Once upon a time, personal finance was straightforward. A savings account paid 5 1/4 percent. Monthly home loan payments were roughly 1 percent of the mortgage amount. You didn’t worry about what to put in your IRA because you didn’t...

Bulk mailing rates are cheap for a reason: you perform the time-consuming task of presorting the mail. Mail must be sorted by zip code, then sorted again into bundles of like zip codes. If the mailing includes magazines, the post office requires...

For media producers, the venue for creative group collaboration is moving away from the cozy oval conference table and toward a wider circle of networked contributors. To facilitate this long-distance idea sharing, emotion Inc. has developed...

Portfolio's Software's latest version of Dynodex has a few new features, improved performance, and an easier-to-use interface. Dynodex was the first contact manager capable of printing double-sided pages for the popular day-planner...

Longtime Persuasion fans should be forgiven for wondering if their favorite program was getting any attention from the folks at Aldus. In the two-and-a-half-year hiatus since Persuasion 2.1 appeared, older competitors like Microsoft’s...

The latest versions of DateBook Pro and TouchBase Pro are easier to use and have many new features. More important, Aldus has improved the linking of data between the two programs, making the combination a potent PIM. Under System 7, TouchBase...

Although MacSchedule looks simple, it has substantial intelligence built into it, making the creation and maintenance of schedules nearly painless. MacSchedule's main limitation is that it can produce only Gantt charts, but that's not too...

CA-Cricket Graph is the simplest popular graphing program in the Macintosh market, and simplicity has its proponents. When Macworld surveyed 11 charting programs recently..., our preference for DeltaPoint’s more feature-laden DeltaGraph Pro...

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...

Designed to facilitate production of various types of calendars, both for the Apple Imagewriter and LaserWriter. PCal will also allow entry of personal events or holidays.

Includes all the features of FileMaker Pro 12 plus a suite of advanced development and customization tools. If you design databases for yourself or your team and want to build more powerful and more flexible database applications, then FileMaker Pro...

Think'n Time is a lightweight productivity app developed by Benoit Schillings and Alain Marsily for the early Macintosh. Marsily was the founder of Mainstay Europe (later becoming a successful business executive), while Schillings would go...

This garden planning software can illustrate which of your flowers will be in bloom each month of the year.

If your business data makes more sense presented geographically on a map than numerically in a table or worksheet, GeoQuery may be just what you need. The latest version features System 7 support, which allows for more-powerful links to source data...

Without a handful of to-do lists, my life runs out of control. Back in college, I fell victim to a practical joke when a roommate hid all my lists and I missed two exams and a date. In Control is for people like me. In Control works something...

Riding the wave of success generated by its versatile utilities package, Now Software has come up with an ambitious entry in the calendar-software arena that promises to be every bit as successful as its Now Utilities, Now Up-to-Date is a...

In the beginning, there was MacroMind Director, and it was good. But there was a catch. Director was impossible to use unless you invested a considerable amount of time and effort in learning to use the program. Enter Cinemation, a new tool for...

If you’re looking for a way to make sense of complex business data, MUSE may be the tool for you. MUSE blends elements of spreadsheet and database software into a unique program that lets you explore multidimensional data in a variety of ways....