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- Record your screen While we are completely satisfied with Snapz Pro, ScreenRecord 2 offers a lot of benefit as an easy-to-use screen capturing tool that records actions on the screen as a Quicktime movie.
- Download Mac Cult Books... No Starch Press Turns Table on File Sharing Posts torrent versions of best-selling tech books with 11,000 combined downloads in first week
- Conference Velocity Designed to help break barriers and build a better internet for all users and customers, the conference shares the skills and knowledge crucial to building successful web sites that stay fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
- Digital Photography Companion the practical photography advice you can take anywhere - information that shows you how to take control over your digital camera today to improve your photography skills, boost your picture-taking and image-editing knowledge, and, ultimately, shoot better images that truly reflect your creative spirit.
- Digital Photography digital photography from the ground up - a comprehensive course in the principles & techniques of modern photography
- The Photograph In The Photograph: Composition and Color Design Mante explains the elements that are essential to achieving the highest level of visual design in photographs. This book is geared toward the serious intermediate and advanced photographer who strives to create outstanding images.
- LightZone The latest version of LightZone gives users access to extensive video tutorials providing visual explanations of the innovative tools light crafts offers. LightZone 3.5 is the newest addition to the award winning LightZone photo-enhancing software.
- Drawing with Scribbles Scribbles is a drawing tool with a revolutionary user interface and a slew of user-requested enhancements, including a visual eyedropper, the ability to translate, rotate and scale layers independently, automatic updating, and optional grid overlays.
- Essential Silverlight 2 Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date - Master Microsoft's New Cross-Platform Plug-in for Rich Internet Applications
- iPresent It slideshow-to-iPod utility ZappTek's new iPresent It slideshow-to-iPod utility for Mac OS X allows anyone to easily convert PowerPoint, PDF or Keynote presentations into slideshows that are synced with their iPod
- Photonic for Flickr Barton Springs Software Photonic for Flickr Mac OS X's first full Flickr application. Using Photonic, you can upload new pictures to your streams, sets, and groups, browse and search Flickr, and explore your friends' streams and favorites
- David Pogue: Switching to the Mac If you wanted to switch from Windows to Mac, this is the guide to help you make a smooth transition - David Pogue gets you past the challenges of switching: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X
- Digital storytelling GroupSmarts MemoryMiner is a fantastic complement to the iLife suite, MemoryMiner lets anyone zero in on stories depicted in their photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time
- Toolbox gets vector graphics Opcoders has launched the third public alpha of Toolbox, the visual programming tool which enables the combination of bitmaps, vector graphics and effects into amazing works of digital art. This latest release includes support for vector shape editing and filters.
- XHTML/CSS Design with FLUX on Mac The Escapers has taken Flux 1.1 XHTML/CSS Design for Mac OS X. By embracing a Drag and Drop metaphor, users may take advantage of leading web development technologies to quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain web standards compliant websites.
- Ultimate photo retouch kit High powered masking, outlining has now joined forces with high-tech retouching for a thoroughly professional solution to image manipulation.
- Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
- ShoveBox for Mac OS X Now you can have a menu item for shell commands, importing Word, and a host of other fuctions including Growl support. Very nice interface and implementation!
- iForm processes HTML forms iForm is a program that you use to serve and process HTML forms. Its basic functionality collects form data submitted by a web browser and then emails that data using formatting templates to select recipients, as well as saving it to a text log file which can be imported into a database.
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Finance to go... Fastforward Software FinanceToGo 1.6.3 is an effective small business finance application for Mac OS X that solves many of the tedious operations -- while making accurate financial tracking easy to learn
- LifeShaker gets booklet printing Funky Cloud has updated LifeShaker 1.1, a free update to the innovative to-do list application for Mac OS X. LifeShaker revolutionizes the humble to-do list with its unique interface and novel approach to getting stuff done.
- Adobe InDesign CS3 Nothing comes closer to a personal coach than Deke McClelland. In this impressive book, Deke works with you to learn the most important skills in Adobe's InDesign software. Get Deke to train you One-on-One
- Design competitions Your opportunity to get global exposure, and have your work seen by some of the most influential graphic arts industry players in the world.
- iMaginator and Create iMaginator and Create are two powerful publishing tools for Mac OS X -- including 17 applications, a widget and even a screen saver. Brought to you by 'Stone Works' an impressive new Mac developer .
- DrawIt vector-drawing DrawIt is unique in that it presents the user with a simple and clean interface, yet packs an impressive assortment of useful, professional grade features. You'll find it's an easy-to-use, vector-drawing and image editing application for Mac OS X
- ZeusDraw vector drawing ZeusDraw is a vector drawing program with a fluid, graceful interface, great brushes and a host of other features. If you don't own Adobe Illustrator, then you should strongly consider ZeusDraw
- Frames for your art? DropFrame is cross-platform application that allows you to easily add a picture frame to your images. DropFrame lets you give your digital work that extra touch and lets customers see your work just like it would look hanging on the wall
- Overhaul Your Project Management System If you can't prioritize the projects you already have, and make good decisions on selecting new ones, your organization will be in serious trouble. Rudolf Melik explains how to transform your project management "three ring circus" into a sane, smart, successful system.
- Five Business Tactics for 2008 So you say you want a resolution? Quint Studer, author of the bestseller Results That Last, offers five simple tips for turning it all around... fast. These leadership tactics can make for a pivotal business year -- business moves that not only improve your bottom line but actually have staying power! Five Business Tactics for 2008
- Ready, Fire, Aim Michael Masterson's Much-Anticipated New Book, Ready, Fire, Aim, Is Released Nationwide and Offers Nine Powerful Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Stop Procrastinating and Start Selling!
