QuickSync 2.1 - Synchronize contacts with your Gigaset handset.. (Free)

QuickSync 2.1 - Synchronize contacts with your Gigaset handset.. (Free): "QuickSync allows you to easily synchronize your contacts on your Macintosh with your Gigaset handset via Bluetooth.

Version 2.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Mac OS 10.4.9 or later.

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Dropbox 1.2.49 - Online synchronization tool with Finder integration; free 2 GB account.. (Free)

Dropbox 1.2.49 - Online synchronization tool with Finder integration; free 2 GB account.. (Free): "

Dropbox is an application that creates a special Finder folder that automatically syncs online and between your computers. It allows you to both backup files and keep them up-to-date between systems.

Note:You must first sign up to use Dropbox. For a free 2GB account with 250MB bonus, click here.

The Dropbox application is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. A video on the site explains more.

Version 1.2.49:

• Fix very rare issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows.
• Fix Selective Sync not working on Windows 8 Developer Preview.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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xACT 2.14 - Audio compression toolkit.. (Free)

xACT 2.14 - Audio compression toolkit.. (Free): "

xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end for the unix applications Shorten (3.6.1), shntool (3.0.10), monkey's audio compressor (3.99), flac (1.2.1), wavpack (4.60.1), TTA (3.4.1) , cdda2wav 3.0 (with paranoia support) and dvda-author (v09.05). It also uses sox ( 14.3.1), LAME 3.98.4, AtomicParsley 0.9.0, TagLib and mp4v2. It executes the basic commands of these applications and adds other features to speed up productivity in creation/use of etree.org standard filesets.

Version 2.14:

• Fixed bug where flac files with .FLAC (uppercase) extension could cause xACT to crash when converting to mp3
• "Lossy" tab now remembers your compression level settings

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later

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X-Plane 10.03b1 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater)

X-Plane 10.03b1 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater): "

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 35 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 74 degrees north to 60 degrees south latitude. We also have MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation). On Earth, you can land at any of over 33,000 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 at the location of flight!

X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with multitudes of systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, landing gear, or dozens of other systems 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) Airfoil-Maker (allowing users to create airfoil performance profiles), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the internet).

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), customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux platforms.

BE SURE TO TURN ON THE >BETA< option in the installer before you run it to get the beta!

The demo contains a limited scenery area to keep the download size reasonable. It will run for 10 minutes before it begins to ignore the user's input, at which point the simulator must be restarted to fly more.

Version 10.03b1:

Aircraft

• Forward-no-panel views now never show random parts of the airplane. This may help some users with performance in that view.
• Fixed a number of rendering bugs with HDR mode and weapons, including weapons with missing or pixelated fuselages.
• Steerable landing light goes in the right direction.
• Fix for v9 aircraft crashing when saved in v10 format.
• Fixed needle deflection generic instrument to actually deflect.

Updater

• When this beta is updated to the next, restarting X-Plane on Mac/Lin won't fail with a UDP socket error.
• Web update URL fixed - this may help with some ISPs.

General Data

• Updated Nav and Airport database to 2011.13 to correct problems with incorrect/impossible controller comm frequencies e.g.(109.60)

Scenery/Rendering

• V9 DSF roads with duplicate points will load correctly.
• Fixed black spots in KSEA demo area.
• Stars dimmed slightly.

ATC

• Fixed issue where going to some remote untowered airports would cause the AI aircraft to spawn and be destroyed repeatedly.
• ATC now continues to function even in special situations e.g.(Tow/Shuttle/Carrier etc.)
• Fixed several smaller stability issues related to active zones.
• Fixed broken runway phrase during takeoff/landing clearances.
• ATC now properly stops running when the sim is paused, in replay mode or in a modal dialog.

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• 1GHz G4 or faster
• 32MB video card

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Google Earth 6.1.0.5001 - View & control dynamic satellite imagery of the world.. (Free)

Google Earth 6.1.0.5001 - View & control dynamic satellite imagery of the world.. (Free): "

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.

Version 6.1.0.5001:

In Google Earth Pro:

• Google Earth Pro has improved support for printing from the client. Changes include a legend with a North indicator and scale, controls for print/paper size, and improved performance.
• Google Earth Pro has improved the experience of making movies by simplifying the user interface and improving performance in certain configurations.
• Importing data files in Google Earth Pro is now easier with the ability to edit shared balloon style for folders and to increase the import categorization limit from 8 to 64.
• Google Earth Pro now allows you to view an elevation profile while measuring.

