Several Mac software makers have teamed up to offer
Mac OS X Utilities: Volume 1, which costs US$45 now through Dec. 13. Separately, the seven applications would cost $120. Included in the utilities collection are:
Proteus from
Alien Technology, a multi-service instant messaging client. With Proteus, Mac OS X users can have a single application to communicate with other users via instant messaging services including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber and Yahoo! Chat.
Macabinet from
Radical Breeze, a file management for Mac OS 10.2 (“Jaguar”) and Mac OS 10.3 (“Panther”). It can be used to store your downloaded files or commonly used documents in one location.
Mellel from
RedleX, a word processor. Among its features are: page, paragraph and character styles; multilingual support; live editing; Word document importing; and a live word count.
Speed Download from
Yazsoft, a download manager. IT offers multithreading so you can go online and download as many files as you want, simultaneously; it’s built to optimize both high speed and dial-up Internet connections.
Iconbox from
Chickenbyte, an iPhoto-like application that helps you store and manage your icons, the way iPhoto manages your pictures. It allows you to browse through a collection of icons using libraries, preview the icons at any size and export them to a variety of formats.
AudioX from
Realmac Software, a sound recording tool. It enables recording from any input source such as a built-in microphone, USB microphone, Firewire video camera or even via a Mac audio-in port.
DiscBlaze, also from Radical Breeze, a CD-DVD burning utility. With it you can: burn data CDs and DVDs; burn multiple sessions to the same CD; save and load “Burn Lists”; burn an existing Toast or ISO disc image file; burn discs that can be read on Macs, PCs or both; and erase re-writable media (such as CDRW discs) for re-use.