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January 2013

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September 2012

29 Save the Pixels

22 Smart Converter

August 2012

July 2012

15 Super Foul Egg

June 2012

22 Satellite Eyes

May 2012

31 Sip

27 VirtualDJ Home

12 Lion Designer

06 Tor

April 2012

23 Crossword Puzzle Helper

12 Uno

March 2012

17 Erich's free stuff

February 2012

13 The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus

January 2012

31 Full Deck Solitaire

19 iBooks Author

18 Meme Generator

12 YouTube to MP3

December 2011

23 Erase Blocks

14 A Christmas Bubbleshooter

13 Sparrow Lite

10 Six

06 Extreme Tux Racer

November 2011

27 Help thriftmac find some good free games

25 Black Friday sale at thriftmac

11 Yes, there is such a thing as a free launch

02 Marble World Desktop

October 2011

05 Remembering Steve Jobs

September 2011

30 Spirited Away

14 Could this be the final farewell for Quinn?

August 2011

30 Utilities — now with more subcategories

28 Goodbye, Clyppan

25 Launchpad-Control

20 You have spoken, you want utilities

20 Stumbling with Scrimpy

19 Caught in the spam filter

14 Which Mac freeware category is most important to you?

03 Dousing Frets on Fire

July 2011

23 Time Tracker

21 Let the Lion tweaks begin

09 Whatever happened to Fraise?

June 2011

30 Sudoku Susser

30 Flock flunks

29 Torus Trooper

25 Sudoku Daily

23 Anyone know of a good freeware sudoku game?

21 Firefox 5 faster than ever

01 Tetris alternative: Quadra Blocks

May 2011

28 King's Quest I, II and III

27 Klondike Forever

19 A Monster Ate My Homework

17 World Explorer

10 FunctionFlip

April 2011

24 One to watch: Saluto

12 Flock flies the coop

March 2011

25 Firefox 4 and the disappearing app tabs

12 Air Video and Apple TV 2

10 Media Converter

February 2011

28 Some good old-fashioned time-wasters from Gurlygames

26 Sparrow Lite is too light for me

18 A fortune in freeware

16 Sponge has been discontinued

06 Remind Me Later

January 2011

26 Kindle for Mac

22 In praise of Alarm Clock

11 SketchBook Express

08 Free stuff at the Mac App Store

06 Smultron no longer free

06 A first look at Twitter for Mac

05 Kod proves there is no end to innovation in text editors

December 2010

29 FountainPen's backdrops block out distractions

27 A new simulation category for the games section

24 Pax Britannica

17 Glims for Safari

15 Retweet with Retweetie

13 Notational Velocity thrice forked

08 Taking out the trash

06 Download categories now have featured apps

04 Tiny Tumblers

November 2010

30 The new Flock

24 Frasse and the Peas of Kejick

24 Savescreenie

20 macgameshuffle finally hits the big one-oh-oh

19 Time to move on from Tweetie?

18 X Lossless Decoder

14 Would this be the ultimate menu bar app?

14 Free up space on your menu bar

12 Devon updates the motherlode

10 Major update at macgameshuffle

08 Many free apps from Many Tricks

October 2010

25 A pipeline to freeware

23 The Mac App Store and thriftmac

18 A trio of dupe finders

14 Open, libre . . . what's going on?

06 BetterTouchTool

September 2010

29 Three more free video converters

25 Four free video converters for Mac

22 Firefox tabs move to the top

21 NoMoreiTunes

17 Six free Mac apps for Facebook

13 Seesmic Desktop

10 Find hundreds of abandoned apps at Macintosh Garden

09 Three retro games from Sweden

08 Download.com's dubious top five freeware

04 Video Monkey

August 2010

31 One to watch: Gruml

26 One to watch: Babble

25 Play Angry Birds (sorta) on your Mac

13 A few good Safari extensions

04 Introducing Elmedia Player — and a giveaway

July 2010

31 Permanent Eraser

29 'Comment-gate'