In Google Earth (Consumer and Pro version):

• Improved the robustness of network access by providing better support for Proxy and SSL certs. This will fix issues users have experienced of not being able to see balloon content or embedded browser content.
• Improved the resolution seen in elevation profiles for lines and tracks.
• Added the ability to sort "My Places," and improved the user interface to be able find points across my places.
• There were several improvements to Street View in Google Earth. We added the ability to zoom into a Street View photo by using a zoom slider. Street View in Earth feels more immersive now due to wider field of view. It is now faster and smoother to use. We made several small tweaks to the user interface including adding a way to navigate floors when you are indoors and there are multiple floors available in Street View.
• Fixed bugs related to missing road labels in cases where roads were curvy or zoomed into.

In Google Earth API for browser plugins:

• Added API for working with tours.

Fixed bugs and product changes:

• To conform more closely with the OGC KML 2.2 standard, we've made the parsing of the tag more strict in version 6.1. Spaces must only be used to separate the (longitude,latitude,altitude) triplets which specify the coordinates of a single point. It is invalid to add spaces between individual coordinates. We understand that previous versions of the client were more lenient, so if your KML files contain spaces beween coordinates in coordinate triplets, an easy workaround is to remove all whitespace located immediately before or after commas inside a tag.
• Several performance improvements that would allow smoother experience in specific computer configurations.
• Fixed 'Restrict to View' functionality during a shapefile import in Google Earth Pro.
• Fixed an issue where Google Earth would sometimes save incorrect ordering of elements in KML.
• Added field of view recording to tours and ability to play back those changes.
• Fixed an issue where the icon heading did not work in Google Earth API.
• Changes to reduce occurrences of missing desktop icon and shortcut menu items on an update.
• Sped up overlay polygon rendering in OpenGL mode.
• Fixed loading of kmz files when the first file at the root level was image file.
• Upgraded GDAL support to 1.7.0 and fixed issues with importing .tab files in Google Earth Pro.
• Fixed the discrepancy caused in measurements due to multiple radii of Earth used inside Google Earth.
• Fixed an issue where placemarks created with UTM coordinates did not move when edited.
• Fixed an issue when screen overlays disappeared in a print-out.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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RewrapAVCHD 1.0b4 - Wrap your AVCHD files with a .m4v container (beta).. (Free)

RewrapAVCHD 1.0b4 - Wrap your AVCHD files with a .m4v container (beta).. (Free): "

RewrapAVCHD lets you rewrap .mts, .m2ts and .m2t files to .m4v files. AVCHD files are not converted, there is no quality loss.

The FastCut video editor from the same developer cannot handle ubiquitous AVCHD files directly. Thus this is the tool which makes your AVCHD files compatible with FastCut and any other QuickTime app.

Version 1.0b4:

• warning (alert dialog) when overwriting file

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• Perian QuickTime plug-in

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About This Particular Macintosh 17.12 - Online independent Mac magazine.. (Free)

About This Particular Macintosh 17.12 - Online independent Mac magazine.. (Free): "

About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM) is a fun monthly chronicle of the Macintosh experience written by and for everyday users. It includes humorous anecdotes, short stories, product reviews and commentaries by Macintosh owners and users about our favorite personal computer.

PDF (print optimized) and PDF (screen optimized) versions are available as well.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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SABnzbd+ 0.6.11 - Web-interface based binary newsgrabber.. (Free)

SABnzbd+ 0.6.11 - Web-interface based binary newsgrabber.. (Free): "

SABnzbdPlus is a web-interface based binary newsgrabber written in python, with nzb file support.

SABnzbdPlus is a free news client with many abilities, such as:

• Download files from your newshost
• Access the news client from any internet connection. Connect from work, school, wherever and tell SABnzbd to download. Your downloads are ready when you get home.
• No more repairing or unpacking. SABnzbdPlus handles the dirty work for you. You tell it what to download and when it is done, SABnzbdPlus will repair the download, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving you with nothing but the files you wanted.
• Full nzb support

This is the OS X build - everything packed in one convenient universal application. Just download, point, click and run. Almost no configuration required.

