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Software Watchlist – Mac App Updates

Adam Engst 2 comments

DEVONthink and DEVONnote 2.2.1

Fixes various Lion-related bugs, along with a few other minor changes. (All updates are free. DEVONthink Pro Office, $149.95 new; DEVONthink Professional, $79.95 new; DEVONthink Personal, $49.95 new; DEVONnote, $24.95 new)

Adam Engst No comments

TextExpander 3.3.2

The text expansion utility fixes delimiter, key press, and cursor handling in Safari 5.1, and retains proper font sizes when expanding in Microsoft Word. ($34.95 new, free update, 5.7 MB)

Adam Engst No comments

BBEdit 10.0.1

Bug fix update to the powerful text editor. ($39.99 new, free update, 14.3 MB)

Adam Engst 11 comments

Skype 5.3

The Internet telephony program gains Lion compatibility and support for HD video calls. (Free, 23.3 MB)

Marco Tabini 4 comments

1Password 3.7.2

The password-management utility now works better with Safari 5.1, provides better diagnostic reports, and improves error handling. ($39.99 new, free update, 17.1 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

ExpanDrive 2.3

Introduces support for Lion in the utility for making remote storage services appear like local disks on your Desktop. ($39.95 new, free update, 11.4 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

OmniOutliner 3.10.2

The popular outlining tool gains full compatibility with Lion’s Auto Save, Versions, Resume, and full-screen features. ($39.99/$69.99 new, free update, 16.4 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

EagleFiler 1.5.5

The document management and archiving software improves compatibility with Mac OS X Lion, adds the capability to automatically fetch new content from the Web, and can specify a custom stylesheet when exporting Web pages to PDF. ($40 new, free update, 11.4 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

MacScan 2.9

Adds compatibility with Mac OS X Lion and Safari 5.1 to the anti-malware program, along with a preference to quit running Web browsers when a scheduled scan runs. ($29.99 new, free update, 5.6 MB)

Marco Tabini 4 comments

Dragon Dictate 2.5

The dictation software gains a new “numbers” mode, Facebook and Twitter commands, and Dragon Remote for iOS users, along with the capability to automatically sleep when not in use, new auto-formatting options, voice training stories, and improved compatibility with Microsoft Word 2011. ($179.99 and up new, free update, 13.5 MB)

Adam Engst 5 comments

QuickTime 7.7 (Leopard-only)

Closes a number of security holes when running in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. (Free, 68.85 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

Default Folder X 4.4.3

Corrects a problem that causes some Carbon apps (such as BBEdit 10 and Filemaker Pro 11) to crash on Mac OS X Lion; addresses issues with full-screen apps. ($34.95 new, free update, 10.6 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

Path Finder 5.7.6

Improves compatibility with Mac OS X Lion in a variety of ways. ($39.95 new, free update, 18.3 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

DEVONagent Pro 3.0

Introduces summaries, digest, ranking, and more natural phrase matching of search results; makes it easier to create search plug-ins; and adds new scanners and plug-ins for numerous search engines and document types. ($49.95 new, upgrades start at $25, 22.5 MB)

Marco Tabini No comments

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1

Adds support for backing up to and from network volumes, folder-to-folder backups, and restoring directly to the startup disk, along with compatibility with Mac OS X Lion’s full disk encryption. (Free update, 5.6 MB)