26 VoteBundle has arrived

24 Sanctioned Renegades

17 Frogatto & Friends

11 A new wave for Seashore

10 McSolitaire 3.0b2

01 Plasma Pong is back

June 2010

28 Macsome Audio Editor

17 Postbox Express

11 How to use Gmail from Apple Mail

09 SWF & FLV Player giveaway

03 iTunes Alarm

May 2010

25 Everything new seems old

19 Numpty Physics

15 Automatic backups with Dropbox and SugarSync

12 A few tweaks here and there

10 A no-frills way to keep track of your stuff

06 Be gone, iStat Menus

April 2010

27 And the 2010 Mac Freeware Idol game is . . .

25 And the 2010 Mac Freeware Idol is . . .

22 Dropbox takes commanding lead

19 Cast your ballot for Mac Freeware Idol 2010

16 Freeware Idol poll goes up Monday

14 Idol nominations rolling in

13 Give us your Mac Freeware Idol nominations

12 Introducing Mac Freeware Idol 2010

07 Help set Purity free

06 Boggle options for Mac

01 The Top 100 thriftmac apps

March 2010

26 Miro struggles for relevance

25 Ski Challenge

19 A thrifty version of Apple TV

16 Suggestion: TimeMachineScheduler

14 The return of Smultron

05 Mac becomes Mc

February 2010

25 DaisyDisk vs. DiskRing

20 Compliments of the house

11 Vienna 2.5 beta

03 An iPad future

January 2010

23 Dwarf Fortress

20 GIMP vs. Photoshop

15 Alpha Alert: TotalFinder

13 Think about Haiti

06 A side of notes

December 2009

18 Your top 10 free games of 2009

16 Suggestions: jEdit and Bluefish

11 I Love Stars

08 Suggestion: pwgen

07 Magic Mouse learns new tricks

04 A merry freeware Christmas

November 2009

30 MilkyWay has gone away

28 Freeware indie games for Mac

27 Handbrake .94

26 Xee

12 A more magical mouse

10 A freeware foursome at DigitalWaters

08 Marathon lives

04 Has iStat Menus met its match?

October 2009

26 Google Chrome first impressions

21 Are Mac users a bunch of snobs?

15 Internet apps now in categories

10 Is this the successor to Quicksilver?

07 iTunes vs. doubleTwist

05 Become a Facebook fan

01 macgameshuffle now twice as fast

September 2009

28 How to make Google ads show in Firefox

24 NetNewsWire out of beta and into ads

23 New look for macgameshuffle

22 Amazing folders really open

13 Notational Velocity 2 beta

12 One more update for Smultron

11 MovieGallery

09 iStat Menus installation mystery solved

08 An open source version of FreeHand?

07 Solitaire Greatest Hits

03 iStat Menus 2.0

02 Scrimpy's Picks

01 MOApp's free app of the month

August 2009

29 Spiffy new icon for Cyberduck

28 So that's what happened to iGTD

25 TextWrangler 3.0

24 Snow Leopard snacks on freeware

22 iGTD no longer being developed

18 AppleWorks and Snow Leopard

16 Zoom done right

14 The little web browser that could

11 Pre-order Snow Leopard from Amazon

07 My journey to Vienna

07 Xmenu is a gem

05 That's it for Smultron

01 A tricky balancing act for NetNewsWire

01 NetNewsWire 3.2 beta

July 2009

25 Four stars for Blender

22 SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1

17 Free apps commemorate moon landing

15 Along with AppCleaner

12 MainMenu no longer free

07 VLC Player at version 1.0

06 MultiXFinder

06 Get the latest on Michael Jackson

04 Which Twitter app do the cool kids use?

02 Those darn Firefox bookmarks

June 2009

30 StumbleUpon for Safari

30 Firefox 3.5 is out

26 Hey, we're on Twitter

23 A freeware wiki

18 ImageWell and ShutterBug at half price

09 Vox

08 The weird tabs are gone

06 FreeSMUG CD available

06 Polly-B-Gone

02 iSquint, meet Evom

May 2009

29 Rapido no more

24 A free online backup solution

18 Mario Paint Composer

13 See only free apps

09 OpenOffice 3.1

02 Mind Wall is mind boggling

01 Suggestion: SmallDVD

April 2009

29 Suggestion: RPTools

27 Macworld loves FileZilla

27 TeXShop/MacTeX

20 A storm of freeware

16 Free alternatives to iMovie

11 MacHeist: the good, the bad, the ho hum

08 Springtime is Scrimpy time

04 Suggestion: Mahjong

03 Put GIMP to work

March 2009

31 NeoOffice 3.0

30 Suggestion: Zombie Holiday

29 Suggestion: Autorate

22 Rate your freeware — and payware

20 Six more Mac freeware lists

