WhatSize was one of the top selling utilities in the past year on MUPromo. Especially if your Mac starts to get a lot of "stuff" on it, WhatSize helps find out what files are taking up all of that space. Then it makes it really easy to remove or move those files. You'd be surprised how many useless files are lying around on your Mac's hard disk. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first.

While the app is measuring a folder the user can browse the files within that folder and immediately see the size in bytes. Hidden files, cache files, directories will all show up with their corresponding size. This application is similar to the ancient NeXTSTEP, DarkForest.

Once the measuring of a folder has ended the user can also view the information by filtering for particular file sizes or types. The user can also move unwanted files and folder in the corresponding Trash bin similar to the Finder's Delete button.

Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.

Parallels Desktop 4.0 offers a computing experience that is:

• Easy — Get easy access to all your applications and data while enjoying the full Mac experience with Improved Windows and Mac integration, True Drag & Drop and Copy & Paste, SmartX Technologies and Built-in Installation and Migration Tools.
• Fast — Experience the fastest speed for all applications with Adaptive Hypervisor, FastLane Architecture, up to 8 way SMP and 8 GB RAM plus 64-bit support for each VM, HyperBus and support for DirectX 9.0, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0, and OpenGL 2.0.
• Powerful — Get a complete suite of essentials for Internet security, data protection and disk management with Parallels Internet Security powered by Kaspersky, Acronis True Image Home backup and restore, SmartGuard, PowerSaver, Full-hardware ACPI support and Acronis Disk Director Suite disk management.
• Developer and Enterprise Ready — Additional features specifically for Developers and IT administrators include Mac OS X Leopard Server and Windows Server OS support, VM Directory, CLI and Scripting support, SDK and API, remote control from iPhone, PXE Boot, improved networking and VM Templates.

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac introduces support for DirectX 9.0, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0, providing fast video performance, while the Adaptive Hypervisor dynamically allocates resources to meet user needs. The responsiveness to all applications is further enhanced as the virtualization engine has been optimized to consume 15-30% less resources than previous versions.

BannerZest is Flash presentation software for professional and amateur web designers. Turn your pictures into a flash slideshow with a few simple clicks and share it on your website. BannerZest doesn't require you to know or even possess Flash!

BannerZest uses the concept of themes, that work like templates. You don't have to spend hours in Flash for a beautiful animation. Our designers have done it for you! Paste your photos, choose the colors, done!

Whether you are using Apple iWeb, RapidWeaver, Dreamweaver or any other tool, BannerZest will let you put your banners online in no time. Uploading your work via FTP or to your .Mac account is fully supported from within BannerZest. Integrating a banner on a page is as simple as pasting a code snippet prepared for you. Social web sites are supported too.

Sound Studio is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally on your computer. Digitize tapes and vinyl records, record live performances, create your own mixes with crossfades, tweak the levels and EQ, apply digital effects, and save in all major file formats with Sound Studio

With Sound Studio you can record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. Check out the article on Suggested Recording Hardware to find out more about how to mic properly and other useful audio information.

Positioned perfectly between more expensive programs with steep learning curves, and far less robust apps, Sound Studio is for anyone who needs to record or edit audio. Some other possible applications include:

• Lectures
• Voice-notes
• Sermons
• Performances
• and more

Detailed Features

Recording:

• Multi-track support: layer stereo sounds and save in interleaved format
• Audio Unit plug-in effect support
• Saves in MPEG-4 AAC (advanced audio coding) m4a format
• Saves in MP3 when the LAME framework is installed
• Automator support (launch Automator to see the bundled actions)
• Added "New Mono Document" command for quickly creating a monophonic document
• 24-bit / 96 kHz sample quality, in stereo or mono
• Low latency monitoring, using Core Audio
• Automatic recording starting and stopping based on timers or audio levels (a.k.a. VOX)

Editing:

• Sample-accurate edits
• Markers (a.k.a. Cue Points) with text labels
• Time ruler with units for video and film
• Copy-and-paste editing
• Basic mixing edits
• AppleScript and Automator support

