SuperPaint’s single most distinguishing feature is its ability to incorporate both painted (dot-by-dot) and drawn (object-oriented) images in a single document. You must use very different techniques to edit these two kinds of images. To...

QuarkWrapture™ software fills an important void in the packaging industry. It bridges the gap between the structural design and the graphic design. QuarkWrapture is a visualization tool that fuses the package’s CAD structure, which...

Touch3D is program for 3D modeling and unfolding / unwrapping 3D models into flat 2D patterns. It can for example be used for concept design, industrial design, quick prototyping, mock-ups, scale models, marine design, physical renderings,...

ToyViewer is an image viewer originally written for NeXTSTEP. It was later ported to OPENSTEP and Mac OS X Server before being moved to Mac OS X.

The number and variety of word-processing utilities keep growing at an alarming rate. There are spelling checkers, grammar checkers, dictionaries with definitions, and thesaurus dictionaries. To this expanding list, we must now add a new type of...

Scientists and engineers employing supercomputers usually see their results as reams of numbers. Well, now these folks have a friend for visualizing their data on the Mac: Spyglass Dicer. Dicer is the third in a set of four packages promised by the...

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...

Success breeds success. Studio/32 is Electronic Arts' worthy 32-bit successor to Studio/8. Studio/8’s strength is its thoughtfully designed interface; Studio/32 maintains and expands that interface, providing access to 16.7 million colors...

Farallon’s ScreenRecorder revolutionized training by making it easy to record on-screen work sessions — but something was missing. There was no way to edit a sequence, no way to add notations to a picture, no way to make a sequence...

With its third incarnation, QuarkXPress has finally left behind its once-justified reputation as a powerful-but-daunting desktop-publishing program that made you play by its own rules — or else. In completely rewriting the program. Quark has...

Terminal app, emulates Tek 4105, DEC VT 220, Tek 4014, DG D200 The PRO in VersaTerm-PRO indicates power, not level of difficulty. VersaTerm-PRO and its fewer-featured cousin, VersaTerm, have long and rightfully been known for their superb...

Introduced in 1985, MacDraft was one of the first object-oriented drawing programs for the Mac. It enjoyed early success with architects and designers, and at one time, it claimed a majority of the Mac CAD market. But the rapid evolution of 2-D CAD,...

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...

miniWRITER is a shareware text processor desk accessory with a word count feature and smart quotes. Back in the days when MacWrite could handle only one open document at a time, many of us got to know David Dunham’s miniWriter...

An INIT and cdev manager is a basic power user's tool. As new INITs and cdevs multiply, conflicts become common. If you lack a good manager, Mac usage can degenerate into chaos. INITPicker is one of the best INIT and cdev managers available....

No, the Dvorak keyboard was not invented by John C. Dvorak. It's actually a remapping of the common QWERTY keyboard layout that was designed to facilitate faster typing. Electric Dvorak is the best Dvorak i mplementation for the Mac. The basic...

Most computer users don't back up nearly often enough. Remembering to do an incremental backup at the end of the working day is often one chore too many. Backmatic is a tool designed to solve that problem. It's an INIT (with a cdev) that...

Who do you call when your SE breaks down? Certainly not Ghostbusters. If you have the MicroRX SE1 stack, you can use it (on another working Mac) to diagnose the problem and either fix it yourself or tell your repairperson exactly what’s wrong....

On confronting DesignStudio, one's first impression is that Letraset has simply beefed up Ready,Set,Go! (RSG) and upped the price. However, DesignStudio adds new and welcome tools for layout management and for handling text, graphics, and color....

DisKeeper, a shareware application, produces a report that, in its most basic form, lists all your files and tells you if there are duplicate, locked, or invisible files anywhere. It also reports empty files and application and INIT version numbers,...