17 Suggestion: Dwarf Fortress

16 uDevGames announces winners

12 Worst scroll wheel ever?

05 Stainless does tabs right

03 Suggestion: The Ur-Quan Masters

02 Suggestion: AllMedia Collections

February 2009

27 UFO: Alien Invasion

27 Suggestion: Jumpman

26 About those Safari 4 tabs

25 OmniWeb now free, but do you care?

24 Safari 4 beta: the first three steps

23 The rise of web-based services

23 Suggestion: Feedly

22 Will Postbox deliver?

17 An update on freeware newsreaders

10 Hunting for books, games and DVDs

09 MacHeist starts off with two free apps

06 Chax hangs in there

05 Shape Collage

04 Monkey Ball for your Mac

January 2009

31 Freeware stash at Kainjow

30 18 bugs hold up Firefox 3.1

21 Et tu, Senuti?

20 Aurora gets the boot

19 Now using "Download site"

19 SoundApp Reborn

13 Lifehacker's top 10 for 2008

13 Album Artwork Assistant

08 iPhoto vs. Picasa

06 And Macworld goes out with a whimper

05 Picasa now available for Mac

02 macgameshuffle hits big five-oh

01 Over 30 games in one

December 2008

31 Two free games from Muryan

31 Avery DesignPro

29 Warzone 2100

28 By request: business cards and labels

26 No more freeware version of WriteRoom

24 Mac Giving Tree giving it away

21 Japanese gaming madness

19 Five days, five free games

18 WhatSize now mostly shareware

17 Sweet Home 3D

13 Aquatomic found . . . in Russia

12 Open vs. Neo vs. Plus?

12 OpenOffice.org

12 Open vs. Neo

11 Savage 2 now freeware

10 Measuring Cup

10 Yum now shareware

09 Battle of the open source mascots

08 Take a swipe at FluidTunes

07 Dock organizers

06 Python and NodeBox

02 Songbird 1.0

November 2008

28 µTorrent in beta for Mac

26 Add multi-touch to your apps

25 Macworld reviews FreeMind

24 HandBrake 0.9.3

20 A message from Scrimpy

19 Three free games

18 VoodooPad Lite 4.0

17 Schnippselchen

13 Discover free Mac games with macgameshuffle

12 Do online apps count as freeware?

10 The crisis continues

08 Drawing conclusions

06 Bye-bye, Chopper

05 Congratulations

04 Video downloads and Blobby

01 Live TV on your Mac

October 2008

30 Cruisin' with Cruz

28 Three million downloads for OpenOffice

27 Get CrossOver for free

27 What happened to Aquatomic?

27 Ten plus fifteen

22 Cool new features in Camino and Firefox

20 Convert those audio files

19 iSquint lives on as PunyVid

18 Free apps for graphic and web design

16 Unity game development demo

15 Find thriftmac at Alltop

13 OpenOffice 3 ready for download

10 Car alarms for your Mac

08 OpenOffice to celebrate version 3 launch

08 iSquint discontinued

03 A better looking GIMP

02 Chrome, meet Stainless

01 Another look at Cosmic Painter

01 More than just DVDs

September 2008

27 Props for Blender

23 Coupla games

23 Pakoon III: First Blood

19 Free alternatives

17 Taco HTML Edit no longer freeware

16 Down to the dungeons

12 Plex: first impressions

11 Seven free utilities

09 Great freeware, great reviews

05 Pay or no-pay: WriteRoom vs. JDarkRoom

05 AppleJack 1.5

03 Simplify your stats

01 Help for your language courses

August 2008

29 Keep your Mac apps up to date

23 Back to school with iProcrastinate

22 iProcrastinate

21 Check out the new games

19 Mac freeware solitaire roundup

18 Solitaire XL

16 Bug Defender

14 Organize your life the open source way

14 Armand and the Foppish Hat

10 Faceoff: Cyberduck vs. FileZilla

08 Show your Scrimpy love

04 A proliferation of freeware

02 Three more suggestions

01 Flip, meet iMovie

July 2008

22 Virtually free

21 Riffworks T4

21 Know where you are

20 A passion for Ardour

19 Getting the jump on GIMP

18 Random and recommended

17 Distinguished folders

16 Mad about MacBomber

15 We list the lists

14 Notes for the artistically inclined

12 April Fool in July

11 Dream a little dream

09 A nice hot cup of Caffeine

09 Weird and wonderful

08 Sauerbraten and HexAddict join the collection

07 Somewhere to scribble

05 Good old games

04 Connect4 Fisa

04 Weather Vane

04 Whither the weather?

03 When Google won't do

02 Smilebox gets a frown

02 "Absolutely necessary"

