Notable Software Updates for Week 49/2008

Macsteps maintains a watchlist of interesting, useful and popular software and keeps up to date with their development. Here’s the list of software updated in week 49, 2008.

iTerm 0.9.6.1201
Pagico 3.2.1.104
Mouseposé 3.1
Speed Download 5.1
ScreenSteps 2.1.2r26
iCompta 3.0
WhatSize 4.4.1
Bookpedia 4.4.1
CDpedia 4.4.1
DVDpedia 4.4.1
Gamepedia 4.4.1
Merlin 2.6.3
Together 2.2.3
Art Text 2.0.3
Coda 1.6.1
GraphicConverter 6.3
VoodooPad 4.02
Money 3.2.1
Things 0.9.6.1
VueScan 8.4.97
1Password 2.9.5
Saft 10.5.6

iTerm 0.9.6.1201

iTerm is a replacement for Mac OS X’s built-in Terminal.app that features VT100 emulation, tabs, bookmarks and more.

What’s New

ITConfigPanel can now only set transparency in integer multiples
ITConfigPanel font spacing now snaps to ticks
Fixed the screen blanking bug on setWindowTitle (#2188028)
Improved the layout of ITConfigPanel
Removed “Use transparency” button from ITConfigPanel as it was causing confusion. To disable transparency just set it to 0%.
Fixed a problem with pasting a big chunk of stuff.
Detached tabs now keep their size/font settings.
Removed the writing threads to avoid potential sync problems.
Now iTerm automatically restores its window title after a window resizes.

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://iterm.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Download URL

http://iterm.sourceforge.net/iTerm_0.9.6.1201.zip

Pagico 3.2.1.104

Pagico is a knowledge database for storing projects and tasks along with notes and all kinds of documents. It supports tags, smart folders, linking, contact management and more.

What’s New

Fixed a bug in importing files
UI improvements in toolbar
15-day free trial can be restarted for old users
Fixed a UI bug for images in topics
Fixed a bug in date recognition when modifying tasks in dashboard
Reduced system resource usage

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://www.pagico.com/

Download URL

http://www.pagico.com/download/

Mouseposé 3.1

Mouseposé 3 is a tool for enhancing presentations or demos that dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer and is also able to display keybord shortcuts on-screen.

What’s New

New filter option for displaying keystrokes that will not be displayed when using the keystroke display
When modifier and keys are pressed, only complete key combinations are shown
Improved stability and performance on startup

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://www.boinx.com/

Download URL

http://www.boinx.com/download/

Speed Download 5.1

Speed Download 5 is a download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and a complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity tool.

What’s New

New: Added Rapidshare integration. You can now download from and upload to Rapidshare directly within Speed Download. You might have to add its toolbar icon to see it.
New: Addeed a new contextual menu item to allow you to upload from Rapidshare via SD from anywhere on your Mac.
New: Addeed a new bandwidth throttling optionl; you can now throttle Upload speeds.
Fixed: Updated queue sort ordering.
Updated: Many under the hood improvements to accommodate for all the changes.

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://www.yazsoft.com/

Download URL

http://www.yazsoft.com/sd/content/download.html

ScreenSteps 2.1.2r26

Screensteps turns screenshots into documentation that can be exported to PDF, HTML, blogs, Wikis and ScreenSteps Live. Screenshots can be annotated and individual steps can be numbered directly on the screenshot.

What’s New

Fixes:

Reordering sections in one manual could affect the order of sections in another manual.
Split step code was not always correctly deleting text in original step.
Saving lesson description and step instructions now handles unicode characters properly when storing the search index.
When exporting to PDF Table of Contents, titles and table of contents display Icelandic characters properly.
Exporting images now takes into account template max dimensions when determining if an image needs to be resized when determining if image should be exported.
Fixed PDF TofC spacing when section or lesson titles take up two lines.
Fixed spacing of title on title page when it took up more than one line.
Title on title page was sometimes running onto second page.

