- Address Book auto-completion
- Share keywords between photo libraries
- Alphabetic sorting of keyword lists
- Preferences windows
- Built-in software update
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Keyword Manager 1.1 adds major keyword management features, more
Forget Me Not - Safari session saving
Forget Me Not 3.0 is a good example of the 3rd party plug-in and add-on support for Safari that is slowly but surely growing. FMN is a basic a session saver plug-in for Safari that can reload any tabs that were open the last time you quit Safari. It isn't quite as powerful as, say, Tab Mix Plus for Firefox, but it does a good job of bringing this increasingly popular feature to Apple's darling browser.
Forget Me Not can be had from Jim Fowler's site.
[via Daring Fireball]
Search TUAW from your Firefox toolbar
Reader Paul Stamatiou just earned a special place in our hearts by creating a TUAW search plugin for Firefox. Installation is a snap - just run over to the plugin's home at Mozdevo.org and click on it - and you can satisfy your urge for all things TUAW anytime you want, right from Firefox's search bar.I'm using the Firefox 2.0 beta 2 for everything these days, and the plugin works just fine for me; I would imagine it works for 1.5.x as well, since that's the *official* release. No matter which version you use though, thanks to Paul, you now have one more tool with which to be no more than one click away from TUAW.
Saft v8.3.5 released
Hao Li is at it again with a new version of Saft, quite possibly the Safari plugin that deserves to go the route of CoverFlow. If you aren't familiar with Saft's extensive and constantly evolving feature set, check out our past coverage to get familiar. This latest v8.3.5 update features:- New feature: Option to block auto-completion in the location field
- Improvement: Customizable format of the dated download folder
- Improvement: Nicer tab thumbnails
Groupcal 3: manage your Exchange calendar from iCal
Are you a Mac user living in an Exchange world, forced to trudge through Entourage? (Don't get me wrong: Entourage is fine, but 'trudge' is just a good verb for dramatic effect.) Well trudge no longer with Groupcal 3, an addon for iCal that allows you to access, manage, edit and synchronize your Exchange calendars and tasks. Also on the feature list are: subscribing to coworker's free time, sending/receiving meeting invites, sharing/publishing calendars through .Mac or WebDAV and even syncing with an iPod or Palm through iSync.Groupcal 3 is a Universal Binary, a demo is available and a single licenses costs $55. As you might expect, multi-license packs are available starting at 5 seats, moving all the way up to 500 and 1000 pack licenses.
[via MacMerc]
A collection of all available QuickPicks for Backup 3
Wishingline, a web design studio, has done .Mac members a favor and collected most of the QuickPicks that are available on the web for Apple's Backup 3. There are quite a few QuickPicks out there for everything from ecto to PDF documents, Photo Booth pictures to Shiira bookmarks, OmniOutliner documents and much, much more. Wishingline went so far as to list a number of the QuickPicks individually, or simply offer an encompassing package of everything they could find (scroll down about midway on the page for these goodies).The QuickPicks package is offered free from Wishingline, but remember: they didn't have anything to do with creating these (as far as I know); they just tracked them down and zipped them. If you want a QuickPick for one app or another, you should probably consult the app's author or check out these resources for creating your own.
[UPDATE: Scott from Wishingline dropped us a comment to let us know that the QuickPicks linked from Wishingline are, in fact, home grown. Thanks for some rockin' QuickPicks Scott!]
iVideoMail and iVoiceMail plugins for Mail
Here's a novel idea: being able to easily send something besides text and pretty pictures in email. iVideoMail and iVoiceMail are Mail plugins that take the legwork out of recording video and audio clips for easy emailing. They install as preference panes within Mail, and once you customize a message's toolbar to add a button for either plugin (there doesn't seem to be any other way to use them when composing a message), you're ready to start emailing your beautiful mug and American Idol-worthy voice to anyone who can handle it. Just don't blame us if your friends and colleagues begin removing you from their address books.
I only briefly tried out the iVideoMail demo and it works pretty well, although the resulting 6-second 320 x 240 video in MPEG4 was 376 KB, which might be considered a little large by some. By why not judge for yourself? Demos are available via a rather annoying submit-your-email-for-a-customized-download-link process, and a license for either plugin is a mere $10 USD.
[via Hawk Wings' plugin list]
Three-pane Mail.app turns into a plug-in
Well that was quick. First Mail.app received a widescreen, three-pane face-lift, and now it's been morphed into a plug-in. The author provides two different sets of instructions for installing: drag and dropping into your ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ directory or using a couple of commands in Terminal. Go nuts ladies and gentlmen.
Application Enhancer v2.0 goes Universal, with other enhancements
Unsanity has released a Universal Binary version of Application Enhancer, their software preference pane (and set of frameworks) that enables their various handy system hacks and UI additions. Along with Intel Mac compatibility, this update also includes enhancements like:- Redesigned the preference pane to be simpler and more accessible.
