![]() Mac, Backup - All Coming Together 13 Better management for digital assets 14 Spam, Virus and Content Filtering with PerlMx 15 Speaking of spam. October 2002 01 Bitmap Image Filters with Cocoa 02 Pantone and the Money of Colors 03 PiXELS 3D too late for us 05 ScreenArena redefines the CRT 06 Free eBook Library to Internet Users 07 Computer Tips from David Pogue 08 Easy Browser eliminates popups! 09 Swiss Knife Software 10 AddaButton adds extra buttons to Explorer 11 Anydown multiple browse and download 12 802.11. November 2002 01 Letterheads for the Fonts Festival - 02 Cleaner, faster FLASH video encoding - 03 The Media Bakery - 04 LapCop: smarter than thieves - 05 Spam sites' Pop-up Ads - dishonest - 06 Speaking of honest advertising - 07 Copyrights, Wrongs Get a Review - 08 Apple's Stickiest Marketing Ploy - 09 Super Maps - Forget about Map Quest - 10 Automatic CD jackets and labels? - 11 Do you keep the books. Holiday Field Trip: Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum 14. Information Graphics - by Ronnie Lipton 10. Fred's Gift Book Picks for 2002 Holiday Season 08. Photoshop 911 Call Reports, Tips & Tricks 07. Special Presentation: inventing a place 05. Winner: Steve takes us down the "Blue Highway" 04. Winner: Jeni says "Startling" favorite font 03. Happy Holidays from Fred, DTG, and the Design Center 02. 2004 – One of the advantages of using a Mac is the wealth of software available for the platform.Else! DTG News for Creative People Use your Browser's "FIND" command to search past issues of DT&G Online NewsletterĠ1. Of course, this runs contrary to common wisdom – the Mac is thought to be a poor cousin to Windows in terms of the number of applications available. This is literally true – there are many more programs available on the PC – but it ignores three key facts.įirstly, all of the applications that are important for day-to-day usage, from Word to Photoshop, are available on the Mac. Not only this, but they are often superior to their PC namesakes. Secondly, the vast majority of PC-only applications are dreadful. ![]() Many inexpensive applications for Windows, such as you might find on a carousel at the local convenience store, are of amazingly low quality. Thirdly, the Mac’s small market presence means that applications developed by small companies and shareware developers can make a splash in the marketplace proportionally greater than they could achieve on the PC. It is four such applications that we’re taking a look at today. Publisher’s note: This article was written in 2004. Prices and capabilities of these shareware apps may well have changed since then. GraphicConverter is only just a shareware app – that is, it is shareware, but it’s so popular that it could be boxed, shrink-wrapped, and sold for $200 and still remain popular. Thankfully, Thorsten Lemke, the developer, doesn’t seem to want to go down that route. GraphicConverter is sold as an application that converts graphics files from one format to another, a task that it performs admirably. GraphicConverter imports about 175 graphic file formats and can export about 75 graphic file formats. This includes all of the usual formats (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc.) as well as more exotic formats used by Atari computers, Amigas, Silicon Graphics workstations, and the venerable Apple IIGS.Īt a price of $30 (or $35 if you want a CD), this alone would make the application worth owning, but GraphicConverter is actually a full-featured bitmap editor in its own right. The program is limited to RGB files only, which means it’s not really a competitor to Photoshop, but it certainly gives apps like ColorIt! and Photoshop Elements a run for their money.
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