- Developing a Business Plan Developing a Business Plan means Developing a Successful Business. But this can also apply to any organization, even your nonprofit user group or educational organization! Here are some basic ideas for making your plan better...
- Image Processing for Leopard Jade uses state-of-the-art algorithms to enhance color, contrast and dynamic range -- it's an easy-to-use image enhancement and batch processing tool that will automatically improve digital images.
- Don't grag it... CRAB it Blue Crab is a versatile program that you use to copy the contents of a website to your computer -- conduct fast offline browsing and searching without an internet connection, create a snapshot of a website for historical archiving, collect specific types of resources and more
- Sync music libraries between computers SuperSync lets music fans synchronize their personal music collections between their Mac and PC computers over any network -- two music libraries can be compared and merged, with new files automatically added to a user's iTunes library.
- SmartBackup Backup Smart SmartBackup is the ideal application to perform all kinds of daily backups to hard drives, network sharepoints, webDAV, USB sticks, iPods etc -- it's very easy to set up and straightforward operating
- AddMovie joins movies or images AddMovie combines multiple movies or images into a single movie and batch exporting movies to any format supported by QuickTime
- Free "How-To" Podcasting Guide "PoducateMe: Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education" is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide detailing how to create and distribute podcast recordings to students through the Internet. Best of all, it's FREE.
- Direct Mail management for Mac OS X Direct Mail 2.0 popular mailing list management and mail delivery application for Mac OS X, allowing users to stay in touch with contacts quickly and easily without worrying about the details of mail server configurations.
- Hard drive diagnostic scanning Before your hard drive fails, check out the SMART Utility hard drive diagnostic scanning application. This utility finds failing drives, expanding drive listings, to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives
- You Control Leopard You Control the utility for creating custom menus on the Mac -- This update delivers fixes to provide compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and its new features
- ShoveBox for Mac OS X ShoveBox v1.1 adds shell commands, word Importing and more - distinguishing features are its lightweight design and elegant user interface
- Azkend Game challenges your skills Azkend Game challenges your skills ... unlock 8 mighty talismans and unleash their powerful help as you make your way to the mysterious temple. Featuring loads of challenging levels, stunning scenery, and two game modes, Azkend is a magical adventure of puzzling fun.
- Digital Camera News George Engel warns about two faulty Kodak cameras, and stresses researching your purchases before you buy. George Engel sez: Research now, so you won't get hooked later...
- Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder User Group personality Maria O. Arguello shares her experiences with the new Flip Video -- next-generation video processing produces the highest quality mobile-compatible video while using minimal memory
- How to Market Without Marketing Contributing writer, Janice Jenkins shares her tips and tricks for busy people who don't have time for a marketing course. How to Market Without Marketing
- Graphics of the Americas 2008 Five-Day InDesign, Pixel, Vector and Adobe Acrobat Conferences offer unprecedented peer schmoozing, tips, tricks, seminars and tutorials covering all the important graphics and imaging tools today's creatives need to master
- Control fonts and tunes You Control: Fonts 1.3 is the system-wide WYSIWYG font menu, and You Control: Tunes 1.6 is the powerful iTunes controller and library browsing utility.
- Everyone likes fonts Macware's FontLibrary is a collection of great fonts in both TrueType and OpenType format -- features 100 font families in creative, classic, designer and refined categories.
- Journaling for Mac OS X Memoires is very simple journaling software with gorgeous user interface. Users can choose a day and write as many notes for that day as they like.
- The Nikon D80 Dbook The Nikon D80 Dbook your interactive guide to DSLR photography - a must for all serious amateur, semi-professional, or professional photographers
- Online Storytelling You can now take your audio, video and digital photos and combine them all into one online story to share with family and friends. Instead of having to point friends to one site for videos and another for photos
- Giant Final Cut Pro "SuperMeet" The seventh annual FCPUG SuperMeet - January, 16, 2008 at the Mission Bay Conference Center, as part of the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, CA.
- LightZone First Professional Photo Editor for Linux Users LightZone photo-editing software is the only application of its kind that performs on all three major platforms -- which can improve every photo regardless of camera type -- from cell phone cameras, to point and click, to D-SLR's
- Sell your photos online Pixaria Gallery a comprehensive content management system that gives photographers everything they need to publish and sell digital images on their own website
- iWork Templates Packages If you need some professional design help, Jumsoft Pages Templates for iWork offer a broad range of brochures, business cards, envelopes, letterheads, memos, and invoices for those without talent.
- Auto-correct typos on Leopard Auto-correct typos and auto-type text across all Mac OS X applications with Ergonis Software Typinator 2.1 - Leopard ready
- CheckUp for Mac OS X CheckUp allows you to understand the behavior of your computer in real time. It also allows you to manage alerts to prevent problems in the future.
- iPhone becomes Business Tool Astaro Corporation has announced that iPhone users can now use two varieties of road warrior virtual private networks - you no longer have to open their laptop in order to access company or home network resources
- 20 Apps 40 bucks 20MacApps, a project from NameNetwork Ltd, have announced the immediate availability of their special pre-launch savings bundle for the new project. Prelaunch customers will get all 20 apps for the price of just two -- plus a free copy of Billy Frontier, the space cowboy game
- Audio Studio for Mac With WireTap Studio, you no longer have to wrangle music files or online recorded music through several applications to end up with your favorite MP3 files or high quality recordings.
- You are under attack If your network and computers could make new year's resolutions, here are eight they would make for a more safe, secure 2008
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Holiday Designs for Adobe Festive designs for Photoshop and Illustrator include 200 New royalty-free custom shapes - vector designs for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements + over 1000 stunning designs for Illustrator
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