PhotoFlash is Apple's own photo-enhancement and -cataloging program. While it doesn’t offer the image-editing power of Adobe Photoshop, it does provide the basic tools you need to enhance, resize, and retouch images acquired from a scanner...

Termites for breakfast, loaded guns in bedrooms, scheduled blackouts, a mattress for a barricade — the world looks complex, fascinating, and at times scary in Material World: A Global Family Portrait. This CD-ROM adaptation of Peter...

Theorist, one of the first symbolic-math programs for the Mac, has found a new home at Waterloo Maple Software. Theorist 2.0 offers a nice assortment of features that make it a first choice for mathematical exploration by students. In fact, for a...

If you own a lot of fonts, you might wish you had the services of a type librarian — someone who would catalog your collection so you could more easily find the fonts you need for a particular job. theTypeBook is the next best thing. It offers...

Digital Chisel is an entry-level multimedia tool designed especially for creating educational presentations. Like most authoring tools, this package lets you combine text, graphics, sounds, animation, and QuickTime movies into integrated,...

MacTools Pro's latest upgrade now runs on Power Macs and offers users better help features. The current version, however, drops System 6 support and will not run on the Mac Plus, SE, Classic, or PowerBook 100. The redesigned MacTools Clinic...

CanOpener gives you emergency access to any file! It lets you read any file - and copy anything you find, text & pictures! It's perfect for browsing all types of files, including foreign files and files your Mac can't open, and...

Route 66 finds both the fastest and the shortest driving route between two cities. That’s no big deal if the cities are San Francisco and New York (quick tip: don’t drive, take a plane). But when you need to find your way from Phoenix to...

I used to chastise professional drawing stalwarts FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator for not being aggressive enough with their upgrades. No more. In the past two years, both programs have changed substantially. If FreeHand 5.0 is any indication, the...

Olduvai's MultiClip Pro is a replacement for the Mac’s Clipboard and Scrapbook; it’s so simple and so elegant that it makes you wonder why Apple hasn’t yet adopted it. MultiClip Pro consists of an application, an extension,...

Fractal Design Painter has long been at the leading edge of graphics applications, offering a dynamic range of extraordinary natural-media painting options that no other Macintosh program has seriously attempted to reproduce. With version 3, the...

Grammatik 6 for Macintosh has benefited hugely from its programmers’ efforts. The interface has been dramatically improved. Gone are the Chicago and Monaco fonts it used for your original text and the program’s critique; it now clearly...

Interactive Home Medical Guide & Symptom Analysis (Obviously, this is more than a quarter of a centory old, so please DO NOT refer to this today if you or somebody you take care of is sick.) With the bewildering range of choices faced...

Norton Utilities for Macintosh (NUM) 3.1, the long-awaited upgrade to Symantec’s flagship data-protection and -recovery utility, is leaner, meaner, and faster than ever before. Yet, though built on the solid foundation of NUM 2.0.6 and...

What the world needs is an approachable, affordable QuickTime moviemaking application. If you don’t need — or can’t afford — a high-end program like Adobe Premiere ($695), you might well find what you’re looking for in...

Although it was one of the first Mac color painting programs, PixelPaint has languished in recent years. But after major renovations by its original developers, PixelPaint Pro 3 offers professional-level painting and image processing tools at an...

Understanding the relationship of objects to their surroundings is important to architects, interior designers, builders of theatrical sets, and even film directors blocking out movie scenes. If you need quick feedback on the spatial relationships...

There is one certainty when it comes to computers: Things will go wrong, no matter how careful you are. Most of the time, simple software problems are to blame. But for more complex problems you have to call in the big guns. Micromat has released...

Sometimes being late to the party pays off, as it has for Now Compress. The program saves hard disk space by compressing files transparently or on demand and by creating archives. Now Compress includes the best features from the market leaders,...

Delrina, whose WinFaxPro made a splash in the Windows market, has now introduced the product to the Macintosh world. The Mac version of FaxPro shares many of the virtues of its Windows counterpart, such as a highly flexible address-book...