recommended business / commercial software for mac

RemoteRay 2.1 is developed to be a helpful program which makes it easier for remote control and access of your Mac OS X PC from anywhere on the network.

Major Features:

1. Remote Mac OS X Desktop Access
2. Distance Learning Applications
3. Remote Training and Technical Support
4. Parental Control
5. Teleworking
6. Peer Collaboration

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 recommended.
• Universal Binary.
  

RAGE SERank 1.8 is released to be a powerful and easy to use tool with the ability to monitor search engine rankings for any number of keywords and display changes in a web site's search engine rankings over any point of time.

Search engines, including Google, Yahoo and MSN, are the leading source of targeted web site traffic. Knowing where your web site ranks for popular keywords can help bring more targeted web traffic and increase the number of customers exposed to your products and services online. RAGE SERank allows Mac users to track where their web sites appear in over 50 search engines world-wide, and discover which competitors are outranking a web site and driving away potential customers.

Major Features:

1. Track your search engine rankings in over 40 search engines world wide
2. Graphs changes in your search engine rankings over time
3. Create customized PDF reports for clients or your own web sites
4. Use powerful built in filters to help narrow down and organize your ranking information for 100's of important keywords

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later recommended

Comixware 2.0.1a is such a powerful tool that provides all the essential movie-making tools for user to compose, modify and publish multimedia presentation in Comixware's interactive authoring environment where user can continuously edit and reedit his own or other user's work infinitely.

It can be seen as an interactive storytelling "machine". In such machine, contents are "fed" through its engine to create stories rather than "sealed" into an irreversible narrative block (like book or movie). Therefore additional contents can be fueled to this "machine" to expand and renew the existing story.

The contents for this "machine" are made of modulated story clips that can be recomposed and reshuffled in a timeline in any order or fashion as user desires. Each of these clips is made of scene elements that can be edited and manipulated individually by user. This "machine" comprises of 5 sections: Read, Compose, Play, Save, and Gallery. Each in combination with others addresses the 3 main functions of Comixware: narrative, editing, and community.

Major Features:

1. Read
   • 186 animated scenes of Float adventure.
   • 12 originally composed music scores.
   • This READ presentation is unique to Classic (not available to SE).
2. Compose
   • General
   • • Instant rendering of dynamically composed contents.
     • Full range drag-and-drop user friendly composition UI.
     • Task oriented contextual asset management.
   • Scene Composition
   • • Fully user definable composition elements.
     • Object oriented layer construct and composition.
     • Independent timing adjustment for individual objects.
     • Scene length and timing modification controls.
     • Multiple objects selectability and manipulation.
     • Full range Cut, Copy and Paste functions for composition elements.
   • Timeline Editing
   • • Infinite timeline for building movie of any length.
     • Motion detection variable-speed scrolling UI.
     • Instant scene locator.
     • Multiple scenes selectability and manipulation.
     • Full range timeline Cut, Copy and Paste functions.
     • Drag-and-drop style insert editing.
   • Built-in Editing Assets
   • • 122 user controllable movie clips.
     • 75 user definable composition elements.
     • 7 original soundtracks.
   • User Asset Implementation
   • • Full maneuverability for user deployed contents.
     • On-the-fly user asset thumbnail creation.
     • Support all common media and animation file formats.
     • Support popular soundtrack formats (MP3, WAV and AIF).
3. Play
   
   • Instant playback of timeline composition.
   • Real-time scene progression ticker.
   • Fully accessible timeline navigation controls during playback.
   • Instant play/pause/resume function.
   • Instant scene "skipping" function for movie playback.
4. Save
   
   • Saved movie management.
   • Missing user assets management.
   • Save movie with multiple asset linkages.
5. Gallery
   
   • Share and exchange movies with users all over the world.
   • Fully re-editable Gallery contents by local user.
   • Automatic retrieve and reassemble of multiple assets from multiple sources.
   • Free and unrestricted private sharing.
   • Password protection for private exchange and online work collaboration.
   • User Gallery post management and ID encryption scheme.
   • ID alias for author privacy protection.
6. Other features: Interchangeable Screen Mode:
   • Normal screen playback (640 x 480).
   • Full screen playback (800 x 600).

Requirements:

• G3 500Mhz PowerPC processor (1GHz G4 recommended).
• A current hardware accelerated graphics card with 16MB or more of VRAM.
• 64MB (128MB preferred) of physical RAM.
• 100MB of available disk space.
• 32-bit color monitor capable of 800x600 resolution.
• Mac Classic and OS X.
• QuickTime (version 6.0 to 7.3.0 recommended).
• Open GL 1.1.2 or greater.
• An Internet connection.

