Nobody likes writing HTML documents using a text editor. OK, there are a few people who do, but these are the same ones who wax nostalgic about command-line interfaces and the joys of writing your own operating system. Stand next to them at a party,...

ACI US’s 4th Dimension (4D) has a bit more than half the Macintosh relational database market in the United States and a near stranglehold on the European counterpart. The program has survived and beaten back a half-dozen serious competitors...

AutoTextTyper is a contextual menu plugin that lets you quickly and easily add commonly used text, such as e-mail addresses, Web sites, addresses, company names, signatures, form letters and more, to a list of items in a contextual menu. You can...

Data Desk has never been your average statistics package. First, because it’s based on exploratory data analysis, the central activity is interactive data graphing. Second, it's shockingly compact; it practically fits on a single floppy,...

Lately I've been thinking of the Internet as an extension of my subconscious; a wildly disorganized collection of marginalia, factoids, and pointers to information that may not matter today but might tomorrow. I don’t expect to find a tool...

The tiny version-number increment implies that Adobe Premiere 4.2 includes only a few tweaks, but for Premiere addicts in general, and CD-ROM producers in particular, the enhancements are significant. Premiere 4.2 sports over a dozen minor, but...

GreatWorks is the first of several packages to breathe new life into the integrated software arena. An amalgam of eight applications, GreatWorks succeeds in delivering impressive value, but the level of integration among the program’s modules...

Painter is an artist's dream of a palming program that transcends the special effects; of Oasis and PixelPaint Professional. Unlike those programs, Painter is designed specifically for replicating natural drawing and painting media, a difficult...

This app works with: Basilisk II, Mini vMac Launched during the first year of the Macintosh’s lifespan, the Intermatrix MacPhone pushed Apple’s new computer into Bizarroland fairly quickly. The MacPhone worked as a...

This package contains a general-purpose database app (Information Manager) and a business organizer (Executive Desktop).

MacTEP is a MS-BASIC terminal emulator for the Macintosh. It has the capability of uploading and downloading text files, and has a special download feature for downloading BASIC files. This version (1.81) has been re-written with some machine...

ThinkTank basically invented the idea of outline processing. There was a later version called More, but eventually most word processors included similar functionality, making a standalone outline processor unnecessary.

MegaForm is a software tool for creating full-size forms and reports such as invoices, purchase orders, expense reports, and the like. With MegaForm the user can draw forms and reports on the screen exactly as they should appear in their finished...

The Electric Checkbook by State of the Art is bill-oriented to set up and record your bills on a one-time or recurring basis. It gives you the choice of either computer or hand written checks. Working with you and your Macintosh™, the Electric...