Good Mac screensavers are hard to come by. And screensavers are
important: not only do they preserve your screen quality, but
they can also turn your monitor into a conversation piece.
Marine Aquarium, our Pick of the Week, will turn your desktop
into a virtual tropical fish aquarium that will make your Mac
Also this week, we've got QuickTime 6, the media player's long-
awaited first foray into MPEG-4 technology; Cartoon Editor, a
graphic editor that will help you make QuickTime cartoons;
MoonDock, so you can keep track of moon phases on your desktop;
WebDesign, a full-featured HTML editor with lots of extras; and
Sigma Chess Lite, so you can challenge your mind and develop
your skills at the ancient game of chess.
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- Multimedia and design: QuickTime, Cartoon Editor
5. The Week in Reviews: A TiVo-like toy for the Mac?
1. LimeWire 2.4.4                         6,190 downloads
2. LimeWire (OS X) 2.4.4                  4,561 downloads
3. MacSatellite  1.6.1                    4,313 downloads
4. Hotline Connect Client 1.8.5           3,656 downloads
5. RealPlayer 8.0                         2,939 downloads
6. Deck 3.5                               2,908 downloads
7. Fetch 4.0.1                            2,333 downloads
8. Internet Explorer 5.1.4                2,229 downloads
9. Marine Aquarium 0.99.0                 1,837 downloads
10. Internet Explorer (OS X) 5.2.1         1,820 downloads
As the name suggests, this program puts an incredibly
realistic aquarium of saltwater fish on your screen. You can
select from a variety of highly textured fish to swim across
your desktop, and you can control variables such as lighting
and the number of fish. There is even a starfish that you can
track over time to watch how it adapts to its environment.
Want to review Marine Aquarium? Submit your opinion here:
Minimum requirements: Mac OS 8.6/9.x or Mac OS X
The latest version of Apple's premiere media application
supports the increasingly popular MPEG-4 codec for high-
quality, highly compressed video, as well as modern formats
such as AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) and JPEG 2000. It also
provides skip protection, an enhanced user interface with a
more intuitive and useful Favorites menu, new developer APIs,
and other useful features such as support for Flash 5 files.
Want to review QuickTime? Submit your opinion here:
Cartoon Editor won't turn you into a gifted cartoonist
overnight. But what this graphic editor will do is make quick
work of creating short QuickTime movies and animated GIFs--
and for OS X freeware, it doesn't get much better than that.
Cartoon Editor lets you draw or import JPEGs and GIFs, which
you can then manipulate with a set of tools that lets you
group, scale, duplicate, ghost, and all sorts of other useful
cartoony things. The program's Java2D foundation allows for
some surprisingly powerful features, like gradients,
Want to review Cartoon Editor? Submit your opinion here:
Find all of the latest multimedia and design software here:
Get in touch with the natural rhythms of our solar system
with MoonDock, a simple piece of software that tracks the
phases of the moon for you and displays lovely images of our
planet's companion satellite on your desktop. The images are
high-quality color photos that change over time in accordance
with the date. MoonDock includes both astronomical and survey
data, meaning that you can calculate the appropriate moon
phase for a particular date and identify topographical
features on the moon using a built-in catalog of those that
have been surveyed by astronomers and astronauts. This update
incorporates improved help features and a few bug fixes.
Want to review MoonDock? Submit your opinion here:
Minimum Requirements: Mac OS 9.x through Mac OS X 10.1.5
Web designers have an array of software choices, from writing
straight code in something like SimpleText to automating
everything via drag-and-drop programs that keep HTML at arm's
length. WebDesign offers a happy medium, with a significant
number of nice extras. You can drag-and-drop from menus or
edit your syntax line by line; build image maps and forms
with relative ease; and work with a full selection of tools
for site-wide color scheme changes, text manipulation, and
localization. WebDesign supports both HTML and XHTML, along
with JavaScript, tabs, and Cascading Style Sheets. This new
version lets you view your designs as they will be seen with
various browsers, and has more stable editing and FTP tools.
Want to review WebDesign? Submit your opinion here:
Find all of the latest development tools here:
Put your mind to the test with this customizable chess game.
Sigma is OS X-native and lets you develop your skills through
levels with adjustable difficulty and customizable pieces and
boards. What's more, Sigma offers advanced features such as
printing functions, player rankings, and the ability to
Want to review Sigma Chess Lite? Submit your opinion here:
A Macintosh software company plans to launch Monday the first
consumer personal video recorder for Mac aficionados.
Here are some user comments about a Mac game that takes you
back to the days of hanging out at the arcade: