If a picture is worth a thousand words, using the proper font to display your text merges words and images and greatly enhances the experience of your readers.
This month's CD offers OVER 300 FREE POSTSCRIPT FONTS from Ray Larabie,
plus a selection of font tools and demos, on top of our usual games, updates and other cool Mac food.
In the heat of summer, let your creativity go wild!
SPONSORED THIS MONTH BY ESSENTRIX
Trade Assist brings the stock market to your Mac’s desktop!
With FREE real-time quotes, a ticker, tracking lists and custom alerts, any investor can become a better trader. Trade Assist provides the portfolio management tools desired by long-term investors and real-time quote data and displays that day-traders need. Trade Assist supports stock research tools, international markets, graphical tickers, news, graphs and charts for any stock, streaming video, multiple portfolios, and programmable actions.
Whether you day trade, long term invest, or dabble in both, Trade Assist is the tool to use!
Install this fully functional demo version and try it out!
Also make sure to have a look at the other demos included on this month’s CD!
THE RAY LARABIE FONT COLLECTIONS
Over 300 free PostScript™ fonts for your pleasure. Use the included Acrobat (PDF) catalogs to select the font faces you like, or pick one of the following utility to help you select and manage your font collection.
CHARVIEW 1.0B7
Utility that shows up all printing characters of a selected font.
FONTBUDDY 2.1.1
Preview what any font looks like before decided to use it.
FONT FINDER 1.2.1
Font Finder is actually three utilities in one:
- FONT FINDER - View different fonts and find special characters. Learn their keystroke sequence and ASCII code. Copy individual characters to the clipboard for pasting in other documents.
- TITLE BUILDER - Create text with differing fonts, sizes, and styles. Great for creating mixed type headlines. Invaluable when using foreign language fonts, like Cyril or Thai. Copy your newly-created title to the clipboard for pasting into other documents.
- CONVERTER - Convert measurements between inches, picas, points and centimeters. Enter one and the other three auto-calculate. Also, calculate a fraction’s decimal value (ie: 1/32 = 0.03125). You select the numerator and denominator, it auto-calculates.
FONTAGENT 8.1 DEMO
A font troubleshooting and organizing utility, will detect and repair many font problems.
FONTDOCTOR™ V4.5DEMO
Another font troubleshooting utility. Scan and repair fonts, font folders. Corrupted or damaged fonts can often be at the root of many subtle Mac problems.
FONTS MANAGER™ 3.9.2
Fonts Manager™ is similar to the Mac OS Extensions Manager, but it manages Fonts instead. It allows the enabling and disabling of font suitcases and printer fonts in 'Sets', so you shrink those long Font menus.
FONTVISTA™ DEMO
FontVista is a font catalog and inspection tool for Macintosh. Use FontVista to find hard to remember keystrokes, print a font catalog or sample page, or simply inspect your font library.
FONTXPRESS™ 5.0 TRIAL
A stand-alone software application that works in conjunction with the Collect For Output report from QuarkXPress™ to collect all of your QuarkXPress™ document fonts onto a disk for output by a service bureau. FontXpress™ for Macintosh will also alert you to potential output problems that may exist with your QuarkXPress™ document.
LOGOTYPEMAKER PRO 2.5.3
LogotypeMaker displays a string of text using all your currently installed fonts—one font face per line—with just a single click. LogotypeMaker’s main function is the typesetting of a text string using all your activated fonts. The application’s purpose is to help graphics professionals choosing an appropriate typeface
in the early stages of creating logotypes.
THE FONTZ 2.5
Application designed to help you organize the large numbers of fonts that quickly accumulate in your system's Font folder. You can quickly and easily create groups of like fonts. Browsing and locating fonts was never easier. Find that perfect font fast.
AMADEUS II V3.0.1
Sound editor that supports MP3 files.
MACAMP 2.0.1
Was called AmpRadio. Listen to streaming Internet radio broadcasts, play audio files of all kind and even broadcast your own iStation!
