Rapido no more
app4mac — no doubt trying to make a living like the rest of us — has now transitioned its freeware offerings into four commercial apps. Gone are RapidoSerial, RapidoStart, RapidoWrite and RapidoResizer. In their place we have SecretBox, Jump, Presto and Plexoo. The one that will be missed the most is RapidoWrite, which offered a freeware alternative to the likes of TextExpander — a way of using shortcuts to insert frequently used phrases.
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 in Updates
Punakea to become shareware
Punakea is an innovative little app that lets you tag your files and bookmarks, relating them in ways that makes sense to you — regardless of where they might be in your folder structure.
It is now at version 1.0 rc2, which is about as close to a final release as you can get. What’s significant is that this is the last freeware version. Starting July 15, Punakea will become shareware, so get it for free while you still can.
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 in Updates
Adium 1.4b1
Adium — along with Quinn and Quicksilver — is one of the most loved apps in the thriftmac collection. And now there’s more to love with version 1.4, which includes support for Twitter and IRC, plus big improvements to group chats. It’s time to say goodbye to Tiger, though — this version requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 in Updates
OpenOffice 3.1
OpenOffice continues to improve with an upgrade to version 3.1. There’s a whole bunch of new features. One I’m glad to see is that highlighting text no longer reverses it to white on black — which was not the least bit subtle. Instead, we get a light blue background. It’s odd, though, that the letters themselves are dimmed as if the blue tint were an overlay.
Posted Saturday, May 9, 2009 in Updates
NeoOffice 3.0
NeoOffice reaches another milestone with version 3. The popular suite is now based on the latest OpenOffice.org code base and has the following improvements: a new Chart module, PDF import in Draw, and better presentation tools.
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 in Updates
Bean 2.2
The non-Apple free word processor of choice here at thriftmac now allows for pattern matching (regex) searches with an overall improved search interface. Get Bean here.
Posted Sunday, March 8, 2009 in Updates
Chax hangs in there
At one time, Chax was one of the most popular Mac freeware apps around, because of its ability to add tabbed chatting to iChat. Then Leopard came along, and Apple had the tabs built in.
So has Chax gone away? Not at all — in fact the newly released version 2.2 adds a slew of features that should satisfy even the most ardent chatter. Now you can send a picture from your camera as an inline image, refer to messages from a previous conversation in new chat windows, and use multitouch swipe gestures to switch tabs.
Yes, that’s right, multitouch — take that, Apple!
By the way, the developer of Chax also has freeware app called Warp, which lets you switch between Spaces by using your mouse instead of the keyboard.
Posted Friday, February 6, 2009 in Updates
Picasa now available for Mac
Just in time for Macworld expo, Google has announced that Picasa is now available for the Mac. This freeware app lets you organize, edit and share your photos. Judging by the list of features posted at the Google blog, the program’s abilities are impressive.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 in Updates
Bean 2.0b
Bean has become the freeware word processor of choice here at thriftmac. And the good news is that development continues apace, with the beta release of version 2.
You can now divide your text into columns on a page, which is a handy setup for people creating newsletters. Bean will also try to remember where your cursor is when you change views — it does this with a little animation that makes the cursor’s placement quite obvious. Plus, you can create your own template, and have Bean use it for every new document.
There are a bunch of unspecified changes to the preferences that you might want to explore. And, of course, some bad bugs have been squashed.
Download the beta here, but remember this is for testing purposes only.
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 in Updates
JAlbum 8.1
JAlbum has long been a great freeware app for publishing your picture galleries online. With version 8.1, the big news is the addition of widgets, which allow some great new functionality. You can now create an About section, allow people to add comments, count how many people have visited, tag faces, and share on other sites.
Posted Wednesday, December 3, 2008 in Updates
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