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Cool man. Good work!

I would add Panther Cache Cleaner to the maintenance apps section.
It does all the usual maintenance routines from a very nice interface as well as some interface tweaking from the "special" menu.

Under Games, I would add Semicolon Software's "Solitaire Till Dawn".  It's $25 and is the best solitaire suite out there.  With over 80 games and a buttload of features, it's a definite must have for the procrastinator in all of us...

http://www.semicolon.com/STDX.html

Last edited by jonnya42 (2005-03-02 5:00 pm)

I would add-
NeoOffice-Open Office.org without X11 hell.
http://www.neooffice.org/

No list of Mac software can go without GraphicConverter.
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/index.htm

A small quible:
I am becoming irked that RSS feed readers are being called news readers. News readers are what usenet client software is, ya know..software that reads newsgroups.
All you n00b RSS guys go find another name, us usenet people have been using newsreaders for 15+years.
In this catigory would be Thoth (the best but discontinued), Unison (brand new and unspeakibly wretched), MT Newswatcher (solid, boring but reliable) and Hogwasher (Ive never used it so who knows?).

Last edited by Pariah (2005-03-02 11:21 pm)

Applejack is a damn handy maintenance/repair utility to have installed. It doesn't do all the stuff DiskWarrior or TechTool can but it can still get you out of a jam.

Nisus Writer Express is a pretty nice word processor from the people who brought us Nisus 3.47, the word processor MicroSoft has almost caught up to.

If you like cooking then Yum is a pretty slick recipe managment app.

Yuburner and BurnX Free are a couple of decent free CD burning apps. Missing Media Burner is another, though the Terminal geek factor may turn some people off. It does work very well, though.

For contextual menus, On My Command is the ultimate. If you are willing to do a little work you can create contextual menu items to do almost anything you want.

Locator is a darn handy disk searching utility. It is a GUI for the CLI tool locate so it will find stuff the Finder ignores.

XKeys is a simple launcher utility.

Celestia is a free astronomy app that is kind of fun. Others include EarthGlobe, MoonDock, SolScape, and CosmicDebris. A very nice shareware choice is Equinox

Unicode Font Info is a handy tool for finding oddball characters.

If you have a scanner without OS X support then VueScan and/or the OS X port of SANE are very handy.

For printing, Gimp-Print may let you use printers without official OS X support or enable features not exposed by OEM drivers.

Only really useful to medical professionals but interesting nonetheless, OsiriX is kinda fun, if you like bones and organs and such.

Boaters may find Mr.Tides useful.

Last edited by test (2005-03-03 10:20 am)

You have Onyx on your list, but I would also include the shareware Cocktail, it is similar to Onyx but more convenient to use and a growing list of features. I don't see how you could have left out the freeware TinkerTool, there is nothing that matches it for fine tuning the interface. Its shareware sibling TinkerTool System has some system tuning features you won't find anywhere else this side of the command line. For changing ownership and permissions BatCHMod is hard to beat and works better than Finder at drilling down through multiple layers of folders. Since you mentioned DiskWarrior you should also include TechTool Pro 4, it does the same things as DW and a whole lot more besides including providing early warning of problems and file/volume recovery tools. The freeware application WhatSize is invaluable in finding out where your disk space has mysteriously disappeared to. If you want a bootable OS X CD then BootCD is about your only option. And another vote for Nisus Writer Express 2 a truly great word processor. While on the subject of word processors Apple's new Pages, part of iWork '05 has the potential of becoming a killer word processor.

Last edited by joemikeb (2005-03-03 5:03 pm)

You should add Quinn to your games section (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10063)
It's a freeware Tetris clone, and it's one of the best I've found thus far.

jax wrote:

You should add Quinn to your games section (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10063)
It's a freeware Tetris clone, and it's one of the best I've found thus far.

I second this. You probably want to add OmniOutliner, a multi column outliner.

Nope, only 2 disks, and the closest I could find is BSDSK packages, but that is on my HD. I cannot browse the No. 1 installlation disk., Disk 2 only contains some .pdf files in diff. languages..

Forget it, I think I shall just get the other otion, cocktail...

Thanks for response anyway...


steyn

BSD Subsystem... heh, talk about indispensable Mac OS X Software...

Neobody, I would get an external firewire drive for your rarely used apps.

How could you forget skEdit! Web editor - $19 www.skti.org