April 2009 Software Closet
 Option 1: One Big File:
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JAlbum 8.2.6
If you ever need to quickly upload a bunch of images for people to see in a Web browser, try JAlbum (free). Just drag and drop images or folders onto JAlbum and click the "Make album" button. You can then upload the resulting folder to a Web server or MobileMe iDisk for anyone to see, or copy it to a CD. The available themes are impressive, and it takes just a minute or two to make a large album. See examples at www.jalbum.net.
Licensed 1.0
Licensed (free) is a very simple utility that lets you keep track of your software licenses. It has fields for Manufacturer, Product, Version, License code, Owner, Email address, Date, and a field for Notes. Its search field lets you find any text, and a handy button lets you copy the Owner or the License code for pasting into an installer. Simple and effective.
PiXel Check 1.2
PiXel Check (free) lets you to test any LCD display for dead pixels. It displays various bold colors, and can cycle through all of them automatically for you.
CMYK Atlas
Henryk Jursz's CMYK Atlas (free) is a 120-page PDF containing 17,280 color swatches of various combinations of CMYK inks. It also includes pages of mixes for C+K, M+K, Y+K, Y+C and Y+M. You can print a few pages to see how your desktop color printer is behaving, or to copy accurate CMYK builds into other applications. There are two versions: a 9.45" x 9.45" layout with a beautiful gray background, or a simpler A4 layout.
Realistic CD & DVD Artwork
Creating your own realistic, professional-looking artwork for a CD or DVD, and their labels and cases, can be very difficult. Fortunately, you can download free, layered Photoshop files at www.deviantart.com. Get the CD/DVD Label at www.tinyurl.com/dh2764.
Get the DVD Case Inlay at www.tinyurl.com/c5px43.
Get the CD Jewel Case (with reflection!) at www.tinyurl.com/dzzqas.
Acronyms
Acronyms is a free XTension from Vision's Edge for QuarkXPress 6, 7 or 8 that searches your Layout for uppercase acronyms and replaces them with lower case Small Caps. For example, PDF becomes pdf, styled in Small Caps. You can control the minimum and maximum number of uppercase characters it should consider an acronym. And if you don't trust it yet, you can optionally confirm each conversion. We have used Acronyms to convert the hundreds of ugly ALL CAPS acronyms to pretty Small Caps on the pages of each issue of Design Tools Monthly for many, many years.
Cursor Position
Cursor Position is a free XTension from Durrant Software for QuarkXPress 4, 5, 6, and 7 that provides a small palette (the same height as the measurements palette) that shows the current or most recent position of the text cursor, relative to the top left point of the text box that contains the cursor, or from the page margins or page origin. In addition, it also shows any vertical space added to a line by the vertical justification routine, it remembers the last position within any text box, and it can change its measurement display to whatever number system (points, picas, etc.) is in use. It's useful for many things, especially when creating Web pages in QuarkXPress.
Moniker 8
Moniker is a free XTension from Vision's Edge for QuarkXPress 4/5/6/7/8 that makes it really easy to add AppleScript names to objects on a QuarkXPress page. This lets you call items by name in your scripts, instead of using a tedious list of properties, and to edit the names given to items by QuarkXPress.
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