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OS X Utilities Updates: PocketDock; hfspax; more

OS X Utilities Updates: PocketDock; hfspax; more

CNET staff
PocketDock 2.13 is a utility to organize and launch applications, documents, web links, and email addresses. The update is a maintenance release that fixes a bug in version 2.12 that could prevent PocketDock from remembering window locations and sizes.

hfspax 1fc3 is a replacement backup tool for pax. The archive tool that has full support for resource forks, Finder info, OS X permissions, and the whole richness of OS X files. It now includes some new command line options. For example: -k now works with resource forks and Finder info. This option prevents you from overwriting existing files, and is therefore valuable for many incremental and partial unpacking uses.

Midnight Commander 4.5.51 is a "Unix file manager and shell, useful to novice and guru alikes. Being a console application, it emulates look and feel of the Norton Commander. A new GNOME frontend is currently under development."

Tenon Xtools 1.04 is a full implementation of the X Windows system running on Mac OS X. Among the new features in this version is enhanced ease-of-use via Keychain support for secure shell, support of 8-bit applications and enhanced rootless display.