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- Possibly the most essential tool an Internet downloader will ever
- have. Just drag-and-drop any compressed file (even ZIP files
- from the PC) on Expander’s icon and it is expanded and decoded
- exactly where you want it to be. Expander even works with your
- browser, expanding files automatically download is complete. The
- industry standard and rightfully so.
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- DragThing is an application dock designed to tidy up your desktop.
- You can store applications, documents, folders, disks, servers,
- and URLs in docks, and there is a special process dock that shows
- running applications. DragThing supports Mac OS 8 contextual
- menus. Version 2.6 includes new dock styles and colors,
- individually floating docks, and full support for Mac OS 8.5.
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- SwitcherSetter controls Mac OS 8.5's Application Switcher
- window. SwitcherSetter's easy-to-use interface allows you to
- explore and set every option from icon size to the keystroke used
- to switch between applications. SwitcherSetter now supports the
- "Quit" AppleEvent and is an APPC type of application that
- automatically routes to the Control Panels folder.
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- AliasMenu adds drop-down menus to your menu bar that remain
- accessible regardless of the application you have open. You can
- place folders in the AliasMenu folder, place icons on the folders
- that symbolize what each folder means to you, and fill the folders
- with any aliases you like. These items will show up in the pull-
- down menus.
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- Click, There It Is is a system extension for the Mac OS that extends
- the Open and Save dialog boxes. It allows you to click on a Finder
- window and change the current folder to the one you want. This
- aptly named program even works when Finder windows are
- obscured by document windows. Another small feature is its
- ability to drag the Open and Save dialog boxes (in case a Finder
- window is completely eclipsed).
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- Dock Manager is a small application that picks up where the
- Appearance control panel leaves off. It allows you to completely
- customize every visual aspect of the Application Switcher dock bar
- and set scroll options and the keyboard switching key combination.
- Dock Manager also supports contextual menus, drag and drop, and
- balloon help, and lets you save and load user-defined settings.
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- DocMaker gives you powerful tools for creating self-contained and
- self-executing multimedia documents complete with graphics,
- information, and links to othersoftware and information. You can
- use incorporated QuickTime video, sound, Apple Events, "hot
- picture" buttons, and more to create your multimedia documents.
- The reader needs no other software to open your documents.
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- DP Autochanger updates the desktop picture at user-specified
- intervals. The new picture is randomly chosen from a folder you
- select and fill with the pictures you would like displayed. DP
- Autochanger keeps track of the pictures as they are shown so that
- all the pictures in the folder get shown.
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- DragAnyWindow is a control panel that allows you to move any
- kind of window, including dialog boxes, alerts, game windows, and
- other usually immovable windows. It lets you bring any window
- that has gone out of sight back to the desktop, as well as center the
- front window on the main screen with a single keystroke. IThis
- version is Mac OS 8.5–savvy.
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- Icon Tools is a contextual menu plug-in that lets you not only copy
- and paste icons via control-click actions, but also customize your
- icons in many ways with the same easy access. The Icon Tools
- option makes it possible for you to copy and paste icons, reset an
- icon to its original form, rotate or flip an icon, darken or lighten
- an icon, make an icon invisible, give an icon special effects, or
- make an icon's border mor distinct.
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- IconDropper allows you to customize your Mac's icons on the fly
- through the use of drag-and-drop technology. Instead of having to
- copy and paste custom icons from folders on your hard drive,
- IconDropper stores all icons in custom-designed sets called
- "packs." A single click is required to update any folder's icon and
- view the results in real time.
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- Kineticon is a system extension which replaces normal, static
- icons on your Macintosh's desktop and in its windows with chosen
- animated icons. Kineticon is fully configurable, allowing you to
- choose which icons should animate simply by enabling them within
- Kineticon's editor.
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- PandoFrame is a freeware Macintosh application that allows
- you to place picture frames on your desktop. It's like Stickies
- for pictures. The picture frames set above any desktop pattern
- or picture you have, and can be arranged anywhere on the desktop.
- Frames can be any of nine shapes and come in a variety of colors
- and patterns.