Effects:

• Supports Audio Units
• Dynamics: Compressor, Expander, and Noise Gate
• Equalization: Graphic EQ, Low Pass Filter, and High Pass Filter
• Delay: Chorus, Flanger, Echo, and Reverb
• Volume: Amplify, Fade In/Out/Special, and Normalize
• Repair: Interpolate, Silence, DC Offset, and Swap Channels
• Repair clicks and pops by interpolating samples or silencing them
• Tone, FM, and noise generators
• Pitch adjustment
• Backwards/Reverse Audio

File Formats:

• AIFF (.aif) and AIFF-C (.aifc) with compression including IMA 4:1
• AAC and MP3 (importing only).
• Sound Designer II
• Wave (.wav, PCM only)
• Tab-delimited text (export only)

Leap - Organize and find... A combination Spotlight, Bridge, Finder, and more. With the Finder on Leopard you can find that you have over 10,000 documents. Leap shows you all of them, and more importantly - where they are on your computer. No other tool does this. Works great for images, pdfs, too.

DVDRemaster Pro is an application which recompresses large DVDs so they can be burned on a standard DVD or converts them so they can be watched on your video iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, Apple TV and many others. DVDRemaster accommodates both novices and experts with its simple but yet powerful interface.

DVDRemaster Pro also allows you to extract raw data streams from your DVD. These can be reused in other applications.

Features:

• DVD backup made easy: From viewing your movies to selecting the languages you wish to keep and burning the final backup DVD, everything is built into a simple but yet powerful interface.
• Recompress with ease: No need to worry about complicated settings; everything is summarized into easy to use presets. Simply select a destination device and you are ready to go.
• Convert for video players: Watching your favorite movies and shows on the road using your video iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone or enjoying them at home on your Apple TV has never been easier.
• NEW - Automatically include movie information: Easily locate and classify movies in your library using titles, genres and many others. Finding the movie you are looking for is now a piece of cake.
• NEW - Prepare and execute multiple conversions: Never run out of movies to watch again. Prepare several conversion tasks ahead of time and let DVDRemaster execute them without supervision.
• NEW - Easily navigate between chapters: It is easier than ever to find scenes in a movie on your iPod, iPod Touch or iPhone. Thanks to the new chapter markers, you can jump from one chapter to another.

* This is the full Pro version. The upgrade (for existing users only) is available at the developers' site

MenuCalendarClock for iCal gives you instant access to your iCal calendars from a menu bar icon. A monthy calendar view with your iCal schedule is just a click away. A configurable clock is included as a free add-on.

NEW! On Mac OS X 10.5, full task management is included!

Most features are free to use, some require a registration. See company web site for details.

Features:

• Adds icon with current date and/or time to the menu bar with iCal schedule and 'to do' items as tool tip
• Shows each days iCal events as tool tip of each calendar day
• Shows daily/weekly/monthly schedule list
• Opens iCal by double-clicking on a date for editing
• System-wide hotkey to open/close calendar drawer
• Shows calendar week
• Lots of preferences to customise look and functionality
• Release versions are available in English, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Norwegian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and more.

The basic features can be used freely without strings attached, the advances features require a registration.

Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash and uninstall your applications.

Organize your files using a familiar rule interface. Filter on the file's name, type, date, the site or email address it came from and more. And do more than just file. You can set color labels, Spotlight keywords and comments and even archive files. Hazel also cleans, sporting options to clean out incomplete and duplicate downloads.

In addition, Hazel can manage your Trash for you, relieving you of having to empty it yourself.

All this is done automatically in the background allowing you to focus on your real work.

StoryMill introduces aspiring authors to multi-level writing methods of tracking characters, scenes, and locations, while professional writers will appreciate StoryMill's time-saving ability to oversee and manage the full creative process with Smart Views. Even visually and interactively display your story across time with StoryMill's timeline view. Built from the ground up for Mac OS X, StoryMill offers an innovative way to channel and fine tune the creative writing process. From inception to publication, writing a novel has never been easier.

Typinator... Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again? Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text?

