App development has taken off in the last few years, making it increasingly difficult to stay on top of all the latest versions. To help all of you out, we here at MacNN are dedicated to sorting through new update releases, and highlighting some of the important ones, as well as showcasing apps that we find to be interesting. Today, we are showcasing a big discount on Mail plug-in
SendLater, as well as detailing updates to font manager RightFont, display tool f.lux, backup utility BackupList+, disk tool SoftRAID, bookkeeping software TinyBooks Pro, and MKV toolset MKVtoolnix.
Featured App of the Day
Expand the capability's of Apple's Mail app with today's deal on
SendLater. Currently on sale for $10, SendLater adds an extra button to Mail that lets users create a schedule for when e-mails should be sent. When scheduling an e-mail, users can select a specific date and time for the message to send, or choose a set time distance from the current time.
App Update
RightFont v2.2.1
$40
RightFont can help a user find and manage all of the fonts on their computer. The software integrates directly into both Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch, providing quick access to fonts while working on projects. The v2.2.1 update fixes an issue where Postscript fonts could not be selected when trying to import fonts. Overall performance and stability has also been improved.
Download - 7.5MB
f.lux v36.5
Free
f.lux is a small tool that can change the color of a computer's display depending on the time of day. Users can simply tell the app what kind of lighting they have in their room, along with where they live in the world, and all necessary settings will then be applied automatically. This minor release improves compatibility with OS X El Capitan.
Download - 1.4MB
BackupList+ v8.5.2
Free
BackupList+ is a backup utility that can create entire system clones and incremental snapshot backups. Within the app users can create a list of important folders and files that should be saved to an external drive, as well as set an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule for making backups. The v5.8.2 update is now compatible with OS X El Capitan.
Download - 4.1MB
SoftRaid v5.1
$179
SoftRAID can be used to create and manage disk arrays. Version 5.1 now users only the primary disks for reading from mirror (RAID 1) and RAID 1+0 volumes when the primary disks are SSDs and some of the secondary disks are HDDs. The update will also now indicate if a disk has TRIM enabled, as well as give users the ability to resize a SoftRAID volume even if there are other volumes on the same set of disks.
Download - 39.8MB
TinyBooks Pro v8.1.1
$79
TinyBooks Pro is a single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system designed for the Mac. Users simply need to enter their expenses and income and the software will perform all other necessary actions, including generating quarterly and full-year reports. Along with improvemtenis to the Monthly Notes feature, the latest update also offers compatibility with OS X El Capitan.
Download - 4.1MB
MKVtoolnix v8.5.1
Free
MKVtoolnix provides users with a set of tools that can be used to create, alter, and inspect MKV video files. In v8.5.1 several track properties are now shown as columns in the tree for better distinction between tracks. A crash that occurred when loading corrupted job settings has also been fixed, as has an issue with updating track headers.
Download - 18.1MB