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Dupe Away instantly finds the dupes in iTunes and, based on your preferences, automatically determines which duplicate to keep and which to remove.

Detect Unused Files
Ever wonder how many tracks exist in your Music folder that aren't in iTunes? We call these "abandoned tracks." Dupe Away detects these files for you so you can recover the file to iTunes or recover the disk space being wasted by it.

Instant Playlist Cleanup
Hate listening to the same song back-to-back? So do we. Dupe Away playlist feature analyzes all of your playlists individually and finds and removes those dupes within your playlists so you don't have to.

Remove Dead Tracks
If you've ever moved or deleted media using Finder (or any other app that's not iTunes), you may be left with some tracks that won't play in iTunes. With the touch of a button, Dupe Away cleans those tracks from iTunes so you no longer have to see that annoying 'file not found' dialog.

• Various improvements and bug fixes

• After editing the Command Completion File, users had to save twice before open documents acknowledged the changes (although quitting and restarting TeXShop used the changes after a single click). This is fixed.
• New latexmk engines are available in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Latexmk. These engine files allow you to place a platexmkrc file in the same folder as the source you typeset. This "project resource" file provides further latexmk configuration. For instance, you could use this process to force latexmk to use texindy rather than the default makeindex for a given project. This improvement was suggested by Michael McNeil Forbes and adopted to latexmk in TeXShop by Herbert Schulz.
• When the Macro Editor is activated, a new menu item named "Save selection to file..." appears. This menu was broken and could not save files, but the problem is fixed. A similar problem with "Add macros from file..." is also fixed.
• A related problem was fixed in the menu command "Save Selection To File..." which saves a selection from the preview page to disk.
• The Synctex synchronization method worked in 3.15 and earlier. When this method fails to find a match, TeXShop reverts to the older search method of synchronization, but this was broken in 3.15. The earlier method is now fixed.
• When a new version of TeXShop first runs, it updates a few subfolders of ~/Library/TeXShop. Versions 3.12 through 3.15 were broken and updated these folders every time they started. This is fixed. Thanks to Yusuke Terada for the bug report.
• Users with an external Trackpad or builtin Multi-Touch Trackpad can use the "App Expose" feature by activating it in the Trackpad Preference Pane of Apple's System Preferences. Please three fingers on the pad positioned over the TeXShop Icon in the Dock or a TeXShop Window, and swipe down (you can configure this to use four fingers in System Preferences). Then only TeXShop windows will appear on the screen, and a list of hidden accessory files will appear along the bottom of the screen. The recent switch to UTI's has activated this feature of OS X.

Feature Highlights:

• All the best technology from Phone to Mac, Phone Disk, and iExplorer 2, and then some
• One-click recover of music and videos straight to iTunes
• Explore and export photos and videos (even from older iPods)
• Mount any folder or category, including playlists and photo albums, then browse in Finder and open with other apps
• Browse iTunes backups. Export: Messages (including attachments), calendars, voicemail, call history, contacts, notes...
• Works with all types of iPods, iTouch, iPhones, iPads

• Added a search feature to the Messages viewer.
• Fixed a bug with the way encrypted iTunes backups were detected
• Various bug fixes and improvements

• OS X 10.6 or later
• iTunes 10 or later

• SixtyFour now displays localized application names instead of general display names
• Enabled multithreading

• OS X 10.5 or later
• 64-bit processor

Ever missed a bill payment because you forgot when it was due or how much it was for?

Features:

• Easily keep track of your bills with automatic reminders when bills are close to being due or overdue.
• Add a bill at home and see it on your work Mac thanks to automatic syncing through iCloud.
• Easily access your list of bills through the always available menu bar icon.

• See a historical record of all your payments.
• Add notes to bills and/or payments.
• Export payments as CSV to a file.
• Use custom currencies.
• Added Semi-Yearly as a bill option.
• Improved syncing between Macs.
• Improved UI.

• OS X 10.7 or later

• OS X 10.8 or later

Data can be stored on your computer without you even knowing in a multitude of different formats: Cookies, Flash Cookies, Silverlight, Databases and local Storage.

