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When Apple introduced Aperture ([VERY GOOD]) in late 2005, the program was a revelation. By beefing up the simplicity of iPhoto with intelligent image-management and photo-editing features, Apple jump-started a […]

It's easy to look at an interim release of a major product as a piecemeal upgrade, one that offers a few good features but still lacks the exciting feel of […]

Graphing programs vie for market pie By Rick LePage With the strengthening of the presentation-software market, there has been a corresponding rise in interest in graphing and analysis programs. These […]

Three DTP powerhouses face off PageMaker, XPress, or DesignStudio? By Rick LePage The dust has settled and the prerelease hype is over for Aldus Corp., Letraset and Quark Inc. Over […]

Buying Macintosh laser fonts: Reading between the (out)lines Proliferation of formats confusing By Mary Jane Westland and Rick LePage Buying and using Macintosh type used to be simple. There were […]

The iPod hasn't been a part of Apple's product line for that long--after all, the Mac is already into its third decade as the centerpiece of Apple's offerings. But that […]

WHILE OS X HAS BROUGHT US A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS--primarily stability, although I will admit that I've grown to like the Aqua interface--there are a bunch of things the Next […]

MOST OF THE LOW-COST MAC STUFF I SEE IS SOFTWARE, but there are plenty of companies that sell great hardware products for $100 or less. One of the most innovative […]

LIKE THE BULK OF AN ICEBERG, MUCH OF THE MAC MARKET hides beneath the surface. For every Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, or Adobe Photoshop, there are 50 products you may […]

The third generation of Epson's wide-format printer line, the $2,995 Stylus Pro 7600, represents the culmination of the company's growth in the professional graphics market. When used with Epson's UltraChrome […]

Many Mac users would like the PowerBook G4 to be a portable version of a desktop Power Mac, but buying a PowerBook has always meant trading some performance (and paying […]

Epson America Inc. aims to paint its competition into a corner this week with a new color inkjet printer that mixes high speed with a sparkling resolution of 1,440 by […]

Score card PowerBook 1400cs/117 (Very good) Apple List price: $2,899* Hits: Removable CD-ROM drive option; large, bright screen; solid design with excellent expansion options; improved keyboard; good software bundle. Misses: […]

Score card: XPrint 4920 Xerox Corp. Overall value: 3 (Good) List price: $7,995 Xerox has done a solid job of updating its first-generation color laser printer to the performance and […]

Score card: Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS Apple Overall value: 4 (Very good) List price: $6,989 Apple is at (408) 996-1010 or (800) 462-7753; http://www.info.apple.com. Apple's entry into the color laser […]

Score Card: Phaser 340, Tektronix Inc. Overall value: 4 List price: $4,995* Performance: 4 Features: 4 Configuration: 4 Compatibility: 5 Documentation/support: 4 * For base configuration. Phaser 340 Plus, $6,995. […]

Score Card: Excel Microsoft Corp. Overall value: 5 Version tested: 5.0 Estimated street price: $339* With Excel 5, Microsoft has chosen to focus on ease of use and productivity enhancements […]

The Newton MessagePad represents Apple's first new computing platform since the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. The MessagePad is much more powerful than the 128-Kbyte Mac of yesteryear, but […]

Sports video-out, 'stunning' screen By Rick LePage On the surface, the new PowerBook 160 and 180 closely resemble Apple's first-generation laptops, and they could be overshadowed at this week's rollout […]

The most recent upgrade to Microsoft Excel, Version 4.0, comes about six months after the debut of Lotus Development Corp.'s 1-2-3 for Macintosh, almost a year after Claris Corp. released […]

PowerBooks: Price-competitive and technologically brilliant The PowerBook 100, 140 and 170 are slim, gray and very portable. Offering a well-balanced range of processing power and features, the new notebooks are […]

By Rick LePage After a series of false starts and disappointments in the Mac market, Lotus Development Corp. has finally come through with 1-2-3 for the Macintosh. The company is […]