June 2008

30 New and popular

28 Top 10 free Mac apps 2008

28 It was more like hours

24 Make Firefox pretty

23 Timely iStat

22 A vote for Lego

19 Dealing with Windows files

18 Deleting AppDelete

18 Design freeware by the dozen

17 Free Mac App A Day

16 Is Firefox ugly?

14 Quinu for Quinn

14 Favourites and must-haves

13 BravoBug's greatest hits

10 FrameByFrame

10 Adium 1.3 beta

07 A noob, raves and geenius

04 Milestone release for Celtx

01 Play keynote bingo

May 2008

28 Firefox 3 finally makes the grade

23 Freeware in the forest

20 Invasion of the webcam effects

19 The list test

19 Firefox faster than Safari?

17 Firefox 3 RC 1

12 The mystery of AOL Desktop

08 Mac games in the fastlane

08 OpenOffice shakes off X11

07 Phun with physics

03 End of the road for mini$

02 NetNewsWire looks to the future

02 Apps in the dock

01 Measuring pixels

April 2008

30 Yet another Bean fan

29 Faint praise for Pastor

26 Freeware menubar faves

24 Freeware for a fresh Mac

23 Freeware redefined

22 AllBookmarks 3.0

19 Supertuxkart

19 Get funky with your creativity

18 Tron goes 3D

17 Freeware heist

14 Download it or play online

11 Three fascinating games

08 Four stars for Thunderbird

07 Cyberduck 3.0b1

05 What a loverly bunch of browsers

04 Smultron 3.4

04 Fundraising for LabTick

04 Onward and upward for ImageWell

02 Firefox 3 beta 5

01 FinderPop ready for Leopard

01 Recommended reading

March 2008

28 'Crazy ideas' for Firefox 4

27 What it means to be free

26 Essential? You decide

26 Making use of movie metadata

24 Interactive Fiction

22 The door is always open . . .

22 Clipper vs. Clipper

20 OpenOffice inches toward aqua

15 Clash of the clipboards

15 Macworld looks at Firefox beta

14 Bean edges closer to 1.0

12 Open source blossoms on the Mac

10 Firefox 3 Beta 4

08 Komodo Edit goes open source

05 An explanation of free

01 NewsFire now free

February 2008

28 AllBookmarks

28 All your bookmarks all the time

25 Pogo Sticker

25 OneButton FTP 1.0

24 Firefox 3 beta 3 reviewed at Applelinks

22 Wired roundup of (mostly) freeware

22 The search for a good, free journal continues

22 Donate rice for Firefox

19 A freeware wiki

17 Pengupop vs. Snood

16 BirthdayBook 5.0

11 Web development freeware

11 Firefox 3 beta 3

09 Fluid creates a nice flow

09 Flock to support MySpace

09 Have another freeware

08 Camino 1.5.5

05 SuperDuper works with Time Machine

01 Quicksilver for Windows

January 2008

31 Cross-platform goodness

30 Sort your files

27 Crazy about freeware

26 Pick a pack of colours

25 He may be right

22 Freeware is indeed popular

18 Battle of the newsreaders

15 TextWrangler 2.3

12 Big Bang Reaction free again

11 Fifty-seven great ones

10 NetNewsWire freeware fallout

09 NetNewsWire now freeware

08 AOL Desktop 1.0b5

05 Transmission 1.0

02 iMedia Browser

December 2007

31 Getting more things done . . . version 2

28 Netscape R.I.P.

28 Bye-bye, Memoires

27 Loveable Firefox 3

26 Tiny and free

24 Wowed by Wesnoth

22 Surviving with Leopard

21 Brave new freeware world

20 Firefox 3 beta 2

19 First the updates, now a database

17 RGB MusicLab

15 Top 10 not-so-free freeware

14 Leopard's attack on freeware

12 Camino 1.6 preview

11 Keep your freeware up to date

06 MacTracker X 5.0

01 Free stuff from Freeverse

November 2007

30 Open source games reviewed

28 Smultron 3.3

27 A couple of quickies

26 Make that an even 50

23 A more Mac-like Firefox

22 And now the Firefox 3 review

21 Firefox 3 beta 1

19 MacOSaiX 2.0

17 Proceed with caution

15 A Quicksilver Top 10

14 Freeware for Germans

14 Spaces: the final frontier

12 VirtueDesktops: not an easy call

09 Classic game collection

07 Lots of freeware in the Top 100

07 Firefox 3 inches closer to beta

07 Freeware in the running for gem of the year

06 Flock review

03 Almost like English

02 Music motherlode

02 Marble Arena

02 The Tiger time machine