MEGASEG 1.4.1
Allows you to professionally mix MP3 songs on your Mac. Also includes N2MP3 to encode MP3 files from audio CD.
MP3 RAGE 3.1
Adds a number of new enhancements and fixes. The best tool to manage your MP3 music collection, or find music on the web using OpenNap servers and others.
SOUND STUDIO 1.5.4
Audio recording and editing tool.
SOUNDAPP 2.7.3 PPC
Plays or converts a variety of sound formats.
3D EUCHRE DELUXE
Euchre card game with a 3D perspective and internet play.
3D HEARTS DELUXE
A classic: Play Hearts against Bill Clinton or Barney.
3D KLONDIKE
The classic solitaire game, revamped for your enjoyment.
3D SPADES DELUXE
Play a highly graphical game of Spades with single or multiplayer options.
BATTLE FOR THE UNIVERSE V1.1.1
BftU is best described as having a look-and-feel similar to that of Escape Velocity (Ambrosia's popular space game) combined with the playability of Minotaur (Bungie's first game). BftU includes 3-D rendered graphics and digitized sounds. You can play BftU against the computer or against human opponents over a network. Note, the demo has a time limit, but is otherwise fully functional.
EUCHRE 5.4
A simple Euchre game by Christopher Jones.
IPOKER™
PowerPoker was one of the first games accelerated for Power Macintosh, and it came bundled with many Macs. It has been retooled for compatibility with newer versions of the OS , and is now available as $25 shareware iPoker 2000 - A great poker game!
MAC500
I received many requests for this one from readers. Mac500 is a computer version of the popular card game 500. It is a four player game, with you and your computer partner (North) playing against two computer opponents (East and West).
MACMAME
MAME attempts to emulate as closely as possible the original hardware of the early eighties arcade games. As we discover how a game works, support for it is added to the emulator. To run the games, you need their ROM images - while many are still under copyright, some early game designers have released their work in the public domain. You will have to search the Internet for those, since a condition for distributing MAME is that no ROM files may be included with it.
MATH FLASH V1.0
Math Flash is a no-nonsense drill and practice program to aide students in learning single and double digit addition and subtraction.
MONSTER HUNTER DEMO
Top view game where you huunt and kill classical monsters - but MUST get the weapon that aims at their vulnerability to do so!.
MTF MULTIPLICATION FOR OS X
Master the Facts Multiplication is a no-nonsense drill and practice program to aide students in learning multiplication facts.
SNES9X
SNES9X is a Super Nintendo emulator being designed by Gary Henderson, Chad Kitching and Jerremy Koot. The Macintosh version of SNES9X is ported by John Stiles.
TEACHER'S FAVORITE HANGMAN 2.1
Enter your own terms and definitions into a hangman game program so that it can truly match the material your students are studying in your classroom! Trial-ware: Try out the Teacher's Favorite Hangman program and Teacher's Favorite Hangman Dictionary Editor, limited in that each dictionary file you create can have a maximum of 10 terms/definitions until registered.
TRIPLE-A 1.6
An all-time favorite: Use your anti-aircraft weaponry to stave off wave after wave of enemy assaults and buy time for additional supplies to reach your position and bolster the defense. With time, your somewhat antiquated equipment will be replaced by increasingly sophisticated and deadly air defense weaponry, and ground defense emplacements will be erected to help protect your gun position against the inevitable troopers that manage to evade your defensive fire.
How long can you survive?
ULTIMA III 1.4.2
‘Ultima’ is a series of computer fantasy role-playing games popularized on the Apple II in the early 1980s. Although all of the Ultimas (9, plus several related games) have been written for PC clones, no Ultimas have been released since the mid-1980s for the best personal computer, the Macintosh
Ultima II and Ultima III were originally released around 1985 for the Macintosh, but they were small-screen black & white games, and won’t even run on modern Macs. This Ultima III is a shareware re-write of Ultima III for color Macintosh computers, taking advantage of the modern Mac’s features.