Cookies:

• Most websites you visit will leave a small file called a 'cookie' on your computer to store information about you, and store any relevant site preferences. Most of the time this is fine, however some sites use this information to track your surfing habits for profiling/advertising purposes and more....

• Flash Cookies, can potentially be even more insidious, as they can store up-to 25x more information (100Kb) than regular cookies. Flash Cookies can even be used to restore regular cookies, long after the original cookie has been deleted.

• Silverlight Cookies, are similar to Flash Cookies.

• Databases, and Local Storage are generally more innocuous, and are used mainly by Web applications to store data.

With a clear and intuitive interface, Cookie is a must have application for anyone serious about protecting their personal information.

After an initial simple setup, Cookie requires minimal effort to keep your computer clear from unwanted data-mining.

Supports Safari 5.1+, Firefox 4+, Google Chrome 10+, Chromium 10+ and Camino 2.1+

• Code optimization
• Fixed Firefox support on OS X 10.6
• Fixed a potential crash in Firefox 23

Since Mozilla has stopped supporting PPC on Macs, I have picked it up and provide the only SeaMonkey version runnable on G4/G5 based Macs.

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" and have it stable enough for corporate use.

Get those PPCs out of the closets and back online!

Version 2.18

• Implementation of methodJIT for PPC, a PPC backend to Javascript which executes native PPC code, thereby speeding up the execution of Javascript.
• Incorporation of the patches from AuroraFox.
• All versions from here on out will contain GCC 4.7.2 LIBRARIES and will have QuickDraw Plugin capability.

VideoDrive offers 9 unique import methods to add any video file to iTunes. The user-friendly interface helps you to make the best choice for your setup.

With VideoDrive, your video collection will look stunning in cover flow in iTunes. Videos in iTunes can be watched in Front Row, put on your iPod, iPhone and iPad or synced and stream to any AppleTV device.

Sync and stream videos from iTunes to a hacked AppleTV without reconverting them first.

With VideoDrive you can keep your videos on separate disks, seach online for metadata and cover art, cleanup file names, automatically number season and episodes of TV Shows, include subtitles in Front Row, iPod, iPad, AppleTV and iPhone, merge video parts virtually in iTunes and much more.

Advanced conversion settings, including support for QuickTime X, Elgato.264 HD and HandBrake.

A detailed feature list can be found on the Aroona website.

Note: Free version limited to importing and tagging 20 videos

Improvements:

• Added support for iTunes 11.0.3.
• Added status light for subtitles in the online metadata window.
• Activated the status lights and added a refresh button for third-party tools to the window with additional tools.
• Removed the option to enable Growl as this is now done automatically. To customize Growl messages, go the Growl Preferences panel.
• Improved compatibility with iTunes 11 when tagging iTunes titles.
• Faster launch and quitting.
• Addressed an error message when displaying the window to install third-party tools.
• TV shows would in some cases not be properly identified based on file names when tagging iTunes titles.
• Addressed a 7902 error on non-English systems when importing videos.
• Addressed a reliability issue with the dialog box appearing when VideoDrive is busy.
• Improved cleanup when aborting video imports.
• Fixed an issue causing HandBrake to continue running in the background when canceling imports or quitting VideoDrive.
• Several tweaks and minor bug fixes.

• OS X 10.5 or later
• iTunes 10 or later
• QuickTime 7 or X
• Optionally: Perian 1.2.3 for extended format support
• Optionally: HandBrake for faster video conversions

• Fix for application failing to start, hanging on ‘Gathering station list…’ after updating to AIR 3.0

• OS X 10.4 or later
• Adobe AIR

As your child grows up, OK-Writer will grow with them. OK-Writer provides additional features tucked in the menu bar where they won't confuse younger children, but are available as your child matures. With a spell checker, find and replace, and support for adjustable tab stops, it will be years before your child outgrows OK-Writer!

