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Linux discussion

Photoshop plug-ins, Quicken, MYOB email

PAL conversion to NTSC?

networking questions, tips and troubleshooting; Finder issues

folder/performance problem?

hardware failures

Microsoft Security Essentials; login tracking; iTunes in business

TurboTax and cost-basis

The Alchemist Guild's Warehouse is a task-based backup program with support for an unlimited number of tasks, each with source folders, destination, and one of four backup modes.

Mugginsoft's KosmicTask is designed for creating, editing, and running AppleScript tasks, functioning as "an AppleScript powered task server."

FileMaker's latest version still runs on PowerPC hardware and Leopard, offering charting and other updates.

HairerSoft's audio editor and processor adds a Suppress White Noise batch action, a Trim Silence function, support for lyrics metadata, drag-and-drop support for iTunes tracks, support for larger spectrum sizes, proper handling of Audio Unit latency, and other changes.

Menial's application for creating, designing, editing, and browsing SQLite 3 database files adds CSV import, improved SQL import, an update to SQLite 3.6.22, a preference pane for settings related to browsing, control of rows-per-page in the data browser, and other improvements.

This patch release for the open source office suite fixes a bug where cycling through open documents only cycled through two documents on Mac OS X 10.6 and addresses other issues.

Abracode's script executor gains 64-bit binaries for execution in 64-bit shortcuts in Snow Leopard, an internal rewrite of several components to remove Carbon code, support for command localization, table support in custom Cocoa dialogs, and other improvements.

Recent changes in the desktop calendar application include support for Google alarms less than five minutes, support for ISO-8859-1 and Shift-JIS in .ics files, improved compatibility with .ics/.vcs files created by Outlook, and more efficient syncing of dynamic WebDAV feeds.

Andrey Tverdokhleb's raw image conversion program now supports square format in the Panasonic DMC-GF1, adds Rotate Left/Right commands, changes handling of overexposed channels to allow clipping all channels evenly, adds a Destination field to the History window, and makes other changes.

This beta release of Badia's export and print tool for InDesign and Quark has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa for Snow Leopard and includes 64-bit support, combined InDesign and QuarkXPress support without plug-ins, better overall performance and stability, and numerous refinements and improvements.

Apple expects non-3G iPads to arrive on April 3 with 3G models to follow "in late April." Pre-ordering starts a week from today.