US CONST AND GOV QUIZZER 3.0
US Constitution Quizzer version 3.0 is a simple drill and practice multiple choice quizzer to help students review for US Constitution and Government exams. Various trivia type questions are also included to pique interest.
This quizzer does not attempt to quiz on all aspects of the US Constitution or US Government. It does include over 150 questions relating to the US Constitution and US Government. Many facts may be of the same type student will encounter on tests in school.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 TRYOUT
A trial version of this ubiquitous application. Photoshop is THE standard from graphic editing on the Mac.
ETCHELON MACDOODLE 2.2
Afriendly drawing program for Kids.
Simple for young children: Just color fill in the pre-defined outlines
Simple for older children: 5 tools: Pen, Paint fill, Brush, Smart Brush and Stamp.
GRAPHICCONVERTER 4.0.7
The best shareware graphic editing program for the Mac, even better than some commercial products, This all-purpose application supports Photoshop plug-ins, and translates between most (if not all) graphic file formats.
ICONIZERPRO1.3.9
Iconizer Pro is an application developed for generating a set of 32 bit (16 millions, full colors) icons from any pictures. This feature is normally used for creating a background of CD, folder or other container windows. The output icons can also be viewed on any Mac OS but Mac OS 8.5 or higher is required to view 32 bit color. It’s freeware but it needs registration.
IVIEW MULTIMEDIA 3.8.6
Catalog, play and display multimedia as files, movies, and html.
IVIEW PHOTOMOVER 2.0.3
Works alone or with iView Multimedia to upload your photos to online services.
NIH IMAGE 1.61
Public domain graphic editor by the National Institute of Health, USA.
PAGESPINNER 3.0.2
Easy-to-use web authoring package for Mac OS. The HTML Editor supports HTML 3.2, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 plus additional Netscape and Explorer extensions. It is suitable for both the beginner and the professional web author and gives you quick access to often used formatting. Extensive HELP and templates features will assist the beginner in learning HTML programming.
PRINT TO PDF 2.2
Create PDF docs from maky kind of documents.
PROJPEG™ 5.1
Compress images into high-quality JPEGs.
PROWLER 1.1
Image browser, viewer and slideshow presenter with stylish appearance and streamlined function. It's full screen interface (featuring soft shadows, crossfades, live scrolling) allows you to easily browse folders or volumes of images with large previews presented on screen. With one click in the browser view, the image is viewed at optimum size. Best of all, Prowler is freeware.
RAINBOWPAINTER 1.9.3
A unique painting and photo retouching program for the Macintosh. The unregistered version lets you try all features, with the exception of some effects and the export function. Any pictures you produce in the unregistered version are saved internally, and can be exported when you have registered.
TYPESTYLER™ 3.7.2 UPDATER
Update for this graphic creation program. It’s an upater - You MUST have the original, commercial product!
WEB ALBUM WIZARD 1.3 PPC
Easy to use, step-by-step application that allows users to put their digital photographs on the internet in neatly arranged "thumbnail gallery" format with a minimum of fuss. Web Album Wizard includes three different layout and captioning options and requires no knowledge of HTML to use.
ALARM CLOCK PRO
Alarm Clock Pro has four clearly labeled devices: Classic, Perpetual, Timer and CD Audio. Simply click on the desired alarm type, set the alarm time and you're off! The Perpetual module of the application lets you set seven alarms to ring between now and December 31st, 2040. Classic, another module, allows you to set another seven alarms to ring once everyday, weekday or weekend. The module entitled Timer works just like your standard kitchen timer except it doesn't require any batteries.
Use MP3s, CD Tracks, live Internet audio streams and pretty much anything else as your ring sound. Nevermore wake up in a grumpy mood because of your standard alarm clocks rude buzzing alert.
BOSWELL 1.0.2 DEMO
"An information managing environment." You WILL have to read the docs for this one, or nothing much will happen...
Boswell is not an "application" like a word processor, but more of an "environment" like the Finder or a Web browser. Somewhat the way a web browser enables you to search and navigate all the information other people have created for you on the Internet,
Boswell does the same with your own private information by storing text away permanently and then retrieving it again later, either as an individual item or grouped with others like it. It augments your own memory much as libraries did for civilizations and the early computers did for corporations.
