In the August edition of german Mac Magazine "MacLife", author Matthias Jaap compares FotoMagico with iPhoto 5's slide show and DVD creation features. He concludes: "FotoMagico is the clear winner. Although iPhoto ostensibly offers more eye candy in the form of 12 transitions, the software from Boinx is faster, more flexible and open-minded about local TV signal standards."

Janet Mobley reviews FotoMagico for "TMUG Insider", the Tri-Valley Macintosh Users Group (Pleasanton, CA) newsletter, June 2005 issue:

I had spent about 12 hours of time and several pots of coffee in two evening sessions in the hotel room producing this overnight sensation. My Titanium 15" laptop had enough RAM (1 GHz) and robustness to create and playback a full-screen, stereo-soundtrack-ed, smooth-moving, judiciously panned and zoomed, FotoMagico slideshow. Much easier to use than iMovie, and in my opinion more intuitive, FotoMagico costs all of $79 for the downloaded software and is well worth the brief learning curve. [...] It takes slideshows to new heights of control and production speed.

Robert Pritchett reviews FotoMagico for macCompanion and awards it 5 Stars: "Strengths: Does stuff better than Apple's iApps." ... "There is a good reason why Boinx picked the magician's hat as a logo for this app. It really is magic!" ... "Titling allows for more freedom of movement than in using Apple's iApps. That's right, it allows the text to move and resize."

Jason writes: "Mary's parents wanted some video footage to show Eawyn off to some of their relatives and it seemed like a pretty fun project to finally put all the video and pictures we've been taking since September to use. In just over a days time I managed to whip up a fairly large slideshow and a small video compilation of Eawyn [...]. I used Boinx FotoMagico to do the slideshow portion of the project since it allows for cool spins and zooms that go beyond the typical iMovie Ken Burns effect and integrates nicely with iPhoto."

FotoMagico 1.2.4 beta improves playback on certain machines, provides more export options and fixes a few bugs. Version 1.2.4b11 fixes two important issues with 1.2.4b10. Read more and give it a try. Please let us know if and how the new speed settings work for you.

Don Gianatti from Phoenix, AZ, looked for a presentation solution for Mac users and writes on his weblog: "We have been using ProShow Gold and iMovie to make presentation samples for clients. [FotoMagico] looks nearly as robust as ProShow Gold (which unfortunately is PC only) and is very affordable. We have created custom portfolios, proof presentations and more and delivered them on CD / DVD. The results are impressed clients, no useable files trade hands and the clients share the presentations with many more possible clients than they do the prints/proofs that we used to deliver."

Finally, it's there. Everybody is looking to get their hands on Mac OS X Tiger. Boinx Software applications are ready when you are.

• iStopMotion 1.8.1 released today
  The release fixes a few minor issues with Mac OS X Tiger and improves stability for all users. In addition, new default preview movie settings deliver much better quality playback when previewing your work.
• FotoMagico 1.2.3
  The recently released update is already ready for Tiger. You can simply keep their current version installed when updating Mac OS X.
• iVeZeen 2.0
  Still running strong and compatible with Tiger is this little gem.
• MiracleSight 1.0
  The fun screensaver gets a new life with Mac OS X Tiger as Apple fixed a problem that was introduced with Mac OS X 10.3.5 and prevented MiracleSight from working since then.
• Mouseposé 1.2
  Updated just this week to Version 1.2, the free tool now works on Tiger and features a freely assignable Hot Key and a Menu Bar Icon for controlling the app so that the Dock Icon can now be switched off.

Tom Penberthy writes for Macworld:

Slide shows in iPhoto are perfect—if you happen to have a song that's the exact length of your show, and if image transitions happen to fall at appropriate beats. OK, that never happens. Enter Boinx Software's FotoMagico. Layer in multiple songs from iTunes, and set transition points so images change in time with the music.