischaltung gesperrter Softwarefunktionen zu erhalten, warten andere bereits seit dem letzten Update des iPhone OS auf aktualisierte Software zum Jailbreak. BlackSn0w ermöglicht seit dem heutigen Tag die Entsperrung des iPhone OS 3.1.2 samt aktivier...

(Via MacTechNews.de > News.)

beaTunes 2.0.18 - Analyzes your iTunes library to build better playlists. (Shareware)

beaTunes 2.0.18 - Analyzes your iTunes library to build better playlists. (Shareware): "

beaTunes 2.0.18

beaTunes... How well organized is your iTunes Library? Are your artists always spelled the same way? Any R.E.M. vs REM? beaTunes can easily fix this and other problems with its unique inspection feature (license required for applying one-click solutions). Could your last mix CD's song order use some improvement? Let beaTunes re-arrange your playlist for you! Always wondered how you could take advantage of the BPM (beats per minute) field in iTunes? Let beaTunes fill in the blanks and help you while DJ’ing at your next party.

Here are some more examples of what you can do with beaTunes:

• Automatically determine BPM (beats per minute) and store the result in iTunes


• Automatically determine the musical key your songs are in


• Sort existing playlists so that matching songs succeed each other


• Create matchlists, i.e. playlists based on one or more sample songs


• Browse songs from your music collection that match the currently selected song


• Find all songs iTunes marks with an exclamation mark and remove them from the library

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0.18:

• Fix for different release year inspection.


• Fix for deletion of orphaned songs with iTunes 9.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later


• G4 or better (Intel highly recommended)


• iTunes 8.0.2 or later


• Java 5.0 release 7

PRICE

$31.95

DEVELOPER

Tagtraum Industries, Inc.

DOWNLOADS

29854

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)

VLC Media Player 1.0.3 - Versatile multimedia player. (Free)

VLC Media Player 1.0.3 - Versatile multimedia player. (Free): "

VLC Media Player 1.0.3

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0.3:

• Video outputs:
  
  
  
  • Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
  
  
  • New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
  
  
  
  



• Decoders:
  
  
  
  • Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
  
  
  • Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
  
  
  
  



• Encoders:
  
  
  
  • x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
  
  
  
  



• Input:
  
  
  
  • Update for appletrailers lua script
  
  
  • Fixes on the RAR stream filter
  
  
  • Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
  
  
  • Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
  
  
  • Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
  
  
  
  



• Service discovery:
  
  
  
  • New udev module for linux
  
  
  
  



• Qt4 interface:




• Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels






• Translations:
  
  
  
  • French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
  
  
  
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later and a Quartz Extreme capable Mac.

PRICE

Free

DEVELOPER

VideoLAN Project

DOWNLOADS

1730396

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