This is the start of a new column BUT as it is Christmas I thought we'd just give you a quick run down of whats out there.
Tex-Edit
Cost: $10.00
Contact: http://members.aol.com/tombb/
ftp://members.aol.com/tombb/
 
This is a good stop gap between SimpleText and a full-featured word processor! It is particularly useful for formatting text that is transmitted over the Internet.
 
Some of the usful things can you do with Tex-Edit Plus:
• Quickly create, edit and print styled text documents of any size (limited by RAM).
• View and print TeachText or SimpleText read-only (“ReadMe”) documents.
• Easily create TeachText/SimpleText read-only documents, including embedded
pictures without using ResEdit.
• View and print color PICT files, such as those produced by draw programs or
Apple’s built-in screen snapshot utility.
• View, edit and print text documents created by virtually any word processor or
computer.
• Reformat downloaded e-mail or text, correcting word-wrap problems and removing
extraneous, non-Mac characters.
• Prepare text for upload to the Internet, so that people with Wintel or UNIX systems
can view the document as it was intended to be viewed.
• Explore the power of AppleScript.
• Quickly optimize a document for printing, replacing generic, typewriter-era characters
with professional-looking typographically correct text.
• Create simple hypertext documents.
Rename CMM
Cost: $8.00
Contact:http://www.waferbaby.com.au/
mailto:support@waferbaby.com.au
 
This contextual menu plug-in allows you to rename selected files and folders with one simple click. Change case (upper, lower and capitalised), add or remove suffixes, and make file names Mac-Savvy all from your contextual menu.
Will work fine with Mac OS 8.x
Go fine this little Extension for yourself a great little 'must have'.
 
Lowercase
Set the file name to all lowercase.
UPPERCASE
Set the file name to all uppercase.
Capitalise
Set the first letter of each word to uppercase, with the remaining letters lowercase.
Add Suffix
Append the file name with a file name extension (e.g. '.html', '.gif'). See Configuring Suffixes below.
Remove Suffix
Remove a suffix.
Mac-Savvy
Conforms the file name to the Macintosh standard, removing any file name extension and capitalising the name.
It can do a few little things I have not mentioned, so go find out.
Odd Jobs
Cost: $15.00
Contact: Andrew Trevorrow <akt@kagi.com>
http://www.kagi.com/akt/oddjobs.html
 
Odd Jobs is a collection of powerful file processing tasks. The easiest way to use Odd Jobs is to drop files/folders/disks onto an appropriate “joblet” (or a conveniently located alias). Some useful examples are provided in the Joblets folder:
 
Alpha Doc - converts given text files to Alpha documents
BBEdit Doc - converts given text files to BBEdit documents
Delete 68K Code - deletes 680x0 code from fat applications
Delete Res Fork - deletes resource forks from given text files
EPSF <-> TEXT - changes an EPSF file to TEXT and vice versa
Mac Text - converts Unix/DOS text files to Mac format
Same Names - finds all duplicate file names in given folders/disks
Send PS - sends PostScript files to the current printer
Show Aliases - shows aliases (and detects bad links)
Show Apps - shows applications and their creator codes
Show Essential - shows files/folders with the "Essential" label
Show Folders - shows the folder hierarchy in given folders/disks
Show Long Names - shows file/folder names longer than 25 characters
Show Weird Names - shows file/folder names with invisible characters
Sort PKs - moves PK files into appropriate subfolders
Trash TeX Temps - moves TeX's *.log/aux/toc files to the Trash
Unlock Files - have a guess!
Many other tasks are possible. Joblets run specific tasks based on the general-purpose jobs built into Odd Jobs. It's a simple matter to modify an existing joblet (just double click on it), or to create new ones. Details are provided in the Help menu.