01 Twitterific 3.0

October 2007

30 The future of Adium

30 OneButton FTP

28 Back to Tiger Part 4

27 Back to Tiger Part 3

27 Back to Tiger Part 2

26 Back to Tiger

26 Watch that monkey go

25 That's one long beta

25 JewelToy addiction alert

25 Bring in the clones

25 Transmission 0.9

22 Rogue Amoeba's stash

19 Remember Flock?

18 Freeware everywhere

16 Back to the future

15 Bean edges closer to 1.0

12 Go stuff yourself

11 Netscape is good — no, really

11 EasyFind 4.0

10 Stuffit Expander 12

09 Looking for winners

09 Save thousands of dollars

04 Pumpkin fun for Halloween

04 Nvu, meet KompoZer

02 Joost about ready

01 The other Tetris

September 2007

29 Gimp 2.4 rc3

27 Anyone remember AOL?

26 Celtx on the verge of 1.0

25 Just two days left to save

22 Everything you wanted to know about Firefox 3

20 Fun with Koingo

20 The battle rages on

19 Firefox: secure, dominant — and better than Safari?

18 Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0

17 Your iPhoto freeware toolbox

13 MacSurfer catches a new wave

12 Information Week's list of apps

12 Firefox going places

11 Eddie is all grown up

10 Freeware for high school

10 Cyberduck 2.8

10 Growl GPS explained

08 Thriftmac sponsorship

07 400 million, and counting

06 Celebrate software freedom

06 Resume downloads in Firefox 3

06 Will the real Eudora please stand up?

06 Four stars for The Unarchiver

03 Four more games you're sure to like

03 Three stars for Scribus

01 Who needs NBC anyway?

01 Three good points for Windows

August 2007

30 Our top 10 Mac freeware games

29 A 360 look at freeware utilities

29 SnapNDrag 2.4

27 FileZilla is one scary monster

27 NeoOffice 2.2.1

25 An all-star freeware trio

25 Spiffy new archive for thriftmac

25 Find free and legal music

24 Torrents in your browser

24 A list of 10 Mac freeware lists

23 More freeware for seminarians

23 Transmission 0.81

23 Switching to Camino

23 Freeware for seminarians

22 Adium love-in continues

21 Macworld loves Handbrake

20 Document Palette

20 Sorry, OneButton FTP . . .

20 Handbrake hits 0.9

18 Nice little update for Camino

16 Essential, and mostly free

15 Introducing Mac Freeware Survivor

15 MagiCal hits 1.1

14 Firefox vs. Camino

13 From the suggestion box

13 Other people's favourites

05 See you in a week

03 And the Mac Freeware Idol is . . .

July 2007

31 Quinn takes a big lead

30 Looks like we need a vote

28 The nominees so far

28 News.com loves Adium

27 How about Cyberduck?

26 MacTracker tracks iPhone

25 Another Idol nomination

24 Give us your Idol nominations

24 Your Mac freeware education

23 Quicksilver's clipboard explained

23 Flickr Uploadr

23 Cocktail for Panther now freeware

21 Mac Freeware Idol — casting call

21 Quintessentially Quinn

19 Three out 10 are freeware

18 The Unarchiver

18 Firefox, more Firefox — and Safari

16 The fiesta hangover

16 Macworld's freeware fiesta

14 Sorting through Firefox add-ons

13 Cog gets a new look

12 Templates for the taking

11 Firefox: Past, present and future

09 ImageWell and flickr make nice

07 Take a spin with Spin Around

06 Journal vs. Journal

04 Forty freeware faves

04 Let your mouse do the work

03 Quickly learn Quicksilver

03 Pando keeps up with the times

02 Perian perfected

June 2007

28 Tempting templates

25 iStat Menus vs. MenuMeters

23 Mastermind at last

22 iStat vs. MenuMeters

21 Stickies on steroids

19 Something for switchers

18 Volumes in the dock

16 Gecko browsers square off

13 Award-winning freeware

13 Socializing with deligio

11 SpeakGeek's Top 10

09 The night skies

09 Vector graphics on the horizon

08 Firefox for fraidy-cats

05 Remember Netscape?

05 NetNewsWire hits the big 3.0

05 Camino's coming

04 Sometimes there is too much service

02 Quicksilver cornucopia

01 More props for NeoOffice

May 2007

31 The return of Note Pad

29 Praise for Bean

28 The answer to Paint

