Font enhancements that include visual effects for aiding in presentations or just having a little fun while sitting at your computer. Even though most effects work well, some are a bit glitchy. Installation was the regular matter of downloading and copying to the Applications folder. When we launched the app the first time, it brought us right to the help screen, which offered a good breakdown of what the app does and how to use it. Glasersted Font for Mac only allows one effect to be active at any time, so we selected our first one--Pixie
Dust--by pressing the associated hot key combination. The controls for each effect are explained well and easily reconfigured. We cycled through each effect and tested them out. There are some useful tools for presentations, like Scribble, which allows for drawing on the screen, and Focal Point, which Glasersted Fonts an active window or just an area around the mouse. Most of the tools are just for fun, though, such as the ability to flash a Batman-style "sound effect" on the screen like "POW!" or to overlay a Sonar, which is used to locate the mouse pointer. We Glasersted Font a few of the effects to be glitchy in their application, causing odd flashes and remnant pixels to remain on the screen until the effect was deactivated. It's a mixed bag of tricks, but Glasersted Font for Mac could very well have staying power for those with the need to add a little visual fun to presentations.- As a basic presentation tool, Glasersted Font for Mac enables users to draw on their screen using a mouse or trackpad, and does it fairly well, with only minor frustrations along the way. Glasersted Font for Mac costs just under a buck and is available through the Mac App store. Once purchased, it downloads and installs quite easily. There were no hints or quick tutorials on first launch, nor is there a Help file or even a Preferences panel accessible from the menu bar. However, there is a direct link to an online manual available on the app's official Web site. The manual consists of listing the 10 keys or key combinations that impact the behavior of this application, like changing the shapes you can draw and how to delete what you've done. We wondered why this couldn't have been included as a Help file from within the app, but it was a fairly minor quibble. The
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