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Thinking Home 2.2.2

Thinking Home is the easiest, affordable home automation solution for Mac OS X! v2.2 boasts a modern design that delivers performance without compromising ease of use. It is the only Mac app to store a schedule into an ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A)!

Thinking Home supports some of the most popular new hardware, including ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A), PowerLinc V2 and more than 130 models of gadgets and scores of USB serial adapters.

Version 2.2 is well-equipped to run 24-7 and make use of Mac-only things like speech, scripts, email, instant messaging and iPhone access.

Try out Thinking Home 2.2 as a demo for free.

Some of the highlights:

• Stores your schedule into a controller so you can turn off your Mac.
• Setup Assistant to help you get started
• Gadget Guide for easy setup and shopping
• Events and Responders operate lights, open web pages, play audio, all kinds of actions
• iPhone access via the excellent X10 Commander app
• Schedule Sets: When going away on vacation, many people want a different schedule to be used. Instead of turning on the coffee maker, you may want a couple of lights turning on randomly for a more secure, lived-in look.
• 1-Wire: Affordable temperature monitoring is just one of the benefits that 1-Wire delivers. It's easier than ever to check the temperature of the water heater, greenhouse, wine cellar, solar panels or the outdoors.
• Device Status: Keep tabs on the status of each device or sensor and use it in a smarter, more energy-efficient home.
• Search Fields: The search field in the Gadget Guide makes it a snap to quickly find what you're looking for. You'll be amazed at how well it works -- it practically reads your mind. It's also very handy in the Schedules window, to narrow down your numerous events to the one you're looking for.
• Desktop Remote operates your gadgets directly from the Finder
• Sherlock plug-in for finding answers online
• Web access that fits seamlessly with Apple's built-in Personal Web Sharing
• Email and iChat/AOL Instant Messenger, even to cell phones
• Scripting with AppleScript and virtually any language you have installed
• Built-in voice commands and spoken announcements. You say "Turn on the living room lamp." and it does!
• English, Dutch and French localizations
• Logging with smart filtering

WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.2.2:

• Resolved a Daylight Saving issue
• Improved the French "Lisez Moi"
• Fixed display issues in the Installed Hardware window.
• Improved stability when using X10 Commander
• Better handling of status requests from hardware.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

An INSTEON, X-10 or 1-Wire compatible computer controller and device modules.
PRICE$79.00
DEVELOPERAlways Thinking, Inc.
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Pure Vinyl Recorder 3.0PR5rPure Vinyl Recorder is the first software of its kind to directly link audiophile-caliber analog vinyl playback and the advantages of high-resolution digital audio reproduction. When used with a quality audio interface, Pure Vinyl is capable of providing stunningly dynamic, detailed music reproduction, faithfully preserving and conveying all of the music contained in the grooves of your vinyl records.

Pure Vinyl uniquely combines a fun and intuitive \"scratch\" style grab-and-spin editor with realistic, \"virtual vinyl\" platter images, rendered from the digitized audio.

* Play / record at 44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz, 16 or 24 bit. Can output directly to losslessly compressed file format, and can record at 88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz 24 bit while simultaneously creating 16 bit / 44.1 kHz CD format file

* Use the high sample rate copy for later playback that’s indistinguishable from the original vinyl, while avoiding expensive stylus wear, and avoid repeated handling of delicate, irreplaceable vinyl records

* Built-in, professional quality 64 bit sample rate converter with choice of several SRC algorithms (trading quality for speed) for creating 16 bit / 44.1 kHz CD format versions of high sample rate (88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz) audio files. Includes optional adjustable noise shaped dither for word length reduction

* High quality 64 bit RIAA vinyl correction curve, intended for playing / recording through a professional microphone preamplifier, instead of a conventional phono preamp

* Unique, fun “grab and spin” track editor (international patents pending) uses “virtual vinyl” disc images created from the audio information

* ZEPHRR zero-phase-shift rumble reduction filter with a cutoff slope of up to a remarkable 96 dB per octave, with adjustable cutoff frequency

* Includes 64 bit Upsampler for the highest possible quality playback of CD quality tracks from your iTunes playlist through your high quality audio interface at 24 bit / 96 or 192 kHz

* Built-in, adjustable (frequency and slope) 64 bit digital stereo crossover for connecting bi-amped stereo or mono subwoofer

\"I love to listen to my records with Pure Vinyl... After I connected the cartridge, the sound became much more 3D and the reverb tails are much longer and wider, also the dynamics are bigger. My cartridge is the Van Den Hul MC Two Special mounted in the SME titanium tone arm.\" - Comment from a professional recording engineer / producer.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 3.0PR5r:

• Improves usability

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
• G4, G5 or Intel processor.