BUDGET
Utility to help you manage your budget: Money coming in, money going out, reports, etc.
GRADEBOOK1 V2.6
Teacher utility: Track scores for each student in 7 academic areas. Hundreds of students can be tracked once the product registration code has been entered.
KEYSTROKES 2.0.2 PPC
Type with your mouse instead of your keyboard.
LANGUAGE ASSISTANT 2.1
Extensive Language translation utility.
PTE - PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS 2.2
Chemical element classification table.
SUM•IT
Easy to use, goodlooking, lightweight spreadsheet. PowerPC native, with drag&drop support, ±80 functions and balloon help. One major advantage of Sum•It compared to other spreadsheets is that it takes up very little memory when using small or avarage spreadsheets and it launches very fast.
COMA MAC 5.4.0
Trialware of this fax software/server for the Mac.
COPY MY IP
This quick application makes it easy to copy your IP address for a game or other purpose: Your IP address is placed in your clipboard. Just paste away!
DAVE
Thursby’s solution for networking Macs and PC makes your life easier. This is a full, 30-days time limited demonstration of the power of this utility.
ENTOURAGE EMAIL ARCHIVE 1.3
Archive Microsoft Entourage emails.
EUDORA ARCHIVER 1.5
Archive Eudora 4 or 5 email messages attachments.
FAXELITE NETWORK EVALUATION
FAXELITE SOLO DEMO
Demo of this fax software/server for the Mac.
GERRY'S ICQ CARBON
Carbon version of this alternative ICQ chat application.
ICAMMASTER 1.7.5
View more than 500 webcams on your desktop.
INTERARCHY 4.0
Internet utility for HTTP, FTP and more. (Previously known as Anarchie)
IP SHOWCASE 2.0
IP Showcase is simple utility, which shows your computer's IP address when it's connected to Internet. You can copy it to clipboard and even send it as e-mail.
MAILCALL 1.7 PPC
Notifies you when new email arrives to your email accounts.
MAVEN 2.0A37
A simple voice-over-IP, Internet phone application.
METAGENERATOR 1.3.1
An older utility, but still works fine, and it’s FREE: Create and modify meta tags in multiple HTML files simultaneously.
NETFINDER V2.2
FTP browser with an open plug-in architecture.
OUTLOOK EMAIL ARCHIVE 2.0
Archive Outlook Express 5 email messages and attachements.
PIPELINEPPC
SOCKS4 & SOCKS5 compatible proxy server. It also includes an HTTP proxy and a new feature called Detour which allows you to redirect connections to different addresses. Pipeline allows anyone to easily run a proxy server with minimal technical knowledge. With Pipeline you can also run multiple proxies on different ports at the same time all through one application. The unregistered version of Pipeline will only run for 15 minutes per launch.
SNAK
Snak is a program that will let you participate in discussions in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. IRC channels are virtual meeting rooms on the Internet, where people all over the world can have real-time conversations.
VSE LINK TESTER 3.2
Automatically check for dead links on your website.
WEB DEVIL 5.3.1
Download complete website pages and graphics.
GETSTOCKS 2.01
Portfolio management application.
GRANT WRITER PRO 2.7 DEMO
Get help writing grants and learn tips for receiving successful funding.
KNOWLEDGEMINER 3.2.1
Stat and analysis utility: Automate the prediction process to make it easier than ever.
NUMERATOR 2.2.5
Print individual non-reoccuring numbers for coupons or tickets.
PRE-LISTER 3.6.2
eBay auction listing management utility
SCREENWRITER 2000 DEMO
THE software used by profesionnal screenwriters, it enables the creator to focus on the work at had and handles all aspects of formating the layout.
SIMPLETEXT ENHANCER 4.0 DEMO
Enhances the common SimpleText word processor.
TEX-EDIT PLUS 4.1.1
Styled text editor. The List is made and read with Tex-Edit. Too many great features to list here - Try it!