Enhancements:

controlKey + tab now inserts a tab on Windows.
MindTouch Deki, Confluence and Blogs now support image zoom.
Updated url handling in blog APIs in order to support use of query string in ExpressionEngine.
Uploading to Confluence or MindTouch Deki no longer exits if removing a media file does not work while replacing a lesson. This takes into account situations where the user deleted media files on the server already.
Sections and lesson bookmarks are now numbered in PDF output.

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://www.screensteps.com/

Download URL

http://www.screensteps.com/downloads/

iCompta 3.0

iCompta is an application for managing your personal finances. It supports multiple currencies and languages, budgeting, statistics & graphs and many more features.

What’s New

New localizations :

Italian (Thanks to Henri Aste)

New features :

iPhone synchronization
Brand new user interface
Budget management
Multiple types support per operation
Performance improvements
Embedded browser for online banking
Rules
Smart filters
You can overline important operations
It’s now possible to have canceled operations
Multiple files can be attached to an operation
Repeating operations can have an ending date

Fixes :

OFX import fix
QIF import fix

Release Date

2008-12-01

Developer

http://angeman7.free.fr/

Download URL

http://angeman7.free.fr/iCompta/downloads/iCompta.dmg

WhatSize 4.4.1

WhatSize is a tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first.

What’s New

No information available

Release Date

2008-12-02

Developer

http://www.id-design.com/

Download URL

http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/whatsize.dmg

Bookpedia 4.4.1

Bookpedia keeps track of all your books, along with a picture of the cover, data from Amazon and customizable fields. Simply enter the ISBN or scan the barcode on a book, and Bookpedia automatically pulls the associated data from the Web.

What’s New

Statistics work on selections, if selection is greater than one
No selection when the selected entry is not in a collection just switched to
Table view shows the row selected when moving collections
Bug fix: fixed a crash affecting a few users displaying overdue and sale banners

Release Date

2008-12-02

Developer

http://www.bruji.com/

Download URL

http://www.bruji.com/bookpedia/bookpedia.dmg

CDpedia 4.4.1

CDpedia keeps track of all your CDs, along with a picture of the cover, data from Amazon and customizable fields. Simply enter or scan the barcode on a CD, and CDpedia automatically pulls the associated data from the Web.

What’s New

Statistics work on selections, if selection is greater than one
No selection when the selected entry is not in a collection just switched to
Table view shows the row selected when moving collections
Bug fix: fixed a crash affecting a few users displaying overdue and sale banners

Release Date

2008-12-02

Developer

http://www.bruji.com/

Download URL

http://www.bruji.com/cdpedia/cdpedia.dmg

DVDpedia 4.4.1

DVDpedia keeps track of all your DVDs, along with a picture of the cover, data from Amazon and customizable fields. Simply enter or scan the barcode on a DVD, and DVDpedia automatically pulls the associated data from the Web.

What’s New

Statistics work on selections, if selection is greater than one
Credits can be limited to a first number of credits during an HTML export with [creditsBegin:15]
No selection when the selected entry is not in a collection just switched to
Table view shows the row selected when moving collections
Bug fix: fixed a crash affecting a few users displaying overdue and sale banners

Release Date

2008-12-02

Developer

http://www.bruji.com/

Download URL

http://www.bruji.com/dvdpedia/dvdpedia.dmg

Gamepedia 4.4.1

Gamepedia keeps track of all your games, along with a picture of the cover, data from Amazon and customizable fields. Simply enter or scan the barcode on a game, and Gamepedia automatically pulls the associated data from the Web.

What’s New

Statistics work on selections, if selection is greater than one
No selection when the selected entry is not in a collection just switched to
Table view shows the row selected when moving collections
Bug fix: fixed a crash affecting a few users displaying overdue and sale banners

Release Date

2008-12-02

Developer

http://www.bruji.com/

Download URL

http://www.bruji.com/gamepedia/gamepedia.dmg

Merlin 2.6.3

Merlin is professional-grade project management application software designed specifically for the Macintosh operating system. Written using the latest Apple technology for Mac OS X, Merlin’s rich feature set and intuitive tools allow you to focus on your work, not the software.

