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Great Freeware and Shareware products
Native for both OS 9 and OS X.
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Tex-Edit
-- Gotta be the best general-purpose text editor out there ($15).
Barebones Software has released TextWrangler, a free text editor program -- powerful but technical. OS X only.
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GraphicConverter
-- Opens and edits almost any graphic file and has a great slideshow and image browser ($30)
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URL Manager Pro
-- A very handy program for managing your bookmarks. Lots of features. ($25). They also sell Web Confidental, a nifty program for storing all your passwords
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FinderPop
-- It's the most incredible enhancement I've ever added to my Mac. Bazillions of features. (Pintware). There's finally an OS X version (beta).
OS X Only
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Apple's
iLife
is a collection of cool programs. It's $80, although it comes free with new Macs. iTunes is still free.
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Safari, free from Apple, is my favorite browser. It's fast. Also try
Camino and Firefox
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Pixture.com
- a nice collection of free contextual menu items for managing images and media
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Some free, cool OS X utilities for techies at
http://free.abracode.com
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SilverKeeper
(free) is the backup and synchronization program I use.
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Carbon Copy Cloner
is a donation-ware program to backup (clone) a bootable copy of Mac OS X. I clone a copy to an external Firewire drive in case my system goes south.
OS 8-9 only - they're disappearing fast
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Coaster 1.1.3
This is an incredible, free audio recording program.
Audio Recorder 1.2 is a free audio recorder for OS X. It's limited, but it does support saving as MP3.
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