This list includes both selected applications and system additions that enhance
your Mac. My apologies to those whose software isn’t included — there’s so
much available that it would be impossible to fit it all in!
Acrobat Distiller (Adobe)
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This creates stand-alone Portable Document Format files (PDFs) that can be read on any Mac or PC using Acrobat Reader and ATM, together with Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM suitcases plus AdobeSanMM and AdobeSerMM PostScript fonts. It’s worth noting that some Acrobat products don’t work with ATM GX version 3.7.
PDF Writer, a chooser extension that creates PDFs, also comes with other Adobe products.
Adobe File Utilities (Adobe)
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Includes Word for Word that can convert files across 250 different formats!
Adobe Type Manager (Adobe)
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  A control panel that prevents jagged display and printing on non-PostScript
printers when using PostScript fonts.
Aladdin Desktop Tools (Aladdin)
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Control panels and extensions that enhance the Finder. It includes SpeedBoost (copying and trashing in the background), Desktop Viewer (peeking inside files), Shortcut (enhanced Open and Save dialogs), Magic Menu (extra control in the Finder), and Makeover (document linking, improved icons, control over balloon help and other shortcuts).
All Midi (Paul C H Ho / Pink Elephant Technologies)
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Converts General MIDI (GM) files into QuickTime movies — you can play the results with any QT application.
Apple HD Setup
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  Supplied with the system for formatting Apple SCSI drives. It may be suitable for
third-party drives — but always check that formatting software suits your drive!
Apple IR File Exchange
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For transferring data via an infra red (IR) link, as used in some PowerBooks, via AppleTalk — IRTalk must be chosen in the Network or AppleTalk panel. The application has Sending Status and Receiving Status windows — the arrival of an item can be indicated by a sound, an alert or the appearance of the Receiving Status window.
Apple Macintosh Applications Environment
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Lets an X window user on a RISC-based Hewlett Packard workstation or Sun SPARCstation run standard Mac applications.
Apple Media Tool
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Creates interactive documents made from QuickTime movies, PICT files, text and sound.
Apple Remote Access
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ARA gives access to your office computer or network from a remote location via modem — the distant computer appears as a hard disk drive.
Apple System Profiler
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Provides documentation about your hardware and software — useful if you need technical assistance!
Apple Video Player
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Replaces the earlier Video Monitor application in AV Macs and Power Macs — it can also record video files. Use it to watch television (TV), a video cassette recorder (VCR), a TV camera or LaserDisk on your Mac screen — but do set your monitor to at least 16 colours!
Autotune creates a preset channel for each device and lets you lock it with a password. Edit Channel can fine tune or name each channel — choose NTSC or PAL standards, stereo or mono sound and off-air or cable source.
APV has sound controls for balance, bass and treble plus picture controls for brightness, sharpness, contrast and colour. It can capture pictures and movies and store them on your hard disk using QuickTime compression — and it plays MPEG movies!
AppleScript
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  Comes with the system — includes the Script Editor for editing macros.
Completely drains a PowerBook’s batteries, enabling them recharge to full capacity. The process takes over two hours — if you run it overnight they’ll be ready by morning. Don’t use this more than once a month — it’ll warn you if you try!
Four types of PowerBook battery are used: Nickel Cadmium (NiCd), Type 1 NiMH, Type II NiMH and Type III NiMH. Always check that any replacement is the right type!
BBEdit (Bare Bones Software)
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  Powerful text editor with extensive options — for programmers or anyone
who works on big text files.
Burn (Michael Watson & Paul Jonson)
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  Destroys selected files on a disk by overwriting them — useful for security!
Can Opener (Abbot Systems)
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  Extracts text, pictures or sounds from any file — even if it’s corrupted!
CalcWorks (John Brochu)
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  A huge calculator that does almost everything, including all sorts of conversions.
You won’t find a better one!
Chipmunk Basic (Ronald Nicholson)
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  Runs the BASIC programming language — if you like that sort of thing!
Chuck’s Printer Driver (Charles Rentmeesters)
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Useful extension that lets you use almost any printer with your Mac. You may need a Centronics to RS-232 adaptor as well!
ClarisWorks (Claris)
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  Successfully combines word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing and
painting into one — the Claris XTND system provides numerous file translations.
ClipStation (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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Saves the contents of the Clipboard as a clippings file — particularly useful if you have applications that don’t support drag and drop.
Compact Pro (Bill Goodman)
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  An alternative to StuffIt for data compression.
Conflict Catcher (Casady & Greene)
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For dealing with those awkward extensions and control panels.