25 Firefox 3 has Places in, ahem, place

23 A free guide to backing up

22 Put a hex on your colours

21 Onyx moves on

18 Presenting . . . five free apps

17 A more Mac-like Firefox 3

16 This is ridiculous

16 Notational Velocity

15 Lifehacker loves Macs

14 Heavy duty digital audio

11 Ever heard of these?

11 Thunderbird and Skim get good reviews

10 Blocksoft's stash of freeware

09 In search of a niche

08 Full Set truly is full

07 Sun to help make OpenOffice aqua

05 Enkoding e-mail links

04 Make it from scratch

03 Camino 1.5 coming soon

April 2007

30 A good way to get things done

29 Firefox 3 on track

27 Freeware he can't live without

27 Ripping lessons

26 An update on updates

26 Not so sure about Shiira

25 Got you under my spell

24 Even better than Microsoft Office

24 Some super suggestions

24 Fixing Firefox

23 The other Safari

21 HandBrake unbranches

20 A bunch of coconuts

19 A not-so-quick look at Quicksilver

19 Say hello to Eddie the editor

18 Can't get enough of those stats

17 An artist reviews Inkscape

14 Spotlight on Charlotte

13 Where art thou, free Photoshop?

13 Let's get wacky

12 Opera gives us speed dialling

12 There goes your productivity

11 Widgets for workers

09 Google Desktop in-depth

05 Twitter par excellence

05 Seashore makes waves

04 Google Desktop for Mac

02 I had Multigrain Oatbran for breakfast

March 2007

30 A freeware foursome

29 Gmail gets its own browser

29 All about freeware

29 An important OpenOffice upgrade

27 The game is the same

26 NeoOffice hits version 2.1

23 A whole new era for Journler

22 Album art for the dock

21 And the winner is . . .

21 Art without influence

20 Make that 43

19 Alien Abduction

19 Alien Abduction now freeware

17 Tony Arnold talks about VirtueDesktops

17 Getting more things done

16 Actiontastic will be free and open source

16 Five out of 360

15 This app is mental

13 VirtueDesktops loses lead developer

13 Locate your files

13 Democracy gets a new name

12 Duelling app lists

10 Camino 1.1 test drive

08 Camino makes nice with iCab

06 Software goes social

05 Taking SuperTux to a new level

04 Freeware free-for-all for kids

03 Now, you're wranglin'

01 Two web apps you'll like

01 shrimpdesign's freeware list

01 VirtueDesktops

February 2007

28 The future of Firefox

27 Fixing Cocoalicious

26 Props for Abiword

26 Fire fizzles out

26 Camino's roadmap

23 Firefox tightens up security

22 Is Firefox falling?

21 ImageWell improves

21 Phil's favourite screensavers

19 Carbon Copy Cloner catching up

19 MediaFork takes up where HandBrake left off

16 BirthdayBook

16 An app for every occasion

15 A helping hand

14 Reigniting Spark

14 Those darned distractions

12 Wired looks at Firefox website relaunch

10 Open source favourites

09 Boot with your iPod

08 Firefox 3 previewed

08 How about another list?

07 List delight

06 SMARTReporter

06 Clearing the clutter

05 In-depth with Adium

03 Adium hits the big 1.0

02 Alert yourself to Mac freeware

01 Curse you, iCursor

January 2007

31 Exploring the unknown

30 JAlbum gets a major update

30 Stumble upon some Mac freeware

29 We've got suggestions

28 Jake's top 10 Mac freeware

26 Your Mac freeware utility belt

24 Thunderbird spreads its wings

22 Widgets from everywhere

19 Save your Camino sessions

19 The ultimate Quicksilver guide

18 SeaMonkey becomes more Mac-like

18 Forget VLC Player, get Perian

17 Pangea Payroll — it's not a game

15 Cocoa Mad Race

15 Apple's download site gets a makeover

13 Showdown: Sidenote vs. xPad

11 Taking it to the Max

11 Time flies for MagiCal

10 wClock, meet MagiCal

09 Open source e-mail alternative

08 Seven games for smarties

06 Crack Attack

06 The worm has a name

05 SuperTux boldly goes where no penguin has gone before

04 xPad's strange journey to freeware status

04 VLC plugs security hole

04 Pastor goes universal

03 coconutBattery is "good"

