Free "Daily Guitar Jam Widget" Launched By OWC and Roger Adler
Other World Computing and four-time Emmy nominated musician Roger Adler have announced the launch and immediate availability of the Daily Guitar Jam Widget. Available for free download at www.DailyGuitarJam.com, the cutting edge tool delivers a unique musical riff directly to the user's desktop each day 365 days a year.
Sticky Windows 1.2.1 adds Stability and a Better User Experience Sticky Windows is an utility for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 which extends the tab browsing experience to the desktop. Sticky Windows transforms your windows into tabs when you drag a window towards the edge of your screen. Providing you with a completely clutter-free workspace. By clicking on the tab the user can show and hide the window. Sticky Windows is 14.95 shareware.
ChronoSync Universal Binary Now Available
Econ Technologies has updated ChronoSync, their automated synchronization and backup application for Mac OS X, to version 3.2. This version includes full Universal Binary support so that ChronoSync will run natively on both Power PC and Intel based Macintosh computers. Download ChronoSync 3.2 and try the demo, or purchase it for only $30. As always, existing ChronoSync users update for free.
In addition to full Universal Binary support, ChronoSync version 3.2 contains some new features and fixes too. A new rule was added that allows for inclusion and exclusion of files & folders based on path name. Another new rule was added that allows for inclusion and exclusion of files & folders based on Finder/Spotlight comments. An option was also added to sync over Finder/Spotlight comments associated with files & folders. Trial Syncs performance has been optimized to instantly synchronize files after reviewing pending file changes. Additionally, this version includes numerous bug fixes. Best of all this update is free to all existing users; just download and replace your current version.
DobrySoft Releases Dobry Backuper 1.4 as Universal Binary
DobrySoft has released the Universal Binary version of its Mac OS X backup software. Version 1.4 of Dobry Backuper, its easy to use backup solution for individuals, small home and corporate networks, will now run both on PowerPC Mac and on Intel Mac under Mac OS X. Dobry Backuper is powerful backup program with advanced features. It can back up to any mounted drive, including external and network drives, supports multi-volume and compressed archives and employs the standard tar-compatible format, which means that data can be restored even without Dobry Backuper. The built-in schedule allows to run full, versioned or incremental backups in an automatic mode.
Now available as a universal binary version which runs natively on Intel-based Macs as well as on PowerPCs.
Corrected displaying of the files modification date-time in the backup content table.
Fixed a problem with reading data from tar archives for the files whose owner or group name contained numbers (e.g. 1111, user25 and so on).
Added better compatibility with Tiger (10.4.x) systems.
Dobry Backuper requires any Macintosh with Mac OS X 10.3 or later. The update version is free for current users. The free update and 30-day trial version are available from DobrySoft.
Valentine's Day Special from BeLight Software
BeLight Software gives Mac-users an opportunity to spread their Valentine greetings over the world on February, 14. To take part, you need to submit a love-note on BeLight's site from February, 8th til Sunday, February 12th, 2006. The three best greetings will be rotated on MacMinute, SpyMac and MacDailyNews websites throughout St. Valentines Day. Take the chance to surprise your loved ones!
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No snapshots for Friday
You may remember me mentioning a programming assignment I was developing on Monday. Well, several 4AM coding sessions later after it has frazzled every nerve I have left, I have it suitable for submittal. My strength and patience are completely spent! So with that and an apology, I’m going to bed. Monday will bring a man of happier times…
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Zing with CapacityString - In this week's tutorial we're going to write a CapacityString class which will vastly improve string performance in certain situations. Now, I admit this tutorial isn't exactly going to be eye catching, but I think for some of you it will be quite an eye opener. After all, a 50x speedup is really nice.
"It's not a boat, it's a yacht!" Whooops, I stand corrected, it is a boat. Irene Rojas shares a photo snapped at dusk, of a catamaran taking some tourists across the bay in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
Here’s a nice shot of a primrose taken at the Cleveland Home and Garden Show by Rick Segedi. Spring is on the way!
Luke Westlie tosses up a pair of Apple inspired desktops with a Tiger, an logo and Aqua Blue background all merged as one, Grrr. and Grrr. Apple.
Alessandro Zanutto gives us a collection of seven icons, Archivia.
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PictoGrab 1.1: Automated Photocast Downloads Radical Breeze has announced the immediate release of PictoGrab 1.1, a free upgrade to their automated picture downloading utility for Mac OS X. New to version 1.1 is full support for Photocasts, which allows users to drop the link to a Photocast onto PictoGrab to quickly download all pictures that it contains. Version 1.1 also contains performance and usability improvements.
"Photocasts are awesome, but what if you don't have Apple's iPhoto? Downloading the pictures from a Photocast then can become a royal pain," stated Bryan Lund, President of Radical Breeze. "PictoGrab automates this process completely. All you need to do is drop or copy the url for a Photocast onto PictoGrab and it will download all of the pictures into whatever folder you like."
PictoGrab allows people to quickly and easily download pictures from any website, or photocast, to any folder. Minimum/Maximum file size and search depth can also be set. A new user license for PictoGrab is available for $14.95. A free trial version available.
