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Another update to the nifty application which creates your family’s tree on a Mac. Reports, graphs, graphics, photos, and GEDCOM compatible. Here’s a more detailed review. These folks think highly of their own software, so check your credit card balance:
A stunning, configurable user interface, animated charts, editable reports and powerful print and export options. Visualize migration of your ancestors over centuries and continents.
9WR - MacFamilyTree: Decent genealogy application manages family tree with photos, reports.
Major update to the specialized utility that renames large numbers of files with drag, drop, click. Renames file names, converts characters, numbers files. Highly useful, not inexpensive.
Live preview gives instant feedback on new filenames for catching errors and fine-tuning results… Rename with simple text search or with flexible regular expressions.
9WR - Renamer4Mac: Saves time, reduces errors, adds flexibility to file renaming.
Substantial update to the little image editor that does more than expected. Affordable, fast, easy to learn, many image editing tools and options, from gradients filters to layers. Nicely done. Now with a cool brush designer, and improved performance via your Mac’s GPU.
Don’t let Acorn’s size fool you; it’s a powerful little guy. Fancy math to keep your pencil strokes from having sharp edges, squeezing as much performance out of your computer’s GPU as possible, and simple innovations to make your life easier.
9WR - Acorn: Simple image editor, layers, filters, effects, vector shapes, text.
This update of the formerly free Taco HTML Edit adds plenty of new features, including live preview, code completion, code coloring for CSS and Javascript, plus tabs, and FTP editing. Is bait and switch alive and well for Mac users? The new version $24.95 vs. the previous version, $0.00. Decent editor, poor implementation of CSS, arguably more important these days than HTML.
While you are editing an HTML, CSS, or PHP document Taco HTML Edit can now suggest completions for the text you are typing… now supports coloring for CSS and JavaScript documents. Coloring is completely configurable… now supports a tabbed user interface for both projects and standalone documents… can now be used an an external editor for FTP clients… Live Preview is now embedded into the document window.
9WR - Taco HTML Edit: HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript editor; tabs, live preview, auto-completion.
Editor for RapidWeaver users. Edits RapidWeaver themes. Yes, you’ll need RapidWeaver. Otherwise, what’s the point? Good way to customize any RW theme.
RWThemeMiner is a RapidWeaver theme editing assistant. It enables you to edit or replace any element in any RapidWeaver theme. It provides a user-friendly interface between the contents of your RW themes and your image and text editing applications.
9WR - RWThemeMiner: Edits, customizes, manages, custom web site themes for RapidWeaver.
Free instant messaging utility that works like Apple’s iChat but without the video and audio but with more chat formats.
Connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.
9WR - Adium: Instant message using AOL, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, GoogleTalk.
Geeky Mac utility that converts movies to a bunch of formats not handled by Apple’s QuickTime. It ain’t pretty but it works.
Converts movie files to an MPEG2/MPEG1 DVD/SVCD/VCD ready movie format, and exports MPEG1/MPEG2/VRO/VOB/TiVo/Hitachi VOB to QuickTime.
9WR - MPEG2 Works 4: Clever utility for movie conversion nerds, MPEG2 to/from whatever.
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