Notable Software Updates for Week 50/2008

by Tom on December 15, 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 50, 2008.
  • MoneyWell 1.4
  • VoodooPad 4.03
  • Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.3 (21)
  • Screenium 1.0.7
  • File Juicer 4.12
  • Alarm Clock Pro 8.5.8
  • Sandvox 1.5.3
  • Coda 1.6.2
  • VueScan 8.5
  • TinkerTool 3.93
  • ImageSmith 1.0.5
  • iCompta 3.0.1
  • MoneyWell 1.4.1
  • Path Finder 5.04
  • ForkLift 1.6
  • Caffeine 1.0.4
  • RadioShift 1.1.2
  • Mailplane 2.0
  • A Better Finder Rename 8.0.5
  • DMG Canvas 1.0
  • LittleSnapper 1.0
  • StoryMill 3.2.1
  • ControllerMate 4.3.9
  • Pagico 3.2.1.106
  • SubEthaEdit 3.2.1
  • Integrity 3.1
  • FileChute 4.1
  • SimplyDisk 2.0.2

MoneyWell 1.4

MoneyWell features powerful personal finance organization and analysis tools in a simple, single-screen solution.

What’s New

  • Redesigned interface that’s cleaner, more compact, and more informative
  • Direct downloads from financial institutions—one-click transaction list updates!
  • CSV file import support with user-defined field order
  • Attach receipt documents (even emails!) to your transactions for quick reference anytime
  • Greatly improved duplicate transaction matching and merging
  • User-defined bucket order, spending plan report, scheduled transfer transactions, new keyboard shortcuts, over 50 enhancements in all…
  • Improved performance!

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://nothirst.com/

Download URL

http://nothirst.com/downloads/MoneyWell_1.4.zip

VoodooPad 4.03

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 database deadlock when syncing.
  • The text file importer now tries a couple of different ways to get data into VP, no longer just assuming UTF8.
  • If you command click on a file link, it will now be revealed in the Finder.
  • Added some cleanup code when opening corrupt documents.
  • The tags browse list now correctly updates when a page rename has happened.
  • Fixed a problem where trying to use a shortcut for a text style which included the option key, would cause VP to prompt you to delete that text style.
  • Applying a text style to selected text in a table cell no longer messes up the table cell.
  • Fixed a problem where PDFs and other files were not listed in the pages table, because their UTI data wasn’t updated properly from VoodooPad 3.5.

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://flyingmeat.com/

Download URL

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

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.3 (21)

Carbon Copy Cloner is a solution for synchronizing, cloning and backing up your data. You can run a copy session either manually or scheduled and backups can be full or incremental and can be made bootable.

What’s New

  • Fixed an issue in which the target volume would not be bootable in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue in which a block-level clone would be attempted inappropriately.
  • Included updated localizations including a complete French localization.
  • CCC should no longer check for updates if a backup task is running.
  • CCC now ignores Time Machine backup databases. Time Machine backups will not be backed up (CCC does not support backing up Time Machine backups).
  • Messages indicating that a scheduled task’s target disk has reappeared are now automatically dismissed after 60 seconds allowing the task to run.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent the saving of scheduled tasks upon the very first launch of CCC.
  • CCC no longers permits non-HFS+ volumes as a selectable source volume (in support of the defined system requirements).
  • Fixed an issue in which files or folders with special characters (e.g. “[", "]“, and “*”) could not be excluded in an “Incremental backup of selected items” backup task.
  • Fixed an issue in which CCC would report a generic error rather then indicating that a backup task failed because there was not enough free space on the target to accommodate large files that had been modified since a previous backup.

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://www.bombich.com/

Download URL

http://www.bombich.com/software/download_ccc.php

Screenium 1.0.7

Screenium is a screen recording app with a focus on ease-of-use. Recording options include fixed area, fullscreen, mouse area and single window. With HotText you can add text captions to your recording and the interface is fully keyboard-controllable.

What’s New

  • improved audio and video synchronicity
  • improved detailed information view in the Media Library
  • minor fixes and further optimized performance

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://www.synium.de/

Download URL

http://www.synium.de/latestversion/Screenium.dmg

File Juicer 4.12

File Juicer lets you extract images from PowerPoint documents, images and text from PDF files, recover images and video from erased flash cards, recover text from damaged files and more.

