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Drive Genius 4
KEY FEATURES
Like any working machine, your Mac requires maintenance to keep it running smoothly. Drive Genius is the clear choice by Mac users in the know (including the Apple Genius Bar), and silently works to speed up, clean up, protect, and even bring your Mac back from the dead. Keep up-to-date on potential hard drive issues with Drive Genius' alert system--and see below for the epic list of features included.
Create a bootable secondary drive to easily repair your main hard drive w/ the new BootWell feature
Optimize & speed up your Mac for maximum performance
Alerts you of problems before they escalate into major issues
Find large files & duplicates; delete ones you don't need
Personalize, set custom icons & make drive identification easier
Measure the performance of your drive & check for hardware related problems
Check for possible file & folder corruption to prevent data loss
Repair most kinds of logical file & folder errors to prevent future critical problems
COMPATIBILITY
Mac OS X 10.8 or newer
1GB RAM minimum
For maintenance purposes, most Drive Genius 4 utilities work on the primary startup drive “live” with no need for a secondary startup drive. However all repair and recovery utilities require starting your computer from a secondary drive so they can have exclusive access to your primary drive.
PRODUCT SPECS
Version 4
SOFTWARE LICENSE DETAILS
Minor updates included
Length of access: lifetime
AfterShot Pro 2
KEY FEATURES
With unparalleled speed and power, AfterShot Pro 2 is an all-in-one RAW converter, photo editor, and high-speed photo manager. Edit one photo or a huge batch of photos at once, and enjoy a robust set of editing functions like exposure, color, and lighting adjustment tools. You may be a great photographer already, but AfterShot Pro 2 will take your work to new, amazing levels.
Apply color corrections, lens corrections & more
Utilize non-destructive editing so you can easily go back to an original copy
Take advantage of tools like cropping, straightening & noise removal
Easily access any photo w/ the powerful photo asset management
Seamlessly share images w/ output to web galleries, contact sheets & more
COMPATIBILITY
Mac OS X 10.7.3 or newer
PRODUCT SPECS
For more details on AfterShot Pro 2, click here.
PDFpen 7
KEY FEATURES
PDFpen has everything you need to power your productivity with seamless PDF editing. Fill out forms, electronically sign documents, change text, and more without needing the original document. You won't find a better price on the market for a quality PDF editor--now is the time to add PDFpen to your Mac app toolkit.
Add text, images, signatures & markup to your PDFs
Copy, edit & search text in scanned pages using OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Make changes & correct typos in the original text of a PDF
Export PDFs to Microsoft® Word format, opens in Pages
Erase & redact sensitive information
Store frequently-used signatures & images for reuse
Use Dropbox & iCloud to sync w/ PDFpen for iPad and iPhone
Proof OCR text from scanned documents
Search & replace and search & redact text
COMPATIBILITY
Requires Mac OS X 10.10 or 10.11
Older OS X versions also supported, contact Smile support with your receipt for details
PRODUCT SPECS
Version 7
Available in English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian & French
Mixtape Pro
KEY FEATURES
MixTape's robust set of tools lets you create, experiment, and publish your own mixes right from your computer screen. It integrates seamlessly with OS X and features a simple interface, despite being an extremely powerful program. With beat matching, envelope, and hi/lo controls, you'll be able to take your mixes from amateur to professional quality. And a ‘one click’ export into iTunes or straight onto the Web makes getting your mixes out into the music world simple.
Detects & adds tempo and beat matches to the music of your choosing
Plays tracks in sync w/ the 'snap to grid' UI
Polishes your mixes w/ a simple envelope
Drops bass or treble w/ the HiLo control
Allows you to visualize beats w/ the advanced spectrograms
Easily exports to iTunes or straight onto the Web without additional services
Lets you import & export uncompressed audio
Plays mixes live by letting you start a track & than continue to mix
COMPATIBILITY
Requires OS X 10.9.5 or later
Intel, 64-bit processor
MacX DVD Ripper Pro
KEY FEATURES
Watch your favorite DVD on your iPad (or other mobile device) without buying an additional digital copy thanks to this convenient software. MacX DVD Ripper is the fastest DVD ripper for Mac and even supports batch converting for multiple videos.
