Category: Mac Software & Graphics
According to Apple, there were, by Oct. 2002, nearly
4,000 native Mac OS X applications available. At the Macworld Expo held in NYC in July 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs highlighted a few of the best apps for OS X with a presentation he called "10 on 10." For each of the apps, a product manager took the stage to highlight a few features....
Useful tips for users of iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, iCal & Backup
iTunes
Add Ogg Vorbis support to iTunes with this plug-in for QuickTime 6.x
Add new visualizations with iTunes plugins such as G-Force and WhiteCap.
iTunes' (v3.0 or earlier) window resizing can be pretty slow. But not if you hold the Command key while resizing, notes Dr....
Introduction
As detailed elsewhere on this site, Apple on April 28 launched a revamped line of iPods and, along with them, a new version of iTunes and a new service the company calls the iTunes Music Store. In this report, we'll take a closer look at the iTunes 4 software.
GUI Changes
There are a number of changes to iTunes 4. Most obviously, the...
Proving yet again that the Mac is the professionals’ choice, one of the world’s top 3-D graphics applications (maybe the top app) was released on the Mac OS X platform in Sept. 2001. It's been updated several times since then -- most recently, to version 5.
Say hello to Maya, the 3-D program behind the special effects in 26 of the top...
Photoshop plug-ins
Looking to expand your Photoshop chops (short for "Channel ops," of course)? Check out these plug-ins:
First up, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention our two favorite plug-in collections: Eye Candy from Alien Skin and Kai's Power Tools from Metacreations.
Eye Candy
Eye Candy, from Alien Skin Software, is currently our...
Photoshop 5.5 box shotProduct: Photoshop 5.5
From: Adobe, www.adobe.com
For: PowerMac (A Windows 9x/NT version is also available)
Price: US$995, with an estimated street price of between C$900 and C$1000. Discounted upgrades from previous versions available. Contact Adobe for details.
Pros: Improved clone function, new object-outlining and...
Introduction
In Dec. 2001, MacOSRumors.com reported, "PhotoShop 6.5 is advancing rapidly and a beta is planned to be seeded in the coming months. This product, as Photoshop fans know, never reached the market. By Dec. 10, Adobe had apparently decided the changes in the program were substantial enough to justify bumping the version number to 7...
Is CoreDraw a viable alternative to Adobe Illustrator?
Product: CorelDRAW 8.0 for Power Macintosh
From: Corel (www.corel.com)
Price: US$695; competitive upgrades (from most other graphics programs) US$149
Pros: Good text handling, especially of special symbols. Photo-Paint (also available as a standalone product) is a dramatic improvement over...
Product: QuarkXPress 4.04
From: Quark Inc. www.quark.com
For: Macintosh, Windows
Street Price: about $1000
Pros: Version 4.0 adds Illustrator-like bezier curve support and impressive new drawing and text-handling features. Early bugs were swiftly addressed with the 4.01r1 update, released Jan. 30, 1998, and subsequently improved further in later...
Product: QuarkXPress 5.0
From: Quark Inc. www.quark.com
For: Macintosh, Windows
Price: US$1000. Upgrades cost US$400 from v3.0; US$300 from v4.0.
Pros: New features include tables, layers. Improved PDF support. Web-page creation, XML support. Collect for output now gathers screen and printer fonts as well as ICC profiles. See http://www.quark.com...
Real-time effects options enhance Apple's "prosumer" video editor
Introduction
Final Cut Pro, as noted elsewhere on this site, is Apple's award-winning professional video editing, effects and compositing software for broadcasters, educators, web producers and professional videographers. It's a full-featured program designed -- and priced...
The biggest change in Premiere since the 5.1 release was the addition of support for OHCI capture cards. (This feature first appeared in version 5.1c).
Premiere 6.0 was a competent video-editing package, but, due to an interface that is both clumsier and slower to use than that of many competing titles, version 6 of the US$549 app didn't make our...
Premiere 5.1, shown here building a movie preview from a collection of video clips, still images and sound files, has a dramatically revamped "tabbed" interface that resembles that of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Adobe Premiere 5.0 for the Macintosh and 32-bit Windows PCs was released in May 1998. Since then, it has been updated to version...
QuickTime 5's long gestation is finally over. Its first public appearance was at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose on May 15, 2000, where Apple treated developers to a sneak peek at QuickTime 5. The software was subsequently delivered as a Preview Release at the QuickTime Live! conference, on October 10, 2000 in Beverly Hills, CA...
In what appears to be further evidence of Apple's second wind (or is it the third?), QuickTime fans with Internet access on April 19th, 1999 gained early access to an ambitious upgrade of Apple's multimedia architecture for Macs and Windows PCs, with a public beta of QuickTime 4. In the months that followed, Apple put the finishing touches on the...