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Macworld Lab tests show improvement over old PC's By all appearances, Intel's MMX Pentium, the P55C, should be one fierce CPU. Set for an official release of January 8, MMX […]

Whether you're archiving or creating multimedia titles, recordable CD technology has arrived Whether you want to archive important data, distribute limited numbers of custom CD-ROMs, or create a single beta […]

Special Report Macintosh professionals already have more PCI graphics and SCSI accelerators to choose from than they ever did NuBus accelerators, and in other product areas such as networking, digital […]

Finally, Mac tools to let anyone program When Windows users can't find software that meets their specific business needs, they can turn to tools such as Microsoft's Visual Basic and […]

Nothing, but nothing, chews up bandwidth and CPU cycles like digital-video editing, and digital-video pros look forward to hardware advances with the kind of rabid, foaming anticipation generally only exhibited […]

Yes, game fans, it's true--this popular arcade game is now available for your Mac. Primal Rage is a head-to-head fighting game that features seven prehistoric creatures in a battle for […]

Why not turn your Photoshop documents into works of art? Series 3 Screens lets you create a digital mezzotint by adjusting an image's tonal range. The screens translate the gray […]

So you've read the articles criticizing the Time magazine cyberporn story, but you're still worried about scandalizing your little tyke. Microsystems' Cyber Patrol blocks access to sites the company has […]

Targeting departmental managers who want to save corporate data on CD-ROM rather than on green-bar paper, Sony Electronics has announced the Spressa 9211 recordable CD-ROM drive. The drive comes with […]

If a flight stick doesn't give you enough control of your flight simulation game, maybe a throttle will help you create virtual mayhem. Based on the F-16 jet's throttle, the […]

Digital Video Board PROS: Excellent image quality; synced 16-bit audio; accelerated Premiere wipes and dissolves; knowledgeable and friendly tech support. CONS: Incompatible with Radius NuBus cards and Wacom tablets; no […]

If your kid studies computers in college, maybe he or she will be the author of On Campus 2008. This CD-ROM is an interactive guide to over 1700 colleges and […]

Intended for use in tandem with MicroStation 5.5, PowerArchitect is an architectural drafting tool that lets users choose elements such as beams, doors, walls, and stairs. It uses MicroStation PowerDraft's […]

This general-purpose scientific and engineering software offers two-and three-dimensional graphical plots, geometry contours, and section line plots. Data Explorer reads and displays data types including strain, stress, temperature, and finite […]

System administrators, do you lie awake at night dreading the day you'll have to survey each and every computer in your 300-node network to make sure that some ignoramus hasn't […]

What does a thalamus look like? Find out with Research Systems' Visible Human CD, which lets you look at and navigate multiple views of the human body. The disc includes […]

Prepress artists and multimedia developers, our usual data-hogging suspects, often juggle two or more multigigabyte projects at once. In the past they had to shuffle jobs between expensive but speedy […]

These six-outlet surge protectors are designed to protect electronic equipment from power-line disturbances such as surges and spikes. Surge Safe has a 3-foot power cable; Surge Safe Pro adds EMI/RFI […]

Your Uncle Bob will never live down that embarrassing moment at Thanksgiving if you've preserved it in Delrina's new multimedia family album. With Echo Lake, users record stories with text, […]

Call it Acrobat for music files. NoteView lets users view and play musical scores created with TAP (Temporal Acuity Products) Music Systems' notation software, Nightingale, via the Internet. Users can […]

OK, we've all heard about the enormous storage needs of digital-video and prepress professionals. MountainGate thinks supporting 400GB of data on a single SCSI bus should satisfy just about everyone […]

Are you concerned that your Net-cruising youngsters might go trolling for pornography? When used with an Internet connection, SurfWatch blocks sexually explicit (as defined by the company and its advisers) […]

While Internet browsers are becoming all the rage, they have the same limitations as most telecommunications technology: the content you browse--be it text files, page layouts, spreadsheets, presentations, or databases--is […]

A Megabyte Now Costs as much as a Candy Bar In 1990, $500 bought you a 60MB hard drive. Now Quantum, Seagate, and others plan to offer 3.5-inch drives with […]

CD-ROMs have a tendency to accumulate like snowdrifts next to computers. To keep the data avalanche under control, Avery Dennison offers a line of portable and desktop CD-ROM storage devices […]

