We’re starting a series of preview screencasts for ImageFramer version 3. Each screencast will focus on a specific feature of ImageFramer 3. Of course, you can find hints to other features, which are not discussed, simply by looking at the user interface.

The first screencast is about multiple document support in ImageFramer 3. See the screencast on Apparent Software’s Facebook page and don’t forget to “Like” us to be to receive updates about the screencasts and other Apparent Software news.

ImageFramer has entered grace period for updates. What this means is that everyone who purchased ImageFramer after July 1st 2010 will get free upgrade to version 3 when it goes out.

Why is this good? First and foremost, ImageFramer 3 standard version will be more expensive than current ImageFramer Personal license. That’s one good reason. Secondly, there’s nothing to loose – you get to use ImageFramer right now and don’t have to worry about upgrade pricing.

So go and buy ImageFramer right now!

New ImageFramer is the next scheduled update of ImageFramer with the following changes:

• New Frames: Added 5 new frames to “Bronze” set in “Real” collection. They appear at the top of the list.
• Reduced download size by about 7MB from 2.4.8 by reducing graphics overhead without affecting quality.

As always, either auto-update or download from http://www.apparentsoft.com/imageframer/download

Blast 1.6 answers many of the requests brought forward by our users. Your suggestions make Blast better each time. Blast now has a new menu icon:

Here are the release notes for Blast 1.6:

• NEW: Blast window can now be resized vertically. A menu item can also reset window height to default.
• NEW: Added titles for sidebar items. Also increased its width.
• NEW: Made files inside packages not visible.
• NEW: Split show Folders and show Applications options.
• NEW: Can now rename files (from right-click menu)
• NEW: Modified menu icon to be more in line with the theme and highlighted correctly.
• NEW: Added “Return to top” option. If you prefer, you can ask Blast to always go to the most recent file when the window opens, instead of keeping last position.
• NEW: Made highlighting of selected item lighter.
• NEW: Hide folder and application kinds buttons if user selected not to track them
• NEW: Show about window attached to the icon, on first launch, to help new users find Blast’s menu bar icon.
• NEW: Added help image to default sidebar. This is only available for new users. Help image can always be accessible from the menu.
• FIX: Handle close to screen edge situation, which made Blast’s window go off screen.

The new Cashculator 1.2.2 adds support for switching databases which are located in different folders. This allows using multiple copies of Cashculator on different Macs and share the same database, for example, with the famous Dropbox service.

This also opens the possibility to have multiple Cashculator databases and switch between them. For example, you might want to split your business and personal databases, if you share the business database.

To switch to another existing database, in Cashculator’s preferences you change the database location like previously. But now, if the selected folder already contains a database, in additional to “Cancel” and “Overwrite” commands, you have a new option: “Use existing database”. If you click it, Cashculator will immediately restart itself with the database in the selected folder.

Other changes in the release include:

• NEW: Database backups are now always saved in subfolder of the folder where your database is and not always in “/Library/Application Support/cashculator/Backups”. In conjunction with the ability to to load different databases from different folders, you’ll have separate backups for each database. Also, this allows you to better control the backup process of your database backups and in security aspect, if you keep your Cashculator database in a secured volume.
• NEW: Added context menu to scenarios. Now you can right click on a scenario to access common function.
• BUG FIX: negative numbers can now be entered in reconcile table’s starting balances.

As always, use auto-update in your current Cashculator copy or download from http://www.apparentsoft.com/cashculator/download