Type of Article: MacTech Reviews

Review: Portraiture essential for serious portrait retouching

By Mike Mackenzie

Imagenomic (http://www.imagenomic.com) added Lightroom support to its portrait-retouching plug-in, appropriately called Portraiture. Installation couldn’t be easier and you can access the plug-in by Right-clicking on the photo and choosing Edit In>Imagenomic Portraiture, or in the Develop module via Photo>Edit In>Imagenomic Portraiture. So how easy is it to use and how are the results?

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Category Review: interdisciplinary apps for Mac OS X, part four

This MacNews Category Review is the final part of our multi-part look at interdisciplinary apps for the Mac. Products covered include MPI Pro, MultiSpec, NAG C Library, NCL binaries, NetLogo, Neural Network Toolbox, Neural Networks, NMRPipe, Noble Ape, Notebook Maker, StarProble, Stata, Stateflow Coder, Statistics Toolbox, StdMap, Symbolic Math Toolbox, Sysquake, System Identification Toolbox, TAMS Analyzer, TECH, Tecplot and Time Series.

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Category Review: interdisciplinary apps for Mac OS X, part three

This MacNews Category Review is the third of our multi-part look at interdisciplinary apps for the Mac. Products covered include Graphing Calculator, GraphPad Prism, Gridgen, Gridirion XLR8, gridMathematica, Hipparchus, HyperRESEARCH, IDL, Igor Filter Design Lab, Image Processing Toolbox, Industrial Optimization, InforSense BioSense Guide, InStat Mac, Intel Math Kernel Library, IsingCocoa, iTeXMac, iThink, iUnitX, JANFEA, jBEAM, JMP, jPlot, KaleidaGraph, kSpectra Toolkit, LabAssistant, LandSerf, Luxus Software LX-Proscope, MacHREM, MacOSXLinPro, MacVector, Maple, Mapping Toolbox, Mathematica, mathStatica, MathTensor, MATLAB, Mechanical Systems, MeshViz, Metes and Bounds, MLAB, Moab Utility/Hosting Suite and Model Predictive Control Toolbox.

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Kool Tools: DVD to iPhone Converter (now free)

iSkysoft is now offering its DVD to iPhone Converter for free through Aug. 9. It’s normally US$29. It’s worth the 30 bucks — and it’s a must-have for free.
 
You can get more info at http://www.iskysoft.com/software-giveaway.html or contact iSkysoft  on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/iskysoft) to get a keycode for the free version.

DVD to iPhone Converter lets you enjoy DVD movies on your Apple smartphone. It provides optimized presets for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. It supports converting DVDs to a variety of formats such as MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, etc.

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