SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - SIMPLEMOVIEX & IGTD

Hi All, Key Combination of the Day Option-Drag Holding down Option and dragging an item or group of items in the Finder copies the items to the new location. If you release the mouse button in the same location, the items are duplicated (with the word "copy" appended to the name). Shareware of the Day: SimpleMovieX - Mac OS X movie editor. I record TV programs, then I remove all the commercials in one shot. It's fast and clean. With SimpleMovieX, to search the commercials inside the movie is easy. The accurate timeline will do a good job marking the segments to remove. Saving takes only a few minutes thanks to native support of most popular formats. See it in Action I have tons of DVDs with music concerts, and I want to split them into songs, then put them in iTunes. I used Chapters to mark the beginning of each song. All individual songs were then cut apart in one shot with the "Split into movies" function, and after that I just added them to iTunes et voila. Adaptive Timeline Always sharp, even in very long movies, thanks to timeline zoom. Excellent control with keyboard and mouse. Keyframe indicator This widget will flash when you are exactly on a keyframe. The sticky mode will make navigation from keyframe to keyframe easy. Batch Converter Easy to use, just pick the files in the browser or drag them from the Finder. Choose from a variety of formats and bitrates. You'll not run out of disk space thanks to the disk gauge, and the time prediction will help you organizing your day. Very big files support SimpleMovieX goes well beyond QuickTime, it supports MPEG files beyond 4GB and AVI files beyond 1GB, 2GB and 4GB (multi RIFF). Audio Synchronization Audio Waveform displayed in overlay to help locating cuts and context changes. Resynchronize Audio easily with arrows and sync indicator.     Friendly Application crash recovery: After a crash (yes, it happens...) you will retrieve your unsaved documents ! You'll never run out of disk space in the middle of a saving operation. Just choose the file name, format and do Save. Check for update Check new version upon request or on every application launch. SimpleMovieX talks to Aero Quartet website and tells you whether a new version is available. Internet Download movies from URLs. Support for Google Video .gvi files, instantly converted to regular avi format. Top Features: Native Editing - Most popular file formats mov, mpeg, avi and iPod mp4, are natively supported, so you can edit and save them in a breeze without loss of quality. More Chapters - Add Chapters to give direct access to sequences inside the movie, to create compilations of movies or songs. More Searchable Movies - Easily find a sequence inside a long movie with Thumbnail view and Audio Waveform. More info and download link here: <http://www.aeroquartet.com/SimpleMovieX/info.html> Freeware of the Day: iGTD - Powerful GTD-like organizer for Mac. What is it for? You are a busy person, aren't you? And there's an easy way to track all things that have to be done... and to get those things done! iGTD takes some concepts from Getting Things Done methodology and makes them easy to understand and use in your every day life. Organize your life by contexts. Just divide your tasks by contexts - where they have to be done? At home? At your office? At laptop? At any time you can access the Internet? Organize your life by projects - hierarchically Some of your tasks are related to your life projects. If you're a student, divide your school tasks by subjects. If you're a developer, organize your tasks and ideas by your software projects. You can also treat projects as categories for your tasks. What else do you need to know about a task? iGTD will let you: save some text note task's due date set task's recurrence enter some tags for the task or even link a contact related to this task from Apple's Address Book Focus on your current tasks! Just flag them! Hit spacebar to mark a task as flagged or simply click the flag column. You can access your current flagged tasks quickly by switching the list mode with the switcher. Manage your future tasks with 'maybe' feature. Want to save a concept? A task which you may consider doing in future? Just mark it as maybe-task. Click the action button in first tasks column and choose 'Mark as maybe'. You can have a quick view of your maybe tasks by simply switching the list mode. Task has been done? Waiting for some results? Tell iGTD you're waiting for a task! By default you treat your tasks as to-do's. But sometimes you're not only completing your tasks. You may also wait for some results - i.e. for a reply for an important e-mail you've sent to your business partner or friend. Don't forget about it - use the "wait for task" option. You can have a quick view of tasks you're waiting for by using the new switcher. You won't forget it if you drag it. Now in multiple mode! You can drag all your browser links or Finder files to iGTD window. New task will be added immediately - with an adequate link. Just click 'open' - and there you go! You can also drag your Address Book contacts. Copy and paste - it works! Copy your URLs, your Finder files, your Apple Mail e-mails. And paste them to iGTD - there's no better way to integrate with Mac OS X. Awesome keyboard support It's a little bit unhumble but I don't know many GTD utilities which allow the user to act so quickly using the keyboard. More to this - here. The magic of F-keys! Just press F5 (or any other defined F-key) when browsing your new mail. The selected message will be added to your inbox - together with subject, sender and content! Trick works only with MailTags 2.0 installed. Just press F5 when browsing the web with Safari, Firefox or Opera. The current webpage will be added to your Inbox - together with the link and (Safari only) selected text of the page. Just press F5 when having a file selected in Finder. Selected file will be added to your Inbox! Quicksilver - why not? :-) Together with Growl! Thanks to beta release of Quicksilver plugin you can throw your text thougts or files to the iGTD inbox. More features coming soon! You will also get notified of new actions added to iGTD with Growl notifications! Synchronize your tasks with your mobile or PDA! Thanks to the integration with Mac OS X iCal and iSync you can easily synchronize tasks from selected contexts with your mobile device. Stop putting down your shopping ideas on stickies - iGTD will help you. It can synchronize your tasks to iCal. Moreover, it will run the iSync to push and pull your tasks from/to the mobile device. Have an idea? Well, there's an iGTD icon on the system menu bar. Turn on the menu bar item of iGTD in the preferences panel. You will be able to add a new task to the given context or project. You can also open any browser or file link quickly. Or even make iGTD synchronize your tasks with your mobile device. Process your task inbox and review your tasks regularly. As GTD says, you are supposed to review your plans and tasks on a daily and weekly basis. Use the process/review inspector. Just press the @ key when browsing through your tasks or use any 'Process...' or 'Review...' button. Inspector window will appear. As you can see, you can do almost everything about your task - with just a keystroke or two. Search your tasks. Quickly! No need to wait. No need to browse your tasks. Just type in any word which has to be found - you can search names, task notes, task tags or contacts. iGTD will find it. I promise. More info and download link here: <http://bargiel.home.pl/iGTD/> Regards... Gordon