Looking sharp on plain paper For users looking beyond traditional 300-dpi lasers but reluctant to pony up for a true imagesetter, new printers from LaserMAX and NewGen may bridge the […]

Until recently, the concept of using a computer to generate illustrations was foreign to illustrator Etienne Delessert. However, a Print magazine story on Adobe Systems Inc.'s first Illustrators Invitational, featuring […]

Quark listens to users, puts on new interface Quark XPress 3.0 Quark Inc. List price: $795 +Rich feature set; vast interface improvements; multiple master-page templates; vertical justification of text blocks; […]

PageMaker fills feature gaps Version 4.0 adds type, story control Aldus Corp. List price: $795; upgrade for users of earlier versions: $150; for extended technical support subscribers: $75 +Powerful Story […]

Dot-matrix printers: GCC vs. Toshiba By Rick LePage It is hard not to hear the death knell for the primeval dot-matrix printer. With laser technology improving and prices falling, the […]

High-End Machine Shows Off Mac OS X's Multiprocessor Fluency APPLE HAS BEEN SELLING dual-processor Power Macs for a while now. But multiprocessing as a technology has met limited acceptance among […]

Epson's latest inkjet is the highest-quality photo printer on the market, bar none Adherents of traditional photography can safely scoff at the quality of today's digital cameras, but the inkjet […]

After lengthy delays, Epson is now shipping its $99 PostScript RIP software for the Stylus Photo EX as well as for the Stylus 800, 850, 1520 and original Stylus Photo. […]

Photoshop Lightroom 3 is a stealth upgrade to Adobe's image-management and -editing application for photographers. The new feature list seems modest: a handful of enhancements to the raw-image processing engine [...]

In the two years since Photoshop Elements 6 (****1/2;macworld.com/3505) appeared to wide acclaim, Mac users have watched as their Windows compatriots progressed to version 7. At the same time, competition […]

Of the five applications that make up iLife, iPhoto has the broadest appeal. With iPhoto '08 (VERY GOOD; macworld.com/3061), Apple tried to simplify photo management by introducing the concept of […]

If you purchased your digital singlelens reflex (DSLR) camera as part of a kit, you already have a basic lens that takes pretty good pictures. However, part of the attraction […]

Many people assume that when printing photos at home, you have to use paper from the same company that makes your printer. But while there are certain advantages to sticking […]

In December 2006, longtime friend and colleague Bruce Fraser passed away. He succumbed, after a short bout with lung cancer, a few weeks shy of his 53rd birthday. To many […]

THERE ARE LOADS OF VERY COOL FREE OR LOW-COST system-enhancement utilities out there, and every month brings a few more tools that perform a variety of functions, such as adjusting […]

Apple's Year of the Notebook started quite impressively, with the release of the 12-inch PowerBook (****; April 2003), a compact laptop that combined extreme portability with the performance of the […]

If you do moderate- to high-volume printing, you should know that, in the long run, a laser printer costs much less than an ink-jet. Even though a laser printer costs […]

Apple has kicked the Titanium PowerBook G4 line up a notch by raising the speed of the top model's processor to 1GHz, giving it a DVD-R and CD-RW drive, and […]

****; Apple Computer, 800/692-7753, www.apple.com; $499 The 5GB iPod (Reviews, January 2002) was a masterful synergy of design and interface that showcased what Apple does best. The company has since […]

Canon took the prosumer digital-camera market by storm two years ago with the introduction of the EOS D30, a 3.1-megapixel digital camera based on traditional 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera […]

It's no exaggeration to say that Epson America Inc.'s Stylus Pro 5000 is the most important proofing product to appear in years. This tabloid-size printer offers print quality and color […]

The PowerBook 2400c is still more than a month away from U.S. shores, but this pint-size wonder is already generating a lot of interest from long-suffering Mac users looking for […]