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Improve your writing with a script development toolset. Craft archetypal themed characters and plots with psychological principles to describe the motivations and interactions between different characterizations of people. Keep a database of added characteristics.

Persona is an innovative character development tool for fiction writers. Persona aids you in crafting archetypal themed characters and plots by using time-honored psychological principles to describe the motivations and interactions between different characterizations of people. Whether your story's hero is a brainiac talking fish or your villainess is an outcast orphanage owner, Persona helps you explore how each character's unique psychology and background influences their dealings and dialogue. Readers long for engrossing, character-driven narratives, but even the most experienced storytellers struggle to create strong, compelling characters. Persona is a unique and inspiring app that helps you organize and centralize your character data. Categorize characters by archetypes, fill in crucial background data, and more. If lack of inspiration is hurting your craft, you need a creative kickstart -- get Persona today!

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Ask For Password

This script is a password protection script for Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Entourage. The script provides the same level of security found in Outlook Express version 4.x. The script prompts you for a password when your emailer is launched. It also allows you to change your password and set certain characteristics of the script via a built-in user interface. The script has full support for multiple identities.
What's new in this version:
Changed the code for opening and closing the Main window and for obtaining the current identity into raw event code. This prevents AppleScript from asking you to locate "Outlook Express" or "Microsoft Entourage" if you do not have it installed. The bad side effect of this is that you have to edit some parts of the script each time you save the script, or the script will generate errors the next time you run it. If you edit the script, please read the IMPORTANT NOTICE at the top of the s...

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Script Debugger

Script Debugger is an authoring tool for AppleScripts. AppleScript is a language for creating script files that control computer actions and applications. It is basically a language for automating tasks.
Script Debugger is a scripting tool that helps users to create, edit and debug AppleScripts. It provides a very rich dictionary browser, so that script developers have quick access to needed information. The dictionary can be navigated through by requesting for several criteria to be taken into account, such as commands, classes, suites, records, events or enumerations. Modifications can be performed in the running application that is targeted by the script. The scripting tool allows for changes made to the targeted utilities to be tracked. With the help of the Explorer, values can be changed inside Script Debugger and the modifications made to the application running outside of the script will also be reflected in Explorer. In order for users to determine how to refer to an element, specified names can be displayed by Explorer and help can be provided in choosing the appropriate name, depending on current needs.
Script Debugger is a tool for creating, editing and debugging AppleScript scripts, where AppleScript is a language whose aim is to exchange data between applications and to control such applications so that repetitive tasks be automated.

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Script Timer

Script Timer lets you flexibly schedule the execution of AppleScript, perl, and shell scripts, as well as Automator workflows and applications. Script Timer consists of three separate modules: Script Timer itself, used to create and manipulate scheduling data files Background scheduling engine that reads the data files and does the actual scheduling work An optional scheduling engine status monitor whose icon appears in the system status bar
Also included is Track Timer, a script that provides an interface between Script Timer and iTunes for automated media play, and Job Timer a script to keep track of the time spent on various tasks.

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Text Toolset

Xcode is an IDE used by developers to build apps for Apple devices. In order to help them, Quantum Quinn designed Text Toolset, a Mac extension that introduces new tools to edit and transform the source code, and thus create better applications.

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RCB Script Installer

RCB Script Installer is an auxiliary application that comes to solve a problem left by another. The thing is that Right Click Booster (RCB), an app by the same developer, cannot install scripts due to one of the rules of the Apple App Store, where you can download it from. This is when a tool like RCB Script Installer comes to the rescue by offering to install the desired scripts for you.

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GPRS Script Generator

GSG is a software utility to help on generating Macintosh Modem Scripts for GPRS connections.
It supports the new Intel based Macintosh as well PowerPC running Mac OS X (Universal Binary).
A separate download is avaliable for Mac OS Classic (starting from version 8.6 and CarbonLib).
Many options are available to make easy as possible the process of script creation.
A Presets menu is available, containing settings for more than 200 network operators around the world, from Europe to Australia.
Selecting a preset, all basic parameters are automatically added and with just few clicks a modem script can be generated. Presetted parameters can be modified and integrated with additional options, like Quality of Service definition and others.
The "Settings from init string" feature permit to easily create a script starting from a GPRS init string. Sometimes mobile network providers only provide a GPRS init string. GSG can scan this string and extract from it all necessary settings to build a Modem Scritpt.
Online hints are available to assist on script creation and parameters setting. Pointing cursor on various parameters cause the hints window to display suggestion about it. In addition the enclosed manual can help on troubleshooting and creating advanced scripts.
Two operating modes are available: Easy and Expert. In Easy mode only basic settings are displayed to avoid get confused dealing with weird settings. Expert mode show the full set of GPRS options and provide expert users the ability to do a full customization of the script.

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PDF Toolset

PDF Toolset is, as its name says, a program that gives you access to various PDF utilities. You can work with this application to merge or split PDF documents, compress them to smaller sizes, and even extract text content or images from the input files within moments.

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App Factory

App Factory is a utility designed for Mac users who wish to easily turn scripts into full programs. The application features an intuitive interface, supports drag-and-drop actions, and provides you with easy-to-configure output settings.

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Platypus

Platypus allows creating applications from scripts. This way, you can give command-line scripts a graphical interface to facilitate user interaction with them, which comes in quite handy when you are creating installers, launchers and droplets, for instance. The tool works by wrapping the desired scripts into a bundle that also includes a binary file, so that they can be executed just like a standard application.

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Ampps

Access a server distribution package. Work with the toolset that provides WAMP, MAMP and LAMP stacks that can be used to deploy Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl and Python installations. Simulate the server environment on your desktop to enable the development, testing and transition processes.

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PyCharm

Access the command line, establish connection to a database and work with your version control system using Python's Integrated Development Environment. The solution comes with such tools as code syntax, error highlighting, intelligent inspections, and others.

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MyScriptTrainer

With MyScript Trainer Extension you can create your personal writing profile!
MyScript Trainer is available as an extension SDK to MyScript Builder SE and provides the tool to build a Trainer engine.
Although MyScript provides very high recognition accuracy scores, MyScript Trainer can improve recognition for people whose writing style differs from the "average" by creating a custom writing profile.
Two steps to create your writing profile
First, the writer reproduces texts, alphabets, numbers and punctuation using a writing device such as digital pen, paper pad or electronic tablet. There are two ways to collect these ink samples:
With a form: a structured form figuring labels (alphabet, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks and text to write) and dedicated fields to write them in.
Without a form: using any digital device, allowing the user to write the samples freely. In this case, MyScript Trainer retrieves and matches the set of ink samples with the corresponding labels using a training set extractor. The user can then validate whether the ink samples and labels match.
Then, handwriting samples are introduced to the default recognition engine which is retrained to obtain a new specific recognition engine.

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Celtx

Develop an artistic text, a scrip of any kind of a different kind of structured piece of writing. Organize pages and add notes, queues, integrate visuals and compare revisions of the same documents. The suite supports multiple languages and online sharing options.

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