SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - ART TEXT & IBACKUP

Hi All, Key Combination of the Day Command-Shift-I in Safari Pressing -Shift-I (Command-Shift-I) in Safari creates a new message in Mail with a link to the current web page. The page title is placed in the e-mail's subject. Shareware of the Day: Art Text - Where text becomes an art. Art Text is an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons. The program implements the latest Mac OS X technologies which allow you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic. Use the result with iWork, Microsoft Office, BeLight applications and other programs. Create more compelling business presentations, brochures, flyers, postcards, business cards and Web sites with the program. Pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, shading materials and other advanced visual effects make Art Text a powerful and intuitive program, which is a great example of delivering Mac OS X technologies to everyone. Not only professionals, but anyone, who wants to make his text work look attractive, will find a use for the program. Key Features: 80+ pre-designed styles to get you started; Text and special artwork content (about 460 pictograms) as a source; Shading Pro tool (ability to cover/shade anything with shading material — any object can get the glassy, plastic or metallic look, it is also possible to add the effect of smooth or rough surface to any of the objects); Option to fill and outline text or artwork with different colors, gradients or textures; Apply shadow and glow effects; Ability to combine text with background image; Bend text using 22 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines; Ability to export into a file or clipboard in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG or other formats. More info and download link here: <http://www.belightsoft.com/products/arttext/overview.php> Freeware of the Day: iBackup - A simple to use backup/restore utility. iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders and applications. Further, it uses plugins to backup your settings like the dock, deskop picture, time, firewall, bluetooth and other system preferences. It is also able to backup Application Settings. You can add, delete and edit these plugins. Easy to use: Look and feel like the Finder in column view     Profiles / Backup sets: iBackup is able to handle different sets of backups, they are called profiles in iBackup Make, edit and delete as many profiles as you need Set different options for every profile     Scheduled backups: Tell iBackup to run scheduled backups daily or weekly of the selected profiles     More features: Smart Folders Tell iBackup to connect to a server (afp or smb) Run a script before and/or after a backup Add the current date to the backup folder name Set a maximum of backup folder in the specified path Use archives: make cpio, cpgz or zipped backups Run backups with administrator privileges Every profile has its own settings     Plugins: iBackup use plugins (xml files) to backup system and application preferences System Preferences - Address Book, Automator, Dashboard, DVD Player, Fonts, Garage Band, iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, iPod, iSync, iTunes, iWork, Keychains, Mail, Phones, Printers, Safari, Stickies, System Preferences, Widgets, ... Application Preferences - Adium, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Apple Works, Battle for Wesnoth, Camino, Chess, ClamXav, Cyberduck, Filemaker, Firefox, Gimp, Google Earth, Graphic Converter, iBackup, iCab3, iClock, iSnip, JBidWatcher, MacJournal, Max, Microsoft Office 2004, MPEGStreamclip, MPlayer OSX, NeoOffice, NeoOffieJ, NetNewsWire, Nvu, Opera, OSXnews, QuickTime 7, RealPlayer, Senuti, Skype, Smultron, SNES9x, Stuffit, svnX, Taco HTML Edit, TextMate, Thunderbird, Vienna, VLC, ... More info and download link here: <http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/> Regards... Gordon