Software Releases: Sat 09 Jul 2005 Fri 08 Jul 2005 Thu 07 Jul 2005 Wed 06 Jul 2005

MainMenu 1.4.3 Menubar item for running system maintenance routines.

Ensemble 1.0.0b4r2 RSS/Atom newsreader.

macsig 0.6.0 Displays select information about your computer.

UnicodeChecker 1.8.0 Displays Unicode file information.

FrenchTVNews 1.7.7 Watch French television news.

Kids GoGoGo 9.3.0 Prohibit access to adult/violent/hate web content.

AusTV 2.1.0b Australian TV Guide widget.

pearLyrics 0.4.0 Widget gets lyrics for songs in iTunes.

iota-calc 1.5.6 Calculator for programmers.

Vendetta Online 1.2.3.5 Massive multi-player spaceship game.

TreeView 2.0.2 Plugin for REALBasic.

Noble Ape Simulation 0.669.0 Biological simulationwith cognitive processes.

RefactorIT 2.5.1 Java refactoring & analysis tool

Widgetarium 1.0.0b5 IDE for developing Dashboard widgets

Fire 1.5.3 instant messenger: AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Bonjour

AusTV 2.1.0 Australian TV Guide widget

Crossword Forge 3.9.8 Create educational crossword puzzles.

VersaForward 4.0.0 Email forwarder.

MM3D 1.1.8 OpenGL-based 3D model editor.

cb2Bib 0.44.0 extract unformatted or unstandardized bibliographic references

VersaForward Email Forwarder 4.0.0 forward email to phones & pagers while fitting more text

Space Guards 1.0.0 3D spaceshooter with three missions

K3DSurf 0.5.0 generates 3D surfaces with mathematical formulas

RapidWeaver Flash Themes 16.0.0 RapidWeaver flash themes

Mail2iCalToDo 1.3.1 export email from Mail to iCal to-do entry

Mail2iCal 1.2.0 exports Mail messages to iCal events

Mac Messenger 3.5.4 MSN chat client.

Photo Layout 1.1.6 Create flyers, business cards, signs, and more.

Weekly Comic List Widget 1.0.0 Check comic book releases.

ShowVolumeFragmentation 0.65.0 Display details of fragmented files on any volume.

Wednesday's List Widget 1.0.0 Check comic book releases.

WordEm 1.0.0 Falling block vocab game.

Web Site Maestro 4.2.1.1 Optimize and upload your webpages.

Praat 4.3.17 Analyze/synthesize/manipulate speech.

MacLoggerDX 4.1.0b15 Auto DX radio tuner.

HTML-Optimizer Pro 4.2.1.1 Reduces the size of HTML pages.

HTML-Optimizer 9.1.1.1 Reduces the size of HTML pages.

FinkCommander 0.5.4 User interface for Fink.

WebServerXKit 1.0.0 Easy way to install latest versions Apache/PHP/MySQL.

Exit Strategy 0.9.0 Game where you save red dotted people.

Space Guards Mac 1.0.0 3D spaceshooter with three missions

Degrees Down Under Widget 1.0.0 Australian temperature widget using Bureau of Meteorology data

MainMenu 1.4.2 maintenance, cleaning and optimization menu item

SonicBirth 1.0.0 build AUs/VSTs or use one from a premade package

News

What Goes Up 2005-06-03 21:18:28: Yeah, there was a bit of downtime on a server and we missed probably half a day's worth of updates. Hardware was (finally!) swapped and we should be fine now. Now would probably be a good time to cry about costs and introduce an ad-heavy main page or link to our registration page and ask for funding; we don't work that way, though, so continue to enjoy getting more than what you paid for.
Now It's Just Getting Silly 2005-06-01 11:42:40: Not only did the feed traffic more than double from April to May (5249 to 13544 hits respectively), the main page traffic was relatively flat, making for what is now a 5:1 ratio. No, we won't be getting rid of the main page, but such a shift in readership in such a short period has been interesting to see.
SS Update: R Kicks A 2005-05-02 02:59:15: In just the second full month of operation, the number of hits for the RSS feed is double that of the main page! Most of that was pre-Tiger, too, although there did seem be another interesting bump on the last two days of April as well. While we're sure some of the increase is due to RSS readers loading more often than a person would manually, we still see is as a big sign of success for the feed. Will an RSS-aware Safari cause the numbers to double again in May?

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