If you’re a user of Mac OS 8.5 and later, take advantage of your desktop’s capability to support 32-bit icon graphics. This collection features some beautiful-looking heavenly bodies—get your mind out of the gutter! We’re talking planets here! This set includes six planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Send an email to Reby, the icon creator, to get a free password to unlock the entire 56 icon Solar System set. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Forget the boring digital menubar version. Personalize your desktop with your own custom clock. This special MacAddict Edition features a whimsical clock of our beloved Max—too cute! The package also contains a number of interchangeable skins featuring the candy-colored iMac flavors, plus instructions on creating your own skins. And don’t forget to pay those shareware fees, kids. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later and Appearance Manager.
ACTION Files 1.5.1 - Trial
Power On Software, Voice 800-344-9160, sales@poweronsw.com, http://www.poweronsw.com/
Don't waste time clicking your way through long lists of files trying to find a particular version of a file. Misplacing a file will never be a problem again. With ACTION Files, you can take advantage of the most effective way to find and organize your work. This program adds menus of commands at the top of every Open and Save window or Navigation Services dialogs to allow faster navigation, while providing you with information about each file. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
ACTION GoMac 2.0.3 - Trial
Power On Software, Voice 800-344-9160, sales@poweronsw.com, http://www.poweronsw.com/
ACTION GoMac offers the ultimate in ease of use and aesthetic design for Mac users who want instant access to all of their programs while maintaining precious screen real estate. It places a task bar anchored across the bottom of the screen that will allow program launching, keyboard application switching, drag and drop file opening, Quick Info on all running programs, Internet bookmarking, a perpetual popup calendar, layer management, QuickLaunch, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
ACTION Menus 1.0 - Trial
Power On Software, Voice 800-344-9160, sales@poweronsw.com, http://www.poweronsw.com/
This program will allow you to organize, customize, and control your menus for faster and smarter navigation through your folders and applications. Create your own user-configurable custom menus that will allow you to launch or quit applications, open and close documents, get file info, launch URLs, list open windows, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
ACTION WYSIWYG 1.0.1 - Trial
Power On Software, Voice 800-344-9160, sales@poweronsw.com, http://www.poweronsw.com/
Take control of your fonts with this handy program. WYSIWYG will let you customize your font menus and organize all of your fonts into groups in a multi-column menu, displaying each font name in its own font. Set up separate font sets that can be customized for each application. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
Customize your Mac’s menu bar with this cool Control Panel program. It allows yu to add cusomized menus to the menu bar either as a word or as a custom mini icon. 68k and PPC compatible.
Biggy-Light - Demo
RJ Cooper and Associates, techsupport@rjcooper.com, http://www.rjcooper.com
For all of you who are out to prove that BIG is definitely better, try these on for size. This collection of cursors and animated cursors will replace your old system pointer, watch, and insert point with beautiful, bright, biggies. You can also change application cursors and customize colors of your biggies to suit your own tastes. 68k and PPC compatible.
CalcWorks SE-MacAddict Edition 1.6.1 - Shareware
John Brochu, jbrochu@sitelink.net, http://sitelink.net/jbrochu/MacAddictOrderForm.shtml
Replace your plain ugly black and white Apple calculator with one that not only adds much more mathematical functionality, but looks much nicer too. This special MacAddict Edition features our logo on the calculator, which can be displayed in a “Fruity” theme or the new “Graphite”. Plus, MacAddict readers will get an exclusive discount on this gem—only $5—by visiting the special Web page above. Act now kids—this offer will expire 30 days from this issue date. 68k and PPC compatible.
Desktop Tattoos 1 - Freeware
Digital Manipulation, mconge@digitalmanipulation.com, http://www.digitalmanipulation.com
Get a pack of great-looking Desktop Pictures for your Mac. This collection includes seven desktops themed around the standard blue OS desktop pattern. This pack contains art for the following screen resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x798. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Desktop Tattoos 2 - Freeware
Digital Manipulation, mconge@digitalmanipulation.com, http://www.digitalmanipulation.com
Get a pack of great-looking Desktop Pictures for your Mac. This collection includes seven desktops that mesh interesting artwork with docking space to put your desktop icons on without them getting lost in your pattern. This pack contains art for the following screen resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x798, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Desktop Tricks - Freeware
Digital Manipulation, mconge@digitalmanipulation.com, http://www.digitalmanipulation.com
Here’s a great gag set of desktop pictures that will raise any unsuspecting victim’s blood pressure or get a laugh. It includes seven different GIFs that you can place on your victim’s own desktop. You’ll get great progress bars proclaiming “Copy to Hard Drive... Time remaining: About a year” and “Erase disk: hard drive”, a non-functioning hard drive “Open Window”, a sticky note that can’t be deleted, and more. 68k and PPC compatible.
