Weekend Review: this week's software

Grab a cup of coffee and get your downloading mice ready ladies and gents; this week's software review is coming at you:

Shareware

• AppZapper 1.5: minor fixes and improvements

• ChatFX: spice up your iChat video conferences

• TextExpander 1.3 (formerly Textpander): an essential utility gets even better

• QuarkXPress 7 (yawn): but the Universal is still in beta

• SubEthaEdit 2.5: the much loved collaborative text editor and code-ninja tool receives AppleScript-ability, bug fixes

• Videator: be careful when using it to spice up your videos

• iComment 4.1: maintenance release and compatibility with iWeb 1.1.x

• DivX 6.5: Universal (and free) player along with a retail price encoder for indie video codec

Donationware/Freeware

• Bricksmith (donationware): virtual legos on your Mac. I dare you to name something cooler

• Safari Tidy (free): plug-in to check sites for XHTML compliance

• CoreDuoTemp 0.8 (free): maintenance fix for utility to keep track of temp, CPU usage and frequency on Intel Macs

• MappingService (donationware): get a map from any app

• SmackBook (free): hilarious hack for multi-desktop management utility

• Proxi 1.0 (free): broader app support for application automation utility from Griffin

Open Source

• Maintenance 3.5: minor updates to fantastic Automator action/AppleScript

• Password Assistant: hook into Keychain Access to easily create complicated passwords

• Books: feature-rich book catalogging

Free Updates

• iWeb 1.1.1: hopefully those publishing woes have been vanquished

• Xcode 2.3: Apple's premiere code-ninja tool receives enhancements and bug fixes

• Logic Express 7.2.1: maintenance release

Universal Binary

• Delibar 0.8 (donationware): My personal favorite del.icio.us menubar bookmark utility