01 OpenOffice improves

December 2006

29 SuperTux takes it to the next level

28 Cosmic Painter

28 The Battle for Wesnoth

28 Judgment day is at hand

26 106 menubar items

26 ToyViewer hits 4.9

25 The 12 days of freeware: Day 12

24 The 12 days of freeware: Day 11

23 The passing of MacAddict

23 Chicken of the VNC

23 The 12 days of freeware: Day 10

22 Freeware for charity

22 Five freeware faves from 2006

22 The 12 days of freeware: Day 9

21 Just in time for Christmas ... PhotoCard

21 The 12 days of freeware: Day 8

20 Simon Extreme

20 Freeware ideas find their way into Leopard

20 The 12 days of freeware: Day 7

19 Freeware for Canadians

19 The 12 days of freeware: Day 6

18 A worm of many names

18 VirtueDesktops gets new polish

18 The 12 days of freeware: Day 5

17 The 12 days of freeware: Day 4

16 The 12 days of freeware: Day 3

15 Browse games by category

15 The 12 days of freeware: Day 2

14 The 12 days of freeware: Day 1

13 Ars Technica has first look at Firefox 3

12 What happened to wClock?

11 ImageWell hits version 3

09 Firefox 3 features partially revealed

08 Name the worm, win a bug

06 MacTracker keeps on trackin'

05 Le freeware en liberté

04 Getting thinks done

04 A freeware collection for MacBook

01 Take a shot of the web

November 2006

30 Create a city with your photos

29 The man who made 37 freeware apps

27 37 freeware apps enough for you?