Here’s a wonderful shortcut to navigating through your Mac’s interface. This useful tool allows you to launch, find, organize, and access applications and documents all from menu strips placed on your desktop. You can store and access information, graphics, and movies with these strips, which are similar in appearance and functionality to your Mac’s Launcher, and script commands via AppleScript. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.1.2 or later.
In celebration of the year 2000, MacAddict and the great folks over at the Iconfactory present to you, dear readers, with the biggest icon pack ever—2000 icons! But that’s not all... you’ll also get a tutorial on how to make 32-bit icons, plus two great icon creating programs—IconBuilder 2.0.1 and IconDropper 3.2.2. The icons are mostly 68k and PPC compatible. 32-bit icons require a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Mac Series - Freeware
Digital Manipulation, mconge@digitalmanipulation.com, http://www.digitalmanipulation.com
Customize your desktop with these great desktop patterns. This set includes a series of various colored Apple logos against the standard blue OS desktop plus other Mac OS-related patterns. 68k and PPC compatible.
MacAddict Desktop Tattoos - Freeware
Digital Manipulation, mconge@digitalmanipulation.com, http://www.digitalmanipulation.com
From the creators of the Desktop Tattoo, here’s a couple Tattoos made excusively for us and for our dear readers. Try them on for size on your desktop! This pack contains art for the following screen resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 832x624, 1024x798, 1152x870, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
MacD 1.0 - Shareware
Antoine Beyeler, abeyeler@kagi.com, http://www.poboxes.com/abeyeler/
Forget all that clicking around! Access your folders quicker with this cool shortcut creating utility. It allows you to type any folder’s first letters in the displayed dialog box and it will open that folder on your desktop. If there is more than one folder or file that matches the criteria you enter, it’ll display a list that you can choose from. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or later.
Setting Sun 1.2 - Shareware
Dair Grant, dair@webthing.net, http://www.webthing.net/
This unique, and stunning application-based screen saver uses plug-ins to display and/or draw dynamic images when your Mac goes “to sleep”. The package includes a number of high-end 3D plug-ins including Explode, Gears, Ripple, Pipes, Sproingies, Clouds, Swarm, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or later, QuickTime 3.0 or later, QuickDraw 3D, and Open GL.
If you use Eudora, this mesage plug-in can help you read through poorly formatted emails easily. It will remove all quote marks from the beginning of lines, analyze your text, remove unwanted line breaks within paragraphs, re-wrap email so that it fits within your Eudora window, and more. 68k and PPC compatible. Requires EudoraPro or Eudora Lite.
This set of icons will surely be a hit among anyone fascinated with the solar system and space. It contains 62 hand-drawn space icons that includes planets, major satellites, NASA space vehicles (Voyager, Pioneer, Sojourner Rover), and more. For the ultimate space-age desktop, find a solid black desktop picture or starfield and replace your old desktop icons with these. 68k and PPC compatible.
Sundial 2.03 - Demo
John Neil & Associates, Voice 800-663-2943, sales@jna.com, http://www.jna.com
Put a virtual window on your desktop. This program will display time-lapse photography of a scenic location on your desktop, synchronized to the current time of day and geographical location. The picture changes every hour from dawn to dusk, simulating the passing of time. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Uli’s Moose 2.0.5 - Freeware
M. Uli Kusterer, witness@weblayout.com, http://www.weblayout.com/witness
The latest version of the Talking Moose is better than ever! Stick a cute little animated talking moose on your desktop. This background application uses your Mac’s speech synthesis capabilities and pops a moose onto your screen to dish out some witty, silly, stupid, or utterly useless phrase from time to time. The moose knows over 250 phrases and can even learn more with the included Phrase Editor and your creativity. 68k and PPC compatible running at least Mac OS 7.1 and Speech Manager.
