When was the last time you bought a new piece of software for your Mac that wasn’t made by Microsoft, Adobe or Apple? The big three certainly appear to have the market sewn up with Office, Creative ...

One of the least understood features of OpenOffice.org is graphics text. People understand vaguely that it differs from regular text, but exactly how it differs or why anyone should care is mostly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. BeLight Software is a software developer based in Odessa ...

Many of the requests for Gems I get from readers come in the form of, “Do you know of any way to do such-and-such?” But I’m occasionally asked questions more along the lines of “Have you found a ...

BeLight Software has announced the release of the retail edition of Art Text, their software for creating textual graphics. It costs $49.95 ($10 more than the standard download edition). Art text is ...

TextSniper is a new Mac app I wish I’d had years ago. It takes text in a graphic or non-selectable PDF and turns it into actual text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Using it is as easy as ...

When someone visits your website, they don't care much about the graphics, they just go through the textual content. This is because, texts are the major sources of information. So while creating a ...