OK-Writer was tested by children from ages 4 through 9, as well as by adults, so you know that anyone can figure it out -- even mom and dad! There's an extensive help system, written to be understood by older children, with a special section for grown ups to get additional information.

Although OK-Writer is shareware, there aren't any annoying reminders or crippled features -- we don't think it's right to confuse your child just to get you to pay for our software. Instead, we encourage you to pay the low shareware fee so we can continue to add new features to the software -- and we'll never hit you up for another fee for OK-Writer again!

Version 1.4:

• Added support for full-screen mode on OS X 10.7 and later.
• Updated icons look beautiful on Macs with retina displays.
• On systems that support it, the find bar is used in-window instead of using a separate Find window.
• The buttons and other window objects now stay in perfect alignment as editor windows are resized.
• The background of the editor window control areas are now a friendly periwinkle color instead of a steel grey.

Light keys are available free of charge and enable all features of Cassiopeia perpetually with only minor limitations (the number of documents and books is limited). A free light license is a good choice for students that have a need for a scientific wordprocessing solution, e.g. for writing their thesis.")

A variety of license options are available. See the pricing details for more information.

• A small bug in the setup procedure caused the wrong set of forms to be granted access to by default
• The auto caption for 2D graphs and simulations now reflects eventually set factors (scalers) for the functions
• A new essentials diskimage was created containing FrontBase 5.2.11(FrontBase can also be downloaded directly from www.frontbase.com). The old essentials package contained FrontBase 4.2.9 which required a free FrontBase license. As of FrontBase 5.2.8 no FrontBase license is needed anymore which simplifies the installation and setup process a bit. If you already have a working Cassiopeia installation based on the earlier supplied FrontBase 4.2.9 you have to do nothing (an upgrade of FrontBase is neither required nor recommended). However, for new installations you might want to install the newer FrontBase version provided on the updated essentials diskimage now since this allows to ommit the "Get a frontbase license from the frontbase website" step.

• OS X 10.6.8 or later
• Cassiopeia Essentials installation
• Trial key

• Preparation for updating to Tunnelblick 3.3.
• Only this and later versions will be able to update to Tunnelblick 3.3 when it becomes available as a stable release.

• The bug which crashes on OS X 10.8 was corrected.

• OS X 10.7 or later

• HTML Includes - Front-end developers shouldn't have to run local server environments, or use PHP just to put one HTML file inside another. With Hammer, you don't have to.
• Clever Paths - Wouldn't it be great if you could just reference an asset by name? Hammer will search your project for the file you reference, and write the file path for you automagically.
• Variables + Helpers - Set and use variables in your template files and bend your templates to your will. Hammer also adds helpful classes to your HTML link tags, making menu logic a thing of the past.
• Auto Reload - Every time Hammer finishes compiling your project, it automatically refreshes your browser to show your latest changes and keep things up-to-date.
• SASS + CoffeeScript - Hammer knows all about SASS, SCSS, and CoffeeScript, and will automatically compile them to CSS and JavaScript. You can also use special tags to reference them in the head.
• Publish Builds - With Hammer's one-click publishing, you can share your work using a unique short URL. Show your clients, get feedback, then iterate quickly and easily.

• Compiler update: much faster compilation!
• New screenshots!
• Markdown documents no longer get IDs in their headers.
• Placeholder now takes text: @placeholder 100x100 Hammer.
• Blank lines are deleted from the start of HTML files.
• Hammer templates don't include Build or Git repos.

• OS X 10.7 or later

Features:

• Optimized for Retina screens - Printpress looks great on Macs with standard resolution screens, but really shines on a Mac with a new Retina screen. Text is incredibly sharp and all user interface elements are drawn at double resolution.
• WYSIWYG and HTML editors - Edit your posts with the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor and easily change fonts, colors, alignment, and a lot more with the click of a button. Or hand-tweak your posts with the HTML editor.
• Upload media - Automatically resize, compress, and upload images directly to your blog. If you want to resize an image that is already uploaded, you can easily drag to resize right in the editor.
• Work offline - Create local drafts to work on posts while you are offline. When you reconnect, publish local drafts to your blog with the click of a button.
• Advanced features - Printpress works with advanced WordPress features, including Custom Fields, Featured Images, Post Formats, and More tags.
• Multiple accounts - Create multiple WordPress.com or WordPress.org accounts within PrintPress, and easily switch between them.

