The Best 37 Free Items for Your Mac
Posted 05/04/2007 at 4:20pm
| by Dave Hamilton
NeoOffice 2.1 - Free replacement for Microsoft Office
You need: Mac OS 10.3 or later Based on the OpenOffice.org code base, this package includes replacements for Microsoft's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Draw. NeoOffice takes it all one step further and makes a fully Mac-ified experience, so you don't need X11 or anything else to make it work - and yes, it reads and writes MS Office file formats natively. Dude, it's free - go get it.

NeoOffice works so well that we wrote parts of this article with it.
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TextWrangler 2.2.1 - BBEdit's (mature) little brother
You need: Mac OS 10.4 or later (version for Mac OS 10.3.5 through 10.3.9 also available)
Need to edit text files on an FTP server, rewrap a busted-up email, sort a list of names, or even write some HTML, Perl, or PHP? Go get TextWrangler - we did, and we use it every day on MacLife.com. Based on Bare Bones Software's BBEdit engine, TextWrangler is one of the most valuable pieces of freeware you'll ever leech down to your computer. It's not often you get software this good for free, folks.

TextWrangler lets you edit and manipulate text in many different ways.
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