Mac Software

The major strength in Mac software has been in the graphics field, due to Mac's superior abilities in handling graphics and video.

However, great strides have been made in developing Mac software in recent years. Microsoft and other major software developers have been making concerted efforts to create first rate versions of their Windows-based programs for the Mac OS. Plus, with the success in recent years of the various iMac models, more software developers are realizing that the ever-growing Mac market is here to stay, and are programming accordingly.

AppleWorks
Now compatible with MS Word and Excel, Apple's AppleWorks comes in both Mac and Windows versions. With word processing, spreadsheets, painting, drawing, presentations and databases, the entire office suite lineup covers all the fundamental bases.

MS Office XP
The retail champion of office suites in the U.S., MicroSoft offers four levels of their latest Office. Includes Word word processing, Excel spreadsheets, Outlook email client, PowerPoint slide show creator, and in some editions, Access database, FrontPage web development, SharePoint contact management, and Developers Tools. Current Mac version is highly rated.

ViaVoice
IBM developed the first continuous speech recognition software in 1996, and followed Dragon NaturallySpeaking's retail package with its own in 1997. IBM's software was the first to be developed for Mac and Linux systems, and now supports over 10 languages.

Adobe Acrobat
Create, view and edit cross-platform PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Any document, spreadsheet, graphic, etc. can be saved, then viewed by anyone exactly as it originally looked.

FileMaker Pro
Enables contact management and powerful Web database creation, sharing and publishing to an unlimited number of users.�?

ThinkFree Office
A simple yet powerful, inexpensive office suite written entirely in Java, enabling Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX users access to the exact same functions. The four major components are Write word processing, Calc spreadsheets, Show slide show maker, and Folders, a Windows Explorer-like file tree. They are all perfectly compatible with MS Office.

MYOB.com
With an international approach to business management and accounting, MYOB has developed country specific products for over a dozen countries world-wide. In Mac and Windows formats, MYOB will help you write checks, create invoices, track your money and inventory, and maintain timed billing. It handles multiple currencies, multiple price levels, emailing invoices, generating reports, and links directly to Word and Excel.

Quicken
This very popular finance software can help you track your investments, prepare your taxes, and manage your finances.

PaloAlto Business Plan Pro
More than 250 Business Plan templates, with a Wizard to help you through each. This package accesses more than 2,000 industry-specific financial profiles to keep your numbers realistic, and has a large database of venture capital sources. When ready, you can even save as PDF. There's even a Mac version, as well as plenty of other business titles in software and book form.

Adobe Creative Suite
Contains Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, FreeHand, and ColdFusion. Create interactive, animated, sound-filled, web-based or disk-bound presentations. Presentations are quickly composed on a time-line storyboard.

RecordKeeper
Customizable database solutions. Packaged versions include Business, School, Organization Management, Sales, Video, and Scout Troop Management in either Mac or Windows.

eFax Messenger
Web-based faxing at its best. Send and receive any document from any computer with an Internet connection. Your eFax account gives you a dedicated local* or toll free fax number to use without having to buy the extra phone line. The web-based interface allows you to send any document and receive faxes as email attachments. You can even tap into your own mail merge and address book functions to send mass faxings through eFax's Broadcast service.
(*Current local areas include North America, Europe, South America, and Australia.)

Click To Convert
Starting with virtually ANY printable document from your Windows or Mac environment, Click To Convert will translate it to HTML and allow you to post it to any intranet or web site. Result is viewable through any browser on any operating system. This is not PDF-like conversion, as text remains text, and email and web links remain active. Templates, zooming, document formatting and much more comes standard.

Odigo
Now in 15 languages and compatible with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messanger and MSN Messenger, Odigo can communicate in groups or one-on-one. The neat visual interface lets each user identify themselves from thousands of faces, and the program comes in a dozen different skins. Java program is Web-based.