Version 0.6.11:
What's new:

• Improve detection of encrypted RAR files during download
• SABnzbd will now listen on all "localhost" addresses This should prevent problems on IPV6-enabled systems
• Remove unneeded extra temporary folder level in Generic Sort
• When par2 fails and SFV-check enabled, verify using SFV files
• Perform extra checks on job administration
• Fix logging of pre-queue script result
• Better support for Yahoo pipes
• Accept NZB files containing incorrect dates
• Make newzbin "Get bookmarks now" button independent of automatic readout
• OSX: Fix Growl issues
• OSX: Show the promised 10 queue entries in the OSX menu instead of 9

Known problems:

• On IPv4-only platforms, SABnzbd may still try to open a IPv6 port
• Movie sorting will fail to created job folder when the Sort expression asks for this

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Subler 0.15 - App to mux mp4 files.. (Free)

Subler 0.15 - App to mux mp4 files.. (Free): "

Subler is a simple mp4 file format muxer. Quickly remux your mkv or mov files to mp4 or add new subtitles tracks to your mp4 file.

The main features are:

• Creation of tx3g subtitles tracks, compatible with all Apple's devices (iPod, AppleTV, iPhone, QuickTime).
• Mux video, audio, chapters, subtitles and closed captions tracks from mov, mp4 and mkv.
• Raw formats: H.264 Elementary streams (.h264, .264), AAC (.aac), AC3 (.ac3), Scenarist (.scc)
• iTunes metadata editing.

Version 0.15: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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YouTube to MP3 1.8.3 - Extract MP3 audio from YouTube videos.. (Free)

YouTube to MP3 1.8.3 - Extract MP3 audio from YouTube videos.. (Free): "

YouTube to MP3 is for users who like to listen to music on YouTube but want to do it offline or on their favorite portable player. You have found soundtrack of new movie on YouTube and want to save it to your music library as MP3. Then MediaHuman YouTube to MP3 Converter for Mac is a best choice for you.

This software is extremely simple to use and allows you to extract audio track from your favorite videos and music clips. Besides of it this software is completely free.

Version 1.8.3:

• stability has been improved
• added Norwegian language
• added Danish language

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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NZBVortex 2.5.4 - Lightweight Usenet NZB download client.. (Shareware)

NZBVortex 2.5.4 - Lightweight Usenet NZB download client.. (Shareware): "

NZBVortex is a small and efficient NZB usenet client for Mac OS X, optimized for performance and ease of use.
Current features include:

• Multi server support
• Optimize download size
• Post processing (parring and unrarring)
• Multi connection downloading
• Simultaneous transfer (option)
• SmartCheck
• Shutdown when all downloads are completed
• Skip sample files (option)
• Put computer to sleep when done
• NZB watch folder
• Skip Sample files (option)
• yEnc encoded articles
• Simple but clear UI
• Optimized for OSX 10.6 (32/64 bit)
• Native GUI for OSX
• Small footprint, micro
• Low HDD usage (memory caching)
• SSL servers
• Download Throttling/Limiting
• Growl support

Version 2.5.4:

• Par2 fix-filename should not rename possible split files
• Other small fixes

Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Safari AdBlock 2.4.33 - Blocks ads in Safari.. (Free)

Safari AdBlock 2.4.33 - Blocks ads in Safari.. (Free): "

Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. Safari AdBlock is meant to be extremely simple to use: there is nothing to configure, no filter list to manage, no regular expression, it just works out of the box!

Please note that Safari AdBlock is now donationware: see the Safari AdBlock website for more details.

Version 2.4.33:

• Many bugfixes and speed improvements

• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
• Safari 5.0 or later

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VideoSpec 0.9.2 - Displays video file information in detail.. (Free)

VideoSpec 0.9.2 - Displays video file information in detail.. (Free): "

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. Finally, a timecode calculator/converter timecode is now available.

Version 0.9.2:

• MediaInfo CLI updated (v0.7.51). Various bugs fixed in mpeg analysis.
• Recognition of Playstation Portable Media container.
• Fields with undefined results are no more shown in full display view (single analysis).
• VLC can be used instead of mplayer for media previewing (VLC must be installed).
• Detailed profiles for DTS. Italian localization (thanks to Alex Masolin!).

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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DX ToolBox 3.8.0 - Internet geomagnetic and solar searcher.. (Shareware)

DX ToolBox 3.8.0 - Internet geomagnetic and solar searcher.. (Shareware): "

DX Toolbox searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditions that affect radio propagation.

It displays in real-time the following important readings:

• Solar Flux
• A-Index
• K-Index
• Solar Flux
• Sun Spot Number
• X-Ray Flux levels
• X-Ray flares
• Solar Wind
• Earth's Magnetic Field
• Proton and Electron Flux levels
• Radio Blackout conditions
• Geomagnetic Storm conditions
• Solar Radiation Storm conditions

Version 3.8.0:

• Added D Layer Absorption window.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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