What’s New

Changes

Added a new tab to the license preference pane showing the licensed features and their quantities.
Removed the fields for earliest and latest end from the milestone inspector.
Web and project sharing: Improved the port mapping behavior for AVM routers.
An all new “Merlin Quick Guide” replaces the old “Merlin Tutorial”.
The “Send To”-Menu now supports shell scripts.
When resetting the resource leveling in a project containing activities with actual values, a dialog comes up and lets the user decide if leveling delays of already started activities should be reset.
Preliminary support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

The “Budget Cost Balance” and “Milestone Trend Reports” did not show charts if the project contained activities whose titles contained quotes.
The assigned resources did not refresh properly in the inspector.
A crash is fixed that could occur when a document was closed in which web sessions have still been active.
Activities must not have an empty title.
Fixed an exception that could occur when saving under Mac OS X 10.4.
The “Send Mail” function in reports did not work in any case.
Sorting the elements view by kind, category or status was not possible.
Fixed the problem that the “Send to Billings” script sometimes did not open Billings.
Fixed an exception that occurred during XML export of projects containing costs.
Actual work cost of assignments contained the value of the expected work cost if accrual was not prorated.
A few typos in Merlin and in the help files are corrected.
The larger/smaller shortcuts for the text manipulation in the notes field are removed.
Projects shared from within the own Merlin instance showed up in the remote open dialog.
Fixed problem with the refreshing of approved budget values.
Fixed activity constraints could under some circumstances be ignored under Mac OS 10.4.
In Merlin Web Module:
Some Javascript files had a wrong file encoding.
The resource status flags were wrongly calculated and displayed.
The HTML export is now more clearly marked as being part of the optional Web Module.

Release Date

Developer

http://www.projectwizards.net/en/

Download URL

http://www.projectwizards.net/en/products/merlin/downloads

Together 2.2.3

Together lets you store text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks in its database. It can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly.

What’s New

Together will now sync once shortly after startup to get any changes from MobileMe that may have occured while it wasn’t running. Subsequent syncs will occur when MobileMe is synced.
Improved performance when launching, importing and moving items in large libraries.
Fixed a problem that could occur when deleting during a sync.
Fixed a crash that could occur when importing a library and icon previews were enabled.
Fixed a problem where the tag browser could not be filtered.
Fixed a problem where the Labels and Send to Group sub-menus would be displayed incorrectly when the option in Advanced preferences to hide the library window at startup was enabled.
Fixed a problem where the item name being edited in the landscape item list would not scroll.

Release Date

Developer

http://reinventedsoftware.com/

Download URL

http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/downloads/Together_2.2.3.dmg

Art Text 2.0.3

Art Text is a Mac OS X application for creating high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web site elements and buttons with multi layer support.

What’s New

Object handles were reviewed, which improves object resize and rotation capabilities;
Set Size dialog got an ability to automatically set document size that bounds all objects;
Source panel improvements;
Spanish localization added;
Launching localized Help files fixed;
Standard window title features added (double-click on the title to minimizes window, Ctrl-click on the title shows file route, etc);
International number formats supported in localized versions;
Layer panel bug fixes;
Problem with applying spline transformation for rotated objects solved;
Other minor improvements.

Release Date

Developer

http://www.belightsoft.com/

Download URL

http://www.belightsoft.com/download/download.php#arttext

Coda 1.6.1

Coda is a tool for “one-window web development”. It integrates a source code editor, site and file manager with subversion support, preview, CSS editor and server upload all in one interface.

