Tuesday February 12, 2008
St. Clair Software announces the immediate availability of Default Folder X 4.0.1, which boosts the speed, compatibility and polish of its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs.
About Default Folder X:
Awarded Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.” It enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X applications, making them work as quickly as you do. Custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips. Pop-up menus let you navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Previews and Spotlight comments are there when you need them. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X is workflow for the rest of us.
What’s New:
Monday February 11, 2008
For those of you living under a rock or who have been disconnected from the internet for the last 12 hours: Apple has finally released 10.5.2, which contains all of the goodness seen here on BGM a few weeks ago.
Enjoy!
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Monday
TransformMovie is a utility for rotating and resizing movies, or changing their duration (rate of play.) You can also use it to create movies from other file formats, such as text or pdf.
TransformMovie is a member of the Limit Point Software Utilities Bundle that consists of a wide array of small task oriented programs: movie and image processing, file management, batch email, web crawling, URL resource downloading, and much more. Register once and own all of them. Upgrades are always free, and new products are always included.
Monday
.com Solutions Inc., a developer of multi-platform database migration, replication and development applications, has released CGIScripter 2.38 Enterprise Edition for MacOS X, Windows and Linux. CGIScripter 2.38 is a maintenance release correcting an issue with DB2 script generation and also re-compiled as a Universal Binary application for MacOS X. This release also represents the availability of CGIScripter via TrialPay.
TrialPay is an innovative payment alternative customers can use to obtain products and services for free from online merchants like software developers and digital content providers.
How it works: (from the TrialPay website)
Monday
AddMovie is a utility for concatenating several files (images or movies) into one single movie, saving the output in any movie format supported by your installed QuickTime components. The joined movie can be a reference movie to save space, or self contained. If the output format of the joined movie file is .mov then you have the option of adding chapter titles to demarc the locations of the segments from which it was made.
You can also use AddMovie to batch convert a collection of movies to another format. Any format supported by QuickTime is available, choose from a popup menu in the Preferences window. AddMovie can also be used to extract movie audio tracks to files, splitting movies at arbitrary points into two separate movie files, setting movie poster frames and saving movie frames as images.
Sunday February 10, 2008
After finally getting my Christmas present installed (an Avic D3 head unit), I’ve discovered that the iphone doesn’t support sending Contact data via Bluetooth. Sure it connects and pairs and the call works like a champ, but I can’t see who’s calling or initiate a call from the touchscreen of the stereo itself.
This means that my fancy handsfree bluetooth …