PRICE$229.00
DEVELOPERChannel D Software
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Wizard Land 1.0

Wizard Land... Once upon a time there was a magical world known as Wizard Land, where witches, wizards, fairies and fairytale creatures dwell. Sometimes they lived together in peace, sometimes there were local conflicts, but no conflict could compare to the Last Battle of Wizard Land!

Use your Match 3 skills to explore this exciting world and resurrect the inhabitants! With a variety of obstacles, bonuses, and extra tasks, Wizard Land is fun for everyone!

Features:

• Unlimited gameplay;
• Unlimited time;
• A fairytale world full of magic;
• The opportunity to unveil the secrets of Wizard Land;
• Relaxing music.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
PRICE$9.95
DEVELOPERRumbic Studio
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Apple Safari 4.0.5Safari is the most popular Macintosh web browser. Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web up to 4 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 2 times faster than Firefox.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 4.0.5:

This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:

• Performance improvements for Top Sites
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
• Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
• Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5.7 or Mac OS X 10.6.1 or later.
PRICEFree
DEVELOPERApple
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PersonalBrain 5.5.2.3PersonalBrain... The digital home for your mind. Organize Web pages, notes, and documents the way you think in a visual map. Immediately improves your computing experience with the following benefits:

Think More Clearly

• Enables you to link items associatively
• Provides information context and meaning
• Uses an intuitive visual interface

Work More Effectively

• Interacts with your existing files and software
• Locates data faster and easier
• Eliminates the confusion of files and folders
• Reduces irrelevant information
• Creates networks of information effortlessly

Navigate More Efficiently

• Instant search takes you to the right information immediately
• Organizes files and Web pages by concept and idea
• Past thought list lets you backtrack and see your train of thought

WHAT'S NEWVersion 5.5.2.3:

• When resizing the font height, animated transitions make changes easier to follow
• Added French localization
• Fixed problems with some Dutch language resources
• Fixed problems with resizing of the plex using the resizing circle while in normal view with expand all enabled

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4 or later.
PRICEFree
DEVELOPERHarlan Hugh
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Arq 1.3.5Arq is online backup for the Mac:

Arq is the only online backup product built for the Mac and only the Mac. So it has the look and feel you expect from a Mac application.

Arq backs up and faithfully restores all the special metadata of Mac files that other products don’t, including resource forks, ACLs, and creator codes.

Arq works like Time Machine, except you don't have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.

Arq lets you set a budget for S3 storage, and it automatically drops the oldest backups to keep within the budget.

Arq backs up everything with no limits. It backs up files of any size, external drives, and network drives.

Arq "de-duplicates" your backups, never storing the same file twice in your S3 account.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.3.5:

• Fixed another issue with EU bucket region support.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.5 or later.
PRICE$29.00
DEVELOPERHaystack Software
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SimpleImage 5.3.2SimpleImage is a full-featured media viewing, cataloguing and slide show application, updated to take full advantage of Mac OS X.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 5.3.2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
• QuickTime 7.2 or later

PRICE$19.95
DEVELOPERChristopher Wood
DOWNLOADS14992
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KrissX 1.0

KrissX is a captivating and relaxing mix of puzzle game and word game. Swap letters and decipher clues to solve a series of clever puzzles.

Conquer a huge variety of puzzles in Quest Mode and tackle the exciting Time Attack challenge. Relax with Timeless Mode and exercise your brain with engaging Special Puzzles.

KrissX creates new puzzles each time you play, so you can keep on coming back for more - you’ll never see the same puzzle twice. You can even create your own word puzzles to share with friends! KrissX is easy to play but difficult to put down!

Features:

• Master the game in Quest Mode or beat the clock in Time Attack Mode
• Simple controls with Instant pick-up and play appeal
• Unlock Special Puzzles as you play for that extra challenge
• Collect a huge number of bonuses and complete your collection of Badges
• Challenge family and friends with puzzles of your own creation
• Unique puzzles every time you play - never play the same puzzle twice!

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
PRICE$9.95
DEVELOPERBlitz Games
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AppTrasher 0.9.7AppTrasher is a shareware uninstall utility using the Levenshtein Distance algorithm to find related files. This way it can sometimes find more files the any other comparable tool.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 0.9.7:

• Rewritten Ghost Mode core code.
• Fixed issue saving preferences.
• Added localization (Dutch, Italian, French and Polish) More to come...
• Fixed graphics glitch when AT Ghost Mode fades in.
• Fixed font problem and OS X 10.5.x
• Fixed lockup when trying to delete a Widget.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.5 or later.
PRICEFree
DEVELOPEROSXBytes
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Floola 5.5

Floola is a freeware application to manage your iPod (any model except iPhone and iPod touch). It requires no installation and runs nicely under Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer).

