Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, 128MB RAM, Seagate drive for backups
We can never say it enough—anytime you want to tinker with the guts of your system, always—and we mean always—back up your system. This app can help. Designed specifically for Seagate drives, this automatic, easy to use backup software is designed to help protect your valuable data in the event of a computing disaster.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 7.5.3-9.x, Appearance Manager 1.3 or later
This powerful cataloging utility helps you keep track of what’s on your CDs, Jaz disks, Zip disks, external hard drives, iPod, servers, and more. Plus, it features a handy disk labeling system to create and print professional disk labels. A truly excellent program, especially if you have a number of removable media disks. You’ll need this to view the MacAddict disc catalog, which was created with this program. Don’t forget to send in your shareware fee if you use it.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
This powerful cataloging utility helps you keep track of what’s on your CDs, Jaz disks, Zip disks, external hard drives, iPod, servers, and more. Plus, it features a handy disk labeling system to create and print professional disk labels. A truly excellent program, especially if you have a number of removable media disks. You’ll need this to view the MacAddict disc catalog, which was created with this program. Don’t forget to send in your shareware fee if you use it.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later, iTunes 3 or later
This extremely cool app will convert your iTunes playlist into an HTML document, text file, tab-delimited text, M3U format, or even a QuickTime streaming server file. Let the rest of the world know what you’re listening to, or use it to quickly compile a song list for your MP3 jukebox. Simple and very effective.
MacJanitor 1.2.1—Freeware
Brian Hill, brianhill@mac.com, http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
For those who turn off their Mac every night, this freeware utility runs the Mac OS X maintenance tasks that are set to typically run between 3am and 5am. If you shut off your Mac at night and the series of tasks aren’t allowed to run, your Mac’s log files can grow very large and prevent system databases from getting backed up. With MacJanitor, you can run these scripts manually without having to use the Terminal to keep your Mac OS X machine in top racing form.
Ogg Drop 1.0b3—Freeware
No U-Turn Software, support@nouturn.com, http://www.nouturn.com
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Get better-sounding music at smaller file sizes than MP3. This nifty encoder turns your AIFF files into Ogg Vorbis ones. It also supports CDDB so you can keep track of a CD’s track names in the resulting files.
Speed Download 2.3.1—Shareware
YazSoft, info@yazsoft.com, http://www.yazsoft.com
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later
Impatient with file downloads? Give this app a whirl. This download manager can improve your file download speeds and maximize your bandwidth—no matter what type of connection you have or which browser you use.