Cyberdog (Apple)
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All-purpose Internet application that requires OpenDoc and works with Open Transport (with TCP/IP) or MacTCP. It needs at least 8 M of free RAM and Virtual Memory.
Deck II (Macromedia)
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Multi-track audio recording application that synchronises with Metro, a MIDI sequencing application, or with any QuickTime movie. Macromedia also produce SoundEdit 16 for multimedia work.
Default Folder (St. Clair Software)
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  Invaluable control panel that lets you choose a folder to hold the documents for
each application. If you don’t have this or Now Super Boomerang life is hard!
DART‚Ñ¢ (Apple)
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  Disk archive and recovery tool that lets you copy floppy disks and store them as
disk images on hard disk. Useful for keeping copies of your Installer diskettes!
Dialog View (James W Walker)
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  Excellent panel that customises the size and appearance of Open and Save dialogs.
DigiSign (Apple)
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  A PowerTalk application that puts a verifying signature on any document, not just
a PowerTalk file. You must select New Request in the File menu, print the result
and send to the address shown.
You’ll get back a disk with information to verify your own signature and to create a signer file. To use the signature just drag the document onto the signer file. The Demonstration Signer supplied with the system uses the word password as the password.
Disk Charmer (Fabrizio Oddone)
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  Excellent diskette formatting application with options for verifying disks or
maximising their size!
DiskExpress (AlSoft)
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Background utility that continuously optimises your hard disk.
Disk First Aid (Apple)
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  The first choice for solving minor problems on your hard disk — it comes with
the system. If it doesn’t work the first time just keep trying! If all else fails you
could try another disk utility — but there’s no guarantee it will work!
DiskCopy (Apple)
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Floppy disk copier that can store disk images on hard disk — DART is another alternative.
DiskDup+ (Roger D Bates)
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  Diskette copying application with comprehensive options, including the ability
to create disk images on hard disk. It copies the following types, or any other
readable diskette:-
Apple A/UX
MFS (Macintosh Filing System) — used in older Macs
HFS (Hierarchical Filing System) — used in current Macs
DiskDup Pro can also copy any removable media, such as a SyQuest cartridge. It uses RAM and hard disk space to minimise the number of passes required.
Disinfectant (Northwestern University)
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  Superb application that checks a drive or diskette for viruses. You can also install
an extension to warn you of infections. Don’t forget to check CD-ROMs as well!
DiskLocker (olivier libra)
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  Useful utility that locks any disk — even a floppy. This is in addition to the
hardware lock on the diskette itself.
Disk Wizard (François Pottier)
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  Excellent application that catalogues the contents of disk drives or diskettes and
extracts the files as well. It even works with the StuffIt Engine to get compressed
files. This goody does the lot!
DOCMaker (Green Mountain Software)
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  Creates stand-alone documents that can be read on any Mac. Specific fonts can be
installed in the final document using ResEdit.
DragAnyWindow (Alessandro Levi Montalcini)
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Useful control panel that lets you drag any window — including those without a title bar. Sadly, some applications don’t redraw the background after you move the window!
DropStuff‚Ñ¢ (Aladdin)
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  Files dropped onto this are compressed using the StuffIt engine. This application
is supplied as part of StuffIt Deluxe.
ExAminer (Mike Weasner)
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An application that enables extensions, fonts or items in the Ô£ø menu.
Excalibur (Medieval Ventures)
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  Neat spelling checker for pure text files or text in the Clipboard.
FaberFinder (Fabrizio Oddone)
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A tiny kind of Finder file that allows you to have a small System Folder on a diskette.
Fetch (Adobe)
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Views and extracts graphics files from any media — particularly suitable for CD-ROM.
File Assistant (Apple)
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  Synchronises the contents of pairs of folders, either automatically or as instructed.
It works over any network (even a pair of Macs connected via a printer cable) or
with hard disks and floppies. It’s supplied with the system for a PowerBook.
File Buddy (Laurence Harris)
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  Useful utility for modifying file attributes — and for other chores. You can also
create drag and drop applications for modifying files.
FileMaker Pro (Claris)
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Versatile relational database — an alternative to Helix Express, 4D or Omnis.
FileTyper (Daniel Azuma)
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An application that changes file attributes. It comes with MakeAutoTyper, an application that creates drag and drop AutoTypers for modifying files.
FileView (DataViz)
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  Drag and drop application that indicates a file’s Type, Creator and Kind — and
provides a preview of file contents. A TEXT file used as a Rich Text File will
have a Kind of RTF. Supplied as part of MacLinkPlus.
