If you’re planning on adding animated GIFs to a web site or CD-ROM, here’s a great program for compressing them without sacrificing the quality in any way. It also serves as a full-function animated GIF viewer. Includes both 68k and PPC versions.
Acrobat Reader 3.0.1 - Freeware
Adobe Systems Inc., Voice 408-536-6000, Fax 408-537-6000, http://www.adobe.com/
This free reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all platforms and is a companion to Adobe Acrobat. You will need this to view various PDF documents contained within some of the included software programs.
BackgroundWarper 1.1 - Shareware
Georges Gyory, ggyory@club-internet.fr, http://perso.club-internet.fr/ggyory/Warper/warper1.html
Design seamless backgounds for your web pages or desktop with this little program. Comes with examples ready-to-use and modify. Requires a PPC.
Color Picker App 1.0 - Freeware
Yuval Shavit, yshavit@magicsquare.com
This simple little program pops up the standard Color Picker (which varies depending on which OS you’re running), and copies the color you choose to the clipboard in HTML format (#RRGGBB). Great for those designers who are a little leery of web authoring programs.
For all 3D enthusiasts. This program allows you to mathematically create bitmaps that can be used as 2D maps in a wide variety of 3D applications. These images can then be used for alpha channels, bump maps, transparent maps, or diffuse color maps. Requires a PPC and Mac OS 7.1.2 or later.
This Photoshop plug-in filter allows artists to choose from 18 different hatching effects to create pen-and-ink textures from source images. You can also customize your own effects and save them for reuse later. Requires at least Mac OS 7.6 and Photoshop 3.0.
This creative program allows you to create spatial models, images, and walkthroughs, from initial sketches to polished presentations. Model in 3D real-perspective space using drag & drop editing to create your own architecture, interior design, landscape, even your own virtual world. Contains both 68k and PPC versions.
Here’s a great collection of nine retro-style fab fonts from the people at dincTYPE, true Mac addicts themselves. Use these PostScript fonts for all your design needs. Whether you use them for personal use or commercial applications, dem dincFonts are free!
Flash 3 - Demo
Macromedia, http://www.macromedia.com/
This powerful program is great for creating interactive vector graphics and animation for the web. Create compact navigational interfaces, technical illustrations, long-form animations, and other special effects for your site. Flash is feature-rich, fast, and easy to use. Wow! Requires a PPC.
This program allows you to browse and proof-print fonts without installing the fonts in your system. Drag one or more fonts (or a folder or disk full of fonts) onto the Gander icon or drag & drop a font into one of the Gander’s windows. Requires at least Mac OS 7.0. This is beta software.
Corrupt, missing, and duplicate fonts can be a cause of crashes and unpredictable output. This program (formerly known as Font Box) can help eliminate font problems by locating, analyzing, and reporting on the condition of all your fonts. It fixes fractured fonts, rejoins font families, eliminates duplicates, and reorganizes your library. Requires at least Mac OS 7.5.
You don’t need to be a genius to create demonstrative GIF animations. This simple program allows you to produce animated “how to’s” of software programs by using screen captures for your building blocks. Create animations in minutes and with less k size than others. Contains both 68k and PPC versions.
This all-purpose image editing program can open and save images in just about any graphics format. It also features high-end editing tools for graphic manipulation, as well as support for Photoshop plugins.
Graphics Calculator 2.5 - Shareware
David Wilson, CaptUSA@airmail.net
Here’s a useful tool designed with the graphic arts community in mind. This calculator allows artists to compute sizing calculations, graphic file sizes, transfer rates, value conversions, and halftone screening. Should work on all Macs.
Give your page designs some extra kick. This 8 set collection features a vast array of royalty-free images for your web pages. The sets include textures, alphabet, symbols, cartoon, button images, and more.
Just in under the wire! Set #9 includes 50 colorful tridimensional tiles for use on your web pages. Check out the other 8 great sets on this disc by installing the MacMake WebCollection.
Surf’s up dude! And riding the big one in is this collection of desktops guaranteed to please all you Mac fanatics. Choose from the “Mac is Back “or “iMac” designs, both available in 5 fruity colors and 2 screen resolutions, or get the secret MacAddict exclusive design... Requires Mac OS 8.0 or better.
If you’ve got tons of JPEG files laying around and you want to create thumb-nails of them, this program can help. Peguimin J will arrange your files in the same compression ratio, resize your images so that they are all similar, and chage them all to the same creator type.
For Wacom tablet users. This collection of professional, pen-sensitive, Photoshop plug-in tools are great for image editing and design. It allows you to precisely apply and control image effects based on the nuance and inflection of your hand movements. Requires a PPC, 16 MB RAM, OS 7.0 or later, and Wacom Mac Driver 2.5.5 or later.
This simple tool allows you to distort an image to make it appear as though you’re seeing it through water. The program can also save your files as QuickTime movies. Requires a PPC, Mac OS 7.5 or later, and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
This Photoshop plug-in is a high performance tool that prepares optimized JPEG images for the Web. It features superior compression abilities, a speedy interactive interface, download time approximation, image smoothing controls, and more. Requires Photoshop 3.0 or greater.
THE industry standard for page layout design for designers and publishers. Produce ads, catalogues, magazines, newspapers, and more, easily with this full-featured package. It integrates type, layout, color, and graphics-handling features with professional illustration tools, word processing, and sophisticated prepress functions, all in one program. Contains both 68k and PPC versions.
This useful tool captures any part of your screen and saves the image into a clipping file as a thumbnail icon. Just double-click to view again at full size.
Web-o-Tron 1.0 - Shareware
Dario Gibellini, gibellini@aol.com
The Web-o-Tron Layout-o-Matic is a useful and fun tool for helping you decide on an HTML layout for your web pages and offers a series of templates for you to plug in all of your own text and images. The well-designed interactive interface allows you to drag and drop different templates and view it within your browser. Tres cool!
Window Monkey Patterns Collection - Freeware
Gary Hanna, garyhanna@macconnect.com, http://members.macconnect.com/~garyhanna
Got Window Monkey? Here are some fine, subtle Window Monkey patterns designed by Gary Hanna, who brought you DeskTop Zones back in October. Plug ‘em in and enjoy.
The MacAddict Zang-O-Font Pack #1 is a gift to you, dear readers, from Jamie Nazaroff. Included are eight fonts, in both PostScript and TrueType, that are a bit of a walk on the wild side. Zang-O-Fonts gives away free fonts on their web site on a regular basis, so check them out from time to time.
