Metafy today announced the latest Anthracite Web Mining Desktop toolkit software release — version 1.4 — with new capabilities including SOAP and XPath support, available now for Apple’s new Intel-based Macs. Additional improvements include a log file, configurable default string encoding, new sample documents (more than 60 examples included) and a dozen bug fixes. Anthracite 1.4 is priced at US$99, and a free demo version is available.