Monthly Archives: May 2008

Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #01

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Adobe After Effects 8.0.1

Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #01: Introduction

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

Introducing Adobe After Effects CS3, the first video tutorial discusses advantages and disadvantages of using it. Continue reading →

Mac Software Review: Live Interior 3D 1.5 Standard Edition

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Live Interior 3D Standard Edition Mac
Mac software review

What an incredible Mac-only app… Live Interior 3D is just like Electronic Arts’ hit game series The Sims. You can create interior design by placing items and changing wallpapers. Or you can start from a scratch with pillars and walls. By the way, Live Interior 3D is developed by the same software company that brings to Mac a great logo design application called Art Text, which we introduced nearly 6 months ago. To be honest, I’ve been using Live Interior 3D for just a couple of hours. So I don’t know whole a lot about it. Anyway, let’s see it works! Continue reading →

Software Review: DMGConverter 4

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DMGConverter Mac freeware ISO

If you use Mac OS X, I’m sure you have used Disk Utility. It lets you create disk images with options including compressed, read-only and read/write. The thing is that Apple’s Disk Utility doesn’t work properly. It often gives you an error in creating a disk image. Popular backup application Roxio Toast is more reliable in creating disk images. And you can use it to create both .dmg and .toast disk images.

What if I want to create disk images that both Mac and Windows users can both open? If that’s what I want, then I can’t use Apple’s Disk Utility because Windows users can’t read .dmg disk images. One format choice is ISO. But you can’t use Disk Utility (at least not with Disk Utility 10.5.6 or lower) to create .ISO images.

Fortunately, there are several Mac utility applications that support the ISO disk image format. One of such Mac titles is FireStarter FX from Project:Omega. Another one, which we talk about today, is DMGConverter from Japanese software developer called Sunskysoft. It’s freeware. Continue reading →