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- Power Windows lets you drag the entire contents of a window
- instead of just the dotted outline that the Mac OS normally allows
- you to drag. Version 2.0.4 fixes two bugs introduced in version
- 2.0.3: problems dragging pop-up windows and crashes that
- occurred while creating and dragging pop-up windows when using
- Solid Dragging in certain applications (particularly Netscape).
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- SoundApp is a handy utility that can play and convert a wide range
- of sound files, including AIFF, WAV, MOD, MIDI, raw GSM, MPEG
- 2.5 Layer 3 (including MP3 WAV files), Atari AVR, and many
- other formats. Among other features, the program includes a
- playlist that's great for grouping your favorite sound files
- together.
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- Startup Doubler seeks to decrease the time you spend waiting for  
- your computer to start up. It adds a second-level disk cache that
- works especially well with older hard disks or hard disks that
- have slower access speeds. Startup Doubler is compatible with
- other popular optimization programs such as Speed Doubler 8.0.
- Among other improvements, version 1.2 fixes a rare freeze bug
- and now supports Mac OS 8.5.
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- Mac OS 8.5 introduced Sherlock, the operating system's advanced
- new search engine that searches not only your hard drive, but the
- Internet as well. Included here are a selection of Sherlock Internet
- Search plug-ins to allow you to use some of the Web's premiere
- search engines to locate content online.
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- WormScanner scans your local drives or remote volumes for
- Autostart 9805 worm variants and will also alert you to unknown
- files with suspiciously similar properties. Worms may lurk
- inside disk image files, but unless the disk image is mounted,
- WormScanner will not be able to look inside. WormScanner now
- alerts you if it fails to delete something for which you've given it
- permission to do so.
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- Clean-Install Assistant makes the process of upgrading to a new
- system much easier. It'll carefully collect your additions and move
- them to a separate folder while you update the System Folder, then
- move them back to the right places inside the new one a single click!
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- GoMac adds a Windows 95-style taskbar to the bottom of your
- screen, letting you navigate among active applications and launch
- others. Version 1.6 introduces 8.5 compatibility to GoMac.
- Moreover, the Start menu had been further refined; for example,
- the Start button is now customizable, so you can steer clear of
- Windows decor, and the application memory settings are now
- accessible via contextual menus.
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- Tired of the appearance of your boring old desktop? Jazz it up
- with this control panel and get 3D folders, retractable windows,
- and customizable Finder window backgrounds. Plug-ins are being
- added all the time, giving this program even more power. Visit
- http://www.kaleidoscope.net every week to get a look at the very
- latest uploaded schemes or browse the vast scheme archive.
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- MacHome has selected some of the best Kaleidoscope 2.0 schemes
- on the Net and packaged them together for your enjoyment. Give
- your Mac a face lift every day with these excellent schemes from
- some very talented designers.
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- FinderPop adds a submenu to the Mac OS 8 Finder's Contextual
- Menus. This submenu behaves somewhat like the Apple Menu in
- that its contents are taken from a special FinderPop Items Folder;
- you can add aliases of applications, servers, folders, etc., to this
- folder and they'll appear in the FinderPop menu.
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- Does the opposite of StuffIt Expander: automatically creates com-
- pressed and coded files simply by dropping them onto its icon. If
- you have a PowerPC, the Expander Enhancer makes the freeware
- utility StuffIt Expander PowerPC-native and allows it to recognize
- even more compression formats.
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- A reader for PDF files, a very common document format on the
- Internet. Documents saved as PDF files retain all of their complex
- formatting and are readable by anyone on any system (PC, Mac,
- whatever) so long as they have a reader. Acrobat is a full-featured
- reader and includes a plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
- Internet Explorer to automatically read PDF files on Web pages.
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- The king of screen capture programs. With just one keystroke,
- you can capture images from your display in any format you choose,
- give them names you can remember, and get only the image you
- want. The Snapz control panel offers the choice of capturing the
- entire screen or just a window, a menu, or even a block of space
- you choose. Finally, Snapz Pro puts puts your images where you
- want them and can make project folders to organize your work.
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