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OS X Utilities Updates: X-Assist; ProcessGuard; GMan!; more

OS X Utilities Updates: X-Assist; ProcessGuard; GMan!; more

CNET staff
X-Assist 0.1 brings back useful features like OS 9 windowing mechanism back to OS X (where all windows are switched back when a window is clicked on, instead of just the window being clicked on, like in OS X). It also has support for an Application Menu, customizable user defined menus (like in Apple Menu), and a plugin mechanism to support 3rd party plugins (MP3 player and Volume control plugins included).

ProcessGuard 3.0 lists all running processes and shows some fundamental information about them. It provides functions to quit, activate and to restart processes. Additional ProcessGuard can places a small global floating window with the app's memory usage.

GMan! 1.0b1 is a graphical MAN page viewer for Mac OS X. As you scroll through a list of all the available commands, a short description of the command is displayed. With a click of the mouse you get the entire documentation for the command.

ZTerm 1.1b4 is a terminal emulator that lets you connect through serial ports and modems. It supports< various file transfer protocols. It does not support telnet or SSH.

Contact Keeper X 3.0.9 is an OS X only application that allows you to store contact information in a database.