Find File (Apple)
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An Apple application that’s launched when you select Find in the File menu or press †-F. The Use full descriptions for found items option provides a detailed sort, but can take time! You can drag any volume icon onto the Location pop-up menu. Find File can find invisible items, such as the Desktop files — but you move these at your peril!
When using Find File a list of Shortcuts appear under the Guide menu.
If you press Shift-†-F you’ll implement the simple Find used in earlier systems — you’ll have to press †-G to look for more items.
Flash-It (Nobu Toge)
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  Invaluable panel that captures all or part of a screen image — the result can be
copied into the Clipboard, saved as a PICT file or printed.
Font Clerk (Robert Chancellor)
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Views and prints your Mac fonts. Also converts between Mac and Windows versions of TrueType fonts.
Font Control (Fabrizio Oddone)
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An FKEY for extra printing options, such as fractional spacing on a StyleWriter.
Forward Delete (Fabrizio Oddone)
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Adds forward delete to a small keyboard — but this may not work in some applications.
FreeGeneva (Beakertech Software Engineering)
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A utility that modifies the system to let you replace the Geneva system font by an alternative such as ProFont — use with care.
Gatekeeper (Chris Johnson)
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  Sadly no longer available, this excellent extension/control panel combination is
invaluable at detecting Trojan Horse viruses. It vetoes dubious activity — but if
it’s necessary for your software you can extend Gatekeeper’s exceptions list.
GetMoreInfo (Scott Fenton)
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An extension that lets you alter a file’s attributes and version when you select the item and press Option-Ç-I.
GhostScript (Aladdin)
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Views PostScript files and converts them to PICTs or TIFFs. Free versions available.
GraphicConverter (Thorsten Lemke)
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  Opens, modifies and saves virtually any graphic file, whatever computer it came
from — very impressive.
Graphing Calculator (Apple)
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This needs a PowerMac. Just enter an equation or values and select Evaluate in the Equations menu — for complex calculations select Show Full Keyboard. For graphs enter equations for y on the left and for x on the right — lower case letters must be used for variables. If you use < or > instead of = you’ll get a shaded graph.
Greg’s Browser (Gregory D Landweber)
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A navigational tool for finding files, including invisibles!
GURU (Newer Technology)
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Invaluable information for upgrading the RAM in your Mac.
HDToolkit (FWB)
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  Powerful disk tools, including HDT Primer that formats almost any drive on the
planet, including opticals. HDT Prober is useful for mounting SCSI drives.
Help (Technosys)
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An extensions management utility that checks for any software conflicting with your system — it uses a database supplied by software manufacturers.
HyperCard (Apple)
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Produces documents comprising of cards — includes its own powerful scripting language.
IconWrap (St Clair Software)
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Useful extension and control panel that solves that small but irritating problem of icons dropping down the screen at startup.
Internet Connection Kit (Apple)
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All you need! Includes Netscape Navigator and Emailer Lite.
JPEGView (Aaron Giles)
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Slick application for opening JPEG or PICT files — and you don’t need to use QuickTime! It also includes a slide show feature.
Keys! (Stefan Kurth)
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  Superb control panel that lets you to select any button or radio box in a dialog
by pressing the † in combination with the letter shown underlined in the dialog.
May conflict with dialogs that are constructed in a non-standard manner!
Key Caps (Apple)
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Previews the characters provided by installed fonts. You can copy characters from the display and paste them into documents. It comes with the system but PopChar is better!
KeyQuencer (Binary Software/Alessandro Levi Montalcini)
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  Excellent control panel and application that lets you trigger macros from your
keyboard — the possibilities are endless. Particularly effective with OtherMenu.
Language Kits (Apple)
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For working with Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew or Arabic scripts.
Launcher (Apple)
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Launches an application when you click on one of its big buttons. To use Launcher just put an alias of it in the Startup Items folder. Supplied with the system.
Lime (Dorothea Blostein & Lippold Haken)
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Musical score application that works with MIDI via the MIDI Manager and PatchBay.
MacCheck (Apple)
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  This checks your hard disk directory and presents a huge amount of information
about your Mac.
MacLinkPlus (DataViz)
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  Includes file translators for Macintosh Easy Open and the Claris XTND system.
MacsBug (Apple)
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Low level debugger, placed in the System Folder, that’s invoked by a key combination or a crash. It disables screen savers and can damage the system if misused!
MacTools (Central Point)
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  An alternative to Norton Utilities that includes CP TrashBack (recovers files from
CP FastCopy (for copying diskettes) and CP Backup (a flexible backup tool).
