According to its publishers: "Picturesque is an application designed to make images look gorgeous for the web.
With an animated "drag and drop" style interface, Picturesque can beautify your images with reflections, soft glows, shadows, delicate curves, strokes and fades in less time than it takes to open Photoshop.
Picturesque can also beautify a whole folder of images in batch with a single click, and includes Automator actions for automation."
www.acqualia.com/picturesque/index.html
(Mac) OSX 10.4+
$19.50 (£10.39)

If you have ever wanted to build your own RapidWeaver theme from scratch, then the linked tutorial that follows is just what you need.
It is very clear and very thorough.
http://www.rapid-ideas.com/downloads/creaturion_files/page50_2.pdf

Crossword Forge allows you to easily make and share classroom style crossword puzzles and word search puzzles.
Puzzles for the Web, Print, & PDF
Mac + PC
I love this program. It is fantastically easy to use. It is cross platform and produces high quality output for both paper and online crosswords.
Check out my science vocabulary crossword here.
£26 download.
www.solrobots.com/crosswordforge

Quiz Press has an easy-to-use interface. You can make your own quizzes that you can put on the web or print out for classroom use


Varied question type: multiple choice, fill-in the blank, short answer, true or false & cloze.
www.solrobots.com/quizpress/index.html
Mac and PC.
£26 download

Although not necessarily the best, FREE is often good enough....
So check out the offerings at www.freeserifsoftware.com

Simple Movie X is a QuickTime Pro replacement which allows easy editing of video clips.
Native Editing
Most popular file formats mov, mpeg, avi and iPod mp4, are natively supported, so you can edit and save them in a breeze without loss of quality.
Chapters
Add Chapters to give direct access to sequences inside the movie, to create compilations of movies or songs.

www.aeroquartet.com/SimpleMovieX/info.html
[Mac only]
$30 download
(£16)
Fully featured demo available
....Having tried this software, I found it to be a little frustrating in the way that it works and for its rather odd omission of the usual transport controls for navigating through your video - Jump to start being a key one!

Snapz Pro X is by far the most powerful, versatile, and easy to use screen capture solution for Mac OS X. It has recently been updated to bring Intel Mac compatibility, performance optimisation, and minor bug fixes.

Apple recently sent out an email with recommendations for how to encode Video Podcasts. The recommendations follow:

Recommendations for Formatting Video Podcasts

1. If you're encoding your video podcast at 320x240, please increase the resolution to either 640x480 or 640x360 (depending on the aspect ratio of your source files). Why? Because video podcasts at this resolution look great on Apple TV and still port to video iPods. Lower resolution podcasts might also work on both platforms, but they don't look nearly as good on a widescreen TV. As always, make sure to test any encoding changes you make to ensure device compatibility. QuickTime 7.1's "Export to iPod" function will ensure that a video file is encoded at a width of 640 and is iPod-compatible.

2. It's best not to create two different podcast feeds for different resolutions. By doing so, you dilute the popularity of your podcast and reduce exposure in our charts. It's better to have one feed high in the charts than two that are lower.

3. If your source files are 16:9, stick with that aspect ratio. Don't add letterboxing to make them 4:3. By doing so, you prevent the video from expanding to fill a 16:9 widescreen TV and instead end up with black space on all four sides. Also, your original source files should be at least 640 pixels wide.

Of course these are just recommendations. We understand that there are good reasons for 320x240 (bandwidth bills) and 720p (looks fantastic). Do whatever makes the most sense for your show.  For more information on formatting video, see the recently updated spec:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html

To see a sample of excellent podcasts that also look great with Apple TV, check out the Apple TV Podcast Showcase.

You will find a variety of instructional videos to help you in developing your Rapidweaver-built site here:
http://www.elixirgraphics.com/videos/index.html