What’s New

  • Updated: Portuguese localization by Luis Damas
  • Added: Support for ithmb files from iPod 5th gen found in iPhotos cache

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://echoone.com/

Download URL

http://web.me.com/henrik/filejuicer/FileJuicer-4.12.dmg

Alarm Clock Pro 8.5.8

Alarm Clock Pro is a feature-rich timer application that lets you set alarms and associate actions with them. For example, you can set an alarm to wake you up with a specific track in iTunes, or send an email at a specific time of day on weekdays, or open a website at a specific time and many more options.

What’s New

  • New Feature: The Time Zones options have been updated, and we introduced a ‘DST’ checkbox to allow the user to specify if it is Daylight savings time in the source/destination zone. Alarm Clock Pro never calculated this automatically in the past, and is now turning control over to the user.
  • Modification: Now checks collection UID lists to ensure the alarms listed there actually exist in the database; otherwise, they are removed.
  • Modification: Saves program preferences as soon as a successful activation occurs, instead of waiting until the program exits.
  • Bug Fix: No longer crashes if you were erasing an AB previous import where you had previously put the alarms into collections.
  • Bug Fix: No longer crashes when opening the Power Manager: Add window.
  • Bug Fix: No longer crashes when clicking Cancel in the Clock Plugin Designer window.

Release Date

2008-12-08

Developer

http://www.koingosw.com/

Download URL

http://mirror.koingosw.com/downloads/macintosh/alarm_clock_pro.dmg

Sandvox 1.5.3

Sandvox is a web design application with a focus on users who do not want to learn HTML in order to design a website. It features drag & drop content creation, templates, blogging, a powerful publishing assistant and more.

What’s New

  • Sandvox now supplies the correct mime-type for RSS feeds that include .m4a (MPEG4Audio) files
  • animated GIF banners are no longer scaled, preserving the animation
  • callouts no longer appear in collection indexes when using a custom summary
  • Download Index text is once again vertically centered, matching 1.2 behavior
  • better handling of images with strange file names (e.g., “test. 123″) that created problems during upoading
  • fix for issue where upgraded documents would have extremely large font sizes set
  • fix for issue where third party plugins would load only if logging was active
  • fix for odd link titles in status bar
  • meta refresh tags are now ignored in the Sandvox Web View
  • updates to Sandvox badge pagelet
  • fixes to internal link navigation (issue where following a link to a page already selected in the Site Outline would have unexpected results)
  • fix to Save As sheet not correctly using .svxSite document extension
  • fix to issue where placing Video Pages in a Photo Album would crash Sandvox when closing the document. (Fix may still show crash on first close of document, but correct itself thereafter.)
  • fix to bug reporter throwing exceptions while building bug report
  • stability improvements during drags

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://www.karelia.com/

Download URL

http://www.karelia.com/download/downloading.html?app=Sandvox&link=btn

Coda 1.6.2

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

  • FTP now more reliably falls back to PORT mode if PASV fails
  • Fixed a possible exception when undoing certain text changes
  • FTP now sends relative paths when uploading/downloading files to avoid possible stalling problems with certain ftp hosts
  • Fixed a bug in which ColdFusion tags were not highlighting correctly
  • ASP custom class tags are now highlighted correctly
  • Fixed a bug in which auto completion would not work as expected in some cases
  • After registering, the Sites menu no longer shows the demo text
  • Books view now correctly shows the certificate dialog if needed

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://www.panic.com/

Download URL

http://www.panic.com/coda/d/Coda%201.6.2.zip

VueScan 8.5

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

  • Fixed problem with Nikon slide feeder
  • Fixed problem with some HP scanners on Windows
  • Added support for multiple wireless HP scanners on Mac OS X
  • Added support for Ricoh SCSI IS-series scanners on Windows
  • Faster skew correction
  • Improved Chinese (simplified) language support

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://www.hamrick.com/

Download URL

http://www.hamrick.com/files/vuesca85.dmg

TinkerTool 3.93

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

What’s New

  • The code size was optimized.
  • Corrected a problem where the option to disable shadows when taking screenshots of windows did not work as expected in Mac OS X Leopard.

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://www.bresink.com/

Download URL

http://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerTool/download.html

ImageSmith 1.0.5

Image Smith is a powerful batch image processing tool. With a variety of features you can easily scale, reorient, recolorize, convert, and flatten images. Image Smith can open numerous different picture file types, and output in the most common industry standard formats like JPEG, GIF, and PNG.

What’s New

  • Bug Fix: GIF format works again.
  • Bug Fix: Choosing to install a Sparkle update no longer fails to save the application Preferences when quitting.

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://www.koingosw.com/

Download URL

http://mirror.koingosw.com/downloads/macintosh/image_smith.dmg

iCompta 3.0.1

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

  • Various bugfixes

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://angeman7.free.fr/

Download URL

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

MoneyWell 1.4.1

MoneyWell features powerful personal finance organization and analysis tools in a simple, single-screen solution.

