PhotoTiles: produce an image of images

July 7, 2008

Sometimes I see the name of a new piece of software that someone tips us off to, and the name conjures up something completely different from what the reality is.

PhotoTiles, for instance, brought to mind the ability to create those cool pictures that are made up of all of your other photos. …

New Keynote Motion Themes from iPresentee

July 7, 2008

If you’re bored foolish with the typical theme backgrounds in Keynote, pop on by to iPresentee’s website and check out Keynote Motion Themes 2.0. These themes, which were released today (7/7/08), add five more motion themes to iPresentee’s product line.

All of these themes supply moving backg…

Free Stuff: Keynote Objects

June 23, 2008

iPresentee, a small company providing themes and objects for Apple’s iLife and iWeb software suites, is offering a free download of Keynote Objects.

Keynote Objects is a package of 100 appealing icon-like objects that can be used not only with Keynote, but additionally with Microsoft PowerPoi…

Extensis Universal Type Server: Font management for workgroups

June 18, 2008

Another product announced at Macworld Expo, Extensis Universal Type Server, is now shipping. Universal Type Server is designed for corporate font management, requiring Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.4 or 10.5 on a G5 or better machine. My personal opinion is that that would be a perfect applicat…

PopChar X 4.0

June 16, 2008

PopChar X, the little utility that gets all of those funky symbols, accents, and other special characters into your documents without having to remember arcane key codes, has been updated to version 4 for Mac.

PopChar has been around for by 20 years and is a favorite of editors and designers….

Houdini 9.5 3D software coming to OS X

June 16, 2008

Side Effects is bringing Houdini, their professional 3D software, to OS X for the first day with the release of the Houdini 9.5 beta for OS X, Windows, and Linux. According to the company, Houdini “brings the 3D industry’s first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collabo…

Graphics Powerhouse: ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC edition

June 15, 2008

Mac Pro users — it’s day to ability up the graphics capability of your machine! ATI has announced the new Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition. Whether you’re a serious gamer or a graphics designer, that new card features 256-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer memory, 320 stream processors, twin dual-…

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