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- B/W Styler for Mac Photoshop B/W Styler is a Photoshop plugin for B&W conversion, creating traditional B&W effects and styling B&W photos - for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint, Photo Plus, IrfanView and PhotoImpact
- CDFinder Upgraded CDFinder is the unique software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of digital media assets. I've used it for years -- and can't do without it...
- Judiciary Committee says "NO" to Spyware The I-Spy Prevention Act overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives in the 108th and 109th Congress, addresses the most egregious activities that are conducted via spyware
- Creating Information Architecture Author Ivy Hastings shares her insights into building information architecture -- the easy and best way! And, it's not what you think.
- Setting Angel Snares You've finally decided to take the plunge and start your own business. The only problem is your bank account. Not to worry! Entrepreneurial expert Ty Freyvogel shares what you can do to capture the attention of an angel investor.
- Print On Demand : A Definition and a Comparison Author Michael LaRocca shares a good overview of Print-On-Demand publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its strengths and its weaknesses.
- Head First PMP This hot book by Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman offers complete coverage of the PMBOK Guide -- A Learner's Companion to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam
- Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers Did you think the web is pages only? This guide to writing webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers shows you how to harness the Web using automated agents with PHP/CURL
- TypeCon2007 Call for Speakers TypeCon2007 Call for Speakers for the Education Forum - devoted to addressing issues faced by type educators and the institutions they represent.
- New Skype for Mac Skype for Mac 2.6 Beta Brings Call Transfer to Mac Platform First! The new and improved Skype... start making free calls!
- Be a video weather forcaster Who's the next weather anchor? MyAccuWeather Video Challenge gives weather fans the opportunity to post their own Video Forecasts on AccuWeather.com
- Curtains plugin filter for Adobe After Effects. AlphaPlugins plug-in filter for Adobe After Effects for eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric, waving flags, gauzy curtains, heavy tableau curtains and many fantastic transition effects.
- Home Business Trio '07 Home Business Trio '07 is a bundle of easy-to-use applications for small or home-based business for Mac OS X ... includes three applications: Money 2.1 for accounting, Relationship 1.0 for customer relationship management and Operation 1.0 - for project management.
- Flash and Search Engine Optimization Adriana Iordan, Web Marketing Manager at Avangate B.V. Avangate writes about optimizing web site performance when using dynamic features such as Flash.
- Print with any printer in the world What to do when you can't print at home? Printeranywhere.com is a software that lets you to print your document with any printer -- anywhere in the world.
- Travel and PHOTOGRAPHY Off the Charts Reader Scott Eccleston says: "This book is a delight, one of those books that you feel fortunate to have in your hands. And it's really more than one book -- it's five books slipped into one cover"
- PitStop with Adobe Acrobat 8 support XChange International has rolled out new versions of the Enfocus product range, including the industry standard PitStop Professional, PitStop Server, Instant PDF and PitStop Automate with Adobe Acrobat 8 support.
- New Life for Old Photos Got lots of old photos? AKVIS Retoucher plug-in restores damaged photographs to optimal condition with minimal effort and amazing results.
- I-SPY Prevention Act of 2007 Rep. Lofgren and Rep. Goodlatte Introduce Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2007 -- the bill Criminalizes Spyware Offenses, passed in the House, goes to the Senate -- Washington, D.C.
- LicenseKeeper LicenseKeeper The Easiest Way To Capture And Organize Software Licenses -- what you need to keep track of all your products, upgrades and passwords
- Wildform WildPresenter Pro 3.1 Wildform, Inc. has released WildPresenter Pro 3.1, a major update to its powerful and award-winning multimedia presentation software.
- Optimizing for MSN? Is It Worth the Effort? Whenever you need to find something on the web, you "Google" it. Most of the web surfers do. For the percentage of those who "Yahoo" or "MSN" for information is considerably lower. Now you can capitalize on this...
- 2007 Economic Outlook This is a web seminar ("webinar") -- 2007 Economic Outlook Webinar with Dr. Joe Webb veteran of the graphic arts industries, he was the developer of the influential TrendWatch information service
- Paper Tips for DTP Designers Domtar Designer Corner for designers offers industry news and events, designer profiles, eco-smart design options, and tips for selecting the best paper to bring designs to life.
- Marketing with RSS Adriana Iordan shares her experience in the web marketing world with this important article about using RSS feeds as a marketing strategy ... users can see what's published on their favorite sites without going to those sites.
- Traditional to Digital Photography Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives provides the knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between analog (traditional) and digital photography.
- Kurdish for QuarkXPress ArabicXT with Kurdish Support, or "KurdishXT". With KurdishXT, users can now create and print Kurdish language layouts within QuarkXPress -- impossible to do before this!
- 'POP' Pattern Font This highly versatile graphic elements font -- "POP" -- is designed for creating unlimited numbers of graphic patterns. It's a commercial font, but is very cool!
