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Utilities Updates: AppleShare Update for free; Peek-A-Boo; GoClick;

Utilities Updates: AppleShare Update for free; Peek-A-Boo; GoClick;

CNET staff
2 min read
AppDisk; more AppleShare IP Update 6.2 is now online as a free update (possibly in response to criticism of Apple's previously announced policy of charging $500 for it!).

Peek-a-Boo 1.5 is the latest version of this excellent process manager. "Its efficiency is improved, and certain processes that would not respond to earlier versions of Special Technology now respond admirably."

Terry Morse GoClick 3.0b6 "has been released as a public beta. This software is a major upgrade from Myrmidon, creating very sophisticated Web pages while maintaining Myrmidon's trademark one-click simplicity. It fully supports the latest HTML and Cascading Style Sheet standards."

AppDisk 1.7.3 is the latest version of this RAM Disk utility. It fixes an incompatibility with Mac OS 8.6.

iRemember 1.0.1 tracks web pages you have visited. It "indexes all of the words in every web page you visit."

Bookmark Booster 2.5.1 is is a "freeware tool to expand your browser bookmarks. The new version contains a lot of new and updated links and is 100% compatible with Mac OS 8.6."

AutoShare 4.0 is a freeware Macintosh list server and auto-responder. The update "introduces the built-in CGI request handling of subscriber administration to be used with Macintosh web server software, a number of new utility AppleScript commands, support for the Rebound software plus minor improvements and bug fixes." (Thanks, Mikael Hansen.)

Sonnet has released Crescendo v1.3.6 Beta 2 driver. It adds "Mac OS 8.6 support with Crescendo G3/L2 processor upgrade cards." (Thanks, Peter MacLaren and Dave Ahrens.)

OpenUsing 1.2"is useful when you want to open a file using an application other than the files creator."

The Unmounter 3.2 "automatically unmounts unused shared disks and allows the user to remount them easily. This saves network resources and speeds up the Finder."

Mizer 1.5.2 is yet another update to this web page optimizing utility.

More File Info 2.4is a "contextual menu plug-in for MacOS 8. It displays the additional information of the selected file (type, creator, resource fork size, data fork size, short version number, lock status, memory requirements, etc.)."

PowerBar Pro 3.2 is out.

Password Protect Folders 1.4.8 is out.

Sherlock Menu 2.0.2 is now available.

TextConverter 1.1 "converts text files from PC to Mac and back."

The Associator 1.0 has been released. "Drag any PC file onto The Associator. The Associator will compare the extension with a list and assign the appropriate type and creator codes."

TopVolume 2.0 "adds a volume bar to your screen, that follows you everywhere."

LetterRip Pro 3.0.5 is out.

FastEmailCheck Pro 1.1.1 has been released.

Planet Earth 2.0.5 fixes a bug that would not allow the automatic cloud downloads to be disabled.