What’s New

Improved JSP-HTML, Smarty Template, and Perl modes
Added plug-in menu to editor’s contextual menu
Multiline clips now keep indentation level of the current line
Can now create new document windows via Applescript
Fixed a bug in which deleting a Book could cause an exception
Fixed keyboard shortcut for View Source and changed Update to Latest Revision
Perl highlighter will now correctly highlight an empty qw() function
Fixed exception when pressing Go button with empty string in Goto Folder dialog
ASP mode now supports the < script runat="server"> directive and highlights the code correctly
When typing > in a string literal Coda no longer closes the tag preceding it
Fixed an exception after removing group of clips while editing its name
Web Preview URL field no longer tries to escape a pasting in escaped URL
Undo now reselects the inserted undid text
Comment/uncomment with windows line endings no longer adds an extra line ending
After using Open Quickly, Coda now always moves focus to the opened editor
Fixed hang when navigating to /etc (and other system level symlinks)
Added comment/uncomment in objective-j syntax mode
Now supports other locations of opendiff to prevent FileMerge from not opening
Repeated opening of custom Books no longer causes the book header to disappear
Open Quickly window now correctly displays file names on SMB volumes
Fixed exception when de-denting text with spaces on in empty document
Fixed exception in find/replace across files in some cases
Fixed Publishing counter being off by 1
Command-Delete now deletes the current line if the editor has focus
Coda Plug-in scripts without “#!” comment will now correct execute
Fixed a bug in which the DOM inspector in the Web Preview would not always shows class/id info in breadcrumb
Web preview now correctly refreshes after closing the last tab
Fixed keyboard shortcut for Go -> Next Change
Fixed tooltips for delete clips and delete clip groups
Typing attributes no longer change to black and then to the correct color
Improved typing performance when typing on a very long line of text

Release Date

Developer

http://www.panic.com/

Download URL

http://www.panic.com/coda/d/Coda%201.6.1.zip

GraphicConverter 6.3

GraphicConverter lets you open and save almost any picture file format, edit and organize your pictures, start a slide show, automate your image processing and many more features.

What’s New

export for digital picture frame added (UB)
ExifTool support added (UB)
measure arc with two lines added (UB)
show all formats entry added to the format menu (UB)
copy EXIF to XMP added
jng import added (UB)
export to Photostrip added (UB)

set gps supports now tiffs, too (UB)
option to ignore bounds during WMF import added
option to ask for size in YUV import fixed (UB)
e-mail option 800×600 added
Unicode support for information window added (UB)
separate thumbnail batch for catalog creation added (UB)
rename entry to find submenu added
timezone support added for gps (UB)
stamp dialog supports text field for size (UB)

possible crash during saving in pac format fixed
crash during aquire more than 1000 files fixed
bug with not displaying batches with pressed caps log fixed (UB)
possible crash during import from digital camera with active logging fixed (UB)
bug with long filenames in save for web fixed (UB)
bug in JP2000 import of 10 bit grayscale files fixed (UB)
color bug during saving 16 bit images as tiff fixed (Intel UB)
possible crash with storyboards fixed (UB)
bug with wrong text/background color fixed (UB)
bug with wrong folder display in catalog printing fixed
bug in import of JPEG compressed MAX files fixed
bug with command+H in X version fixed
many other small bug fixes and enhancements

Release Date

Developer

http://www.lemkesoft.com/index.html

Download URL

http://www.lemkesoft.com/public/content/index._cGlkPTg4_.html

VoodooPad 4.02

VoodooPad is a tool to store ideas, images, lists and anything else you need to keep track of. You can drag and drop folders, images, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad and they’re linked up just like on the web.