What’s New

No information in app or on developer homepage

Release Date

2008-12-09

Developer

http://nothirst.com/

Download URL

http://nothirst.com/downloads/MoneyWell_1.4.zip

Path Finder 5.04

Path Finder is a replacement for the Mac OS Finder. It features tabs, configurable drawers, a drop stack for copying files from multiple locations, powerful search, integration with Finder’s sidebar, a two-pane view and more.

What’s New

  • Fixed spotlight searching.
  • Added recent documents to sidebar.
  • Fixed image editor crashes.
  • Fixed ctask hang selecting damaged audio files.
  • Added file size to item info for images.
  • Fixed setting and removing attributes on non HFS disks.
  • Fixed subversion plugin failing on certain file names.
  • Fixed restoring of selection when file is edited and safe saved.
  • Fixed Contexual menu bugs on desktop.
  • Fixed most of the refresh bugs.
  • Fixed tooltips in column view.
  • New Stuffit engine.
  • Improved movie preview.
  • Preview now resolves aliases.
  • Fixed double clicking on server aliases.
  • Updated Russian localization.

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://www.cocoatech.com/

Download URL

http://www.cocoatech.com/mirror/PathFinder.dmg

ForkLift 1.6

ForkLift is a fast, powerful dual-pane file manager for the Mac that also feature FTP or SFTP connections, Amazon S3 access and connecting to or your mobile devices over Bluetooth.

What’s New

    New features:
  • Single Pane Mode
  • Keyboard Selection
  • Volume Quick List
  • Auto Calculate Folder Sizes
  • Folder sizes are remembered
  • Open in New Tab
  • Open in Opposite Tab
  • The View Options Panel and Context menus were reorganized
  • Color Labels like in Finder
  • Path Navigator supports drag and drop
  • Redesigned Info Panel
    Fixes
  • fixed move across volumes
  • fixed a number of small FTP issues, failed connections to slow servers and certain server types.
  • fixed a number of SFTP bugs, including anonymous public key handling
  • fixed some WebDAV issues

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://www.binarynights.com/

Download URL

http://download.binarynights.com/ForkLift1.6.zip

Caffeine 1.0.4

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

What’s New

  • Added a setting for default duration

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://lightheadsw.com/

Download URL

http://download.lightheadsw.com/download.php?software=caffeine

RadioShift 1.1.2

With Radioshift, you can listen to and record internet and AM/FM radio from around the world on your schedule.

What’s New

  • Improved handling of MP3 playlists.
  • Popular list now uses data from RadioTime.
  • Radioshift now loads all icons in the background, fixing a temporary pinwheel when searching in icon mode.
  • Radioshift again works properly on old G3 machines.
  • After subscribing to a program with a recording schedule, Radioshift no longer automatically enters editing mode.
  • The default volume level for recording and playback is no longer set incorrectly.
  • Editing the end date of an expired subscription now properly triggers new recordings.
  • Improved progress indicator at the beginning of a recording.
  • Fixed a bug where a deleted subscription could still start recording.
  • Speed up the display of search results
  • Fixed a drawing bug where in-progress recordings in the recordings list.
  • The recordings list now sorts by newest item first.
  • Fixed an obscure bug where an exception was raised by deleting a subscription that was already in editing mode on launch.
  • Added 60 second timeout for unresponsive ICY servers.
  • Improved several error messages.
  • Fixed several memory leaks.

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/

Download URL

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/radioshift/download.php

Mailplane 2.0

Mailplane is a desktop app for accessing Google’s Gmail service.

What’s New

See all new features in Mailplane.app here

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://mailplaneapp.com/

Download URL

http://mailplaneapp.com/download/

A Better Finder Rename 8.0.5

Rename batches of files easily.

What’s New

  • Adds the ability to remove blocks of numbers from existing file names.

Release Date

2008-12-10

Developer

http://www.publicspace.net/

Download URL

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/download.html

DMG Canvas 1.0

DMG Canvas builds disk images from template documents that you create. Simply design your disk image’s appearance using the graphical editor and click Build. Each time you release a new version of your disk image, simply click Build again and DMG Canvas will pull together all of the latest versions of your files. DMG Canvas also allows you to specify the license agreements displayed when the disk image is mounted.

