Best Mac freeware and free Mac games: Archive: thriftmac

Mac freeware collection

October 2008

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

28 Keep you Mac apps up to date

22 Back to school with iProcrastinate

22 iProcrastinate

21 Check out the new games

18 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

05 Frets on Fire

05 Be a Guitar Hero for free

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

16 Distinguished folders

15 Mad about MacBomber

14 We list the lists

14 Yum is not a game

13 Notes for the artistically inclined

12 April Fool in July

10 Dream a little dream

09 A nice hot cup of Caffeine

08 Weird and wonderful

07 Sauerbraten and HexAddict join the collection

06 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

30 Yum

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

05 Freeware junkie

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

19 Steve's top 10

18 Tron goes 3D

17 Freeware heist

15 GIMP gets a new look

14 Download it or play online

11 Three fascinating games

09 Adobe Media Player

09 Adobe joins the fray

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

01 The secrets are out

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 Name Mangler

22 Donate rice for Firefox

19 A freeware wiki

16 Pengupop vs. Snood

16 BirthdayBook 5.0

15 Rapido times five

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

07 NetNewsWire vs. Feeddemon

05 SuperDuper works with Time Machine

03 Renaming files the fast and free way

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

13 Leopard's attack on freeware

13 Freeware faves from dralnuX

12 Camino 1.6 preview

11 Keep your freeware up to date

10 Z list of freeware

10 Pile up your pix in Mail

06 MacTracker X 5.0

05 What's up with WhatSize

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

21 A couple of lists

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

01 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

03 Backup gets better

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

21 Note-it Express

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

11 Adium 1.2 in the works

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

23 A list of 10 Mac freeware lists

23 More freeware for seminarians

23 Transmission 0.81

23 Switching to Camino

22 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

13 Tastier tabs for Adium

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 Button Builder

24 Build buttons for free

24 Give us your Idol nominations

24 Your Mac freeware education

23 Quicksilver's clipboard explained

23 Flickr Uploadr

23 Twitteriffic

23 Cocktail for Panther now freeware

21 Mac Freeware Idol — casting call

21 Quintessentially Quinn

19 Three out 10 are freeware

18 Uno

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

15 Blackjack International

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

07 Diamond in the rough

05 Pictures have arrived

05 Remember Netscape?

05 NetNewsWire hits the big 3.0

04 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 Groove Center

25 CSS Pocket Reference

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

07 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

23 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 RapidoSerial

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?

22 Organized eating

21 ImageWell improves

21 Phil's favourite screensavers

19 Carbon Copy Cloner catching up

19 MediaFork takes up where HandBrake left off

15 BirthdayBook

15 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

02 Adium hits the big 1.0

02 Mac HelpMate

02 CRON-O-Meter

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

18 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

04 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

27 Judgment day is at hand

26 106 menubar items

26 ToyViewer hits 4.9

24 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

22 The 12 days of freeware: Day 10

22 Freeware for charity

22 Five freeware faves from 2006

21 The 12 days of freeware: Day 9

20 Just in time for Christmas ... PhotoCard

20 The 12 days of freeware: Day 8

20 Simon Extreme

20 Freeware ideas find their way into Leopard

19 The 12 days of freeware: Day 7

19 Freeware for Canadians

18 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

16 The 12 days of freeware: Day 4

15 The 12 days of freeware: Day 3

15 Browse games by category

14 The 12 days of freeware: Day 2

13 The 12 days of freeware: Day 1

12 Ars Technica has first look at Firefox 3

12 What happened to wClock?

11 ImageWell hits version 3

09 Firefox 3 features partially revealed

07 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

01 Take note of this

November 2006

30 Create a city with your photos

28 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

22 Rename those files

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

16 Corripio continues to improve

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 What's next? Dopi?

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

17 Taking a gamble

16 iSquint iMproves

12 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

04 Ready for a new addiction?

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

19 rooSwitch Lite

19 rooSwitch Lite is very cool

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

02 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

28 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 Five programs added to Utilities section

17 A dream come true for notetaking

17 New section: AudioVideo

14 Thoroughly modern SuperTux

14 Four mice for iTunesShut

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

01 Another way to animate

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

24 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 Now you can write rapidly

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?