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Mon, 20 Oct 2003
SideTrack 0.7.2
Raging Menace has released a public beta of SideTrack, a replacement trackpad driver for PowerBooks & iBooks.
SideTrack brings many of the trackpad scrolling features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X. Most Windows laptops implement trackpad scrolling using drivers made by Synaptics. Although Apple PowerBooks also use Synaptics trackpads, the standard Apple driver uses none of the extended features.
SideTrack supports these features: Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad; Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad; Map hardware button to left or right click; Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.
Although I normally use a mouse with my 12" PowerBook, I find the scrolling features a welcome addition for those times when I'm working unplugged.
Chickenbyte announces IconBox 1.5
Belgium based software developer Chickenbyte is proud to present version 1.5 of their icon organizing tool "IconBox". We have been listening to the many request from our users over the past couple of months and have succeeded in incorporating a lot of the features that were requested.
What's new in this version?
* Manual re-ordering of icons within a library.
* Sort icons by name, keywords, description, author *nd copyright.
* "iDrop" feature: Drop files or folders onto it to *hange their icon.
* Auto Icon Count status.
* Set a different background color for every library individually.
* Completely re-styled interface. (Toolbar and menu's)
* Info drawer organized with tabs.
* View progress when importing icons.
* Support for Pixadex Containers.
* Added authoring information to info drawer. (Author, Copyright, URL)
* Faster scrolling and resizing of the icon view.
* Added new type of selection border.
* Search icons within a specific library.
* Faster searching.
* Support for filtering unwanted files on import.
* Support for importing ICNS files.
* Added several new export formats including ICNS, PNG, GIF and Windows XP icons.
* Added the ability to export multiple icons at a time.
* Added ability to change icon info for multiple icons at once.
* Added the following localization: Portuguese.
* Several small bug-fixes.
For more info please visit http://www.chickenbyte.com/iconbox/
Deep Links from EFF
Deep Links features noteworthy news items from around the Internet.
- Bad Grades for a Voting-Machine Exam
Salon on shoddy security measures for electronic voting machines. (Ad-viewing
nonsense required.) - All the President's Votes?
Contains a good synopsis of the many problems with e-voting
- EPIC Looks Into Justice Department's Pro-PATRIOT Act Lobbying
It's generally frowned upon when a political appointee engages in lobbying. So
why did Attorney General Ashcroft tell all 93 United States Attorneys to fight
PATRIOT Act reform legislation? - Brits Tap the U.S. for Anti-Spam Recipes
Our neighbors from across the pond want the U.S. to pass more legislation
banning salty, processed email - Movies Come from Hollywood - Especially on P2P Networks
Researchers at AT&T Labs downloaded 285 movies from P2P nets and found that 77%
had been leaked by industry insiders - Illegal Art in the City of Brotherly Love
The exhibit is ending its national tour in Philadelphia - "TIA's Not Scary; It's Necessary!"
The National Review on how much safer we'd be in DARPA's surveillance-based
dystopian future - FCC May Give DTV a Hollywood Ending
If a broadcast flag mandate is adopted, be prepared to buy more expensive
equipment with fewer features - Four Jewish Websites Deemed "Terrorists" by U.S. State Department
Two of the sites are held by cybersquatters, not a suspected-militant Jewish
group. Evidently, the State Department doesn't know how to use "whois" - Bad Database Bill Clears First Hurdle
The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act of 2003 is bad
mojo. We're not excited that copyright-like protection for facts lived through
subcommittee - Fighting to Preserve Old Programs
Wired on EFF Board Member Brewster Kahle's fight to save digital history
For more information about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, visit www.eff.org.
AquaFold simplifies multi-platform database administration with version 3.5
AquaFold, Inc today announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio, its universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases.
The new release introduces complete schema extraction and SQL scripting of database objects. With a click of a mouse the SQL DML (data manipulation language) for tables, views, stored procedures and all database objects may be scripted to a query window. SQL history capabilities provide complete and easy access to the history of all SQL statements and scripts executed. A new popup query window provides the flexability to open multiple query windows side by side to compare scripts and query results. The Query Analyzer window now also includes support for Oracle's DBMS_OUTPUT package and 'Text History', which provides quick access to a history of query results. An enhanced Query Analyzer includes support for openning scripts and saving results in different encoding types, printing of scripts and results, server side comments, enhanced syntax coloring and more. Version 3.5 also comes with improved memory consumption and up to 600% increased query performance. Additional database support includes PostgreSQL 7.3 with new schema support and Trusted Connection support for Microsoft SQL Server through an ODBC interface.
Complete list of new features: http://www.aquafold.com/features_3_5.html