PhotoFrame 4PhotoFrame is a Photoshop plugin that helps you create digital frames for your digital images. When you think back to most any museum trip you've taken, the vast majority of the paintings are presented in a beautiful frame (which sometimes looks better than the image contained therein). Digital images presented on a computer or the web should be no different. With this new release, PhotoFrame has significantly advanced its usability and ease of finding "just the right frame." That's not to say it wasn't easy before; it was. But with each integration of newer versions, OnOne Software has done an even better job of removing the guessing about how each different frame might look with your image and making the final decision based on what you could see. Well, mostly. In this latest release, there are some wonderful improvements along with some strange glitches, all leading to a mostly great new release.

Cool Mac Gear


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Mac OS X (including iPhone version) now has more than of 10 percent of the OS market and more thanapproachinf half of Vista's penetration

AlchemyTV358

These days, with a digital camcorder and a FireWire cable, pretty much any Macintosh can pull in video. Supposing your source is analog, though. Supposing you want to watch cable TV on your Mac. Or hey, how about FM radio? One of the best solutions for these I've seen in a while is AlchemyTV from Miglia.


RIP iMac: And What To Replace It With?250

OS 9 bootability would make the decision easier


Coloring ‘Books229

Colored 'Pods too


Notable New Product News - Friday, February 13, 2004270

• Apple GarageBand 1.0.1 Recording Studio
• Own A Piece Of History: Virginia Tech 2.0GHz Dual G5s At MacMall
• Former Apple Computer Product Evangelists Launch New Venture To Make Macintosh G5 AND G4 Towers “Mobile”
• Concord Camera Corp. Ships Concord Eye-Q 3040 & 2040; Easy to Use, Affordable 3 & 2 Megapixel Digital Cameras
• Neon Software Unveils LANsurveyor 8.0 for Macintosh
• New Features in LANsurveyor 8.0
• Macromedia Director MX 2004 Now Available
• LetterRip Pro 4.0.4 Mailing List Server Software
• Shredit X for OS X - The Electronic Document Shredder
• Innovative PV1900 Takes Your Digital Photos Off the Computer and Onto the Wall
• Lexar Media Announces Exclusive Retail Distribution Agreement for Camera Bits' Popular Photo Mechanic Software
• Verizon Wireless and Kodak Forge Strategic Relationship
• EchoStar, SIRIUS Join Forces With RadioShack To Form Satellite Entertainment Alliance



Moore’s News Roundup Digest - Friday, February 13, 2004 181

• Mac Supercomputer Could Bring Apple Credibility In Servers
• Real World Observations On Apple’s 15” PowerBook
• ExtremeTech: iTunes Bad, WMA Good
• Disney Takeover Could Open Way For New Pixar Deal
• IBM 90nm G5 Chip To 'Outrun' Prescott, Athlon 64
• Apple, IBM New G5 'Best Desktop Processor'
• ZNet Tests The Apple G4 iBook Series
• Lexicon Software Organizes Words, Phrases; Now Supports OS X


Shareware Beat - Friday, February 13, 2004262

• Burnz 1.1.4 Burns CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW By Drag & Drop [OS 10.2.8 up]
• HappyWife 1.1 Randomly Pops Up Declarations Of Your Love For Someone [OS 10.2 up]
• Cunning Fox 1.0.1 Tool To Stop And Continue The Running Applications Under Mac OS X [OS 10.2 up]
• FTPeel 1.1.1 FTP Client With Mirroring [OS 10.2 up]
• BookLightning 1.2 Creates And Prints Booklets From PDF Files [OS 10.3 up]
• Finder Window Manager 1.7.3 Creates Finder Window Sets & More [OS 10.2 up]
• Yum! 0.5.1 Recipe Cookbook With Sample Collection [OS 10.2 up]
• Budget 4.3.5 Financial Utility - Money Management Made Simple [OS X 10.1 up]
• IPNetMonitorX 1.4c1 Monitors & Troubleshoots Net Connections [OS X 10.1 up]
• Mireth Technology releases ShredIt X 5.4
• Status Symbol 1.22


Tivo Home Media Option373

Excellent enhancement to Tivo Series 2 units


Friday the XIIIth199

Ah, that sly British wit. Here it is, Friday the 13th, and Feral Interactive has a bunch of new information on their upcoming shooter, XIII, the Mac port of the stylistic console hit.



No more toil and trouble with Bubble Trouble on Panther174

Ambrosia Software, Inc. has announced an update to Bubble Trouble X, its popular arcade style game of aquatic fish terror (well, perhaps "terror" is a bit harsh). Bubble Trouble X 1.0.2 contains both enhancements and bug fixes that are recommended for users of previous versions of the game.


Charles Moore Reviews The Best Of The Joy Of Tech275

Also: a "Preview Review" of iLife 04: The Missing Manuals


New G5 chip to “outrun” AMD, Intel226

Now this is more like it. According to Microprocessor Report EIC Peter Glaskowsky, the new G5 chips expected this summer should, to put it in technical terms, kick some serious booty.


iSkin Protouch Keyboard Protector440

The Protouch is otherwise a very snug fit. So snug, in fact, that it doesn't require any adhesives to hold it to the keyboard, which is great because you can remove it for regular cleaning. After about a week, I was horrified to see all the grime and bits that had worked their way into the crevices of the Protouch... trash that would have normally made its way into the keyboard itself.