MAPublisher is a powerful suite of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-end graphic design for high. Use Macromedia or Adobe Freehand today. Dear Folks, as you probably know, since Adobe has bought Macromedia, they dropped a lot of really good products or changed them in a sometimes unsatisfactory way. Macromedia Flash 2 1997 Released with Flash Player 2, new features include synchronized WAV and AIFF sound support, enhanced bitmap editing, Macromedia FreeHand integration, TrueType and PostScript fonts support, color transformations, auto-trace and the object library. Macromedia Flash 3 1998.

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Adobe is trying to migrate users of this program to Illustrator. That is why this is a cheap but excellent software to illustrate and draw. It has a lot of interesting tools. It is not compatible with windows vista and there will be no updates to solve this.

• Publisher: Adobe
• Home page:www.adobe.com
• Last updated: October 13th, 2011

Freehand Painter

Freehand Painter helps you create vector-based impressive paintings with brilliant effects on your PC. You can try out different artistic styles in this easy to use application. Just doodle on your touch screen PC to create realistic paintings with your fingers.

• Publisher: Deskshare Inc.
• Home page:www.deskshare.com
• Last updated: September 22nd, 2020

Macromedia Authorware

Macromedia’s Authorware enables you to create rich e-learning applications and courseware to be used with LMS systems. This courseware and application framework conforms to standards of the AICC and ADL SCORM. You can import content from MS-PowerPoint and integrate it with other multimedia content

• Publisher: Adobe
• Home page:www.adobe.com
• Last updated: March 6th, 2008

ST Thumbnails Explorer

ST Thumbnails Explorer is a perfect thumbnail viewer and photo manager with explorer interface. It allows you to browse, zoom, copy and move any thumbnail or image file. ST Thumbnails Explorer supports every thumbnail file like Adobe Illustrator v.7-11, CorelDRAW v.4-12, Macromedia FreeHand v.7-11, CorelXARA / Xara X etc. Folder tree and drag/drop feature enables the user to explore faster.

• Publisher: Softfields Technologies
• Home page:www.softfields.com
• Last updated: May 26th, 2020

HelaBasa

MyPC HelaBasa is the Sri Lanka's number one Sinhala Fonts Package containing high quality Sinhala fonts for Graphic Designers, Type Setters, office users and domestic users with MyPC HelaBasa - Wijesekara Sinhala Keyboard Mapping Software Driver and free bonus Braille and LiyaWel (bordering) fonts.

• Publisher: Suchitra Madhava Tennakoon
• Last updated: March 15th, 2008

Summa Printer Tools

Software bundle including all printing related tools:- Summa Printer Control 1.11.0.0 (Revised: January 17 2012)- Plug-in for Coreldraw 12, X3, X4, X5 & X6 and Illustrator CS/CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6 (Revised: )- ICC profile for DC series printers- DC series Color Palette installer for Coreldraw 12 - X6 & Illustrator CS/CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6 & Macromedia Freehand MX & MXa

• Publisher: Summa
• Last updated: August 13th, 2012

Easy FLV to WMV Converter

Start converting FLV files into WMVs with the Easy FLV to WMV Converter. It's fast, free and easy to use. Available for both Windows and Mac.

• Publisher: EasyConverters.com
• Last updated: July 15th, 2014

SWF, Lock & Load

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SWF, Lock and Load is a program to design preloaders to introduce graphics into the website to inform the user of the progress in loading the Flash movie / Macromedia files (SWF). This easy program succeeds in retaining the user in the website as the time taken for loading is substantial and possesses the capability to distract the user to move on to the next site...

• Publisher: Vertical Moon
• Home page:www.verticalmoon.com
• Last updated: March 25th, 2008

CuteFTP

CuteFTP helps you automate file transfer and synchronization operations using scripts. You can write scripts to regularly back up or synchronize your sites, and monitor local folders for changes. You can also do file transfers manually by simply dragging and dropping to its interface.

• Publisher: GlobalSCAPE, Inc.
• Home page:www.cuteftp.com
• Last updated: August 15th, 2018

ManageEngine OpUtils

OpUtils is a Switch Port & IP Address Management software that helps network engineers manage their Switches and IP Address Space with ease. With its comprehensive set of 30+ tools, it helps them to perform network monitoring tasks like detecting a rogue device intrusion, keep a check on bandwidth usage, monitoring availability of critical devices, backing up Cisco configuration files and more.

• Publisher: AdventNet
• Home page:www.manageengine.com
• Last updated: March 9th, 2016

SBS Asset Tracking Database

SBS Asset Tracking Database features :Efficient and cost effective :- Simple, low cost solution- Saves time and improves efficiencyQuality effectiveness- Helps control calibrated equipment- Reports Calibration / Maintenance Due Shows the status of your equipment with a click of a button

• Publisher: Sunday Business Systems, LLC
• Home page:www.sundaybizsys.com
• Last updated: May 27th, 2020

QuickTime

Includes support for the key media formats, such as H.264 and AAC. The QuickTime web browser plug-in is no longer installed by default and is removed if you have a previous version of QuickTime on your PC. If you still need this legacy plug-in, you can add it back using the custom setup option in the installer.

• Publisher: Apple Inc.
• Home page:www.apple.com
• Last updated: June 30th, 2020

Adobe Flash Player Plugin for IE

Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Internet Explorer allows you to play Flash video, animation, and games in the Internet Explorer browser. Flash contents are used in almost all websites to display advertisements and video. This plugin is required to be installed in IE for accessing YouTube.

• Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated
• Home page:get.adobe.com
• Last updated: December 10th, 2020

Internet Download Manager

Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, FTP and HTTP protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads.

• Publisher: Tonec Inc.
• Home page:www.internetdownloadmanager.com
• Last updated: April 23rd, 2021

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is an office suite designed for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases. It lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor. You can also produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.

• Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
• Home page:www.openoffice.org
• Last updated: May 19th, 2021

Dropbox

Dropbox gives you an online storage space where you can upload your files and folders. This program installs an offline folder, which is an exact replica of your online drive. You can easily copy-paste files to this folder to start uploading. Dropbox files can be shared with your friends from this folder itself.

• Publisher: Dropbox, Inc.
• Home page:www.dropbox.com
• Last updated: May 18th, 2021

MyPC Backup

Securely backup your PC and Mac files online - access them anytime from a variety of mobile devices including iPhone, IPad and Android devices. Rest assured that you will never lose data again from a hard drive crash, theft or accidental deletion.

• Publisher: MyPC Backup
• Home page:www.MyPCBackup.com
• Last updated: June 19th, 2020

Audacity

Except for a few features available in some professional audio editors of the highest level, there is no need to spend ridiculous amounts of money in professional audio tools when you can download and enjoy Audacity. This open-source development comes with all the utilities you need to produce high-quality audio files and to edit and enhance them just like with any high-end professional tool.

• Publisher: Audacity Team
• Last updated: April 20th, 2021

I am concerned about Apple’s move to its own home-grown processors.

It’s not because I’m worried about the new silicon, or Apple’s ability to make high-performance CPUs, or even because I am worried about changing architectures. I survived the move from Motorola 68K processors to PowerPC, and PowerPC to Intel.

I’m still using High Sierra on my 2016 MacBook Pro. I still have legacy 32-bit software I use professionally, and I also boot this computer into Windows with Boot Camp to play games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 that won’t run in Parallels.

I am concerned about the switch to Apple Silicon because I’m worried about what it means to archivists and historians.

I understand why Apple is doing it. I get it, I do. But I’m really worried about what it means to the legacy of the late 20th century.

Desktop publishing revolutionized human communication. It’s hard to overstate what a Big Deal desktop publishing was. It arguably democratized communication more than any other invention since the printing press. It fueled an explosion of creativity and led to a boom in the underground ‘zine scene.

PageMaker, the first DTP software, revolutionized entire industries…plural. Overnight the entire publishing community moved to it.

And, of course, mergers and acquisitions happened as the disruption shook itself out. Aldus, the startup that created PageMaker, got swallowed by Adobe. Quark arose to compete, and a lot of the industry jumped ship, since QuarkXPress was objectively better. Then Adobe created a new program, InDesign, which was objectively better than QuarkXPress, and the industry moved on. That’s how capitalism is supposed to work, right?

But here’s the thing:

A vast chunk of the history of desktop publishing, including countless underground ’zines of significant cultural and historical value, are still tied up in old files. Old files that can still be accessed, albeit with difficulty.

InDesign CS6 can open PageMaker and QuarkXPress documents. Later versions dropped the ability to open PageMaker files.

Old Mac emulators like SheepShaver can open even older files, by running ancient PowerPC apps directly. I recently rescued a bunch of old ‘zines I published in the early 90s this way.

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But a window is closing.

It’s starting to close even without the move to Apple Silicon. When I set up a SheepShaver PowerPC Mac emulator to install the software to rescue these files, one of the pieces of software tried to contact activation servers that went offline in 1999. I had to do a bit of hacking to get the software to install.

I opened PageMaker 4 files in PageMaker 6, opened the PageMaker 6 files in InDesign CS6, and opened the InDesign CS6 files in InDesign 2020.

I opened Macromedia Freehand files in Freehand, saved them as EPS, opened the EPS files in Illustrator 6, saved them, and opened them in Illustrator 2020.

Now here it gets tricky.

InDesign CS6, the last modern app that can read a PageMaker file, won’t run on new versions of macOS because it’s 32-bit only.

It won’t run in emulators like SheepShaver because it’s OS X only.

SheepShaver and InDesign CS6 both won’t run on Apple Silicon.

We are on the cusp of losing the ability to open PageMaker files completely.

In a perfect world, someone would write a Mac emulator that lets you emulate a High Sierra Mac on Apple Silicon hardware, just like SheepShaver lets you emulate a PowerPC Mac on Intel hardware. If you can bring old software and old emulators with you, those people—historians, digital archivists, and the like—can, with enough faffing, still recover the rich legacy of information from the early days of desktop publishing.

But for various arcane technical reasons, writing an emulator for x86–64 on ARM is a huge undertaking, something beyond what an open source project is likely to do. I honestly don’t see the open source community writing a Mac emulator that will run High Sierra on Apple Silicon. Emulating x86 on ARM is an enormous project, one that requires a well-resources company to do.

A company like…Apple.

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It turns out Apple has done this. It’s called Rosetta 2 and it’s built into Big Sur.

What I’d like to see is Apple donate code to emulate an Intel processor on ARM to the open source community, so they can build an emulator for Intel Macs. This would permit access to ancient files and legacy software—albeit with rather a lot of faffing—and permit access to apps and files all the way back to the PowerPC (and 68K, since the PowerPC system 9 has a 68K emulator). This would, I feel, show corporate responsibility on Apple’s part, without really costing them anything. The Intel emulation is already done.

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But without that? I really do feel we as a society are, in the relentless march of late-stage capitalism, destroying part of our own history simply because there’s no profit in keeping it.

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And that worries me.