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Looking for a deal this summer? Indie Mac Software has what you need. From July 7th until the 15th, you can get 20% off select software by using the coupon code of DF2008. The companies involved in this deal include Azure Talon, Lucerne Systems, M Cubed Software, Wonder Warp Software, and You Software. These five companies are offering a total of nine different applications for you to choose from, so head on over to the site and help them out.  You can find out more about each app in detail after the jump.

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Altomac, “the natural software company,” wants to help you get work done with their new application, Speedy Mac. Speedy Mac is a “little innovative utility” that allows you to “...quickly open everything you need for your everyday work: documents, folders, applications, and sites.” To name a few features, Speedy Mac can keep a log of all your recently opened documents and application for easy access, and it can also hide and show multiple applications at one time. If this isn’t enough, you can even download more tasks for the application.

Speedy Mac requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher and is universal binary, meaning it will work with both PPC and Intel based Macs. It costs $27.00 for a single license, $37.00 for a five computer license, or $84.00 for use on up to fifty computers. It sounds like a great little menu bar application to help speed up your work flow, and we always love to see new applications being developed for Mac OS X. If you end up getting this, let us know how it is.

Product [Speedy Mac]

Limit Point Software has released a new utility for the public that they are calling PhotoTiles. This donationware application allows you to create a tiled image of images. Furthermore, it allows you to alter the dimensions and sizes of the images and of the array. You can even choose whether or not you want it to show the file names. Once you have these variables set, simply drag and drop the images you would like to use and let PhotoTiles do all the work.

Head on over to the product page for a nice how-to and a bunch of helpful screen shots. Since the app is universal binary, it will work on both PPC or Intel based iMacs that are running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. If this app isn’t for you, you can check out some of the other applications and utilities they offer. They have quite a few to choose from, so they are bound to develop something that will be helpful to you.

Product [PhotoTiles]

Hendrickson Software Components’ popular spam tracing and reporting utility, Sp@mX, has been retired and officially turned into Purify.  In HSC’s words, “...after many years of faithful service, the venerable Sp@mX has been officially retired, and its servers taken off-line.” Although the name has changed, HSC still promises the same quality from Purify. Version 2.1.1, which deals with malformed e-mails from “newbie” spammers, just came out on July 3rd and development will continue.

For those of you who used Sp@mX, you can email HSC for an upgrade link. If you want to try out Purify and figure now is the time, it will cost you $29.95 for a new license. If you hate spam, that money will be well worth it. Purify offers plenty of features to help rid of those annoying e-mails. With Leopard and Applescript support included, Purify allows you to report spammers to their ISPs and filter your e-mail by images, country of origin, etc. It works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so be sure to check it out.

Product [Purify]

Swedish software maker Maintain today announced the latest version of their popular Macintosh maintenance utility, Cocktail. Version 4.1.3 adds support for OS X10.5.4, the most recent Leopard update, and includes multiple bug fixes:

• prevents reversion of Firefox 3 bookmarks to an outdated version when clearing Internet caches
• fixes an issue whereby Cocktail may stop responding when clearing user caches
• corrects behavior in which the utility would fail to properly reset UDP default settings when running the Cocktail uninstaller

As a utility, Cocktail offers a GUI to many of OS X’s hidden features, including Unix maintenance scripts, Force Empty Trash, advanced network card settings, and extensive Dock/Finder/Menu Bar customization. Most of the settings available in Cocktail are accessibile from the OS X Terminal, but many users are either uncomfortable or completely unaware of the powerful command line interface available to them. In addition, Cocktail can perform several general maintenance tasks, such as clearing log files, deletion of .ds_store files created by OS X, and deletion of caches such as internet histories/cookies, QuickTime caches, and font caches.

Cocktail 4.1.3 is compatible with both OS X 10.5 and OS X 10.5 Server versions, and has been tested on both systems. For users of older OS X versions, Cocktail is available in version 4.0.2 (for OS X 10.4.x) and version 3.7 (for OS X 10.3.x). As a shareware application, Cocktail is available free as a limited demo; a single user license is available for $14.95 (all versions).

