Hi everyone and welcome to disc one of MacFormat 158.

In case  you missed last month this is the second month of our new easy-to-use interface.

We've got rid of the dock effect and put an easy-to-use menu system. On the bottom of this window you'll see four menu items. They're for things which won't change from issue to issue. Click on any of them and you'll be taken to the subscription page, the MacFormat Forums, the MacFormat Website, or to our credits and contacts page.

Above this window you'll see some more menu choices. Each month these will change according to what we've put on the disc but this month there are five main sections. 

Our lead software this month is 

This month we've got some tremedous Tiger-taming toolkit Tidbits to help keep your new kitty useful.  The Toolkit is split up into three sections tackling Dashboard Widgets; Automator Scripts; and Spotlight Plugins.  

We go head-to-head with some of the reviewed Photoshop Plugins (turn to our Group Test for more info); have three great tutorials for you (including yet another free year's registration for Graphic Converter) ; and we've even managed to fit in some fantastic specially prepared software from Zonic.