Marc Moini, Marc@kagi.com, http://www.kagi.com/authors/marc/
Installing a new System Folder can be a royal pain in the a**. Trust me, I know. But this little utility makes the process easier and faster by automatically separating your file additions from a list of factory-issue Mac OS files when updating your System. Then it moves the files back to the right places in the new System Folder with a single click. Bravo!
ClockSync II 1.3.2 - Shareware
Jeremy Kezer, jbkezer@kagi.com, http://members.aol.com/jbkezer/index.html
If you have two or more Macs, you probably notice that the clocks drift apart as time goes by. This can be a problem if you do a lot of synchronization between computers. ClockSync II “slaves” your army of Macs to a designated “master”. This will also make daylight savings time easier when you only have to reset the “master”.
This time-limited demo of the award-winning troubleshooting software will work for 7 days after installation. It allows you to catch, isolate, and resolve many kinds of extension and other problems on your mac.
Create SMI 1.0 - Freeware
Ben Lukens, ben@jbic.com, http://www.jbic.com/~ben
This program is actually an AppleScript version of Apple’s Disk Copy 6.3. It gives you the ability to create self-mounting images (SMI) of your programs. Requires Disk Copy 6.3 or greater, Mac OS 8.1 or greater, and AppleScript.
DiskTracker 1.1.3 - Shareware
Mark Pirri, TheVortex@kagi.com, http://woland.mit.edu/dt/
An excellent removable media cataloging device. You'll need this to view the MacAddict disk catalog, which was created with this program.
DropStuff w/EE 4.5 - Shareware
Aladdin Systems, http://www.aladdinsys.com/
DropStuff with Expander Enhancer strengthens the functionality of Stuffit Expander by allowing you to uncompress or decode many different file formats that you find on the internet.
Dvorak Lefty 1.0 - Freeware
Thomas Waterbury Davis, tom@macmobile.com, http://www.macmobile.com/
For all you Mac lefties out there. This resource will create a horizontally flipped version of the ANSI Standard Dvorak keyboard layout for your keyboard.
Guide to RAM upgrades. This helpful utility looks at your Mac and tells you the best way to upgrade your RAM and VRAM. This version includes information on the latest Mac models and clones.
For any former Windows users that can’t seem to grasp the notion that there is no “Run” command in the Macintosh environment, this utility was created to give you peace of mind. When launched, it brings up a window similar to the Windows “Run...” window.
MediaWrapper Light 2.0 - Shareware
John Clark, 12ftguru@mindspring.com, http://www.mindspring.com/~12ftguru/MediaWrapper/
This useful program allows you to scan a removable disk and print the contents on a wrapper that you can insert into the disk case. It supports Zip, Jaz, CD-ROM, EZ Flyer, SyJet, SyQuest, and MagnetoOptical Disks.
Navi iRae 1.1.4 - Give-me-what-you-want-ware
Beastie It Software, beastieit@geocities.com, http://come.to/beastieit
This control panel provides menus when you command-click in a window’s title region, and then lets you navigate through the path of the file by looking for open files of the same name.
PowerReplace is a text conversion utility. It can replace characters (including null, carriage return, line feed, and tab) or strings of text with any other charcter or string.
This utility can clean out useless and orphaned files from your Preferences folder in your System Folder. The program scans your Preferences folder and takes note of what each file belongs to. It then goes through your hard drive to see if any of these applications are still installed. Any files that have no source are moved to a folder that you can trash or do what you will.
Respond 1.0.1 - Shareware
Wolf Technologies, wolftech@wto.com, http://www.wto.com
This control panel brings a limited form of preemptive multitasking to the Mac. It allows you to hold down a menu, drag windows, or use a scroll bar without disrupting background processes.
Stuffit Expander 4.5 - Freeware
Aladdin Systems, http://www.aladdinsys.com/
This freeware expansion utility lets you expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex, and MacBinary files. Version 4.5 adds the ability to mount ShrinkWrap image files (electronic versions of disks) and to decrypt Private File encrypted files.
This powerful application creates text conversion utilities called “Filters” that allows you to convert one text file format to another. It can be used for reformatting HTML files, converting text between Mac, PC, and Unix formats, extracting text from files, and more.
Torquemada’s Ghost is a scriptable, backgroundable, Search & Replace engine. It’s useful for any text processing/data processing purpose. This demo permits 32 launches.
Total Recall Software 3-Pack - Demo
Total Recall Software, info@recallusa.com, http://www.software.recallusa.com/
This package of 3 demo programs from Total Recall Software includes MacMedic (a disk repair and system management utility), SpaceMaker (an HFS to HFS+ conversion utility), and Help! Network (a utility to detect conflicts and incompatibilities on networked Macs).
This Internet-based software automatically updates all the System software, Control Panels, Extensions, Applications, and Utilities on your Mac. It logs into a database of current updaters, identifies your outdated software on your Mac, and then downloads all the necessary updaters. Both 68k and PPC versions included.