SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - MIRA & IMAGE TRICKS

Hi All, Key Combination of the Day Press any F-key (F1, F2, etc.) Pressing any F-key (F1, F2, etc.) exits Front Row without having to use your Mac's remote. Shareware of the Day: Mira - Personal Control for Your Apple Remote. Designed exclusively for the Apple® Remote, Mira takes it beyond Front Row and gives you personal control for any application, on any Mac®. Remote Control any Mac: Remote enable your G3, G4, G5 or Mac Pro today Built-in, Manta TR1, Keyspan & MCE 2005 receivers Works with SiK Rex™ and Apple Remotes Order Manta TR1 online now - special bundle price Friendly, Attractive, Easy & Compatible The Apple Remote will let you control your Mac from up to 33 feet (10 meters) away. Its signal will even bounce off walls, ceilings and furniture so you don't have to point right at the computer. Mira drops into your System Preferences and provides an easy interface to change button settings for all your applications. Settings are made in a familiar profile fashion for individual applications and over 60 profiles are already built-in. Of course you can change any of them as well as add unlimited of your own. Best of all, you don't have to fiddle around with Mira to make it work, it's automatic! The corrrect settings are immediately available when using any application. Easily Open Your Favorite Programs Why limit yourself to opening only Front Row when Mira provides a giant menu that you can see across the room? The Mira Launch Menu lets you decide what appears inside it and how it should look. It's not limited to applications either, you can launch documents and AppleScripts too. Mira is for Everyone Just point and click one of the on-screen buttons to select what it should do. Mira has been designed to be powerful, yet compact and extremely easy to use. You don't have to know anything about programming or wait for anyone else to create scripts. If you know how to use the keyboard and a mouse, you can use Mira right away to control any program. A full-featured built-in help book takes you through the whole program and Help Tags offer assistance within the interface. Take a look at the full list of features and screenshots for much more information. More info and download link here: <http://twistedmelon.com/> Freeware of the Day: Image Tricks- Reveal the hidden power of your images. Image Tricks is a free application to edit and generate images. It uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. The program can create unique artwork you may use as business card background, for web design, print materials and more. After installation you can also use Image Tricks directly in other BeLight applications (select "Edit Image" from the menu or double click on the image). Tricks you can play with an image: Adjust colors — Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Hue, etc. Blur your picture in different ways. Distort images using Twirl, Bump, Pinch and more. Stylize your art: Make Mosaic, Crystalize, use Halftone effects, etc. Tile, Kaleidoscope and Crop images. Image Generating: Special mathematical algorithms to create original images. Handy set of controls for each generator. Render function allows to arrange objects in random order. Ability to set colors of a generated image. Key Features: Easy to use and friendly Interface. 48 Core Image Effects and Filters (53 in Pro version). 12 image generators (19 in Pro version). About 30 unique masks can be applied to an image. Import over 20 image formats (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS among them). Export to TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG and GIF formats. Resize and rotate images 90 degrees. OpenGL acceleration supported. iPhoto integration. Universal Binary version allows to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers. More info and download link here: <http://www.belightsoft.com/products/imagetricks/overview.php> Regards... Gordon