- Vendor-neutral certification Leading Organizations in Printing, Document Imaging Market Join CompTIA Certification Initiative Effort aimed at heightening technology skills of technicians -- a new development in training for cross platform software
- Smart Card for Mac The Mac has been blocked from many available software structures since the beginning. This new development enables Mac OS X users to join Microsoft AD environments that require two-factor authentication via smart cards.
- All-in-one Digital Camera When my brother showed up at a reception with one of these little 'palm-sized' cameras, I have to admit I was skeptical. (Being a digital imaging professional!) But, when I began to really take a look at the results-- WOW -- I was blown away. You'll like these...
- InDesign ImageSwapper If you use Adobe InDesign for high-end projects and printing, ImageSwapper is a flexible and time-saving plug-in which streamlines the process of replacing low resolution, for-placement-only (FPO) images with the high rez counterparts.
- WYSIWYG Charting for Windows Perpetuumsoft Chart ModelKit WYSIWYG charting solution allows fast creation of a required chart includes predesigned charts: bar, line, spline, candlestick, pie, stepline, bubble, points, stock
- BBEdit: it doesn't suck You've heard us rave about BBEdit before. Now they've upgraded with a host of hot new features
- 2D/3D design come to Mac Pretty cool software -- take a look at this video demo and you'll be convinced
- Automatic Repair of Font Problems If Apple's font world was perfect, you wouldn't need Smasher.
- QuarkXPress Gold CopyFlow Gold for QuarkXPress v7 with support for Universal Binary adds powerful page-assembly capabilities to QuarkXPress and provides menu selections which enable end users to automatically import and export multiple linked text stories
- Web-based creative collaboration SeeFile Software has introduced the third generation of its web-based creative collaboration tool, which allows instant web sharing and messaging around large media files... turns any Macintosh computer into an interactive webserver
- Site Monitoring for web developers Dejal Simon 2.2 checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, or HTML reports.
- Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference Danny Goodman's latest comprehensive Resource for XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
- Automatic PDF Forms pdf-FieldMerge 4.2 Automatic PDF Forms Fill in PDF form fields automatically from a database
- Screen Sharing for Mac Share live, real-time, screens from your Mac with other users anywhere in the world...
- Anti-Spyware for Mac SecureMac has rolled out the release of MacScan 2.3, the latest version of the company's industry leading anti-spyware package for Macintosh computers.
- Stimulus is Back Tired of juggling between multiple applications just to enjoy your library of digital media files? Stimulus 4.1 For Mac Os X Includes a New Universal Binary Version, Redesigned Interface, Improved Speed, and Support for Additional Media Formats!
- AKVIS Decorator AKVIS "Decorator" plug-in for Photoshop (Elements and many other programs) that cuts 90% of the work out of mapping image surfaces
- B/W Styler Plugin B/W Styler for Windows is a Photoshop plugin for B/W conversion, creating traditional B/W effects and styling B/W photos.
- PulpMotion takes the 'ho-hum' out of iPhoto iPhoto's drone has lulled Mac users into a generation of bleary-eyed photo-lemmings! To find an antidote check out Aquafadas in France and wake up with a little PulpMotion!
- Creative Forecast 2007 The Industry Measure sixth annual forecast of the graphic design and production markets ad agencies, graphic designers, Web designers and developers, corporate design and Internet departments, and commercial photographers in the next 12 months and beyond.
- Adobe InDesign gets PreFlighting InPreflight, a comprehensive quality control solution - Zevrix Solutions - quickly and easily locate potential problems and produce error-free documents
- New Landscape and Garden Design Designing a home? Remodeling? Sprucing up the grounds? CS Odessa has rolled out ConceptDraw 6.2, technical diagramming software, which now includes a complete and extensive set of landscape and garden design libraries!
- Mastering Landscape Photography Thirteen essays on landscape photography by master photographer Alain Briot covers practical, technical, and aesthetic aspects of photography -- helps build and refine your skills
- Picture Roller: ultimate picture manager Windows users can now organize, create albums, slideshows, and share your albums via web or e-mail -- just like iPhoto on the Mac. It's easy and quick -- even works with your Windows-based iPod iPhoto!
- TeachMeIT online courses TeachMeIT (www.TeachMeIT.com) will launch a series of online courses on the Microsoft 2007 Office systems. The courses cover areas such as Features of Office 2007, Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and Outlook 2007.
- Restore Deleted iPod Files Apple iPod Songs Data Recovery software is easy safe Read-only and Non-Destructive iPod Data retrieval software utility.
- iPod Missing Manual iPod: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition -- the iPod with video does everything - videogames, movies, TV shows, and music videos -- now learn from the best as J.D. Biersdofer reveals all her secret features, tips, and tricks...
- Burning DVDs Just got Hotter Disco is the missing solution for disc burning on your Mac - jam packed with tools designed to appeal to average and pro users alike... so hot it even smokes (on your screen!)
- When the lights go out... where is your web site and server? In the dark. Unless you're using solar power to supply power to server and web sites -- when the power goes out, these sites stay online...
Thanks for reading...
Editor / Publisher, DT&G Magazine
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