Sun offers StarOffice 9 beta for Mac
August 4, 2008
Sun has released a beta for StarOffice 9, which brings native Mac support to Sun’s commercial version of the OpenOffice suite of applications (finally bringing to fruition Sun’s joining the Mac porting team back in 2007). The new version is a regular Aqua application and no longer requires X11. …
A Better Finder Rename v8 beta is out
August 4, 2008
Batch renaming utilities for the Mac may come and go, but A Better Finder Rename just keeps on keepin’ on. The latest update of the venerable utility is the beta 8.0 release, which will be a free upgrade to anyone who bought the product since January 2007 (or owners of ‘forever licenses’); upgra…
MsgFiler 2.0.3: Improvements to an old favorite
August 2, 2008
Adam Tow’s MsgFiler plug-in for Mail.app has been a favorite of many Mac users since it was first released in 2006. In the succinct words of Mr. Tow:
“MsgFiler is a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders. MsgFiler’s fast searching means you just have to …
Quark releases QuarkXPress 8
August 1, 2008
Love it or hate it (with the burning fire of a million angry suns), Quark yesterday released QuarkXPress 8, which features new tools for developing for the web, workspace enhancements, and refinements to tools to finally bring it into the 20th century. Steve Sande mentioned back in May that it…
First Look: Teleport, new VNC client for the iPhone
August 1, 2008
Jugaari’s iPhone debut, Teleport (iTunes link), is a new VNC client for mobile remote control of a Mac or PC (not the super-awesome pseudo-KVM app). It’s a $24.99 investment, and I don’t know many society who are going to dish out twenty five clams for an iPhone utility, but I know plenty who ar…
Dialectic provides system-wide dialing
July 31, 2008
As a fan of his EntourageABMenu utility, I was pleased to discover that developer Jon Nathan has a new item in his kit: Dialectic, a phone dialing tool that has more tricks than a magician’s convention. Dialectic replaces the older Jon’s Phone Tool and provides a bridge amidst nearly any Mac PIM…
App roundup: Timekeeping and billing (Part II: The Quickening)
July 31, 2008
I got a lot of feedback from commenters yesterday about the app roundup of timekeeping and billing software. Turns out that little part about not having a comprehensive list didn’t satisfy anyone!
So let’s add to our list, and include five more apps and services to compose you a billing maest…