PdfCompress 5.7.1 offers a userfriendly, secure and reliable Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. Just drop your file on the PdfCompress icon and it will quickly create a new, compressed PDF file suitable for sending via e-mail or posting on the Web.

PdfCompress features a wide variety of compression methods (including LZW, Flate, JPEG, JPEG2000, font removal, CCITTT Group 4, dead-object stripping, metadata removal) and automaticallly chooses the most appropriate options for your file, yielding compression ratios of up to 10x or more for a wide variety of files. We do recommend you try PdfCompress with your files before you buy a license, as compression varies due not least to fundamental axioms of information theory not all files can be compressed.

PdfCompress never modifies your original file, and always names result files in a manner that indicates they've been compressed, so you can be sure that your data is safe and you won't send or post the wrong file accidentally.

Prompt! 7.0 is designed to be a helpful program which is aimed at on-camera talents. When they perform, they read what they speak from a teleprompter. Traditionally, this task is performed by a dedicated computer with an application to edit and scroll the text at a user driven speed using a piece of hardware called a "scroller". The Video output of the scrolling text is reflected from a half silvered (pellix) mirror and the camera shoots through the other side of the mirror so that the talent is looking into the camera but reading the reflection of the text.

This requires lots of hardware and software to achieve the same results as Prompt! and a laptop computer or computer monitor. By placing the laptop computer between the talent and the camera the talent can read text from the top of the laptop screen and still appear to be looking at the camera if the camera is far enough back using a long lens. Trial and effort is the key to getting a natural look to this process but the further the camera is from the subject, the better. If the talent will be controlling their own scrolling then mouse control is the best and if you have long mouse cord, that's even better.

There is a built-in function to allow someone else to control the speed by using the keyboard or mouse. Use both if you like. Prompt! also mirrors the text and displays at multiple resolutions. Prompt! now is compatible with most PowerPoint/Keynote wireless remote control units. Some new key commands have been added

Prompt! now comes in two applications. PROMPT ON BLACK covers the display(s) with a black mask and eliminates the chance of changing applications while using the application and PROMPT, the other application, is a floating window and doesn't draw black on other monitors allowing you to open other applications easily. Using both applications at the same time is not recommended.

Requirements: Mac OS X

conformalizer 3.1.3 is a powerful utility that allows sound editors to automatically conform and rebalance ProTools sessions, FX lists and ADR databases to match a changed picture cut.

It works by comparing picture EDLs, XML, cutlists or change notes and creating a new "change EDL" which reflects the difference between two versions of the picture. The conformalizer can then automatically conform your ProTools session or database file to match the new version of the cut.

It also has the ability to play two versions of a cut together in order to visually compare shots or sequences.

Major Features:

1. Can use EDLs, cutlists and FCP XML to generate the conform
2. Avoids changenote shortcomings with swapped/moved shots
3. Gives you the ability to compare any version to any other.
4. Rebalancing is a piece of cake. even ADR and FX databases can be rebalanced
5. Exports changenotes in timecode or Feet+frames
6. Compares two movies against each other and locates both movies as you check your conform
7. Allows editing, creation and deletion of events
8. Tracks VFX updates across versions
9. Graphical representation of the old and new cuts
10. Ability to search for particular shots in a list of old cuts

Requirements:

• Mac OS10.4,
• G4 350MHz
• Recommended - "access for assistant devices" in Universal Access preferences

Treasure Chess 1.0.0 is a useful game whose goal is to pick up the majority of gems on the board before your opponent does. Much easier and quicker than standard chess, it is fascinating to play. Different scenarios, board sizes, and computer opponents provide endless re-playability.

Players take turns moving any one of their pieces, collecting all the gems that the piece passes over. There is no checkmating. Once a player has collected the majority of the gems available on the board, the game ends. If capturing is enabled in the game settings, a player who captures all his or her opponent's pieces is awarded all the remaining gems on the board.
Treasure Chess features a number of different computer opponents and variety of different scenarios with varying board sizes, pieces, and piece placements. A random placement option ensures that you never play the same game twice. Kids find the game very easy to learn and play, and it helps introduce them to some of the pieces of standard chess.

Major Features:

1. Wide range of computer opponents.
2. Hot-seat play.
3. Variety of scenarios (board sizes, pieces).
4. Optional random piece placement and capturing.
5. True 3D rotatable/resizable board.
6. Color themes.
7. Complete move controls.
8. Hint command.
9. Strategy guide.

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5+.
• Intel processor recommended.