Software Reviews
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Useful Review Sites
- Macupdate.com is a site containing lists of most Mac Software with some recommendations.
- Versiontracker.com is site containing lists of most Mac Software with some recommendations.
- OpenSourceMac.org is a simple list of free Open Source software for the Mac.
Internet Browsers
- Every Mac User should have at least 2 browsers on their machine.
- If you have trouble using a website with one, you can easily switch to the other.
- If you would like to test the browser you use to determine how well follows the applicable specifications. Try Acid3 Test. wikipedia:Acid3
- If you would like to merge the bookmarks between your various browsers. Try Bookdog.
Camino
Mozilla Browser created especially for the Mac
Firefox
Mozilla Browser found on virtually every platform
Flock
Browser Leaning toward the social environment.
Opera
Perhaps the most Spec compliant Browser.
Safari
Apple Web Browser
Seamonkey
Fills the same space as the old Netscape Communicator. Combine Browser, eMail client and more.
Web Kit
Overnight test builds for a possible future Safari. Should only be used by people willing to deal with the possible problems of alpha/beta level software.
Fluid
An Application that builds a browser for a single site. (Requires at least 10.5 Leopard)
FTP and SFTP clients
CyberDuck
DonationWare
Fugu
Databases
Bento
Consumer level database package (Requires Leopard, 10.5 or greater)
Filemaker
Pro level Database Application. (Our Club Database uses this.)
iData
MySQL
Open Source Enterprise level Application
Mail Clients
Apple Mail
Apple's built in eMail Client.
Microsoft Entourage
Part of MS Office.
Eudora
Grand Daddy of all today's eMail Clients. Website
Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird Website.
Movie/Video Tools
Handbrake
Convert your DVD for use in iTunes, iPhone and iPods.
iDVD - iLife
iMovie - iLife
iMovie HD - iLife
Mac the Ripper
Backup your DVD's on to your Hard Drive.
Video Hub
Converts Video from 1 format/codec to another.
Movie/Video Players/Libraries
DVD Player
Apple DVD Player
Hulu
Web based Video Streaming Service
iTunes
Joost
Application Based Video Streaming Service
Miro
Plays/Downloads podcasts/Video
MPlayer
Open Source
VLC - Video Lan Client
Open Source - Plays Videos and DVD's of most types (Codecs)
Music
Garage Band - iLife
My Guitar Review
iTunes
Office Applications
Apple Works
The Great Package that never dies.
iWork
MS Office
Neo Office
Open Source MS Office Replacement written in Java. Derived from Open Office, but with a Mac interface.
Open Office - X11
X11 Open Source MS Office Replacement
Ragtime
Commercial package in a world dominated by Microsoft. Had a excellent reputation for Mac and Windows. Update to Leopard seems slower...lj
Office Applications/Word Processing
- abiword - Open Source Word Replacement
- Bean -
- iWork Pages -
- MS Office MS Word
- Neo Office - Open Source MS Office Replacement written in Java
- Open Office - X11 Open Source MS Office Replacement
- Ragtime
Other
Photography
Acorn
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Lightroom
Aperture
iPhoto plus, with a professional bent.
Gimp - X11
Open Source
Graphic Converter
Been on the Mac since they invented color ;-)
ImageMagick
Command line/ batch processor of pictures.
ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
iPhoto - iLife
Pixelmator
Vector Graphics
Adobe Illustrator
Blender - X11
Open Source 3D Package
Inkscape - X11
Open Source
Vector Designer
Utilities
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner
Transition from Eudora to Mail.app or Thunderbird
Quicksilver
Worlds greatest little productivity tool
SpamSieve
Make Spam Problems a thing of the past.