What’s New

Initial release

Release Date

2008-12-11

Developer

http://www.araelium.com/

Download URL

http://www.araelium.com/dmgcanvas/downloads/DMGCanvas.dmg

LittleSnapper 1.0

LittleSnapper is a screenshot application that lets you capture screenshots of entire webpages as well as areas of your screen and organize them via tags, ratings and comments with the built-in library. You can also adorn screenshots with text, shapes, callouts, lines and arrows and more. Finally, you can share your screenshots via Flickr, export, (S)FTP and a webservice called QuickSnapper.

What’s New

Initial release

Release Date

2008-12-11

Developer

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/

Download URL

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/downloads/#littlesnapper

StoryMill 3.2.1

StoryMill is an application for writers that features management of characters, scenes and locations, a visual timeline that makes it easy to stay on top of multiple story lines and many more useful tools to make writing a novel more productive.

What’s New

  • Fixed a number of issues pertaining to date entry
  • Scene editing windows now display proper content when defaulted to scene text
  • Fixed issues with date display in the metadata pane
  • Localization fixes
  • Fixed project Find & Replace in French
  • Fixed RTFD export
  • Buy Now menu item now disables when you've entered a valid serial number
  • Fixed a problem with list view drawing in Manage Views

Release Date

2008-12-12

Developer

http://www.marinersoftware.com/

Download URL

http://www.marinersoftware.com/download.php

ControllerMate 4.3.9

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of basic programming tools, and to allow the user to combine those tools in an endless variety of ways.

What’s New

  • [ NEW ] Added compatibility with the World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse. ControllerMate can control the
  • mouse resolution as well as the LED color, intensity, and pulse rate.
  • [ FIXED ] Fixed a bug that caused excessive CPU use by the helper application in certain situations.
  • [ FIXED ] Fixed a bug that prevented ControllerMate from properly applying mouse or keyboard customizations in certain situations.

Release Date

2008-12-12

Developer

http://www.orderedbytes.com/

Download URL

http://www.orderedbytes.com/downloads/ControllerMate.dmg

Pagico 3.2.1.106

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

  • Improved database query system: Smart folders now handles “match any” option correctly
  • Fixed a bug that activities were unable to display
  • Un-closed text editors are auto-saved when leaving the topic.
  • Added shortcuts support for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (v2008 for Mac users)
  • Added shortcuts support for OmniGraffle and OmniOutline
  • Fixed a minor bug in product activation. Now upgrade will not ask for activation code, in most cases.
  • Minor UI Improvements.

Release Date

2008-12-12

Developer

http://www.pagico.com/

Download URL

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

SubEthaEdit 3.2.1

SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean collaborative text editor.

What’s New

  • Implemented a partial work-around for an issue of Apple’s mDNSResponder in conjunction with Airport Base Stations that causes excessive logging. If it still happens, turning automatic port mapping off and on again resolves the issue.
  • Fixed an issue where CJK font fallbacks could cause the rest of the document to be displayed in a wrong font.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Apple Scripts of the Latex Mode not to be included correctly.

Release Date

2008-12-12

Developer

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/

Download URL

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/download

Integrity 3.1

Integrity checks your website for broken links.

What’s New

  • Time stamp logged for each link checked
  • Views are now customisable - show or hide columns as you like. (Exported files reflect visible columns.)
  • "Redirected" no longer shows in status column as the information is available in its own column
  • New application icon with less transparency

Release Date

2008-12-13

Developer

http://peacockmedia.co.uk/

Download URL

http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/integrity.dmg

FileChute 4.1

FileChute makes sending files easy. Just drag a file and drop it on FileChute. FileChute puts the file on your MobileMe account and generates a web link for retrieving the file all in one step. Next drag the generated link into your email and you’re set to go. And since what you’re sending is just a link, your recipients can retrieve the file from a Mac, a PC or any other platform.

What’s New

  • For users with multiple accounts set up, you can now rearrange their order simply by dragging the account name in the preferences window.
  • Removed the backup short URL service because it hasn’t been working reliably.

Release Date

2008-12-13

Developer

http://www.yellowmug.com/

Download URL

http://www.yellowmug.com/download/FileChute.dmg

SimplyDisk 2.0.2

SimplyDisk allows you to create fully customized Disk Images quickly and easily. If you want to distribute any kind of products in disk images, SimplyDisk saves you the tedious process of specifying the background image, the volume icon, the window presentation and more.

What’s New

  • Added a menu item to show or hide the extension of the selected item.
  • The files are now positioned more precisely in the Finder.
  • Various bug fixes.

Release Date

2008-12-13

Developer

http://www.oaksoft.net/

Download URL

http://www.oaksoft.net/download/SimplyDisk2.0.2.dmg

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