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Utilities Updates: Netscape Communicator; Drop Drawers; MP3 Rage; MSN Messenger; more

Utilities Updates: Netscape Communicator; Drop Drawers; MP3 Rage; MSN Messenger; more

CNET staff
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Netscape Communicator 4.7.8 is out. No word on what has changed or improved in the Mac OS version.

    Update: The release notes for this release are here. (Thanks, Derrick Yamaura)

Drop Drawers 1.5.7 is a utility that creates floating drawers to store text, URLs, pictures, and more. This version adds theme tabs with custom colors, page up, down, home and end keys are recognized, remove volumes containing aliases in clip drawers are no longer mounted without warning, and dragging items out no longer mistakenly reorders the items within the drawer.

MP3 Rage 3.6 is a Gnutella/Napster client, MP3 tag editor, player, and catalog utility. This release adds support for ID3v2.4 tags, stripping nonstandard characters when renaming files, and support for live window resizing with Mac OS X.

MSN Messenger 2.0 is Microsoft's instant chat messaging tool. No word on what has changed in this release.

MTML Sub-Browser 2.0.3 is a relational text gathering system for the Internet. This version adds improved documentation, HTML safeties for markup that does not render correctly, and small improvements to the user interface.

Guro 2.0.0 is a tool to add lyrics to MP3 ID3 tags. This release adds a playlist, effects, and allows a one month trial before registering.

Chaos Antidote 1.1.1 is a tool to clean up hard drive clutter. This release adds the ability to specify which kinds of files are processed.

McHurricane 5.0 is a hurricane and storm tracking utility. This release adds the ability to download advisories from the National Hurricane Center directly into McHurricane and a new track display.

XLR8 MACh Speed Control 2.5.0 is the latest version of the cache control for CPU cards. This version requires a serial number in order to operate and also supports non-XLR8 cards.