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Mac games in the fastlane

PC Fastlane, a technology blog, lists its top 20 Mac freeware games. Most of them can be found here at thriftmac, but there are so many great games out there that it would be nigh on impossible to list them all. So check these out.

[ Posted May 8, 2008 in ]

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Freeware menubar faves

SurfBits has created a fantastic four list of menubar apps — all of them freeware, of course.

There is no doubt menubar items can be handy, but I try to keep them to a minimum so they don’t get lost among the clutter. Currently, I’m using Jumpcut for clippings, wClock for a proper date, Time Machine because it’s cool to watch it turning back the hands of time, the Canadian flag for access to the Character Palette, the time, and AppleScript for access to the Apple ColorPicker. It goes without saying that Spotlight is up there.

By the way, you can find what is perhaps the ultimate collection of menubar items at Jeweled Platypus, complete with icons.

[ Posted Apr 26, 2008 in ]

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Freeware for a fresh Mac

Mac Membrane has 10 freeware apps you should install right away on a new Mac. You can probably guess what most of them are. But, as is usual with these lists, there may be one or two surprises.

[ Posted Apr 24, 2008 in ]

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Steve's top 10

Steve Embleton, a 16-year-old student in England, has posted his 10 favourite Mac freeware apps. I was a little surprised to see FreeMind on the list, but maybe it’s because I’ve never really got the hang of mind mapping.

[ Posted Apr 19, 2008 in ]

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Todd's tops

Todd Ogasawara has listed his favourite freeware and open source programs at the O’Reilly blog. The Amazon MP3 Downloader looks kind of interesting as an alternative to iTunes.

[ Posted Apr 17, 2008 in ]

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Download it or play online

There’s a ton of freeware at a website called: free mac software and free online games or casual game downloads Yes, that’s all one name, but they’ve been around for a couple of years and have built up quite a large collection. Much of it falls in the “online games” category — still, it counts as free.

[ Posted Apr 14, 2008 in ]

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Essential? You decide

Aaron Hefel has a large and somewhat eclectic list of what he considers to be essential Mac freeware. Essential or not, there is a lot of good stuff to sift through — with only a few of the usual suspects often found on Mac freeware lists.

[ Posted Mar 26, 2008 in ]

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Wired roundup of (mostly) freeware

Wired’s How-To Wiki has a not-bad roundup of Mac freeware. The premise is a bit bizarre, though, with the claim that OS X is fine the way it is if “your needs are limited to e-mail and web browsing.”

And we’re willing to overlook the fact that most of the suggestions are well-known to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Mac freeware scene. But I have to say I was astonished to see the inclusion of TextExpander, and so, I’m sure, were the developers. They would like $29.95 for their fine product, thank you very much.

[ Posted Feb 22, 2008 in ]

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A freeware wiki

We’ve found yet another collection of freeware and open source software, but before you get too excited about FOSSwiki we should mention that you have to sift through a lot of Windows and Linux apps to find the Mac gems. Also, when they say a program runs on the Mac, what they really mean (sometimes) is that it runs on Java, which is not quite the same thing.

In any case, it really is a huge list, so if you’re desperately seeking freeware, it may be worth exploring. The apps are divided into categories that you can go through with a table of contents.

The Mac apps have an M in a little box beside them, but otherwise there is no easy way to sort them out. It would be great to have a one-click way of doing this. The good news is that this truly is a wiki, so you can edit it yourself. Pump up those Mac entries!

Via SurfBits.

[ Posted Feb 19, 2008 in ]

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Web development freeware

Apple Mac HQ has a list of freeware for Mac web developers. There aren’t any surprises, although you may not be aware of MAMP and Firebug. MAMP creates an environment on your Mac where you can test content management systems that use Apache, MySQL and PHP. Firebug is a plug-in for Firefox that lets you tweak CSS, HTML and javascript.

For text editors they suggest Smultron or Text Wrangler. In the end, a good text editor may be all you need to get started — that and a good book. For that I would suggest Web Standards Solutions by Dan Cederholm.

[ Posted Feb 11, 2008 in ]

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