27 Celtx screenwriting app wins praise

23 Have a happy freeware Thanksgiving

21 Cooliris gets a cool review

18 Of apples and Steve Jobs: the thriftmac redesign

18 Tell us about cool freeware

18 Caution: man at work

17 Poker Solitarus

17 Marble Solitarus

17 Get yer free Wingnuts here

17 A fantastic four of freeware games

15 The search for a good, free journal

14 And now for a few words ...

13 Soup up your Safari

13 PTHPasteboard

11 SeaMonkey's trip down memory lane

10 Brimming with browsers

09 PTHPasteboard close to final status

08 How free is free?

04 Easy uploads for Flickr

04 Free game plays like Risk

03 Full-steam-ahead writing

02 VirtueDesktops is "very nice"

01 Newsgator's freeware stash

October 2006

28 They're cute in a scary sort of way

27 SnapNDrag gets snappier

25 Firefox tweaks aplenty

25 Subliminal powers

23 PTHPasteboard is back

23 Final, for-real Firefox 2.0

21 Some easy-switcher gems

20 Easy-switcher apps

19 The full-screen experience

18 On the road with Camino

13 Why can't Firefox be more like Safari?

12 Make Safari even better

11 Firefox 2 rc2

11 Text and more text

07 Seven great ways to waste your weekend

06 Some Nintendo nostalgia

05 In case you didn't have enough widgets

05 A whole new world of Unix open source

03 Not only free, but tiny

02 Goodbye VLC, hello Perian

September 2006

29 FastScripts Lite

28 Pangea releases freeware game

27 Firefox 2 to have tab overflow feature

27 Q is virtually free

26 Spiff up your Smultron

25 One rip-off, one bright idea

20 How to create a unique blog for free on your Mac

18 Qumana reviewed

16 What's for dinner?

15 Skype 2.0 beta

15 A solution for iTunes album art

14 Fun with words

14 Some warnings about album art

13 CoverFlow reborn in iTunes

12 Steve Jobs announces free stuff

08 Snakes enter third dimension

07 MacLibre a work in progress

06 ImageWell set for major upgrade

05 The future of VirtueDesktops

02 Counterpoint

02 Smultron up to version 2.1

01 Open source installation made easy -- or not

August 2006

31 Some thoughts on Beta 2

30 Firefox 2.0 Beta 2

29 The mighty Quinn

16 The Top 10 coolest Mac freeware programs you've never heard of

15 Firefox 2 ship date moves to October

12 iTunes Doodad

12 Cyberduck eats bugs

11 A taste of Leopard

10 To pay or not to pay

09 A note about Sidenote

09 Short snappers

09 Bye-bye, BeeCells3D

08 Safari will also undo closure of tabs

08 Another little nip from Leopard

07 Leopard bites into freeware

06 Vive le freeware encore

05 Float your windows

04 Slide on over

03 A second look at Firefox 2 Beta 1

03 Upload to Picasa Web Albums with a Mac

02 Check out Chax

01 Smultron hits the big 2.0

01 How to create a website for free

July 2006

31 Vienna moving right along

29 Fox's top 10 Firefox extensions

29 A (legal?) way to get lyrics

29 TigerLaunch declared Good Freeware

27 Quicksilver on the silver screen

26 MacDevCenter's open-source extravaganza

24 FinderPop is back with us

21 Shiira forges ahead to version 2

20 Vive le freeware

19 Four programs added to Utilities section

17 A dream come true for notetaking

17 New section: AudioVideo

14 Thoroughly modern SuperTux

13 First impressions of Firefox 2 Beta 1

12 Firefox hits version 2 beta

12 Devon's motherlode of freeware

11 JAlbum? How about JetPhoto?

11 QuickImage CM

11 Major update for JAlbum

11 Join Together

10 PixelNHance link broken

10 Quinn distribution suspended

08 Speaking of Adium ...

08 Presenting ... Osmose

07 Everyone's chatting about Adium

06 Your top eight apps II

05 The neverending stream of web browsers

05 VoodooPad hits version 3

04 Welcome Cog and jahshaka

04 Cog

04 Notable Sidenote

03 Go ask Alice

June 2006

30 Handbrake freeware a winner

30 Two writing programs in beta

30 iClip for free this weekend

29 Lotsa language

28 Down the road with Camino

27 Subscribing made easy

27 More vocabulary

27 Summer and Songbird have arrived

26 MT-Newswatcher goes universal

25 Inkscape update

23 Scourge of the web

22 Is iText really necessary?

21 Minesweeper goes modern for Mac

20 Clip and Save

19 A classic game keeps going

16 Is Journler the new MacJournal?

16 Tetris lives on

15 Pixen pumps up

14 Flocking to Flock

13 The Great Google II

12 Yet another freeware list

10 Watch your step

08 The Great Google

07 Sounds great, but ...

06 A treasure trove of uselessness

05 Bursting out in song

03 ProVoc: Vocabulary Trainer

01 Battery power

01 Image Tricks

May 2006

31 Max

31 VirtueDesktops, where are you?

26 Is there any such thing as a free iPod?

25 Ode to Jared

23 Blogging for dollars

22 New features at thriftmac

22 Encyclopodia

22 More from Macworld

20 Open source information manager

19 Da Vinci revival

17 X11 revisited

15 Your top eight apps

09 Create your own library

06 Have a ball with neverball

04 Backup bonanza

03 Welcome, stumblers!

03 The fate of iLyric

01 GNU Backgammon

April 2006

28 The X11 quandary

28 Coconut Battery

28 Transmission

27 Free extensions for Firefox

22 Whatever happened to iLyric?

20 Best freeware games for mac

17 Free music for iPod

14 Service Scrubber

14 Preferential Treatment

11 Grand Perspective

08 Ultimate Othello

03 Top 10 free mac apps

March 2006

18 See the sights

16 GimmeSomeTune

14 You Control:Tunes

11 Fountain Music

11 SizzlingKeys

08 Introducing ... a fresh, clean, new thriftmac

08 Mind your step

February 2006

24 Cocoalicious

22 Individualism

21 Survey says ...

15 TypeTrainer4Mac

14 Give us your thoughts

14 The story of thriftmac

09 Voodoo Pad Lite

09 PandoCalendar

09 SilverKeeper

09 PhotoRetouch DigiCam

09 Nisus Thesaurus

09 TextWrangler

09 Nvu

09 NewsWatcher-X

09 We've got a new name

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