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Thanks for your patience folks! Here’s a round of snapshots for the midweek:
A Creolab Design House desktop picture and the custom Underling theme are showcased in this contribution from Gerrit Vanoppen. Grayhouse’s Box Seri Three icons, ported to the Mac by Gerrit, are also shown.
Nathan Crank contributes this screenshot sporting a slightly modified version of XiAP GUI Studio’s Xi-FreshSnow C theme. FruitMenu brings organization to the Apple menu.
Loneyukiko’s “Ying Yang” desktop picture and XiAP GUI Studio’s Xi-MX7 theme debut in this two-part submission from Rick Miller. Reg’s Dragon Ying Yang, Xnap’s Blood Folders, and Nicolas Cardot’s Fablue icon collections reside on the desktop and in Finder windows.
Owlgorithm submits this screenshot running Ubuntu Linux. The GNOME desktop environment features a desktop picture by JimmyJazz and the Clearlooks-graphite and GraphiteBox themes for the Metacity window manager.
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4 new desktops and 2 new icon sets are on tap for our Midweek edition.
Anthony Vassallo bids farewell to his first Mac with a quad-pack of desktops, Say goodbye to eMac, and "...whilst it wasn't the best Mac, it was cool and gave (Anthony) a great way to create some lovely artwork."
Faze Free hits us with an inspired desktop creation in honour of the Power Mac G5 — nice!
Andy Symonette returns to the the land of burning sands and scorched earth with an illustrated desktop, Desert 2.
Alessandro Zanutto adds to his icon collection dedicated to wandering the great outdoors with an add-on pack to a set we featured earlier in the week, Travel Adventure 2.
Here's an excellent set of application and document replacement icons for VLC from fenixtx22 that are sure to please. The download includes icons in ICNS, ICO, PNG and Pixadex iContainer formats.
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There's another desktop update online at erniesthings.com. An X-Men 3 desktop with Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Kelly Hu (Lady Deathstrike) is ready as are a couple more "Giant Retro Pixel Video Game" desktops featuring "Spy Hunter" and "Gauntlet". All are available in 1600x1200, 1680x1050, and 1024x768.
Review: Suitcase Fusion takes the best from Font Reserve and Suitcase, combining their individual features into one robust program. Erik Vlietinck gives us the scoop in a full, in-depth review of Suitcase Fusion, Extensis' font manager.
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Digging through 270 pages and 3 years worth of cursors at WinCustomize, Jay Lehrer's "Project CursorXP Port 2006" has a goal to port the best of the best WindowsXP cursors over to Mac OS X for use with Unsanity's Mighty Mouse haxie. Fully authorized by the original artists, these cursors all sport a great mix of style and class. Ryan "ooosnoman" Blyth is our featured artist of the day, his creations are Blue Conica and Clear Bluecite.
We're always just a bit befuddled as to why a Mac user would feel the need to give their machine a Windows makeover, but that's just us so don't take it personally. :^) Perhaps to use as a practical joke? Okay, we'll buy that. Either way, we point you to mictoboy's Windows XP boot image and login panel makeovers.
Stefan Gast drops an iTunes skin on us, DMR Whitestripes, that includes five variants of the "Complete.aif" sound file as part of the package.
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Did you know that every file or gui mod article submitted by our contributing artists/writers has the opportunity to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate from PowerMax? At the end of the month we toss all of your qualifying submissions into a folder and use our random number AppleScript to choose the lucky winner! The gift certificate can be used to buy software, peripheral hardware or even be applied against the purchase of a new Mac. Ooo yeah, free stuff is sweet!
Peter Grosett shags the draw for our November 2005 PowerMax Gift Certificate. That's $50.00 of stuff just for sharing his gorgeously photographed nature desktop, Lily. Nice!
Andy Symonette treats us to another of his tablet drawings with a selection called Farm 2.
Anthony Vassallo shares volume 2 of his G5 Beauty desktops, you'll find three images loaded up in this package.
TIgerX4 has got quite the talent for creating 3D desktops, Forest V2 captures a scenic setting that just about fooled me into thinking it was a photograpic piece.
Paying homage to the great Bill Watterson, Ford Prefect sent us a large series of desktops featuring Calvin and Hobbes. Our Monday edtion checks in with Calvin and Hobbes napping on a tree branch from the front cover of The Days Are Just Packed. All copyright credit for these images go to Bill Watterson, Universal Comics and Scholastic Books.
These boots were made for walking, or to be more accurate, hiking. In addtion to the boot, Alessandro Zanutto has other iconic items related to wandering the great outdoors, Travel Adventure.
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The Iconfactory has released scalable EPS versions of their Fresco Database stock icon add-on collection, perfect for large format, print and web applications. This set extends into the realm of databases with icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others.. Fresco Database EPS is 100% vector based and contains a single, scalable EPS file for each icon. The collection is available today for $129.00 USD.
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No snapshots for Monday
Sorry folks. I’m finishing a group programming project that is due tomorrow! So, it’s back to Xcode I go. By the way, thanks to all of you for the snapshots I received this weekend! I will be back on schedule by Wednesday’s update. Faint not. I shall return. ;-)
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