If you want more than still images on your desktop, Mach Desktop (http://www.machsoftwaredesign.com/desktop.html) for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 spruces up your screen with Quartz Compositions, QuickTime movies or even web pages.
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By Tamara Fry-Pietsch
Adobe Director 11.5 (http://www.adobe.com) will be familiar to users of previous versions but some additions improve productivity, for example: multiple undos/redos, stage docking, enhanced user interface, Sprite, channel naming, and a new Help System. But the hot addition in audio is 5.1-channel surround sound that, along with real-time mixing ability, means you can add a mixer to your movie to import audio files and cast members.
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If you use iTunes (and if you’re reading this, I know you do) and Last FM, you’ll find life easier with Everyplay from Snarb.tk (http://snarb.co.uk/everplay.html). The US$19.95 app plays music from your iTunes music library, as well as from Last FM online radio services (last.fm).
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For those new to the column, MacNews Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A MacNewsMigration Kit is an overview of Mac OS products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc.) This week we look at grant writing software for the Mac.
Grant Manager
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If you need to access your home computer from work, can you? How about access your Mac at home from your PC at work? Or your Mac at work from your iPod touch or iPhone?
How about if you could do all that for free? Sounds good, doesn’t it?
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