Type of Article: MacTech Reviews

By Jessica Maldonado

Four different Texture Toolkits are currently offered by Digital Juice (http://www.digitaljuice.com). I reviewed Texture Toolkit 1 “The Essentials” and Texture Toolkit 2 “Different Strokes.”

These are collections of patterns — all high-resolution and most seamlessly repeating — ready for use in your print, Web, animation, or video design work.

Apricorn’s (http://www.apricorn.com) Aegis Netdock — Mac Edition is making me rethink some future purchases. It actually has me considering a MacBook Air as my main Mac.

As for the Apple US$79 SuperDrive, forget it. The Aegis Netdock blows it away.

With iMovie and QuickTime on all our Macs, plus lots of video download sites and options, most of us have a plethora of videos on our Macs. A cornucopia. A veritable buffet, if you will.

Browsing through them to find just the video you’re looking for can be time-consuming and frustrating. That’s where Fat Apps’ VideoBuffet 1.0, a QuickTime movie browser and player for Mac OS X (10.6 or higher), comes to the rescue. The QuickTime movie browser and viewer is the simplest solution I’ve found for browsing an extensive QT movie collection.

By Aaron Westgate

X-Rite’s (http://www.xritephone.com) new version of the US$169 ColorMunki Display not only calibrates your display, but it will also calibrate projectors, measure ambient light, and correct for display surface glare. Designed for simplicity, the ColorMunki Display comes with its own wizard-driven software or presets.

OWC’s Power2U (http://www.newertech.com/products/power2u.php) is an US$29.99 gadget that lets you power iOS or other USB equipped mobile devices without a bulky adapter. The advantage: it eliminates clutter created by multiple cables and power adapters.