July 2008 Software Closet
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A Better Finder Rename 7.9.9
A Better Finder Rename ($25) has more useful features than we can describe here, so we’ll point out one that we find uniquely valuable: by simply Control-clicking one or more digital photo files, you can rename them according to the time and date the photos were taken (if this data is included in the EXIF data of the file -- all recent cameras include it). You can also add, remove, insert, replace text, rename by creation or modification dates, number sequentially, change case, etc. It displays the new file names before you commit to a change, and it can create droplet applications for drag-and-drop file renaming. It also can process subfolders separately, process only files or only folders, retain file comments, and much more. Check out the demo movies and details at www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/
coconutBattery 2.6.3
coconutBattery (free) displays important data about your laptop’s battery, such as its maximum charge capacity, its current charge, and its original maximum capacity when the battery was new. It also gives the age of the laptop and how many times your battery has been fully charged.
DiskCatalogMaker 5.0
There are many utilities that can keep track of the files on your disks, including removable and permanent disks. One of our favorites is DiskCatalogMaker ($26), which looks like a Finder window. To catalog disks, you can either drag them onto its window or choose a menu item to scan removable disks as you insert them. You can also catalog any mounted volume or folder, and optionally catalog discs as you burn them in Toast 8 or 9. You can select or open original items with key commands, and amazingly it can show you files inside Zip or StuffIt archives. It has extensive search abilities, files can be previewed in Quick Look or CoverFlow modes (requires Mac OS X 10.5), and you can print catalogs in several layouts.
MagiCal 1.1r1
Charcoal Design’s MagiCal (donationware) is a clock and calendar for your Mac’s menu bar. Its handy dropdown calendar can be torn off and placed anywhere on your display. Just double-click it to add it to your menu bar.
OnyX 1.8.5 & 1.9.5
OnyX (free) combines many useful tools and controls for handling system maintenance tasks such as clearing font caches and repairing permissions. You can also use Onyx to customize how your Mac looks and works, such as enabling or disabling Spotlight indexing, turning on or off Dock features, showing your screen’s hot corners, resetting Finder window sidebars, showing hidden files and more. It’s also useful for Safari: you can enable hidden features, reload bookmarks from other Web browsers, clear browser bookmark caches (great for speeding up Safari), clear history and cookie files and shut off the automatic crash reporter dialog. Version 1.9 is totally rewritten, and can now enable/disable Journaling, hide the Spotlight menu bar icon, reset the sidebar in Finder windows, and more -- much more. We encourage you to skim the list of features at their website: http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html. Version 1.8.5 is for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger; version 1.9.5 is for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Time Out 1.5.3
Dejal Systems’ Time Out (free) reminds you to take breaks while working at the computer. It can schedule both normal breaks (10 minutes every hour, for example) and brief micro breaks, and allows configuration of both the break length and the break interval.
Badia OpenNow 2.0
Badia OpenNow XT 2.0 is a free XTension for QuarkXPress 6 that adds helpful features for working with imported pictures. To use it, select the Content tool and double-click any picture box.
OpenNow will display the picture’s status (OK, Missing, Modified), its file name and location, file size, original picture size and resolution, color mode, creator, and modification date and time.
More cool features: you can click a button to open the picture using the default application you assigned to it in the Finder’s Get Info window (instead of opening in the application that created the picture); you can reveal the picture file in the Finder or open any folder in the hierarchy of folders containing the picture file; and update the picture box with the latest version of the picture.
Because of these additional features, many people prefer to use it instead of Quark’s Edit Original XT.
(Badia also sells the $45 OpenNow Pro 3.0 for QuarkXPress 6/7 and InDesign CS3.) More info: http://www.badiasoftware.com
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