If you're up there on the roof and suddenly can't remember how to replace a shingle, simply fire up your PowerBook and battery-powered CD-ROM drive, launch the Home Repair Encyclopedia, […]

InterCon's three new Internet access products aim to have you terrorizing Internet waters in no time. NetShark provides users with access to E-mail, newsgroups, Telnet, Gopher, FTP, and the WebShark […]

Don't try taking these out for marching-band practice; their power cords aren't long enough. That's OK, though--these two monitors are aimed at the business graphics and home-office market. Both monitors […]

CD-ROMs just don't seem as big as they once did. In these days of digital video, graphics databases, and complete text libraries, 580MB doesn't go very far. At least, that's […]

Eating sugar donuts at your workstation again? Well, Homer, the Electric Duster is designed to blow dust, lint, and debris off fax machines, printers, and other sensitive electronic equipment. The […]

Make your Mac multilingual. This word processor and dictionary, delivered on a CD-ROM, lets you communicate in five Asian languages--Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Thai, and Tibetan. The word processor […]

Users of draw programs need no longer covet the effects their Photoshopping colleagues enjoy. KPT Vector Effects takes advantage of the plug-in architectures now available in Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia […]

Apple's 1-pound digital camera stores up to 32 standard, or 16 high-quality, 24-bit color images at 640 by 480 pixels. A detachable close-up lens enables you to photograph objects 8 […]

[PMAC] You may think 'easy-to-use CAD' is an oxymoron, but the new versions of IMSI's two- and three-dimensional CAD programs have just gotten easier to use. Plus, they're faster. TurboCAD […]

If you're one of the many Quicken users who forget to update their records after each visit to the ATM, Intuit has a solution: Pocket Quicken for Newton. Designed around […]

Some people just cannot get enough. Macintosh graphics, prepress, and digital-video professionals whose storage needs aren't met by any one hard drive are turning to RAID levels 0 and 1 […]

Apple plans a midyear update to its QuickTime multimedia extension that will offer improved performance for all Macs, new features for video developers, and support for interactive television QuickTime 2.0 […]

Reams of Fields Addressing the demands of video-editing professionals, SuperMac Technology has begun shipping DigitalFilm 1.5, a NuBus board that captures and plays back video at 60 fields per second. […]

Whether you're producing interviews for an audio-enhanced Web site, sound effects for a CD-ROM, or jazz tracks for a music CD, recording at the highest possible amplitude ensures that as […]

Artists and animators who want to create spectacular 3-D effects have had to struggle with software that seems more appropriate to rocket science than to graphics applications. But this situation […]

Apple's consumer audio ports and analog-to-digital converters limit the built-in audio-processing power of every Power Mac. So Korg (516/333-9100) built the euphoniously named 1212I/O PCI Multi-Channel Audio Interface with Deck […]

Two hardware developers, Truevision and Scitex Digital Video, have jumped into the waters of dual-stream video, promising real-time creation of dissolves, wipes, and other transition effects. Most single-stream video systems […]

QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card Rating: Three Stars/5.0 PROS: Supports texture maps; outputs alpha channel. CONS: Minor speed gains with major 3-D applications. COMPANY: Apple Computer (408/996-1010). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: $400. […]

Macromedia Director, the World Class-winning multimedia authoring tool, is a powerful yet frustrating tool. Strong control of animation and interactivity hampered by inadequate text tools and a difficult interface have […]

This kid's school project turned CD-ROM title tells the story of a crayon factory run by robots. Kids can either watch the story or explore the factory, where they learn […]

This marketing resource will help you target customers, analyze markets, create mailing lists, and obtain marketing information for more than 10 million businesses. Each business entry contains the company's name, […]

Classroom in a Book: Adobe PageMaker 6 for Macintosh Learn by doing, not just reading. Each of this tutorial's ten lessons leads you through the creation of a complete project […]

Parents, are you unsure which CD-ROM to buy for your tot this holiday season? This CD-ROM from Newsweek helps parents select the right software for their kids. It features reviews […]

Cursing yourself for missing the tour of the Barnes art exhibit? Have no fear--the CD-ROM is here. Subtitled 'Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Dr. Barnes,' this CD showcases Albert C. Barnes's […]

Are you an aspiring designer who's stumped for new ideas? You can now legally borrow QuarkXPress layouts from professionals using this CD-ROM. The CD contains a total of 400 pages […]