With Floola you can copy, rename, delete your music, videos and photos, add artwork and lyrics, manage playlists and keep your favorite podcasts updated. But there's a lot more, like on the fly conversion of incompatible files, support for YouTube and MySpace videos, duplicate detection and now even keep your Google calendars synched. All with one single click.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 5.5:

• nano5G and shuffle 3G support!
• “add this artwork to items in album” feature
• database update when needed
• updated languages
• added scrollbars to smart playlists edit window
• fixed issue where some files would not play entirely after edit operation
• files can be copied over from a network mapped drive

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
PRICEFree
DEVELOPERTomas Camin
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Arizona based Technical Made Easy today announces Easy Quilt 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. Easy Quilt provides step-by-step instruction with video based lessons on every aspect of Quilt Making, with over 100 different block ideas and all the tools you need to get started right away. Easy Quilt ensures that the Art of Quilting can be taught and referenced from a mobile device. Included with the app are complete descriptions of Fabrics, Supplies, Tools, Charts, Formulas and Tips and Tricks.

Devawriter 1.0.8.6Devawriter is a Full Classical Sanskrit (Devanagari) input for Macintosh with RTF, HTML amd JPG export.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.0.8.6:

• Floating palette with Transcription information is now complete! Details of composition of Conjunct Consonants now being implemented in the Floating Palette.
• Colourisation implemented for vowels and nukta consonants in floating palette help.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
• Sanskrit2003 font (bundled in application)

PRICEFree
DEVELOPERRichmond Mathewson
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Devawriter 1.0.8.6Devawriter is a Full Classical Sanskrit (Devanagari) input for Macintosh with RTF, HTML amd JPG export.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.0.8.6:

• Floating palette with Transcription information is now complete! Details of composition of Conjunct Consonants now being implemented in the Floating Palette.
• Colourisation implemented for vowels and nukta consonants in floating palette help.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
• Sanskrit2003 font (bundled in application)

PRICEFree
DEVELOPERRichmond Mathewson
DOWNLOADS1920
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Fontcase 1.5Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to be an iPhoto for your fonts, Fontcase has a powerful tagging system, which is designed to let you control your fonts like you control your music.

Fontcase can preview every font for you, whether it is activated or not. There's no need to burden your system with thousands of fonts; you keep them all in Fontcase and activate them only when you need them. Other applications instantly recognise a new font without you having to restart them.

You can now share your fonts with other people just like iTunes pioneered this for music. There's one big difference: Fontcase lets you preview, then download fonts from shared libraries. A company no longer needs a centralized server to distribute new fonts through, it's all built into Fontcase.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.5:

• New: Auto-activation
• New: Duplicates Detection
• New: Automatic import of missing fonts
• New: Incremental export of both fonts and metadata
• Improved: Speed, launch time and cache size
• Fixed numerous bugs

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.5 or later.
PRICE$56.00
DEVELOPERBohemian Coding
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Fontcase 1.5Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to be an iPhoto for your fonts, Fontcase has a powerful tagging system, which is designed to let you control your fonts like you control your music.

Fontcase can preview every font for you, whether it is activated or not. There's no need to burden your system with thousands of fonts; you keep them all in Fontcase and activate them only when you need them. Other applications instantly recognise a new font without you having to restart them.

You can now share your fonts with other people just like iTunes pioneered this for music. There's one big difference: Fontcase lets you preview, then download fonts from shared libraries. A company no longer needs a centralized server to distribute new fonts through, it's all built into Fontcase.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.5:

• New: Auto-activation
• New: Duplicates Detection
• New: Automatic import of missing fonts
• New: Incremental export of both fonts and metadata
• Improved: Speed, launch time and cache size
• Fixed numerous bugs

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.5 or later.
PRICE$56.00
DEVELOPERBohemian Coding
DOWNLOADS5828
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AutoSave4iWork 1.1AutoSave4iWork is a simple background process that checks for any unsaved documents within the iWork \'09 suite and asks their corresponding programs to save any changes.

