Freeware Apps

chairmanchairman
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Hi, I just received my new powerbook (switched from Windows 98 and have absolutely no regrets) and was wondering what freeware apps I should download.



I have already downloaded:

Duality

Backlight

Minimize in Place

Tinkertool

NetNewsWire

Tigerlaunch

Acquisition

Unsanity Haxies

All the browsers (Chimera, Omni, Mozilla)



Anything else?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    <a href="http://www.sugarcubesoftware.com/"; target="_blank">Pic2Icon</a> (though it needs to be updated for Jaguar -- some pdfs can be corrupted)



    <a href="http://www.caffeinesoft.com"; target="_blank">PixelNhance</a> -- use with iPhoto to fix up pictures.



    [ 11-20-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 10
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    iPulse

    Chimera



    I think Macs come with OmniDiskSweeper and GraphicConverter these days.
  • Reply 3 of 10
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    VLC - For all your movie needs. This prog can view VCDs, DVDs, avi, dvi and much more.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    fellowshipfellowship Posts: 5,038member
    [quote]Originally posted by chairman:

    <strong>Hi, I just received my new powerbook (switched from Windows 98 and have absolutely no regrets) and was wondering what freeware apps I should download.



    I have already downloaded:

    Duality

    Backlight

    Minimize in Place

    Tinkertool

    NetNewsWire

    Tigerlaunch

    Acquisition

    Unsanity Haxies

    All the browsers (Chimera, Omni, Mozilla)



    Anything else?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I have both PC and Mac OSX Jag.



    You had 98 which was a piece of crap.



    I once thought I would go to mac because of my frustration with the troubles of 98. I held out for XP and XP is really good and solid. I have had my fair share of problems with OSX.



    my digital camera is better with PC



    my Scanner is better with PC



    many webpages will not view correctly on the mac no matter the browser... always better on PC





    things like that.



    I bought Mac for iTunes and my iPod



    Best wishes...



    Fellowship



    [ 11-21-2002: Message edited by: FellowshipChurch iBook ]</p>
  • Reply 5 of 10
    rick1138rick1138 Posts: 938member
    breve



    go to <a href="http://www.spiderland.org"; target="_blank">www.spiderland.org</a>
  • Reply 6 of 10
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Thanks for derailing this good topic and turning it into a Mac vs. PC debate, Fellowship. We all appreciate that sort of thing.



    Anyway, to bring it back on topic, here are my suggestions:



    Calculator+ (much nicer than the default calculator in OS X, and it's actually responsive!)

    DVDBackup (Haven't used it yet, but it lets you copy DVDs to your hard drive and play them back without the disc)

    DVDCapture (allows screen capture while watching a DVD)

    Mac Janitor (Allows manual control of daily, weekly, and monthly background tasks)

    Omni products - Dictionary, DiskSweeper, Graffle, Outliner, and Web

    iChatEnhancer (lets you set the number of text input lines for iChat, requires Application Enhancer)



    EDIT: Forgot my two non-iTunes MP3 players.

    Cabrio - a simple, little lightweight one for any PPC running system 7.5 or higher. I don't use it on this computer but it's nice and I plan to use it on some of my older, slower computers.

    Whamb! - another simple and small MP3 player. This one is a bit like WinAmp in that you have a playlist window and a skinnable control window.



    [ 11-21-2002: Message edited by: Luca Rescigno ]</p>
  • Reply 7 of 10
    off/langoff/lang Posts: 98member
    [quote]Originally posted by tonton:

    <strong>Well, fellowship, I've had the opposite experience.



    When I installed OS X on my PowerBook I didn't have a kernel panic for the six first months I used it.



    Meanwhile, this week I just started a new job where I get to use XP (professional) for the first time.



    ON THE FIRST DAY I USED IT, Windows Explorer (or whatever you call the file system browser under XP) crashed the system and required a reboot.



    The system was clean installed. No one touched it before I did, and no third-party apps were installed except drivers, Office, networking apps and NAV.



    Before you go saying "must be the hardware", it was a recent model IBM desktop with 1.6 GHz PIV. If IBM can't make a machine that doesn't crash under XP, I don't know who can. Evidently Apple can make a machine that doesn't crash under OS X.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I've had an XP-based Gateway P4-1400 since XP was released, and I have to say I'm fairly happy with it. It is a solid OS that tends not to crash on me (I do need to restart it on at least a weekly basis and do the standard windows reinstall on a 3-6 month basis, though). The reason I am switching to MacOS X is not because windows sucks. It is because OSX is a better OS. I am a CS major; I really liked the ability to have unix right there, not a restart into another os away. But, at the same time, it is really nice to have Photoshop and Office--the standard windows Apps that I use?at my finger-tips aswell. Many of my CS friends complain about lack of application support on the mac platform. I don?t find that to be a problem. I think of it more like the best of both worlds: you get all the best windows apps, but at the same time you get all the best unix apps (special thanks to .<a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/"; target="_blank">FINK</a>--see I'm on topic )



    I had the pleasure of using a first Generation Tibook while interning this summer. I had heard a lot about OSX so I thought I'd put it on there and see what it was like. It was 10.1.5 and honestly, it tended to crash on me weekly, but I could see the enormous potential of the system. So when 10.2 came out, I installed it as soon as I could, and was very impressed. It fixed 85% of my problems with that computer. It did not crash anymore, at all (like, I mean, I didn't ever have one crash after I installed Jag--something that impressed me a lot after 10.1.5). If they can get it this close to "right" on a second dot release, I can't wait to see what 10.5 or OSX1 will be like.



    Apple is a company with so much potential, I feel like it is my duty now to help the platform as much as I can. So again, in my mind it is not that XP sucks; it is that OSX is better.



    [ 11-21-2002: Message edited by: off/lang ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 10
    off/langoff/lang Posts: 98member
    Yeah, apps:



    I would recommend <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=15693&db=mac"; target="_blank">Fugu</a>, a nice GUI wrapper for the commandline sftp client.



    and, as mentioned above, <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/"; target="_blank">FINK</a>, the project where you get all of your needed unix tools. Think of it almost as a debian release for your mac.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    off topic:



    [quote]Originally posted by off/lang:

    <strong>Apple is a company with so much potential, I feel like it is my duty now to help the platform as much as I can. So again, in my mind it is not that XP sucks; it is that OSX is better.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well said.



    on-topic:



    Check out [url=http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/Brian Hill software[/url] for some nice freebies. Pseudo lets you do things as "super user" on your machine temporarily in case something is a bit messed-up. Brickwall is a free firewall utility if you have an always-on internet connection that's more configurable than Apple's built-in one.



    Here's anice page with a listing of OS X apps:



    <a href="http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/"; target="_blank">http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/</a>;



    I forgot to welcome you before. Welcome!



    [ 11-21-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
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