There are thousands of software applications available for your Mac, from Apple, from third-party developers, and from shareware and freeware developers. We'll help you pick the best applications for your needs and budget, as well as help you get more out of using them.
Bento 3 is geared towards consumers, home-based businesses, and small businesses who need a capable database for organizing information, tracking projects, planning events, and keeping inventory, but who don’t need the high-end features or cost of FileMaker’s flagship product, FileMaker Pro.
Review: Elgato’s EyeTV 250 Plus is a small USB-based TV tuner and DVR (Digital Video Recorder) for the Mac. The EyeTV 250 Plus lets you turn your Mac into the equivalent of a TiVo recorder, without the yearly subscription fees. Read more in this expert review from About: Macs.
Disk Utility, one of the many applications included with OS X, allows you to work with your hard drives. You can use Disk Utility not only to erase, format, and partition a drive, but also to repair problems that may crop up from time to time.
Disk Utility, a free application included with Mac OS X, is a multipurpose, easy-to-use tool for working with hard drives and drive images. Among other things, Disk Utility can erase, format, repair, and partition hard drives, as well as create RAID arrays. You can also use it to create a clone of any drive, including your startup drive.
Easy VHS to DVD for Mac marks Roxio’s entry into the video capture market for the Mac. Easy VHS to DVD for Mac is an analog, USB-based video capture device for turning your VHS, Hi8, and Video8 takes into DVDs.
Each week I pick a software application that meets our goals for quality software with extraordinary value. I would like to hear from you, our About: Macs readers. Please nominate your favorite software applications in any of the following categories: utilities, games, productivity, development, education, graphics, and multimedia. Feel free to nominate multiple applications in multiple categorie…
iSeek Review: iSeek places a search field in the Apple menu bar that you can use to search the Internet at any time, from any application. The basic idea behind iSeek is very compelling, and its implementation is a good one, with an easy-to-use interface.
Review: iClipboard from Chronos L.C. is a clipboard manager that stores everything you copy to the standard Mac clipboard. While there are a number of third-party clipboard managers that provide the same type of unlimited clipping storage, iClipboard goes a step further by providing powerful ways to access, organize, edit, and use the clippings.
Review: Toast 10 Titanium brings a wide selection of data, audio, and video tools to both amateur and professional Mac enthusiasts. Its ability to provide multiple tools does not interfere with its core function: to burn information onto recordable media.
TypeIt4Me is a text expander program that can be used to replace text abbreviations with clippings, textual segments that have been assigned to an abbreviation. Typical uses are for expanding text into often-used phrases, such as professional jargon (think legalese or medical terms), email signatures, addresses, or complex code segments.
Ricochet Infinity provides hours of arcade-style entertainment with over 200 levels of play. Even when you complete the game, Ricochet Infinity offers replay value, through changing skill levels, creating your own levels, or downloading new levels created by other players.
DVDRemaster is a must-have video tool that can easily re-encode and compress video to fit a target device. Find out more in the About: Macs review of DVDRemaster.
OpenOffice.org is a free office suite that provides all of the core tools a business or home office user needs to be productive in a day-to-day work environment. In this review we will examine each of the core OpenOffice.org applications.
Review: Bean is a lightweight word processor designed for writing, note taking, and other similar tasks. Bean uses very little in the way of system resources, and has a clean, efficient interface.
Each week I pick a software application that meets our goals for quality software with extraordinary value. I’ll be looking at software from every category, including utilities, games, productivity, development, education, graphics, and multimedia, and then highlighting the best one I discover each week. If you have any suggestions, feel free to drop me an emai
Swift Publisher 2 is a budget-friendly and easy-to-use way to create brochures, newsletters, flyers, and other personal and small business documents. It offers some of the features found in higher-end desktop publishing programs, and includes a collection of templates and clip art.
Bento 2, FileMaker’s latest database application, may very well be the friendliest personal organizer for the Mac. Bento is a fully relational database that is easy to use and easy on the budget.
Mariner Software's MacJournal 5 may be the best journal, diary, and blogging front end for the Mac. Focus on Macs found so much to like about MacJournal 5 that it earned a four-star rating.
Screenshots taken during FileMaker Bento review.
Bento, FileMaker’s latest database application, may very well be the friendliest personal organizer for the Mac. Bento offers a fully relational database that is easy to use and easy on the budget.
The version of Disk Utility bundled with OS X 10.5 or later has a few notable features, specifically, the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without erasing data. If you need to resize a partition, or you would like to split a partition into multiple partitions, you can do it with Disk Utility, without losing the data that’s currently stored on the drive.
Disk Utility is the application of choice for partitioning a hard drive. Disk Utility is straightforward and easy to use, it provides a nice graphical interface, and best of all, it’s free. Disk Utility is included with the Mac OS.
Review of Toast 9 Titanium and its many new features, including Blu-ray support, streaming video, and an improved user interface.
It's been a long wait, but Office 2008 for Mac is finally here. Focus on Macs tests and reviews the performance of Office 2008's major applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage), with a particularly critical look at how well they work with Intel Macs.
Safari supports multi-window and tabbed browsing. If you're not sure how to take advantage of this feature, these keyboard shortcuts can help.
Safari accurately displays web pages as their designers intended, which isn't always a good thing. Fortunately, you can easily control text size.
Apple's Mail is one of the most intuitive email applications currently available for Macs. It can easily handle Gmail and other web-based email accounts.
Apple's Mail is one of the most intuitive email applications currently available for Macs. It can easily handle AOL and other web-based email accounts.
Disk Utility, a free application included with Mac OS X, is a handy tool for working with hard drives, removable media, and drive images. It's also a good choice for erasing and formatting hard drives for the Mac.
