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Tue, 16 Mar 2004

MUGnetwork launches MacMarket!

MUGnetwork is proud to announce it's newest site, MacMarket, a Mac-specific auction venue. The site is completely free to use (no signup, selling, or buying fees whatsoever. This site joins iCompositions and MacDesktops.net in MUGnetwork.

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Unsanity Releases ShapeShifter 1.2

Unsanity LLC announces the release of ShapeShifter 1.2. ShapeShifter allows users to easily and safely customize their Mac using themes. This update brings many new features, great enhancements, and fixes.

ShapeShifter is a revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. You don't wear the same clothes everyday, your house doesn't look exactly like your neighbor's - why should the computing interface you use everyday be any different. You personalize your physical workspace to suit your tastes and whims, so why not your Mac?


New in version 1.2:


  • Added ability for themes to skin individual applications.
  • Clicking a hyperlink of the form guiKit://www.someHost.com/myGreatTheme.guiKit launches ShapeShifter, downloads the theme, and loads it into ShapeShifter for you.
  • ShapeShifter now manages theme files for you.
  • Adding a new theme file to ShapeShifter now copies it into your ShapeShifter guiKits folder. This means that you can now double-click themes from within disk images to load them into ShapeShifter.
  • Removing a theme file from ShapeShifter now moves it to the trash. Pressing the delete key can now also be used to remove a theme.
  • Dramatically improves load time for the ShapeShifter preference pane.
  • ShapeShifter finally uses the Metal Window texture properly.
  • Added support for .theme files.
  • Safari now implements its metal windows just like every other app in the operating system. This means that themes that user large metal window bevels will look good in Safari.
  • Cocoa applications no longer clip patterns to an 8x8 pixel square. This makes themes like Brushed look better in Cocoa.
  • Address Book now honors the etched text colors.
  • Text color fixes - Finder Show Info Panel, Finder View Options, miscellaneous Carbon dialogs, Safari webpage text boxes, miscellaneous Cocoa list & browser views.
  • It's now possible for themes to modify appearance of the Keychain menu extra, the standard Color and Font panels, standard Cocoa toolbar items, toolbar Poofs, Cocoa browser views, Cocoa open/save panel label colors, the Cocoa table view drag indicator, and text rulers.
  • Added Spanish localization courtesy of Fernando Alvarez.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause inactive titlebars to use the color of a previously installed theme instead of that of the currently installed theme.
  • Using DLTA themes that contain multiple localizations on a Jaguar-based operating system no longer results in possibly mis-localized Finder menus.
  • Resolved an issue that would cause System Preferences to freeze if the user attempted to quit System Preferences while ShapeShifter was busy.
  • Resolved an issue that could cause the status bar at the bottom-right of the preference pane not to update.
  • Resolved an issue that could sporadically keep ShapeShifterCacheManager from working properly.
  • Misc speed improvements in ShapeShifterCacheManager.
  • More speedups when waking from sleep.
  • ShapeShifter will no longer try to display a modal notification while the screen is locked.
  • The ShapeShifter prefpane no longer tries to read in all themes if an error condition that would keep the prefpane from being used exists.
  • Slight optimizations to application launch times.
  • When your operating system has been upgraded but the Unsanity servers have not yet been updated with info for the new OS, you are now warned before a theme is installed.
  • Fixed a possible Finder crash.


ShapeShifter 1.2 is available at:

http://www.unsanity.net/shapeshifter-12.dmg


More information on ShapeShifter:

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter/


ShapeShifter is priced at $20. For more information on Unsanity haxies, please visit:

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/

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CreativePage 3.2 1 adds Safari support

PineHill Products has released an update to CreativePage, their popular web site creation software. Version 3.2.1 adds support for preview in Safari.

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Econ and ResExcellence Sponsor Contest

Econ Technologies and ResExcellence presents the Camtastic
Caption Contest. Econ and RexExcellence want you to have some fun and a
chance to win some Econ products built exclusively for Mac OS X. To enter,
just grab an image from the Econ Technologies webcam and add a caption.
Prizes go to the five funniest entries. Go to www.resexcellence.com for all
the details.

This is not just another contest; you'll need to use your creative writing
skills to enter this one. Here's how it works. We're looking for the
funniest, cleverest, most irreverent caption you can come up with to go
along with any of Econ Technoligies ImageCaster WebCam Shots! Look for that
unflattering image and then add your caption. Be Creative! Get crazy! Have
some fun! Don't hold anything back! This isn't your mother's caption
contest, so don't worry about insulting us or hurting our feelings. You dish
it out and we'll take it! And even reward it!


"This is a chance to promote Econ's products and ResExcellence's website all
while letting Mac Users have some fun," said Joseph Japes, Marketing
Director of Econ Technologies.


Contest Rules


Contest entry is via email only.
All entries must be sent to contest@econtechnologies.com.
All entries must include a webcam image and caption.
Entries will be accepted from the start date of Monday, March 15th, 2004 at
6:00 a.m. Central Standard Time.
Deadline for contest entries is 6:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday,
March 19th, 2004.
Contest winners will be selected by the judging staff at Econ Technolgies.
Contest is open to all participants unless software export regulations are
in effect for specific countries.
Limit 10 entries per person


Go to http://www.resexcellence.com/software_contest/03-15-04_econ.shtml
to enter


Go to www.econtechnologies.com for information on Econ Technologies'
products. Econ Technologies continues to create Powerful, Affordable, Easy
to Use applications for the Mac OS X operating system. For more information
please contact Joseph Japes at 407-365-4209 or at
jjapes@econtechnologies.com.

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