• Added ability to preview posts and download blog theme.
• HTML editor is now color-coded.
• Bug fixes.

• OS X 10.8 or later

• Additional global shortcuts.
• Better stream and playback handling.
• Minor UI and VoiceOver bug fixes.
• Last.fm integration fixes.
• Stability and performance improvements.

• OS X 10.8 or later

Reason 6 has all of the combined features of previous versions of Reason and Propellerhead's Record software, including audio recording, editing, and more.

Also new are several effect devices that can be inserted directly into instruments or onto tracks. 'Pulveriser' allows users to compress, distort, filter, and modulate their sounds, while "The Echo" creates, as its name suggests, a stereo echo with adjustable delay, feedback, color, and modulation. "Alligator" is a rhythmic texturing tool that makes it possible to add rhythm and accents to synth sounds and change percussion loops. Users can also get pitch-perfect vocals using the new "Neptune" pitch adjuster.

• Fixed a bug that could lead to an "Unexpected Exception" message when starting Reason under certain conditions.
• Fixed a bug where the spectrum EQ window did not function properly after sample rate changes.
• Fixed a bug where Reason could crash under certain conditions after changing display settings on Mac.
• Added Remote codec for Novation Launchkey.
• Fixed Rack Extension download time-out problem in Authorizer.
• Fixed a problem in Authorizer where an "Internal Error" dialog could be shown when trying to start a new Rack Extension download if old downloads were still in progress.

• OS X 10.7 or later
• MIDI Interface and MIDI keyboard recommended
• CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware

Features:

• Magically save DVDs to all popular video and audio formats
• Powerful handy options for video editing functions
• Enjoy your movies on all popular devices: iPod, iPhone, iPad, and more
• Merge several DVD chapters into one
• Easy-to-use

• Added specific profiles for iPhone 5, iPad 4, iPad Mini, the new iPod Touch, and Nano.
• Optimized disc loading and increased disc-conversion speed.
• Fixed program crash caused by some discs.

Metanota is a beautiful OS X client and editor for creating and managing notes using well known cloud based services like SimpleNote and Evernote or simply local notes on your Mac.

Other note-taking cloud providers will be added constantly.

This version is free but supported by advertising, an In-App Purchase should be used to hide the ads forever.

• All functions are easy to see and access
  The user interface is carefully streamlined, no unnecessary elements are left floating around. Metanota’s goal is to avoid interfering between you and your work.
• Intelligent auto-formatting
  The note editor automatically formats the first line of a note as header and shows lists as, well, lists. Just put a dash (-) or a bullet and space in front of a paragraph and the correct indentation is added at once. Or, if you like plain and simple text, you can selectively turn off each feature.
• 100% in sync with your SImplenote account
  All notes and tags, even deleted notes, are kept perfectly synchronized. But you can work offline as long as you want.
• Fully manage Simplenote tags
  Tags are presented as folders, making easy to neatly organize your content. Local folders can be created, renamed or deleted, every change being promptly replicated to your SimpleNote account. And, last but not least, Metanota is maybe the only option we have to actually rename a Simplenote tag.

• markdown formatting was lost after the current note was changed on server
• notes with an empty title failed to sync with Evernote
• markdown marking in Simplenote is now preserved
• the main window lost focus when changing screens
• crash when clicking twice on the preferences button
• random crash when syncing with Evernote when a note missed it's folder
• folder name displayed over the sync button when the folder name was too long
• the NoAds reminder was displayed even for paying customers
• memory leaks eliminated, lower memory footprint

