ShowMacster, Cheetah 3D

• ($20) is an extension to Apple's iChat AV enabling users to stream pictures, QuickTime movies, and live screen captures during video conferences. Version 1.7 offers a "live zoom" feature during live screen captures, as well as a "flip stream" option allowing users with up-side-down iSight installations to use ShowMacster. [Download - 1.4MB]


• Cheetah 3D 2.6 ($100) updates the 3D modeling, rendering and animation tool for Mac OS X. Much-improved Javascript integration allows scripts to run embedded in the user interface, while users can write parametric spline or polygon objects with Javascript. The update supports custom tool creation using Javascript, and renderings with transparent backgrounds are now anti-aliased correctly. [Download - 14.6MB]


• Master the Facts Multiplication 4.0 ($10) is a drill-and-practice program to aide students in learning multiplication facts. Version 4.0 allows users to toggle between English and Spanish program prompts, adds a math facts chart, and offers other various interface enhancements. The update is compiled as a Mach-O application, and requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [Download - 2.1MB]


• Mount Manager 1.0 (unknown) is a utility that allows users to mount network shares with a single mouse click. Shares can be set to mount when the application launches, and as a startup item users can have their favorite shares mount upon login. Mount Manager supports AppleTalk, Windows, and Apple's iDisk protocols. [Download - 2.5MB]


• Screen Mimic 1.2 ($25) is a desktop recording program that encodes files in Macromedia Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), and QuickTime (MOV) formats. The software allows users to record demonstrations of software applications, create Web-ready walkthroughs of complicated tasks, and more. Users can select an area of the screen, a particular window region, or the entire desktop to be captured. [Download - 513KB]

by MacNN Staff