When we looked at a beta version of KeyPlan last October, we called it an intuitive project-management program with a strong outliner. KeyPlan is now shipping, and it lives up to expectations. This is a good combination outliner and project planner...

Lying with statistics has a long and storied history in the business world, and now there's a whole new way to be creative with numbers—Flexigraphs. Normal business graphics start with numbers and create charts; Flexigraphs lets you start...

In the September issue, I praised a beta copy of an address database and printer called DynoDex (see Pinstripe Picks in this issue for a review of the shipping version). It’s out now and is better than the early version I saw. However, it...

Does the world need yet another object-oriented drawing program? if the program does something special, the answer is yes. Paradigm is such a program. It adds relational drawing abilities to the basic drawing package. In an ordinary drawing program,...

A suite of music testing and design software: Drills: Tests your technical music knowledge (multiple choice) MiniDesignWave: Create sound waves using various parameters MiniDrawWave: Create sound waves using a free-handed waveform The...

Programmers create their code in specialized programs called editors that generally include advanced search features and automatic checks of various delimiters. Preditor is the newest of these editors. It's a good one, with rectangular-editing...

CanOpener lets an user extract various resources such as text, pictures, icons, etc... from any file or app. Similar to ResEdit, but read only. See also:  CanOpener 4.0 The first thing you notice about CanOpener is that the...

System 7 notwithstanding, there are still several small, handy utilities with a purpose and usefulness so obvious that you can't quite believe they didn’t exist before. Complete Undelete is, by far, the best of this type of program. If a...

Fontographer has long been the only game in town if you wanted to create your own downloadable PostScript fonts. When introduced in 1986, it was an impressive achievement—even with the nasty drawback of copy protection. Altsys has now...

MP3 Strip is the Control Strip Module what enables a high-quality playback and easy browsing through MP3 files. MP3 Strip instantly accessible and you are not required to run any other program to listen to your favorite MP3s. The MP3 Strip...

This is a simple MPEG-1, Layer I, II, and III (MP1, MP2, and MP3) player.

MP3 Rage is the definitive collection of tools for MP3 enthusiasts. You can search for and download thousands of MP3's from the Internet using the Napster(tm) music sharing system and the Gnutella file sharing system, edit ID3 tags, analyze...

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...