MacNN | Print: Apps: Cocktail, Xspinner, Combine PDFs

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Thursday, December 13,2007 @ 4:45pm

Cocktail 4.0 (Tiger Edition) ($15) general purpose utility for Mac OS X. This release adds adds multi-user cache clearing, updated Automator actions as well as many various fixes, optimizations and improvements. Cocktail 4.0 (Tiger Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.0 (Tiger Edition) requires Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.4 - 10.4.11 and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.4.11.[Download - 2MB]

Xspinner 1.0 (donationware) utility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, that allows users to access hidden features and preferences in the system and applications, and provides easy launch of system maintenance scripts. With Xspinner it is possible to change appearance and behavior of the Dock, modify the display of the menu bar, tweak the appearance of Finder, enable access to hidden features in Dashboard and Safari, customize the default Save and Print dialogs in all applications, and more. [Download - 390KB]

Combine PDFs 3.0 ($15) utility that allows you to merge PDF and image (jpg,tiff,etc.) into one PDF file. This release adds a menu option to add an empty page. Empty pages can only be added if a page is already there as the size of the selected or the first page is takes for new empty page. It also adds a "Sort pages better" menu entry which will handle the file numbers better. e.g. "test 303" will be sorted after "test 4".[Download - 3.1MB]

Typinator 2.1 ($30) expands text snippets and auto-corrects typos now also on Leopard. The new version is ready for Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and improves compatibility with Flash, Numbers, MS Office, Terminal, You-Control, and others. Furthermore, the built-in auto-correction dictionaries have been refined to enhance smooth multi-lingual auto-correction in all applications on Leopard. Works across all applications to detect specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replace them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters. [Download - 1.6MB]

Peek-a-Boo 2.7 ($20) a Mac OS X utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch how much CPU time each process uses, adjust processes' priorities, and monitor process information; the innovative process throb window shows at a glance the activity of all the processes on your system. Peek-a-Boo's windows have been overhauled for consistency. There are also several refinements have been made so Peek-a-Boo works more smoothly with OS X 10.5 ("Leopard"). [Download - 1MB]