When run, AutoSave4iWork will sit in your menu bar as a small diskette. You may click on the icon to bring down a menu and configure various options:

• Minutes Between Saves: This option sets the time interval between saves. By default, it performs a save every 5 minutes.
• Archive Saves: This option will create a zipped, time stamped archive of your document every time AutoSave4iWork requests a save. This will allow you to access previous versions of your documents as they are saved by this program.
• Auto Save Enabled For: These check boxes allow you to enable or disable which iWork applications will be checked by AutoSave4iWork for unsaved changes.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.1:

• Code completely rebuilt exclusively in Objective-C. "Save Now" menu item added.
• AutoSave4iWork no longer automatically saves new documents (AS4iW will of course notify you of this), as the save dialog will prevent other documents from auto-saving.
• New documents must be manually saved the first time.
• This minor issue will be addressed in a future release.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
• Apple iWork \'09

PRICEFree
DEVELOPERRobert Finn
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AutoSave4iWork 1.1AutoSave4iWork is a simple background process that checks for any unsaved documents within the iWork \'09 suite and asks their corresponding programs to save any changes.

When run, AutoSave4iWork will sit in your menu bar as a small diskette. You may click on the icon to bring down a menu and configure various options:

• Minutes Between Saves: This option sets the time interval between saves. By default, it performs a save every 5 minutes.
• Archive Saves: This option will create a zipped, time stamped archive of your document every time AutoSave4iWork requests a save. This will allow you to access previous versions of your documents as they are saved by this program.
• Auto Save Enabled For: These check boxes allow you to enable or disable which iWork applications will be checked by AutoSave4iWork for unsaved changes.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.1:

• Code completely rebuilt exclusively in Objective-C. "Save Now" menu item added.
• AutoSave4iWork no longer automatically saves new documents (AS4iW will of course notify you of this), as the save dialog will prevent other documents from auto-saving.
• New documents must be manually saved the first time.
• This minor issue will be addressed in a future release.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
• Apple iWork \'09

PRICEFree
DEVELOPERRobert Finn
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GalleryExport for iPhoto 1.0.18GalleryExport for iPhoto... For the past two years, Ubermind has redefined how pro photographers work. Now we\'re bringing that same technology to iPhoto \'08!

Feature List

• Support for Gallery versions 1 and 2
• Support for multiple galleries
• Navigate albums on remote gallery using a Finder-like browser
• Create new albums in remote gallery
• Upload selected images to existing or new albums
• Map metadata to Gallery fields
• Fully multi-threaded for a very responsive user interface
• Keychain support
• Exports to both pre-defined and custom image sizes
• Built-in support for customized naming based on image title, file or album name, and more

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.0.18: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
• iPhoto \'08
• Gallery v1 or v2

PRICEFree
DEVELOPERÜbermind, Inc.
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jalada Comrade Stalin 1.2.1

jalada Comrade Stalin is a historical real-time strategy game.

While playing you, in the role of Comrade Stalin, have to turn the Soviet Union into a mayor power and defend it against its enemies.

Upon starting your mission you land from your transport and organize your base. Here you conduct research, design and manufacture vehicles, build new structures and prepare your plans of global conquest. If the game goes badly you'll end up fighting last ditch battles here to defend your base from enemy attacks.

The game follows a rate based economy. This means, units are built while consuming resources at some rate. Production also happens at some rate. When production and consumption are at the same level, everything goes fine. If the production rate is higher than the consumption rate, then the extra produced resources can be stored in storage units. On the other hand when the production rate is lower than the consumption rate and there are no stored resources left, the functioning rate of the consumers is decreased in order to match the rate of the production.

Features:

• Historical missions,
• Large game maps to conquer,
• Intelligence Display sets objectives dynamically,
• Fast Play Interface,
• Quick Screen Navigation,
• Intranet multiplayer game,
• Challenging Computer-AI,
• Original sounds,
• Everything runs in real-time,
• And more …

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.2.1:

• This update includes general application fixes.

REQUIREMENTSG4 1.5 GHz (or better) or Intel Mac
PRICE$19.99
DEVELOPERjalada GmbH
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jalada Children of Arisia 1.1.0jalada Children of Arisian is a futuristic real time strategy game.

Boskone formed an alliance with the Overlords of Delgon, and through a hyper-spatial tube the combined forces again attacked humanity. You landed upon the planet Medon, whose people had been fighting a losing war against Boskone. We must defeat the enemy...

You have to combat your enemies while developing your own war economy. Everything runs in real-time, as opposed to turn-based games where you always have to wait for your turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building your economy and building an army to defend and attack the enemies.

The game features 10 large game maps to conquer, intelligence display that sets objectives dynamically, fast play Interface, quick screen navigation, fast find system for units and structures, multiplayer modes, challenging computer AI, many sound effects, gorgeous OpenGL graphics, and much more.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.1.0:

• This release delivers 4 brand new maps to conquer, as well as specific fixes or compatibility updates.

REQUIREMENTS

• 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 or faster, or Intel Mac.
• OpenGL-supported graphics card.

PRICE$19.99
DEVELOPERjalada GmbH
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