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Recommended Shareware and Freeware for the Mac
Fish
is an aquarium simulator. Excellent. Go get it! Probably
the best text editor for Mac users - and freeware
too!
An
excellent Web site maker, web browser and emailer
application. This
AMUG web site is made with Sea Monkey! Most Mac
users will find the web
site maker quality to be the most useful as all
new Macs come with
Safari and Mail. Extra dictionaries are
downloadable and you can
contribute your skills to the further development
of this Project.
Extremely easy to use. Highly recommended. 
We
recommend that users carefully evaluate whether
their planned use of
this product is legal. We do not condone the use
of any software in
violation of the law.
MacTheRipper is free and is a DVD extractor It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. It can also copy ARccOS copy-protected DVDs. This is to backup your legally-purchased DVDs onto your hard drive. Tip: Change System Preferences "When you insert a video DVD" to "Ignore" - otherwise Apple DVD Player will nag you if the DVD is not the same region. Requires Mac OS 10.2 or higher.
For
Mac OS 10.2 and higher. Video converter software,
allows you to convert
your home-made DVD into QuickTime format (requires
purchase of the QuickTime
MPEG-2
Playback Component) at 4.3 ratio and save to
backup. Requires QuickTime
Player
(free) to open the files.
Movie
editor. Allows copy and paste and editing of
movies with many export
formats for movies and sound extraction. Requires
prior installation of
the free QuickTime Player to add the serial
number. Costs $29.99.
For
Mac OS 10.5. This free version (soon to be obsolete)
of the software
allows you to record the sound from your computer
speakers, which you
can then open as an AIFF file in Audion, iTunes or
other sound
conversion software. This version has been
superceded by Wiretap Studio
(which is not free.)
The
one that everyone is talking about. A fantastic 3D
application that
shows you the whole of the planet. Requires Mac OS
10.4 or higher. Does
not work on old Macs. Free
computer
to computer phone calls and video around the
world. Skype is
the big internet news over the last few years.
SiteSucker
is an
application that allows you to download complete
websites to your hard
drive, then read them at leisure.
This is ideal for people who don't have their own internet connection at home. As most websites are public information, there is nothing wrong with using this application. OK, you are not going to access business websites (so, please don't try) as they have firewalls and are secure (thank goodness!) but for info websites this application is ideal. It takes a while to understand how to set up the Preferences, but after that, you're up and running. Highly recommended. Mac OS 10.4 and also earlier. Free (donation-ware) with donation requested. Essential for reading Adobe Acrobat files. These files are most usually Read-Me's and download files from the web; such as technical specifications for hardware and software. Available for free by download from the Adobe website with a choice of version, depending on which Mac operating system you use.
Stuffit
Expander is free and now in version 9. It has
been around (just about!)
forever, and allows you to open downloaded
compressed files. The Pro
version - 'Stuffit DeLuxe' is an excellent and
worthwhile purchase if
you need to create compressed files and is
available for purchase from
the Stuffit website (and if you click the page
to leave a couple of
times they will even
give you a discount!) Don't
click on the free offer for the Standard
Version as it is NOT free
- it's a TrialPay
offer only if you buy something else!
Freeware for Mac OS9 and Mac OSX. One of the biggest successes of Apple, especially when they produced it for windoze. Then came the Apple iPod music player which has been a roaring success and taken Design of the Year Awards all over the planet. iTunes is a player/converter which allows you to play and convert music across 3 formats: AIFF, WAV and MP3 (the conversion setting that you specify in the Preferences will be the format available in the 'Advanced' Menu bar) and also has a great Visualiser. Does not allow sound wave or filter adjustments though, for that you need something called
Freeware
for Mac OS9 and Mac OSX. Since the
beginning of 2005 Audion 3 is now free. Audion
has all (except the
Visualiser) of the things that iTunes has,
except for an (arguably)
inferior user interface. The main point in
getting Audion is to be able
to edit sound files. You can convert file
formats and also cut, copy
and paste music, just like you do with text in
AppleWorks. Amazing! The
FREE
Audion
serial
number
is
here
 VLC Media Player Freeware.
For Mac OSX only.
Allows you
to play 16:9 DVDs in full screen mode by
cropping the display via
setting
your monitor viewing size. Thought by many to be
better than Apple DVD
Player. Allows you to take screen grabs and make
playlists.
 Snapz Pro2
for Mac OS9 Snapz
ProX
for Mac OSX Shareware for Mac OS9 and Mac OSX. This is a configurable 'camera' which allows you to take snapshots of your screen, windows, Menus, or selected area. Configurable application helpers. It is being able to take snaps of Menus that gives it the edge over similar apps. Essential for teachers and writers.
Shareware for Mac OS9. This utility gives you ten clipboards, so that you can copy and paste across all of them. e.g. command-c-1 to command-v-1 etc. The contents of the clipboards are retained through shutdown and reboots.
Shareware for Mac OS9. Allows you to switch between open applications from the Finder, by moving through your open applications by using the keyboard keys of option and tab - thus saving you 'mouse arm' by having to go up to the top right hand side of your monitor, great in conjunction with Copy Paste for cross-application work. (Mac OSX has a built in function for switching between open applications by using the Apple and tab keys).  Graphic Converter Shareware
Mac
OS8, Mac OS9 and Mac OSX. Now also
for Mac Intel. The long
standing graphics application. This
application will open just about
everything. Also handy to use to check your
graphics if you don't fancy
launching Photoshop - indeed, GraphicConverter
will work with images
that Photoshop cannot open, such as picture
clippings and .ICO formats.
Available in 12
languages and able to handle more than 200
graphic formats. Thorsten
Lemke's dedication to the Mac platform is
legendary. Keep up the good
work, Lemke!
Mac
OSX Universal. Shareware. Also from Thorsten
Lemke. With this
application you can
view and print out sheets of all of your fonts -
typefaces, sizes and
styles. This is a marvellous tool for people who
work with desktop
publishing and need to see their font options
often and quickly.
Available in seven languages. Recommended.
Adobe Type Manager Light (ATM) Freeware
for
Mac OS9. The Adobe
Type Manager Light (ATM 4.6) is essential for
viewing your fonts
correctly on screen,
and for smoothing fonts in documents.
Shareware
for
Mac OS9 and Mac OSX.
DiskTracker
is essential for people who use a lot of
external disks.
MacTracker End Note All of the above mentioned
items
have passed with flying colours and we can
recommend them to you as
being genuinely If you have found some good and useable Freeware or Shareware for the Mac then please let us know!
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finished
properly.
Most
of it is very well made, but some of it is not
and therefore goes in
the Trash.
