SysEx is a free MIDI librarian program for the Macintosh. SysEx can transmit and receive system exclusive (sysex) messages via MIDI and can save and load these messages to and from disk. Grace, Steven L. (2001). What is SysEx?...

Stomp Box Delay allows you to use your Mac as a realtime stereo Digital Delay effect. You can plug in your guitar, keyboard, microphone or other favorite musical instrument and start jammin'! Stomp Box Delay works in full 16-bit stereo 48kHz...

Pedalfects is an easy-to-use, real-time effects processor. Pedalfects can produce eight simultaneous effects. Each effect can be controlled from the screen or by MIDI. Pedalfects also has six low frequency oscillators which can control effects....

Symantec's Just Enough Pascal is an odd program: It's both a Pascal (Lightspeed Pascal, to be exact) tutor and an excellent introduction to Macintosh programming. (You have to have Lightspeed Pascal to use Just Enough Pascal.) Just Enough...

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...

Fast Formatter is this month's public-domain-program pick. It's included free on the MenuFonts 2 disk and is also available from all user groups, bulletin boards, and electronic services. Fast Formatter has one function: formatting blank...

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...

The Mac's ability to use sound has interested users from the earliest days. Two of today best sound manipulators are shareware. Although some features overlap, serious soundophiles will want both. The suggested donation for both programs is...

PixelPaint Professional is the more colorful cousin of PixelPaint (see “Digital Palettes” October '89). It can still handle 8-bit (256) color and grayscale work nicely, but you should consider it only if you need 16-, 24-, or 32-bit...

Is a development tool for creativa games and web aplicaciones usando ActionScript and Flex. 

Symantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM) has been revised and expanded to SUM II. The additions include BackUp, a module based on Redux, the best backup program around; and Encrypt, a new encryption module. The original parts of SUM have had their...

Publish It!, a new page-layout program that includes tools for word processing, drawing, and painting, is aimed at users who've been left behind by the giants, such as PageMaker. And it’s almost a bull's-eye: Publish It! is fast, opens...

Drawing Table is an inexpensive eight-color draw program that would he an ideal alternative to MacDraw II for those who need a simpler graphics tool—were it not for maddening flaws in its interface. WHAT IT IS Drawing Table sports all the...

Illustrator 88 already auto-traces, why would Adobe now market a stand-alone auto-tracing application? Streamline is a utility that does nothing but auto-trace bit-mapped and PICT images. But it does it pretty well. WHAT IT IS Anyone who has ever...

For some users, the top-of-the-line word processors are more deadweight than heavyweight — cumbersome, expensive, and stuffed with superfluous features. What these users need is a leaner, less expensive, and easier-to-use word processor. Enter...

In the year or so that it's been available, CE Software's QuickMail has been a quirky contender for first place in the Mac E-mail race. QuickMail 1.01's set of features trounced the slicker In Box (from TOPS) and the leaner Intermail...

Not too long ago, MacPaint was the nonpareil of Mac graphic programs. Since then, color packages such as Canvas 2,0 and Studio/8 have moved to the top. But there are still a lot of black-and-white Macs around, so there's a lot of interest in...

As falling prices put more and larger hard disks on the desktops of Mac users, the need to keep your data secure and manageable grows in importance. Fastback II, the second edition or Fifth Generation Systems' popular harddisk-backup program,...

When I was a child, one of my prized possessions was a star finder, bought on an excursion to New York’s Hayden Planetarium. At first glance, Voyager might seem like a computerized descendant of those simple cardboard disks, but it’s...

The latest business-accounting product to enter the already overcrowded tray is Business Sense from Monogram Software, publisher of Dollars & Sense, a popular home financial-management program. Established programs such as Plains and Simple...