Mac Software

Global Delight Releases Web2 Delight 1.1

UI tweaks to enhance user experience enrich this must-have utility!

NEW UDUPI, India, May 12, 2008 – Global Delight releases minor updates to their must-have utility Web2 Delight. This release includes several UI tweaks as well as size/performance optimizations.

Web2 Delight is a video/photo downloader, organizer and viewer for Mac OS. With the rising popularity of video and photo sharing sites, users are increasingly moving towards sharing user-generated videos and photos online. Accessing such content from multiple sites is becoming increasingly cumbersome and Web2 Delight is the first product that acts as a portal for multiple sites. It marries the power and possibilities of Web 2.0 to the simplicity and versatility of the Mac.

Ever hit a site with Safari and it says "This web site requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher!". Well, if you don't have IE on your Mac you can at least see what all the fuss is about by tricking the web site into thinking you are on a Windows machine running Internet Explorer. David Alison has a simple tip on how to make this work. Read the warning at the end of the tip though!

Creaceed, the company behind Hydra, Morph Age, and Magnet, today ships brand new version 1.5 of Hydra for easy HDR image creation on Mac OS X Leopard with updated imaging pipeline and Aperture integration. Hydra gives human eye perception to photographs by creating high dynamic range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs, either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras.

Second Gear is pleased to announce the release of Today 1.1, the Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks. Version 1.1 introduces several new features and enhancements based on user feedback. Users can now filter what calendars are visible in Today. Several changes have been made to event and task creation. By default new events are created on the date selected in Today. Users can also assign a location to new events.

Apimac has released new versions of Clean Text, a tool dedicated to webmasters, graphic designers and magazine editors to reduce text cleanup time. Clean Text eliminates all text formatting and performs other useful functions, such as removing empty lines, removing unwanted spaces, removing tab characters, converting smart quotes, tabs, returns, and more.

Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman, a second significant update to the revolutionary GPU-powered image editing tool, furnishing users with everything they need to create, edit, and enhance still images. Available today as a free software update, Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman features rulers, guides, grid, snap, color balance, auto enhance, curves, and polygonal lasso tools and much more.

"Pixelmator opened the door for all users to explore their imaginative side through image creation, editing, and enhancement," said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. "Now with powerful, but easy-to-use rulers, guides, curves, auto enhance, color balance, and polygonal lasso tools, Pixelmator provides users with an even wider range of creative opportunities."


TweakerSoft releases VectorDesigner 1.2.0, with video tutorials and smart snap on elements, points and intersections. VectorDesigner is the perfect application for vector drawings, diagrams and illustrations, raster image handling, filtering and color correction. Out of the box, it offers everything users need to create professional level vector artwork, such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web design, tshirt production and more.

uncomplex has released Mailplane 2.0 Beta for worldwide testing. Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Desktop. It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering users the best of both worlds. Beta 2.0 sports many new features, including full Gmail 2 support, new Gmail add-ons and keyboard shortcuts, better account notifications, more ways to create email attachments, plus a new OmniFocus plugin.

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Rainer Brockerhoff has announced an update to Quay, a system utility for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Quay extends the Dock's functionality, allowing the user to sort Stack menus in several useful ways, and see extra information for each item.

plasq has released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X. This entirely new photo-comic desktop publishing software from plasq empowers users of all ages and skill levels with simple-to-use but eye-catching creative options typically found in professional products. Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up to leverage the power of Mac OS X 10.5 core technologies, like Core Image and Core Animation resulting in photo-comics with unique visual effects and elegant layout.