Martin Hairer, martin.hairer@erehwon.org, http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/hairer/martin
This powerful utility will allow you to create, manipulate, and analyze sounds. It features tools for recording, resampling, frequency filtering, eliminating background noise, modulation, mixing, and more. It also features powerful sound synthesizers to reproduce practically any instrument, sonograms to visually analyze frequency versus intensity, and spectrograms to view a sound’s different harmonics. The current release has MP3 supprt. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib, Mac OS X.
Antipodean 6/22 Freeware
Andrew Lindesay, apl@kcbbs.gen.nz, http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~apl/
This screensaver features a couple of pieces of land familiar to those living in Australia and NZ.
C Reference Card is a Cocoa port of an old freeware DA, done by Argus Software Engineering. It's a useful basic reference to have around when you're first learning the language, and afterwards. The Project Builder project and original (Classic) C Reference Card app are included. All respective copyrights remain with their respective holders. Requires Mac OS X.
ChordBook v2.4b1 Shareware
DRS Digital Image & Sound, Inc., moreinfo@drsdigital.com, http://www.drsdigital.com
Guitarists, take note (no pun intended)! This extensive library contains diagrams of chords in standard guitar tuning, as well as transpositions in 50 non-standard tunings. Figure out chord fingerings fast through the program’s Neck View or use the chord editor to figure out alternative ways of playing a certain chord. Enter standard notation and view its fingering in tablature. Requires Mac OS X.
This powerful, multi-platform, 3D production program from Maxon Computer is packed full of workstation-quality modeling, animation, and rendering tools. It’s feature-rich and easy to use. Plus, its fast renderer will make your projects up and running in no time. This full functioning demo is save disabled and renders with a watermark. Requires a PPC, Mac OS 7.6.1 or higher
Would you like to create or improve a web page, but don't really have the graphic skills? eClick is the easy way to create professional looking buttons for the web. It's a no-brainer. Check it out! Requires Mac OS 8.6 with CarbonLib, Mac OS X or higher, 6 MB RAM.
F-Script is an open source scripting environment designed to leverage the unique capabilities of Mac OS X. F-Script complements Apple’s Cocoa environment with an advanced interactive scripting language for Cocoa, a powerful new model for object oriented programming based on array technology, and an innovative object browser for graphical access to Cocoa Objects. Requires Mac OS X 10.0 or higher.
Firewalk X 1.3 Shareware
Mike Vannorsdel, mikevann@kagi.com, http://www.users.qwest.net/~mvannorsdel/
Firewalk X is a configuration and maintenance utility for Mac OS X's built-in firewall. Requires Mac OS X 10.0.3 or higher.
Journal Keeper lets you keep journals. It is a complete rewrite of my old application, Journal. It features a multi-document interface, strong encryption and keychain support. Requires Mac OS X.
Mac ToolKit is an easy to use, and convienent desktop utilities bar. It has many features, all designed to be easily accessible, and quick to use. ScribblePad, MiniCalc, Wastebasket Emptier, Disk ejector, File-Info Checker , AppLauncher, System Info, Volume Menu. All of these functions are available from one small window, which can always be seen when ToolKit is open, as it is a floating window. Requires Mac OS X.
Mail Siphon has been greatly improved since the first version released in Marsh 1999. Mail Siphon II is now a true e-mail agent (to receive and send messages). It has the particularity to be the first on-line agent of its kind for the Macintosh: you still can easily read and delete messages from your mailboxes, but also reply to messages! Carbon version requires Mac OS X.
MemoBlock contains nine notes where you can store information. You can insert date/time in lots of ways, and use lots of advanced features including colors, styles etc. Really must be tried to be fully appreciated. Requires Mac OS X.
Mesa 6/27 Demo
P & L Software, mesa@plsys.com, http://www.plsys.com/
If you want more calculation power than a calculator or Appleworks, but don't want or need all the features of Excel, Mesa is the Mac OS X spreadsheet for you. Requires Mac OS X.
MTLibrarian is a text indexing and retrieval application inspired by the NeXT Digital Librarian application which shipped with NeXT computers and the NeXTSTEP operating system. While this application is still in active development we invite you to download this alpha release and try it out. Requires Mac OS X.
nQuick is a very useful utility which allows the storage of notes and text you often use. These notes are accessible by a simple keyboard shortcut (command + option by default) in a floating window shown above all the applications. They are editable at any time. Requires Mac OS 8 or higher with CarbonLib, Mac OS X.
PhotoLine 32, a very powerful image processing application, offers flexible text, vector and image layers. Among the standard features like painting, cloning, filtering, blending and flood fill it offers many special effects like squirl, shadow, glowing, distorb, morphing, 3d projection and many dynamic layer effects. PL32 supports many picture formats. It can do transparent and animated GIFs, CMYK, multiple undo/redo levels, plugin filter, actions, batch conversion. Requires Mac OS 8.5 with CarbonLib, Mac OS X, 32 MB RAM.
PixelToy isn't a game, nor is it a screen saver, nor a paint program -- but it has aspects of all of these. With PixelToy you can generate an endless variety of beautiful, mesmerizing moving images. Best of all, if you pop in an audio CD, you can watch PixelToy's patterns dance to the music! PixelToy isn't just a toy, however. Dance clubs and cafes around the world dazzle audiences with PixelToy's live visual effects. What's more, visual artists have added PixelToy to their arsenal of video effects generation software, using QuickTime movies from PixelToy in non-linear video editors such as Adobe Premiere or After Effects. Requires PPC.
What is POPmonitor? Wouldn't it be great if you could delete unwanted e-mail from your mailbox without downloading it to your computer first? And wouldn't it be a real money saver if you could trash messages with large attachments without the need to download them to your computer first? Well, POPmonitor lets you do just that!
With POPmonitor you can take a peek inside your mailbox and delete unwanted e-mail without the need to download those messages first. Requires POP email account, PPC, Mac OS X.
It supports Korean & English language. MacOS 8.6 w/ CarbonLib or higher, Mac OS X.
REALbasic 3.2.1 Carbon Demo
REAL Software, jason@realsoftware.com, http://www.realsoftware.com
If you’re looking to create cool looking applications but don’t want to learn confusing C++ or Java, REALbasic is definitely the way to go. This object-oriented developmental program features a visual interface builder for easy construction of windows and menus, and provides easy to understand syntax to get your creations up and running quickly. In fact, our own Tour interface was completely built using it. Thanks guys! This latest version creates apps for MacOS, Mac OSX, and Windows (ugh!).
UPresent is a multimedia presentation application that has been used to give presentations to tens of thousands of students at the University of Minnesota and around the world. It has been designed for flexible, interactive control of presentations, and a short learning curve. Learning how to use the application takes only minutes, even for the novice. Developed over the past eight years with input from faculty, staff and students, UPresent makes the ideal presentation tool for the classroom. Requires Mac OS 8.6 with CarbonLib, Mac OS X, QuickTime 4 or later.
URL Box 1.5 Shareware
David Kopec, davecom@mac.com
URL Box is the glue between your URLs and your web browser. It is a convenient way to temporarily or permanently store URLs for launching in the default web browser. It's for those URLs that you want quick access to or that you don't want to put in your favorites/bookmarks because you know you'll forget about it. Requires Mac OS X or higher.
This useful multimedia tool allows you to create special effects, detect movement, and perform a variety of complex image-processing tasks utilizing QuickTime 3.0 and simple commands. It lets you analyze video and images in real time. You can even set up you own surveilance camera at home and have the program email you time-stamped images from the camera. Requires PPC, Mac OS X.