Convert DVDs to popular video/audio formats for convenient viewing
Decrypt copy-protected DVDs
Trim, crop, merge, add external subtitles, cut video clips/segments, crop frame size, combine separate movies titles into a single video file & add subtitles
Upload DVD videos or segments to YouTube
Adjust parameter settings
Extract audio & snapshot images from DVD
COMPATIBILITY
OS: OS 10.5 or later
Compatible inputs: the latest encrypted DVD, CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, commercial DVD, ISO image, DVDmedia, normal DVD
Compatible outputs:DVD ISO image, MPEG-2 (DVD), MKV, MP4, QT, MOV, M4V, FLV, H.264, MPEG4, AVI XviD/DivX, MTS, TS, M2TS, iTunes, iPod (iPod classic, iPod touch, iPod nano), iPhone (iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 5S/5C/5, iPhone 4S/4 and more), iPad, Apple TV 3, PSP, MP3, PNG, etc
Languages: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean
SOFTWARE LICENSE DETAILS
Version 4.5.8
Updates included for this version
BusyContacts
KEY FEATURES
Handwritten address books are a thing of the past, but digital contact lists tend to be disorganized and impossible to manage. BusyContacts takes matters into its own hands by making it incredibly simple to find and manage your contacts. Sync with your calendar, social media sites, and cloud services to turn your personal and professional relationships into a well-oiled machine.
Customize your views w/ single column or multi-column
Track activities associated with each contact including calendar events, emails & messages
Assign tags to each contact to easily filter contacts by tag (e.g. family, client, prospect, coworker, etc.)
Create Smart Filters based on certain conditions to easily find contacts
Sync w/ leading social networks including Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn
Integrate w/ BusyCal to link contacts to events & more
Sync w/ all leading cloud services including iCloud, Google, Exchange & more
Share address books w/ other BusyContacts users
COMPATIBILITY
Mac OS X 10.9 or later
iCloud, Google, Exchange or CardDAV server
Prizmo 3
KEY FEATURES
Prizmo is a powerful app that lets you scan, edit, and perform OCR on any type of document or image. Simply use your smartphone, camera, or image capturing device to scan a document, and Prizmo will support full editing capabilities. Even perform OCR in an industry-leading 40 languages. You can finally remedy typos and image imperfections without recreating an entire document from scratch.
Use the powerful image editor to enhance pictures
Add an unlimited number of pages into a document w/ multipage support
Use the OCR engine to move or reshape a portion of a page
Use OCR to edit & update text in 40+ languages
Store in-progress documents in the iCloud to access on any device
Easily share documents by email, w/ Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
COMPATIBILITY
Intel, 64-bit processor
Mac OS X 10.10 or later
PRODUCT SPECS
Version 3
MotionComposer
KEY FEATURES
Create amazing animations and interactive content, and run it on any computer, smartphone, or tablet with MotionComposer. Its unique technology automatically plays interactive content as either Flash® or HTML5 depending on the browser's compatibility - so no one misses out. Its clean interface, along with its simple-to-use feature, make it a top-notch application for any budding animator, with absolutely no coding required.
Effortlessly create beautiful animations in a clear user interface
Easily build a slide for each content state & choose your preferred styles to create an animation
Make sure your content plays on any browser w/ automatic Flash® & HTML5 determination
Seamlessly publish content to any computer, smartphone, or tablet
Ensure the absolute best performance of your content w/ optimized HTML5 code
COMPATIBILITY
Requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
1 GHz Intel-based Mac
1 GB of RAM
Flash® Player v10.0.1 or higher
Internet connection required for registration& online publishing
English, French, Portuguese
Dropzone 3
KEY FEATURES
Dropzone 3 is the faster, stronger, easier way to share files on your Mac. Simply drag a file onto the menu item, watch your fully customizable grid of destinations appear, and drop the file on the destination of choice. Whether you're installing an app, uploading a file to an FTP server or sharing your photos on Flickr, Dropzone will make your life a whole lot easier.
Drop files from any app & share them w/ easy AirDrop integration
Snap & share quick screenshots w/ anyone
Share images faster w/ Imgur integration
Copy & move files, launch applications, and share files fast
Run multiple tasks at once to be even more productive
Create your own personal cloud sharing solution w/ built-in Amazon S3 support
Install extra add-ons such as Dropbox, Bit.ly URL shortening, ImageShack & more
Stash files you know you'll need later
COMPATIBILITY
Requires OS X 10.8 or later
DaisyDisk
KEY FEATURES
When your hard drive reads full, make the smart choice and let DaisyDisk get rid of cumbersome, unnecessary files. DaisyDisk shows you what's taking up space with an interactive map, so you can spot unusually large files and remove them. Plus, with its fine-tuned scanning engine, DaisyDisk outperforms competing products in scan speed by up to 50%. It's no wonder it remains the best-in-class utility app of its kind. As they say: out with the old, in with the new.
“DaisyDisk is a beautiful disk space analyzer. It’s the preference of many Mac users. […] DaisyDisk is very fast and very pretty.” Lifehacker
Get an overview of all connected disks: Macintosh HD, Thunderbolt disk, flash, network storage & more
View all data updated in real time, so you can gauge how much room you currently have
See all of your files & folders as a visual interactive map
Locate unusually large files, preview the content & delete if not needed
Scan your disks extremely quickly
Save on purchasing more external storage or cloud space
Easily get started w/ the simple interface
COMPATIBILITY
OS X 10.6 or later
English, German, French, Italian & Russian