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The average application has 40 – 80 keyboard shortcuts which provide quick access to frequently used menu commands. So how’s your memory? Can you remember all of the keyboard shortcuts for all of your programs – or even for the program that you use the most? If you can, you don’t need this program. But […]

iPhoto Library Manager lets you divide your iPhoto collection among multiple iPhoto libraries or bring in multiple libraries that you have already created. Then, you can quickly switch between your iPhoto libraries. (more…)

Manage and track all of the financial accounts you have including banking, credit cards, investments and others. Generate a variety of customizable reports and budget to keep your spending on target. Track and monitor your individual investments and your investment portfolio as a whole.  SEE Finance 2

Eltima Software has recently introduced a Media downloader called VideoDuke. VideoDuke can download videos from Vimeo, DailyMotion, Twitter, and Facebook, along with videos from a wide variety of other sites.   (more…)

Akvis AirBrush comes as a standalone program and/or plugin that can be use to convert your images into AirBrushed works of art. For those of you that are not familiar with airbrusing, (more…)

ChronoSync is an application for macOS that is capable of backing up your data, cloning your hard drive, synchronizing files between two computers and storing redundant backups in the cloud. (more…)

The Kodak Printomatic Instant Print camera harkens back to the old days when you could take a picture with your Polaroid camera and it immediately printed/processed the photo. Kodak Printomatic Instant Print Camera

AliveColors is a full-featured graphics and photo editing program. It has been designed to support the needs and user levels from the beginner to the pro user. AliveColors

Sparkle is a web design software operating somewhat like iWeb, the much-loved but now defunct Apple web design solution. Sparkle

In a perfect world you would be able to get that “perfect” shot/photo every time. But this isn’t a perfect world, so sometimes your photo needs a little tweaking to get the look that you want. That’s where Akvis NautreArt comes in handy. Need a rainy sky with magnificent lightning bolts – no problem. (more…)

Terragen is a program that helps you create photorealistic (real or fantasy) landscapes and planets. It has been used for visual effects in more than 30 feature films (including the last two Star Wars movies and X-Men Apocalypse) (more…)

Has there ever been a time when you wanted to have a copy of a YouTube video so you can view it while off-line, but you had no way to copy it? Well now you can if you use Eltima Software’s Airy. Airy

No matter how good/expensive your video camera is, there is always going to be video footage that isn’t perfect, such as too dark, too light, grainy, etc. There will also be times when you want to do color correction on your footage.  (more…)

TechTool Pro is a full featured diagnostic and repair utility that can check your software, hardware, and peripherals. It is a 64-bit application which means it can take full advantage of your Mac’s 64-bit processor. (more…)

Red Giant’s Shooter Suite is comprised of: PluralEyes, Offload, Frames, and Instant 4K. The Shooter Suite is designed to provide filmmakers the tools (more…)

Elmedia Player Pro is a media player that supports a wide range of audio and video formats. These include (but are not limited to) (more…)

FotoMagico is a multimedia slideshow creation application. The resulting slideshows can contain photos, videos, music, and text. FotoMagico Pro 5

StoryBoard Artist is a program that helps individuals create and print storyboards. Storyboards are sequential illustrations or images (like a comic book) that outline a scene or a script. StoryBoard Artist Studio 7

Toon Boom Storyboard gives a storyboard artist all of the tools needed to digitally create and export their storyboards. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Automatic Duck Media Copy is a program that will read your Final Cut Pro 7 or X project’s XML (or Avid’s AAF) export file and then copy all of the referenced media files to the location of your choice. Why would you want this? There’s two reasons…. (more…)

Harmony is a full-featured animation package that Hollywood animators have been using to create TV shows (like The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, Sponge Bob Squarepants, and Bob’s Burgers) and full-fledged animated movies (like The Princess and The Frog, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Pocahontas II, and The Lion King: Simba’s Pride). In fact, […]

If you in the market for a photo editing program or would like to get away from Adobe’s Photoshop with its unending subscription fees, then you should take a look at Affinity Photo. (more…)

Have you ever tried to extract a person/animal/item from one photo so that you can superimpose it over another photo to make it look like it/you were someplace that you never were? What a pain! Trying to select all of those uneven edges. Well that’s where EZ Mask becomes an invaluable tool. It simplifies the […]

If you would like to give your newly created video a professional look, you might start with giving it slick looking titles, chapter headings, and de- scriptions. SquidFX’s Shadow Type for Final Cut Pro X has twelve different title presets to choose from. (more…)

Picture Rescue is a program that recovers photos and movie clips that have been accidentally deleted, reformatted, or lost due to media corruption. Picture Rescue 2

The Red Giant Universe is a community that has a library of effects and transitions for professional editors, visual effects, and motion graphics designers. These effects and transitions work in applications like Final Cut Pro X, Motion, After Effects, and Pre- miere Pro. I will be using/testing it with Final Cut Pro X. (more…)

Maintain, manage, and optimize your hard drives. It comes with eighteen different tools (utilities) that you can use to check the health of and repair your volumes.  (more…)

Akvis Sketch is a standalone program plus a Photoshop plug-in that will convert your photos into pencil sketches, charcoal, or watercolor drawings. (more…)

Fan Film FX has created a Star Wars themed plug-in that is compatible with Final Cut Pro X, Motion, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. It is called Blaster Bolt. With it you can animate blaster (laser) bolts coming out of your model (more…)

Are you or someone in your house a Star Wars junkie? Someone who can’t get enough of Star Wars so you wish you could create your own realistic Jedi lightsaber fights? Now you can with the help of the Saber Blade plug-in (more…)

The Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite is a set of digital optical filters for professional photographers, filmmakers, video editors, and visual effects artists. Tiffen Dfx 4

Are you an artist or designer who is fed up with trying to create your master pieces using a mouse but don’t have the bucks for a large Wacom tablet and pressure sensitive stylus, then I have an alternative for you – providing you have a iPad… Astropad

Crossword Forge lets you create Crossword and Word Search puzzles from the words and clues you have entered yourself or from ready-made word and clue list that you can download from the Internet. Crossword Forge 7

DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program that tries to repair all of the possible problems that can occur with a disk. Instead, it specializes in eliminating directory errors. It uses data recovered from the original directory to rebuild a new directory to solve problems and recover files and folders. DiskWarrior 5

Printworks is a desktop publishing program that supports single or multipage documents; Foreground, Background, Layers, and Master pages; booklet printing and exporting. Printworks

Akvis Magnifier’s resizing algorithms let you enlarge an image up to a resolution of 30,000 x 30,000 pixels, which makes a 100 x 100 inch poster. Akvis Magnifier

Punchline is a set of 21 transitions and 11 titles that are high definition elements for Final Cut Pro X. SUGARfx Punchline

Have you ever wondered how the movie industry places their actors in outlandish alien landscapes (like Avatar®) or in post-apocalyptic or futuristic cities and worlds (like the 5th Element®)? Most are so elaborate that it would take tons of money and time to build on a sound stage – if they had a stage big […]

Tokyo PiPinator is a picture-in-picture plug-in for Final Cut Pro X. What is a picture-in-picture? Well if you have ever watched a newscast, you have seen picture-in-picture being used, e.g. you see the newscaster sitting behind a desk while the news topic/video clip is being shown over his/ her shoulder. Tokyo PiPinator

Offload is a program that will quickly and safely copy video and stills from media cards and hard drives… Offload