- Now follows the precedent set by other Mac OS X services and disables itself if the shift key is held down while booting.
Application Enhancer is free and available from Unsanity's website.
Quicksilver plug-ins for Google Calendar and Gmail
While tinkering in Quicksilver's plug-ins panel this morning I came across two new plug-ins that should fit right in with my new
The Google Calendar module seems to use their Quick Add syntax for adding events. For a quick tutorial on this: invoke Quicksilver and then hit period so you can begin entering plain text. Enter something like "Apple Store Opening Saturday 10 am," then hit tab to move to Quicksilver's second pane to chose an action. If you have the Google Calendar module installed, the action is titled "Google Calendar Event" (using 'gcal' works just fine for me). Hitting enter will send the event, and for bonus points, if you have Growl installed and Quicksilver using it to give notifications, you'll receive a Growl alert upon successful completion.
The Gmail module (pictured) allows you to compose a message (or at least part of one) using the same method as both the Google Calendar and Mail.app compose actions. Once you type some text, tab over to chose the Gmail action, you'll receive a 3rd pane that allows you to specify an Address Book contact to send to. Hitting enter will create a Gmail compose window with all the information you chose from Quicksilver already inserted. Awesome.
Chax 1.4.1 released
One thing I love
about Chax, the vital iChat plug-in, is that its developer has been reliably rolling out a good handful of new features
and fixes, even with a .0.x update like this one. New features in 1.4.1 include:- Growl notifications for when a user comes online, goes offline, goes idle, goes away, and becomes available
- Options to have the tab window come to the front when receiving a new message
- Option to disable the close buttons on tabs
- Option to have the contact lists automatically resize to fit the number of visible contacts
- Contact list row height will now adjust itself according to the size of a custom font as long as user icons are hidden (the two line view will not resize)
- Default iChat floating window notifications now work with tabs
- Clicking on a Growl message notification will bring iChat to the front and select the originating message window
Saft 8.3.0
PimpMySafari noticed that Saft, a vital Safari plug-in, has been updated to version
8.3.0. New and updated features include:
- New feature: AutoComplete always on
- New feature: Tab thumbnails (like Shiira’s Tab Expose, not Omniweb style)
- Improvement: Also restore tab history when undoing closing tab
- Improvement: Undo support for closing other tabs
Path Finder 4.1 released with Universal Binary, other enhancements
Path Finder, the powerful file browser/manager (pseudo-Finder) from Cocoatech, has been updated to version 4.1. Along with Universal Binary status and the typical round of bug fixes, this update also includes:
- Improved Go To Folder with autocomplete
- Smart Folders – Path Finder can now read Finder-created Smart Folders
- New Size Browser for quickly viewing total file sizes of folders, bundles, etc.
- Added rotate buttons to the integrated PDF viewer
- Path Finder can now preview PDF bundles (often found on OS X install disks)
- Added preview support for Help Viewer bundles
- Path Finder now displays if an application is PPC, Intel, or Universal Binary in the info panel
- Path Finder can now previews NEF files
- Added preliminary “email to” support for Microsoft Entourage and Eudora
- Updated Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, and German localizations
iWeb Enhancer 1.0
Awesome: Chad
Brantly has created a small add-on app for iWeb that can insert all sorts of blogging goodness into your sites such as
Flickr pics, AdSense, YouTube videos, blogrolls and more.I haven't tried this out yet, but one word of caution: due to what I would assume could be iWeb's unfriendly plugin architecture, the process for inserting any of these little addons is a little wonky. Don't fear it though, as Chad walks you through the short operation on his site.
All things considered, iWeb Enhancer still seems like the easiest and most feature-enabling iWeb addon I've seen to date. Go check it out if you've been looking for a few of those blogging extras to complete your iWeb-powered sites.
Creammonkey is great - but where are the scripts?
I found a Safari plugin by the name of Creammonkey, which is more or less an attempt at bringing Greasemonkey's abilities to Safari's side of the fence. For those unfamiliar
with Greasemonkey: it's a Firefox extension that allows savvy javascript ninjas to add functionality to websites and
services, such as enabling colored labels in Gmail or displaying in-bound links for a site you're visiting.It's hard to argue that the idea of adding functionality to websites isn't cool. Even in its infancy, the promises of Creammonkey sound really slick, but my one problem so far is: where are the scripts? Creammonkey is more or less a platform, and I'm having a really hard time tracking down any scripts to plug into it - including those pictured in this screenshot I borrowed.
So, to the devs of Creammonkey (or the fantastic folks at PimpMySafari): could you put together some links to scripts that'll help make Creammonkey shine? Also, to you TUAW readers: does anyone care to link scripts they've found or created? Let's get this javascript party started.
