Japanese Paper 1.0 is a Macintosh program for printing paper with a grid for those studying Japanese writing. Grid style (10x20, 20x20, etc.) is user-selectable. Cell size can either be constrained to a maximum size or be calculated for "Fit...

Watson is a new breed of software application that we call a desktop web productivity application. From a functionality perspective, Watson is more like a web browser than a desktop application. Much of the functionality of a web browser comes from...

BirthDay Alert. It's Apple Script to Birthday Alert persons in your address book in MS Entourage.

Object-oriented accounting software consisting of four modules sold separately: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Job Cost/Time Billing.

Like an automatic transmission, MacProject II provides a way for novices to quickly get up to speed in a complex discipline, but it does so at the expense of some control and finetuning ability. Although people with no project-management experience...

Persuasion, which first shipped in late 1988, creates virtual slides that you can then make into actual slides or transparencies for projection, or display on your monitor. Persuasion adds visual and audio transition effects, and slides...

Now Utilities include all these:     Now AutoType     Now FolderMenus     Now Menus     Now QuickFiler     Now Save     Now...

Full Impact 2.0, From Ashton-Tate, is the first spreadsheet program that can directly import and export files in Excel formal without going through an intermediate format such as SYLK. Full Impact now imports files (including function commands) from...

MORE started out as a humble outliner, and then evolution took over. Presentation software, a hybrid of structured word processing (aka, outlining) and graphics emerged from the primeval software soup. Somewhere along the way, MORE acquired some of...

When we looked at a beta version of KeyPlan last October, we called it an intuitive project-management program with a strong outliner. KeyPlan is now shipping, and it lives up to expectations. This is a good combination outliner and project planner...

In the September issue, I praised a beta copy of an address database and printer called DynoDex (see Pinstripe Picks in this issue for a review of the shipping version). It’s out now and is better than the early version I saw. However, it...

MacPhonebook is a very nice address manager and printer although not as ambitious as DynoDex, which I described last month, It's best feature is its ability to print address books — in three sizes. The books are correctly paginated so that...

MacEnvelope is precisely what its name implies — an envelope-printing application. It's one of the best, if not the best, of its kind. It handles all shapes of envelopes and all sizes of labels. It can automatically add the bar coding that...