Software News: by Cletus™

Gideon Greenspan has released Classic Menu for Mac OS X which "provides an Apple menu just like the old Mac OS. Put aliases of your favorite items in the Classic Menu Items folder and they will appear in a menu on the right edge of the menu bar." Full instructions for use and installation are given on the page.

Bob Friede is pointing everyone in the direction of Fractastic! Written by Jake Olefsky, Fractastic is described on the page as: "a full screen fractal drawing program that can draw the famous Mandelbrot, Julia and Newton equations among others. It also allows one to modify a variety of parameters and save fractals to trade with your friends. The coolest thing is that because this is full screen, the images make perfect Desktop Pictures! I have added this to the Software Archive.

Alvar sent me an e-mail telling me to check out an Ambrosia Software Web Board forum post concerning news about the Gadget/Ready Software snafu. The article posted is from TidBits, which I myself subscribe to, but am way behind in reading. The article pulls together all the known information and testing done on the Gadget Software releases, determining that it did in fact "rip off" other software authors. It makes for good reading and does question the validity of Ready Software as a legitimate site versus merely a Gadget spin off. Only time will tell.

Themes and Schemes news:

The Kaleidoscope Theme Archive has updated with 14 new and 13 updated schemes. Crayon OS, E-Box 5 and Stained Glass strike my fancy this week!

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