Typinator boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and and auto-correcting typos and misspelled words.

Configuration is easy - You just define abbreviations and their replacement text or picture.

Usage is even easier - Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.

Drag-and-drop import from Textpander, TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me makes migration to Typinator a no-brainer.

Save your time and annoyance and let Typinator type repeating texts and pictures for you.

You can use Typinator to:

• quickly type greeting phrases
• set up a list of standard text fragments to be used in e-mail replies
• insert the current date and/or time in arbitrary formats with a few keystrokes
• Auto-correct your most frequent typos in all applications system-wide
• predefined sets for auto-correction, HTML, Filemaker functions
• Import snippets from other typing utilities, including Textpander, TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me
• "type" pictures, such as smilies or bullets
• insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type "->" to insert an arrow symbol), define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands
• quickly create templates for code fragments, if you are a programmer, and more

Art Text is an application to create high quality headings, web site graphics, buttons, logos and icons. Multi layer support turns Art Text into flexible tool to create complex graphics for web and print materials. Template Gallery provides over 300 ready made buttons, headings, logos and icons.

Use the result with iWork, iWeb, Microsoft Office, BeLight applications, and various other text edit and web design programs.

Quick video tour of Art Text available.

Note: People who purchased Art Text version 1 starting July 1st, 2008 are offered FREE license code for version 2. All other customers are offered to buy an upgrade to version 2 for $19.95.

Key Features:

• 300+ editable button, heading, logo and icon templates;
• Over 100 pre-designed styles to get you started;
• Collection of 600 vector icons;
• Over 245 shading materials provide ability to cover any object with a material - any object can get the glassy, plastic or metallic look, it is also possible to control the level of embossing;
• Option to fill and outline text or artwork with different colors, gradients or textures;
• Apply shadow and glow effects;
• Merge layers using one of the 30 blend modes;
• Warp text using 22 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines;
• Ability to export into a file or clipboard in PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG.

Neon Tango... Pixelated Warrior, Defender of the Bytes! Launch your cybership into battle against the forces of chaos across 50 stages of bitmapped treachery overflowing with glowing enemies and pulsating bosses. Conceived with a gorgeous minimalism, Neon Tango licks the shoot-em-up genre down to its chewy abstract center.

Get tricky by bouncing your shots off of walls and enemies as you charge up your cannon to deliver massive energy blasts. Dodge the forces of entropy by stopping time or activating your hyper thrusters. Each arcade-packed wave offers a brand new way to play, thanks to unique enemies and clever levels. State of the art OpenGL graphics and a killer soundtrack from Digital Droo, dazzle the senses, while the built-in online scoring lets you mock your friends as you beat their hi-scores like a Bulgarian circus monkey in Campaign, Survival and Fast Score modes.

If Chuck Norris had his action removed and hot-glued onto Jack Bauer, and then Mr. Bauer was blended into a protein shake, it would be called “The Neon Tango” and… it would be Delicious!!!

Today you can purchase WhatSize, Parallels Desktop, BannerZest, Sound Studio, Leap, DVDRemaster Pro, MenuCalendarClock iCal, Hazel, StoryMill, Typinator, Art Text, Neon Tango together as a bundle. Normally they cost $509.66, but you can buy them for only $471.72.

• Parallels Desktop: Run Windows, Linux, or other operating systems, discount available.
• BannerZest: Flash presentation software for pro and amateur web designers.
• Sound Studio: Audio recording and editing tool with automator Monbots.
• Leap: New Spotlight interface with tagging.
• DVDRemaster Pro: Duplicate, burn or convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone or Apple TV.
• WhatSize: Helps find out what files are taking up all your HD space.
• MenuCalendarClock iCal: Menu item calendar/clock with iCal integration.
• Hazel: Your personal Mac OS X housekeeper.
• StoryMill: Novel writing software.
• Typinator: Types repeating texts and pictures for you.
• Art Text: Create high quality headings, logos, icons, banners and buttons.
• Neon Tango: Psychedelic arcade shooter with thrilling action.