Product [Cocktail]

iSlayer is at it again with another widget for your Mac’s Dashboard. Dubbed Organized, this widget features a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to-dos.  What makes it even cooler is that the calendar and to-dos use Mac OS X’s built-in databases, so they’re always in sync with iCal and Mail. This widget requires Mac OS X Leopard and is donationware, so be sure to help the developers over at iSlayer out by giving them a few bucks if you like it.

iSlayer has four other other widget options available. If you like to stay on top of the hardware in side of your machine, be sure to check out iStat Menus, iStat Pro and iStat Nano. Also, to add some funk to your Dashboard, try out I Love Lamp. As of the writing of this post, iSlayer’s site says they have 11,059,433 downloads, so their widgets must be pretty good. Go check ‘em out!

Product [Organized]

Bains Software has announced the release of ShareTool 1.2, an update to its unique remote access solution for Mac OS X. ShareTool lets users access all of the Bonjour services on their home network from anywhere in the world. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, and more. With ShareTool, users can listen to their entire iTunes music library at work, control the screen of any of their home computers, or grab that important file they forgot to bring with them.

This version adds automatic compression of network traffic, a much improved interface, and several bug fixes. ShareTool requires Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later.

ShareTool is $20 shareware and will only allow users to access their services remotely for fifteen minutes at a time in trial mode. Users can purchase a license by visiting the Bains Software website.

Product [ShareTool 1.2]

Although finding an overclocking application for Windows is as easy as finding a car in a parking lot, the same thing couldn’t be said for Mac OS X… until now. ZDNet has solved this problem by creating the cleverly named ZDNet Clock that will overclock your processor and memory. For the current version, 1.0, all you need is an Intel based Mac running Mac OS X v10.5 or higher. They claim to have tried their application on three different machines, and it works on all of them.

Even more exciting is that ZDNet reports that the “improvement in performance is quite remarkable.” For example, the cheapest Mac Pro, which has a 2.8GHz processor, was able to run faster than the 3.2 GHz model by simply increasing the CPU frequency and the main memory clock speed. On top of all this great news, ZDNet also “plays it safe when overclocking.” They add, “ZDNet Clock does not use any voltage increase for the CPU, the front-side bus (FSB) or the memory modules.”

Could this get any better?

Via [ZDNet]

A new Mac utility, aptly called SpeedyMac, has been recently announced by Altomac. What the SpeedyMac utility does is speed up the process of opening documents, folders and applications, and even the loading times of webpages. Altomac brags about SpeedyMac taking a “totally new approach” when creating lists of recently visited webpages and documents where favorites are grouped by site and documents according to the applications used to create these documents.

In addition, SpeedyMac also provides quick access to common workflows involved when quitting applications, creating new folders and ejecting removable and external hard disks. Users can quickly access all of these in a “task” menu, and they can even create their own tasks and share them with other users of the Mac utility. To allow quick access of documents, SpeedMay has a “current item” menu where the location of the documents are listed.

For a $27 license fee, you can have this nifty application installed in your Mac running OS X v4.11 or higher. If you just want to take this utility for a spin and see how it works on your machine, you can download a 30-day trial installation.

The shareware utility comes with a “current item” menu that lists exactly where a user’s document is located on the hard drive, for quicker access. Speedy Mac requires Mac OS X 4.11 or higher and a 30-day trial version is now available for download. Licenses cost $27.00

Via [MacNN] Product [SpeedyMac]

Apimac has just released new versions of its Compress Files utility, which allows compressing, archiving, and encryption of files. Along with some of the other features, a notable addition is support for AES-256 encryption for zip files.

Compress Files allows users to create a compressed file in any of the following formats: Zip, TAR, Gzip, Bzip2, Xar, 7zip and Compressed Disk Image (DMG). The encrypted formats are: Zip, DMG and 7zip. Version ‘08 release 2 brings:

• Xar version 1.5.2.
• Crypted Zip files now use AES-256
• Improved AppleScript dictionary for automated e-mail and archive actions
• Customisation in contextual menus
• And, of course, bug fixes

Since 1996, Apimac has been developing award-winning software for the Mac platform. Some of their best software includes Mac Notepad, Clean Text, Apimac Slideshow and Secret Folder. Compress FIles costs around $27 for a single user license from their website. They also have a free trial version available.

Product [Compress Files]