What’s New

Fixed a syncing bug where non-image text attachments would cause the sync to fail when you were also publishing a site at the same time.
Now showing an alert if the sync could not create the a directory it needs.
If you hold down the option key when selecting the page info toolbar button, it’ll show the document info.
Fixed a bug where the default page name in the document info palette wasn’t kept in sync if you rename the default page from the info palette.
Fixed some cases where the font would change on plain text pages.
Plugin updates- added “tag” methods in place of the “category” methods.
Added a keyboard shortcut for the “run page as python script” menu item: Command-Shift-Control-;
Fixed a bug where the pages list for encrypted documents (which closed automatically from the “close encrypted documents” pref) wouldn’t clear out. Now they do.
Cleaned up some python plugin stuff. Test all your python scripts!
The font for plain text pages is now picked up from the document’s NewPageTemplate page if available.
The sync setup sheet now shows a warning “pages are stored unencrypted” when you setup an encrypted document for syncing.
Fixed a couple of bugs in the type palette.
The status text in the bottom of the window now gets the 10.5 “raised text” treatment.
The text in the unselected tabs looks a bit nicer now that it can effectively use sub pixel antialiasing.
The “Clear Formatting” style in the type panel now resets the kerning and character baseline.
Fixed a bug where the page preview would now show up if a link had an underscore in front of it.
You can now type a number in the font size combo box, and it’ll take (where it didn’t before).
Changed “show links” to “show page links” in the page info palette, which more accurately describes what it does.
The “word count in page” plugin now reports characters instead of “letters”, since it counts spaces as well as non-spaces.
When the toolbar was in text only mode, or the search button was pushed off into the toolbar overflow menu, VP’s search button wouldn’t work right. That’s fixed now.
Fixed a bug where you could have rename a tag to have the same name as an existing one.
Fixed a bug palettes would gather off screen when you had a bunch open, and used the Window ▸ Gather Palettes menu item.
Fixed a bug where spotlight files weren’t cleaned up properly.
Add a “Select All Pages” button the the split window.
Backlinks should be a little bit faster now.
Fixed a bug where sometimes links were opened twice, when using a vpdoc that was split from another vpdoc.
Fixed a problem where page aliases were showing up in the split document panel.
Added checks for some cases that should never happen, but are happening anyway.
Added a new hidden pref to make VP’s fullscreen behave like it did in 3.5:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad_Pro fullScreenInFullScreen -bool YES
Added a new hidden pref to make VP center the main window before moving it to full screen:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad_Pro centerInFullScreen -bool YES
Converted a lot of the example Lua scripts to Python: http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/docs/example%20python%20scripts.html
Made changes to the python plugin, so tracebacks go to VP’s console as well as output from print().
Fixed a problem where page names weren’t propigated for syncs, if the page content wasn’t modified.
Fixed some linking problems with crazy characters.
Now setting the “apple-touch-icon” on the webdav site pages, for iPhone bookmarks.
Fixed a problem where VP would show an alert box behind the bucket if you dragged a file object into ze bucket.
Lots of little changes to the WebDAV sync setup sheet, to fix a number of issues.
Fixed a bug where the “under line links” and “colorize links” prefs were not honored for rich text links.
Fix: The VP Pro webserver now correctly serves up links that have been made via the “Link selection to Page…” menu item. It also removes links to pages that aren’t in the current document.
Fix: VoodooPad no longer crashes when it tries to import an encrypted document (it throws up an error instead, which is marginally better).
Fix: The palettes no longer reappear when exiting full screen mode, when you had them set to be hidden.
Fixed a bug where the pages list in the drawer would not update correctly when a page name was changed.
The start of some new documentation online: http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/docs/, which the in app documentation points to.
Fix: When pressing the link in the prefs to change the new page text style, if there’s no text selected then we’ll select all of it first. This way if you change a text style, something will actually happen.
Fix: VP now remembers if the ruler is showing when moving from page to page in the same tab.
Skipping pages with the “skip on export” option set when printing the document.
Fixed a theoretical crasher when marking up text.

Release Date

Developer

http://flyingmeat.com/

Download URL

http://flyingmeat.com/download/VoodooPad.zip

Money 3.2.1

Jumsoft Money is a personal finance management app that features an iTunes-like interface, multiple account types (such as credit card, checking, loan and more), budgeting, invoicing, reports and more.

