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...

Until now, making tables on the Mac has been largely a job for spreadsheet applications. TableTools is the first dedicated table editor for the Macintosh that's also compatible with page-layout programs such as PageMaker, Ready,Set,Go!, and...

Omnis 5 is a relational database software initially made for Windows 1.0 and ported to the Macintosh and OS/2. Version 1.1 archive includes the following disk images: Examples.image Omnis 5 Auxiliary Disk  2.image Omnis 5 Auxiliary...

The Apple QuickTime Conferencing Kit is an all-in-one package of video-conferencing software and accessories for Macintosh systems. Just add a network connection and you're ready to communicate with other QuickTime Conferencing users over an...

When you need to create professional-looking graphics fast, choose MacDraw Pro—the software that lets you visually showcase your most elaborate ideas. With MacDraw Pro, you can illustrate reports, design products, publish flyers and present...

PrefsOverload is a full-featured tool for managing the Preferences Folder, which contains your various “Preference Files". Preference Files are those files in which applications store their settings and other information. After System 7,...