Welcome to Macworld's monthly Interactive CD-ROM. We have long wanted to compile the great tips and tricks featured monthly in Macworld's Create articles, and this month we do just that, focusing on graphics articles. So look at our main feature "Graphics Compendium" for step-by-step hints on how to make your graphic images even better.
While we don't generally subscribe to paranoid notions, there is enough buzz about Internet attacks out there to make us, and probably you, concerned—especially those of you who are on cable modems or DSL lines. Our bonus feature this month "Protect Your Mac" features several Mac applications to help you create a firewall between your Mac and the Internet. Some of these firewalls also include routing and DHCP services that will let you share your Internet connection across a local area network of computers—Macs and PCs.
Reviews this month brings demos and info about ACI Us's 4th Dimension database application, MixMan Studio, ArtMatic, the ImagePort Xtension for Quark, and a variety of others. Our favorite, of course, is Quake III Arena. Who says we have to grow up?
Note: Be sure to check the read me files of review demos. Many applications this month have stringent memory and hardware requirements.
In addition to Quake III Arena, this month's GameSpace brings you Aperion from Ambrosia Software, makers of great shareware games for the Mac. This update of the arcade classic Centipede will have you squashing bugs with relish.
In Breen's Bungalow, our very own Music Man Chris Breen shows you how to avoid trouble with a capital "T" by using your Mac and MIDI to write, record, and perform your very own songs. Who knows, perhaps you'll be the next great MP3 recording label—without ever leaving your garage.
And we bring you our updated shareware archive with over 250 shareware programs, plus 20 new additions!
This rest of this document contains technical and user information
regarding the software on this CD-ROM. Please review it now, or take a
moment to print and read this document.
NOTE: All of the videos on this disc require QuickTime 3.0 or later.
SOFTWARE NOTES
• CelView requires a serial number to activate its 30-day trial. In User Name, enter "Celview 2.0 Macworld 30 Day Demo". In Registration Number, type: 9E0F 19ED DAFJ FACA. To purchase a permanent registration number, go to: http://www.celview.com.
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri takes a long time to install. (Patience, grasshopper.)
• Music for Breen's Bungalow courtesy of Musicopia Volume 1, a collection of royalty free music available from MacSourcery (www.macsourcery.com). Music composed and arranged by John W. Scott, copyright 1997, Fort Parva Productions, LLC.
DISK CONTENTS
All products are demos unless stated otherwise:
*** Products ***
4th Dimension Standard Edition 6.5
Aperion 1.03
ArtMatic 1.2.1
CelView 2.0
DoorStop 1.2
FriendlyShare (info only)
ImagePort 1.0 (requires Quark XPress)
Internet Gateway 6.6
IPNetRouter 1.4.8
Mind Your Own Business 9.0
Mixman Studio Mac 1.1
NetBarrier 1.1
Quake III Arena
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
*** New Shareware ***
Audiocorder 1.7.0
AutoBoot 1.6.5
David's BackGammon 3.7.1
File Clerk 1.0.8
FileLift 3.5
Fuffy 1.1.1
MacPopUp 1.2
Macster 1.0 Preview 3.5
Magic Power Menu 2.0.2
Menuette 3.0.1
Moon Menu 1.0.4
MoosePad 1.0.5
OpenUsing 1.5.4
OS9 Control Strip Tab Patches
Package Tracker 1.5.2
RIMS Admin 3.3
Sherlock MegaChannels 1.0.3
SmartScore 1.3
StarGazer's Delight 4.5.1 e
StuffCM 2.5.2
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