Year: 2009

SmileOnMyMac has updated PDFPen
(http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html), its PDF editing
and form-filling tool for Mac OS X, to version 4.5. The upgrade —
free to registered users of PDFPen 4.x — incorporates the Nuance
Communications OmniPage Capture SDK OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) engine for improved accuracy when performing OCR on
scanned text documents.

PDFpen uses version 15.5 of the OmniPage OCR engine. It replaces the
Tesseract open source OCR engine in PDFpen on Intel-based Macs.

Stick Software has announced version 1.4 of Jiggler
(http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html), a freeware
utility for Mac OS X. The new version is compatible with Mac OS X
10.6 (“Snow Leopard”).

Jiggler keeps your Mac awake through those lengthy tasks when it
would rather fall asleep, by jiggling your mouse periodically. This
means no more having to open System Preferences to change your sleep
time and your screensaver delay, only to have to change them back
again at the end.

Jiggler is Universal Binary, so runs natively on both PowerPC and
Intel Macs.

Stand By Soft has released RationalPlan 3.15.4
(http://www.rationalplan.com/), an update of the project management
software application developed to assist project managers in creating
plans, tracking progress, allocating resources, managing budgets and
analyzing workload, now going international and planning translation
in several languages. Version 3.15.4 sports an increase in its
execution speed, more task types, and interface improvements.

Until now users could handle tasks that have only fixed units for the
assigned resources.

REAL Software (http://realsoftware.com), creator of REALbasic, a
cross-platform development tool for creating software for Mac,
Windows and Linux, is now shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 4. This
release offers 97 improvements and 39 new features, including a new
report editor, which will be included in all versions of REALbasic,
and build automation, a feature exclusive to REAL Studio.

The new report editor allows developers to visually create a layout
for printing by dragging and dropping labels, fields, images and
more.