Utilities Updates: DragThing; FontBuddy; DFA Doubler; Network Assistant; SVG Viewer; more

DragThing 4.1 is an update to this launcher dock application for Mac OS 8/9 as well as X. Major new features include: Enhanced visuals with the ability to draw textures and pictures in the background of docks; Unicode and long filename support throughout the application; Significant performance improvements.

FontBuddy 2.2 is the latest version of this font viewer that shows all the characters of any font. This version fix a crash related to non-roman fonts. Header text and alignment in Index printout can be change in the printing preferences.

Disk First Aid Doubler 1.0.1 is an extension that eliminates the 2-minute delay after the Startup Disk Check under Mac OS 8.5 and later. It eliminates the need for the roll-your-own ResEdit patch covered here yesterday.

Free Backup 2.0 backs up any files and folders on any disks to any location(s), in Finder format or StuffIt archives.

Iconographer 2.1 is a fully-featured 32-bit icon editor. This new release is now Carbonized and runs natively on Mac OS X. The Mac OS X icon format (.icns) files is now fully supported.

Apple Network Assistant 4.0.4 The update improves performance for copies performed via the Copy Items and Copy Hard Disk commands to user workstations when there is an AirPort Base Station between the administrator workstations and the user's workstation.

Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0b1 is a plug-in that your Web browser can use to render Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

BatControls 1.5b2 lets you schedule events (reminder messages, shell commands, and launch files) to execute when you want. "Ever have a project where you had to copy or move a file every two hours, after about 4 hours you get tired of copying or moving. Let the computer do the work with BatControls." There is a Mac OS 8/9 version as well as a separate shell version for OS X.

iAddress 4.0.5 is a PIM, URL Manager, Text Clippings Server and Filemanager all rolled into one application. The update fixes a minor cosmetic issue when used with system 8.5 or later.

MarkzTools 8.1 will salvage or repair corrupted document files, as well as open higher version documents such as opening a QuarkXPress 4.0 document while inside a QuarkXPress 3.3 or below.

Norton AntiVirus definition file for September is now available.

Virex definition file for September is now available.

MPCalc 3.0 is a freeware RPN calculator with over forty scientific functions.