TOKYO (MacHouse) – Microsoft’s new office suite for Mac Universal Binaries is scheduled for release in January, 2008. Today, we have confirmed that a beta version of Microsoft 2008 with a serial number appears to have leaked and is available at some popular torrent websites.
Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 05: Making Selections
Compared with Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks doesn’t offer many selection tools. For example, Photoshop allows users to use Color Range. Color Range is effective in making a layer-wide selection in terms of colors. And there is nothing in Fireworks that is equivalent to Photoshop’s Color Range. In addition, Photoshop has Magnetic Lasso Tool, which is also color-differences-sensitive. And there is nothing in Fireworks that is equivalent to Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso Tool.
On the other hand, Fireworks allows users to make many different shapes. And you can actually convert these shapes to selection.
This short video shows several different ways of making selections beyond uses of Magic Wand and Marquee Tool. Continue reading
This QuickTime video first compares two versions of audio editing shareware title Amadeus from HairerSoft in reading Windows Media Audio (WMA) files. It also shows some of the basic features of Amadeus Pro 1.1.
The Mac model used in this video tutorial is iMac 2 GHz (PowerPC chip with Ambient Light Sensor). And the Mac OS version is 10.4.10. Although this video shows that Amadeus Pro fails to read WMA files, it is possible that you might get different results, depending on your machine (CPU, OS version), QuickTime plug-ins and so forth. In fact, the software developer has confirmed that he was able to read the same WMA file, which we couldn’t open with our copy of Amadeus Pro. In the meantime, it’s an unusual practice for us, but this Quick Overview video contains audio commentary. Continue reading
Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 04: Shapes
Adobe Fireworks CS3 comes with Line Tool, Pen Tool, Text Tool, Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool and Polygon Tool that let you draw shape layers. You also have auto shapes under the shape pull-down menu. This is NOT a step-by-step tutorial for showing how Fireworks’ shape tools work. Rather, we learn how to use shape tools by building a simple web theme while learning how to use such features as Color Picker, gradient and auto shape. Continue reading
We don’t know how many audio editing applications for Mac are out there. If you are new to audio editing and need an affordable shareware title, try Amadeus Pro. Software developer HairerSoft made a major upgrade in May, 2007. Their flagship application was previously known as Amadeus II before the upgrade. Now, it’s called Amadeus Pro, which can be used by both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers. Continue reading