What’s New

Fast transactions adding (hold Ctrl and press OK).
Added Invoice Styles button.
Import has been improved.
Fixed Invoices bug with company duplication.
Fixed bug with search.
Fixed bug with grid size save.
Fixed problem with subcategories in bills.
Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Release Date

Developer

http://www.jumsoft.com/

Download URL

http://www.jumsoft.com/downloads/money.dmg

Things 0.9.6.1

Things is a productivity application that follows the GTD methodology and supports tags, collaboration, quick entry and more. An iPhone app that syncs with the desktop app is also available.

What’s New

When the contents of an Area of Responsibility is displayed in the main view, the “New Project” menu command now inserts the new project into the this Area instead of the general projects list.
You can now use Command-F to move keyboard focus to the search field. The only exception is when editing the note section of a to-do. In that case the standard find panel is shown.
Improved reliability of “https” URL detection.
The “Item>Move To” menu command didn’t reflect the new ordering in the sidebar. This is fixed now.
Schedule Dialog, regression. When re-scheduling a to-do it was no longer possible to move the date to the past. This is fixed.
Schedule Dialog. The title of the action popup button now also updates when clicking into the date picker.
The state of toolbar buttons now update correctly when the selection changes due to applying an operation that removes an item from the current list.
iCal Sync. Syncing priorities now also works with the German localization.
Minor improvements to the German localization.
iPhone sync. Increased robustness and reliability of device discovery under unusual network conditions.
iPhone sync. Added “Sync now” menu command and button (Preferences).
iPhone sync. Added facility to debug sync/network problems. Clicking on the “Sync Now” button in Preferences while holding down the option/alt key copies a sync report to the clipboard.
iPhone sync. The progress window now has a cancel button and remembers its previous position.
iPhone sync. Fixed a Things touch crash related to syncing unmodified duplicated to-dos.
iPhone sync. Canceling and re-opening the set-up assistant sometimes led to devices no longer being discovered. This is fixed.
iPhone sync. Canceling the set-up assistant but still entering the code on the iPhone no longer crashes Things.
iPhone sync. When initiating sync from the mobile device, Things no longer moves all of its windows to the front. Sync process is still shown, but hidden immediately after sync has finished.

Release Date

Developer

http://www.culturedcode.com/

Download URL

http://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php?title=Download_Page

VueScan 8.4.97

VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that works with 1200 flatbed and film scanners, lets you use your old scanners with new computers and improves your productivity and scan quality.

What’s New

Increased maximum zoom to 8x
Fixed problem with “Input | Skew” option
Fixed white balance problem with some Nikon scanners
Fixed shading problem with some UMAX scanners
Fixed problem with networked HP scanners (Windows and Mac OS X)
Increased “Prefs | Image memory” to 2 GBytes
Improved Spanish language support
Improved Chinese (simplified) language support

Release Date

Developer

http://www.hamrick.com/

Download URL

http://www.hamrick.com/files/vuesca84.dmg

1Password 2.9.5

1Password stores web form data, user names and passwords and financial data, such as credit card information in an encrypted database and enables you to fill out web forms with a simple click of a button in Safari, Firefox, Flock, Camino, OmniWeb and other browsers.

What’s New

CHANGED Changed to not include username in the automatically generated new login name.
FIXED Fixed crash when 1Password main window was closed and the keychain is updated by the browser.
FIXED Fixed problem with sync when current time on iPhone was different from time on Mac.
FIXED Fixed bug in Password Wallet importer for notes with new line characters.
FIXED Resolved issue where some saved logins would not appear in the Fill Login menu.
FIXED Fixed issue that prevented 1Password application from loading on G3 processors.
FIXED Making sure 1Password does not crash on startup if the Agile Keychain is not valid.
FIXED Fixed memory leaks in browser extensions.

Release Date

Developer

http://agile.ws/

Download URL

http://agile.ws/dist/1Password-2.9.5.dmg

Saft 10.5.6

Saft is a Safari plugin that adds features such as draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more.

What’s New

Bug fix: Memory leak in window/session restoring.
Misc: Remove Google Safe Browsing since this feature is a native part of Safari since 3.2

Release Date

Developer

http://haoli.dnsalias.com/

Download URL

http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/Download/index.html

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