• OS X 10.6.8 or later

• Create color schemes based on harmony rules
• Instantly explore tints and shades for a given color to fine tune the palette
• Automatically create color schemes from a photograph - great for inspirations
• Organize your palettes and create a searchable collection of color schemes
• Capture color from your screen using the built-in color picker tool
• Export your color schemes to CSS and ASE (for use in Adobe's Creative Suite)
• Import colors from existing CSS and ASE files
• Instantly preview your color schemes using a variety of visualizations
• Configure color profiles
• Switch between two color wheel modes - perceptual and uniform
  
  
  Version 1.4.5:
  • Improved extraction of colors from pictures
  • Support for exporting and importing CLR files
  • Support for exporting to the system color panel
  • Improved color space preferences (including live-update)
  • The improved screen color picker is now pixel-precise on retina displays
  • Add swatches directly from the shades and tints matrix
  • Live update for the shades and tints matrix
  • Preference option for preventing the color inspector from hiding when app is not in focus
  • The enter/return key can now be used for entering multiple tags
  • Miscellaneous performance improvements and bug fixes
  
  
  
  • OS X 10.7 or later
  
  
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  • Base 2.4.4 - Create, design, edit and browse SQLite 3 database files. (Demo)
    
    
    Base is an application for creating, designing, editing, and browsing SQLite 3 database files. It's a proper OS X application. Fast to launch, quick to get in to and get the data you need.

    Base starts with all the basic features you need:

    • Schema viewing
    • Table contents viewing/editing
    • Custom SQL queries
    • Command logging
    Then makes it all even better:
    • Support for viewing and editing ALL column- and table-level constraints. From simple default values, to complex foreign keys, Base can handle it.
    • Advanced table designing and altering. No need to manually type CREATE TABLE statements, from a single sheet you can add, edit and remove columns and constraints to your heart's content, maintaining or moving the original data within them.
    • Quick data find and filter. Build lengthy SELECT statements with a few clicks, previewing results as you go.
    • Easy SQL editing, with clear syntax highlighting and useful SQL autocompletion
    • Store your commonly used SQL as snippets for easy re-use later
    • Easy import, comprehensive export. Bring in data from CSV or SQL files. Export to SQL, delimited text, XML, or Microsoft Excel-compatible formats.
    Trial limitations:
    • 15-minute sessions and custom queries only return 5 rows.
    
    
    Version 2.4.4:
    • Sandboxing is now re-enabled for App Store customers.
    • A crash-on-launch bug has been fixed.
    • An interface glitch where the SQL error notice could not be dismissed has been fixed.
    • Base now requires OS X 10.8 or later to run.
    
    
    
    • OS X 10.8 or later
    
    
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  • Calories 3.3.3 - Record and analyze your daily nutrition. (Demo)
    
    
    Calories is your personal diet, health and fitness trainer!

    What Calories does for you:

    • Track, analyze and improve your dietary habits.
    • Control and reduce your body weight.
    • Track your energy-usage and improve your fitness.
    • Chronologically monitor your body data (weight, blood pressure, blood sugar) and set them in relation to your diet and activities.
      
      Version 3.3.3:
      • Bugfix: Custom daily calories consumption will work with milestones
      • Bugfix: Weight entries added to the future by accident do not interfere with current data entered in the future
      • Fix: Activity strings type corrected
      • Some issues with Fitbit and other small fixes
      
      
      OS X 10.6.8 or later
      
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    • AppleScriptHTML 2.5.1 - Turn AppleScript code into clean HTML. (Free)
      
      
      AppleScriptHTML generates HTML which represents the styles and formats of your AppleScript source code.

      AppleScriptHTML's features are:

      • Clean HTML: styles are applied by Cascading Style Sheets. It is easy to customize styles after HTML generation.
      • Script Link: can add a link to open the AppleScript code in Script Editor. This function is useful for displaying sample code.
      
      
      Version 2.5.1:
      • Fixed : Compatibility of script links with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
      • Fixed : Can't open the preference window.
      • Fixed : Error of "Save to a File" action in 64-bit mode.
      • Fixed : The toolbar item "Copy All" in the output monitor window did not work.
      • Fixed : The toolbar item "Print" in the output monitor window did not work.
      
      
      OS X 10.6 or later
      
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