Macintosh Memory Guide (Connectix)
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A stand-alone document that tells you how to upgrade your Mac’s memory.
Memory Mapper (R Fronabarger)
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Shows the contents of your memory in graphical form.
MenuChoice (Kerry Clendinning)
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  Alternative to Apple’s Apple Menu Options control panel that uses less memory,
has extra options and is less likely to clash with other software.
Monitor (Mark Alldritt)
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  Shows how memory and disk space is being used as time progresses. Handy for
diagnosing memory ‘leaks’.
MoviePlayer (Apple)
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A simple QuickTime movie player.
Norton Utilities (Symantec)
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Powerful utilities including Disk Doctor, Speed Disk (manual disk optimisation), File Saver (file recovery), StartUp Manager (extensions management utility) and Floppier (creates image copies of diskettes).
Now Contact (Now Software)
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  Flexible contact manager that creates letters and prints envelopes — you can
even select special contacts directly from the Finder’s menubar!
Now Up-to-Date (Now Software)
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  Highly customisable calendar and organiser that links into Now Contact by
means of Apple Events.
Now Utilities (Now Software)
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Includes Now Menus (customises the Ô£ø menu and shows actual fonts in menus), Startup Manager (extensions management utility) and Super Boomerang (fast access to files and folders).
OpenDoc (Apple)
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Really part of the system! Stationery files are usually kept in the Stationery folder on the hard disk. To create a new document or to add functionality to an existing document you simply double-click on a stationery file or drag its icon onto the document.
The forthcoming Live Essentials Kit will include editors for text, image and sound files and viewers for standard file types. Future versions may accommodate parts used in Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).
OtherMenu (James W Walker)
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  Extension providing extra pull-down menu at the far right of the menubar. It can
be configured in the same way as the Ô£ø menu and can launch special
mini-applications or FKEY resources. Brilliant with KeyQuencer!
Premiere (Adobe)
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QuickTime video editor that needs lots of RAM, at least 800 M of hard disk space and a video capture card, such as the Radius VideoVision. Sound and pictures are captured in separate passes prior to editing.
Print2Pict (B Raoult)
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  A virtual printer that prints to the Clipboard or to a PICT or TIFF file — and more.
It can provide a screen preview to match your own printer. Brilliant!
PopChar (Günther Blaschek)
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  Provides a menu of all current font characters — you just select the one you
want. Vital if you can’t remember which key combinations to press!
PowerPCheck (Alessandro Levi Montalcini)
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Checks which applications on your Mac can run PowerPC native.
Real Eject (Mark R Weinstein and Daniel C McGloin)
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  Eliminates boring ghost disks that hang about your screen. Now when you select
Eject it really does! Excellent.
ResEdit (Apple)
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  Invaluable utility for modifying the resources in a file — use with extreme
caution. Always work on a copy of the file!
QuickTime MIDI Player (Terry Greeniaus)
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Allows a standard MIDI sequencer application to play instruments in the QuickTime Musical Instruments file. Very useful if you need to work on a sequence and you don’t have any MIDI equipment! You’ll need the PatchBay application — with Apple MIDI Driver and MIDI Manager in your System Folder.
QuickTimeSimplePlayer (Apple)
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Another QuickTime movie player.
QuicKeys
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  Popular macro utility that lets you launch applications or activate a complex
sequence of actions using a single stroke of the keyboard.
QuickMovie (Paul C H Ho / Pink Elephant Technologies)
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A QuickTime player in which you can assign any MIDI track in a movie to an instrument in the QuickTime Musical Instruments file. See also All Midi and QuickTime MIDI Player.
Quit It! (Berrie Kremers)
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A control panel that makes the Close command act as Quit in specific applications — useful if you keep running out of RAM.
RAM Doubler (Connectix)
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A dream come true for Macs that can’t accommodate any more RAM — and it doesn’t slow down the machine. The few applications it clashes with are usually games.
The extension uses the memory management unit (MMU) provided in Macs with a 68030 or better. It requires 4 M or more of RAM and 32-bit addressing — make sure the version you’re using is updated to match your system!
It doubles memory by:-
• Reallocating unused application memory — the white portions of the memory usage bars
in the ‘About this Macintosh’ window
• Compressing infrequently used RAM data — for example, startup software
• Swapping RAM data to and from hard disk
Only the last process really affects the Mac’s speed. File Mapping on a PowerMac actually reduces the memory needed for each application — and doubled RAM is still available!
Retrieve It (Claris)
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Utility that searches for text within documents.
Retrospect (Dantz Development)
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Creates an archive of a selected file or folder using a one-step process.
