American History Lux: Experience Historic Battles in Your Own Home
If you’re into strategy games, you will most likely enjoy American History Lux. American History Lux is a game from Silly Soft that focuses on 10 American wars, including our current conflict in Iraq. American History Lux takes a strategic perspective on these conflicts and can be a very additive and compelling game.
The first thing you’ll notice when playing American History Lux, is that it has a straightforward presentation which puts the player in the game immediately. Each war represents a different level in the game and each level must be won before the next one is played.
Free Your Inner DMG
If you haven’t used FreeDMG yet, it’s a simple application that converts any file or folder into a DMG, which you can post on your site, send to a friend, or just keep as a backup.
When you first launch FreeDMG, a window pops up where you can drag any file or folder to turn it into a DMG. Once you have dragged a file to this pane, the conversion starts automatically and in just a few seconds you have results. FreeDMG also comes with some add-ons, which include converting a DMG image, Internet enabling an image, and quickly verifying an image. Also, for important files and folders, FreeDMG includes a password encrypt image option. This feature is very helpful in transferring business files over the internet.
Switch to Witch
Recently a friend recommended an application to review called Witch. Witch is a small application that lets users quickly and easily switch between every open file or window on their Mac. You might be wondering why you would need such an application, sinse every Mac now comes with Exposé. This is a common misunderstanding, because Witch makes application switching flawless, while Exposé gives the user an unorganized thumbnail view of all their open applications.
Conference Recorder Review
Conference Recorder is a small plugin for Apple’s iChat application that enables you to record video and audio conferences to your hard drive. Conference Recorder is a beautiful little addition to iChat and works flawlessly.
In order to record a video or audio conference with Conference Recorder, you simply have to set up your preferences for recording. The Conference Recorder preference panel is seamlessly integrated into iChat’s preferences and enables you to customize the size, frame rate, and quality of your capture. It also lets you hide picture-in-picture during video recording and lets you customize Conference Recorder’s recording controls. Once you have set up the Conference Recorder preferences you can launch a video chat and record right away.
Get it Now, Get it Fast: Paparazzi!
We all know how to screen capture on the Mac by now, but what if you need to capture an entire web page that doesn’t fit on your display. The answer to this simple question would be Paparazzi!.
Paparazzi! is a small application that can capture any web page from top to bottom, and save it to any size or format. Paparazzi! really is the missing piece to Apple’s Grab application, and should be included inside Mac OS X Leopard this fall. Paparazzi! also includes all your Safari bookmarks, has the ability to capture at any size, and will also allow you to crop your screenshot to your specifications. Once you have captured a screenshot with Paparazzi, you can easily save the file into a range of formats for convenient use. That’s all there is to it.
iStopMotion Review: Gumby Anyone?
iStopMotion from Boinx is one of the most fun and creative Mac applications that I have ever used. This is because it is a digital stop motion capturing app that can produce high quality claymation and time lapse videos. Yep that’s right, you can finally make your very own Gumby and Pokey show, right at home on your Mac.
Mouseposé 2: Never Lose Your Mouse Again
In an ever changing world of complex applications stuffed full of filters and templates, which take up gigabytes of space, sometimes applications that are simple and easy to use are much more effective. Mouseposé, from Bonix Software, is one of the most useful and simplistic Mac apps out there. If you haven’t heard of MouseposeÌ yet, it’s a classy way of finding your cursor on the screen. No seriously.