9TUNER V5.1
9Tuner is an application program that modifies certain resources in your system files to change the appearances and functionality of your Mac OS 9.
Please understand that using any resource modification software involves risks. We strongly recommend that you keep the “Disk First Aid” application and Mac OS 9 CD handy, they will be great recovery tools whether or not you’re using 9Tuner.
ALADDIN DROPSTUFF 6.0
ALADDIN EXPANDER 6.0
Compress and expand files with the latest release of this ubiquitous utility. Maintains the same compression method as the previous version.
CD FINDER 3.0.2
Latest release of this great disk cataloger.
CLEAN-INSTALL ASSISTANT 1.5.1
Makes updating to a new version of the MacOS simple.
COPYPASTE 4.4.2
Provides you with 100 clipboards instead of 1.
DEFAULT APP 1.0.1
OS 8 extension allows files to open in the application of your choice.
DEFAULT FOLDER 3.0.9
Enhances Open and Save dialog boxes.
EXTENSION OVERLOAD 5.8
Extension manager that’s also a database describing many available extensions.
FINDERMENUTUNER V1.5
FinderMenuTuner is a control panel that enables you to add hot keys with combinations of modifier keys (command, option, control, and shift) to most Finder's menu items. In addition, FinderMenuTuner also enables you to add color icons to most Finder's menu items.
GATHER ITEMS CMM 3.0
Contextual menu extension to gather items by copying, aliasing or moving them.
GAUGE PRO 1.1
Performance utility tests the types and speeds of your CPU, bus speeds, caches, and RAM.
GURU 2.9
Free database with information on all Macs and clones.
HTML VIEWER 1.3.2
HTML Viewer is a simple hypertext viewer, or "browser", meant to be used by people who do not have access to a full-featured browser like Mosaic or Netscape. It is also handy for authoring HTML documents, as it does not have the overhead that the more capable browsers have.
INVISIBLE PREFS
Invisible Prefs does a search though your prefs folder (in mac os or mac os x) and picks out the prefs that are invisible.
ISYNCH 1.4B6
Sychronize your website with a local folder on your computer.
KEYCHAIN AUTOUNLOCK 1.2
Allows OS9 users to automatically unlock your Keychain at startup.
NET-PRINT 8.2
Print selected text on a web page.
OPENUSING CMM 1.6.1
Contextual Menu to open a file with any preselected application.
PREFSOVERLOAD 2.5
Remove damanged or old Preference files.
ROT13 CMPLUGIN
This contextual menu plugin allows you to encrypt and decrypt text files with a simple cipher known as ROT13. It "shifts" the letters of the alphabet 13 places: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ becomes: NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM.
STRING GENERATOR 1.5.2
SGP is a tool for those who have to handle structurated text, e.g. programming source code like Pascal, C, C++, Basic, JavaScript, Java, HTML. SGP is also very useful when you want fast and simply to build a table or a report or when you want to numerize something.
SUBSTITUTE PRO 1.8.5
Extension manager, file optimizer, and more.
SWITCHRES 2.5
Control strip/Finder menu that allows you to switch your monitor to any supported resolution. Great for non-Apple monitors! Also saves and restores desktop icons position.
TABLETEXT 1.0.5
Convert spreadsheets and tables to formatted ASCII text with ease.
TATTLETECH 2.8.2
Provides 850 info regarding the hardware and software configuration.
TERRY MORSE GOCLICK 3.0.2
Convert any document into webpages with a click - Even PDF!
TEXTBROOM
TextBroom 3 helps you processing plain ASCII (text-only) files with powerful search-and-replace features.
TOAST TITANIUM 5.0.1 UPDATER
Update for the Roxio CD creation utility.
UPDATEAGENT 8.1 DEMO
Automatically updates your Mac with the latest software updates. Once registered, goes beyond Apple’s Software Update and scans your disk for every application that has a newwer version released. A great utility!
URL MANAGER PRO 2.7.1
Bookmark manager that smoothly integrates with your Internet applications.