SaintEdit (Craig Marciniak)
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A simple text editor, particularly suitable for MS-DOS text files.
ScrapIt Pro (John V Holder)
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  So good you wonder why Apple still bother with the Scrapbook! You can edit text
inside it, give each entry a name, import and export graphics files — and more.
Screen Ruler (Jesse Carneiro)
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  Shows a vertical or horizontal ruler on your Mac screen, calibrated in pixels
and other units of measurement. Very useful!
SCSIProbe (Robert Polic)
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  Vital utility for checking and mounting what’s connected to your SCSI bus.
SimpleText (Apple)
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This application, supplied with the system, accepts styled text or images in TEXT, ttro (read-only) and PICT files. It can’t open files containing both TEXT and PICT resources unless specially produced for it. Documents that use a Mac’s system font are displayed correctly on any machine — even those with a different system font.
SimpleText can record sound for up to 24 seconds and can speak text from a file when TTS software is present. It can also open QuickTime movies — the movie file’s Creator should be ttxt in order to open it from the Desktop. SimpleText also supports QuickDraw 3D and can open Portable Digital Documents (PDDs) created with QuickDraw GX.
You’ll always find lots different versions of SimpleText on your drive — you should remove the old ones!
SimpleSound (Apple)
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Application that plays and records sounds, including alerts in the System file.
Slide Show Viewer (Apple)
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This can open a Slide Show document on Photo-CD that contains a small preview image of each photo. You can copy the photo or open it with an application of your choice.
Snitch (Mitch Jones)
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  Very useful control panel that adds extra information to the Get Info window,
including file attributes that you can edit, dates and previews. Excellent.
SndSampler (A Glenn & M Q Edison)
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Handy for recording and editing snd resources.
Sound Mover (Riccardo Ettore)
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Can converts sound files of any kind to almost any other kind!
SoundApp (Norman Franke)
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Neat application for opening and converting sound files.
SoundEffects (Alberto Ricci)
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Powerful sound manipulation and editor application that includes a range of useful effects that you can apply to your own sounds.
Speech Macro Editor (Apple)
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Part of PlainTalk that lets you determine how your Mac responds to spoken instructions.
Speed Doubler (Connectix)
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Excellent in combination with RAM Doubler! It consists of three extensions:-
• Speed Copy: copies and trashes faster than the Finder, in the background if necessary
• Speed Access: intelligent disk cache replacing that used by System but using the
settings contained in the Memory control panel
• Speed Emulator: a faster replacement 680x0 emulator for the Power PC
SpotOn (MacPEEK)
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  Disk formatting application that includes a disk cache control panel that can be
set to suit your way of working. Another extension is be used for auto-mounting
removable drives.
Stapler (Patterson Software Works)
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Neat application that creates a document which, when opened, automatically opens two or more files at once.
StuffIt (Aladdin)
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  Widely used file compression application, available in different versions at
various prices. The Deluxe version can open and create archives in the Finder!
StuffIt Expander‚Ñ¢ (Aladdin)
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  Decompresses any files in common formats that are dropped onto it.
Supplied as part of StuffIt Deluxe.
Style (Mario Piovanelli)
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  Good alternative to SimpleText that uses less memory and works in conjunction
with the Claris XTND system. It won’t open PICT files directly but PICT elements
can be included in the text.
Suitcase (Symantec)
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Useful utility if you need more than 128 font suitcases — the fonts are grouped so that you can use them any time.
Symbionts (B Kevin Hardman)
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  Alternative to Apple’s Extensions Manager that gives more information about
how much memory all those add-ons consume. It can also provide an improved
display during start-up
TattleTech (Decision Maker’s Software)
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  Tells you all you need to know about a Mac’s hardware and software.
TechTool (Micromat Computer Systems)
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  Zaps the PRAM or rebuilds your desktop in the proper manner. Also gives you
extra information about your machine. The earlier versions are free.
TypeIt4Me (Riccardo Ettore)
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  Truly wonderful control panel that lets you type abbreviations that are
automatically converted into full length words! You really can’t do without this!
UltraFind (UltraDesign Technology)
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  Alternative to Apple’s FindFile that can also search for text inside files in a folder
or volume — and much more.
Video Monitor (Apple)
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For monitoring the video input of your machine — see Apple Video Player.
WizzyFonts (Brad Slutsky)
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System addition that lets you see the real shape of fonts in Font menus — useful if you can’t afford Now Utilities!
WorldTime (J David Sexton)
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Neat control panel that lets you see the time of day across the world — it automatically adjusts your clock for daylight saving.
