So you want to be a publisher? BookMaker's ClickBook might take you one step closer to your Rupert Murdoch fantasies. ClickBook is a print utility that helps you format documents into double-sided booklet form, and automates the rather arcane...

IntelliDraw is a shape based vector illustration tool that enables you to dynamically control shapes using numeric, rule based, or relationship based parameters. IntelliDraw gets its name from its “smart” tools that automate...

Xerox Imaging Systems has released a Mac version of its highly regarded TextBridge optical character recognition (OCR) software, available for more than a year under Windows. It’s a bargain — the current market leaders in OCR cost...

Insignia has a tough challenge: to deliver Windows on a Mac completely via software. The Power Macs are here, and so is SoftWindows — with a strong endorsement by Apple. Does SoftWindows solve the speed problem? No, although performance is now...

Flo' and MetaFlo' are authoring tools for the now abandoned Animaflex plugin. Remember creating funny faces by pressing images onto Silly Putty and tugging on it? That’s basically the premise of MetaFlo’, a graphics...

DeBabelizer Lite provides easy to use graphics translation, and can be used by anyone who creates and/or uses computer graphics.  It is derived from the award winning program DeBabelizer - The Graphics Processing Toolbox, a professional...

PowerMerge is one of several synchronization programs that help you keep individual files, folders, or entire volumes organized and up-to-date. PowerMerge 1.0.2 was a useful program... Version 2.0 adds important new features. Here’s a...

Before I had Automap, I spent hours planning long road trips. I also spent hours getting lost on those trips. Automap Road Atlas saves me a lot of time and a lot of frustration. Automap uses a database of freeways, highways, and state and county...

When Apple introduced the AV Macs last year, multimedia producers and musicians thrilled at the notion of recording and playing back CDquality audio without paying a four-figure price for a board such as Digidesign’s Audiomedia...

Pixar Typestry's approachable interface, animation support, and outstanding RenderMan rendering technology have made it a popular choice among graphic designers and QuickTime movie producers needing to create 3-D text effects. Typestry 2.0...

Once upon a time, in the days before computers talked and digitized video, people made movies using a pen and paper. These movies, called flip-books, consisted of a series of images drawn on paper that, upon application of an extremely technical...

Terms like wacky and silly are usually not what software authors hope to hear about their first product. But when applied to Bit Jugglers’ UnderWare, they’re a compliment. UnderWare is a control panel that adds three features to your...

Spline-based drawing tools — revolutionary in their time for flexibly articulating two-dimensional curves with a minimum of mathematical description — produced a similar revolution when they were adapted for three-dimensional...

Plug-in architecture has been a real windfall for digital artists. Third-party plug-ins load into the main application (such as Adobe Photoshop and other image processors), providing filtering, file-format conversion, and other functions. Xaos...

Campfirez employs real-time particle animation to create convincing fire simulations. You can set the shape, color, and location in space. The registered version is fully customizable; allowing control of the spread, speed, size, and decay of up to...

Checksum Validator is a simple to use progam that allows you to calculate and validate checksums (either SHA-1 or MD5 digest methods) for files that you have downloaded (or will upload). Checksum Validator is for the Mac OS X and it is freeware!

Esper is a simple to use but sophisticated program for testing the four main psychic powers - clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition and psychokinesis - using your personal computer! You can be part of the quest to prove the existence of ESP! Or...

Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for musicians.   See also: Guitar Pro 7.5  

Bring your visions to life! With Apple Media Tool (AMT) software, you can create dynamic multimedia projects for business, education, entertainment and the home. And you can share them with almost anyone because finished projects can run on both...