Notable Shareware from 2003
These are the top picks of 2003 in most categories.
- Grab Bag...
Spanish site tops iTunes deal... Where's the Extension Manager???... OS X screencapture now improved... Keep them in stitches...... Super Scooper... Opera v6.02 released for Mac... The Missing Sync... Squeeze more space into your iPod
- Cool Shareware Collection
Font Sampler update boasts all new features * VueScan excellent color fidelity and balance * Extract Art from Music track's ID3 tag * Apple Backsup your files and music * iMovie Color Effects Plug-in 1.2.1 * QuickImage CM 2.1 desktop viewer * Outlining in style for OS X * Put a little candy in your tool bar! * Multi-networks peer-to-peer client * Forty-Two Updater 1.6.1 * Carracho Client X 1.0PR1 * The Return of "Pac the Man" * Everyone loves Beeper Pro * Affordable alternative to Word? Nisus * Word processing? Take the Jump... * New 'Tetris' style game goes 3D * Ambrosia Software WireTap 1.0
- DropDMG solution for Disc Images
the easiest way to create ".dmg", ".img", and ".smi" disk images...
- Free EasyFind and ThumbsUp Quick searches, bulk thumbnails
- Get a Maid for ten bucks? - MacMaid will do the cleaning for you
- Dejal says Time Out! give it a break
- Stitching Files Made Easy...graphics or MP3 files!
- iClip 2.1 multi-clipboard
iClip 2.1 multi-clipboard scrapbook utility for Mac OS X helps you get past the limitations of having a single Clipboard.
- Shareware: Magic Printing
MacEase has released PrintMagic 3.0 providing OS X users with complete control over the information they print! PrintMagic is highly customizable, and greatly enhances users' productivity when working with their Macs...
- ZeboPhoto X
Bobby Cronkhite has shown us his new ZeboPhoto and we had to pass it along to you! This is a sweet utility for viewing and editing images conveniently.
- Stylish Accounting for OS X
Nano Software presents Accounts 1.5, an update to its stylish personal finance manager and small business accounting application
- Pixeltoy is back...
Fantastic live performance video -- Long-time favorite image generator for the Mac is back with all new goodies and eye-candy
- Webmasters' get help checking links
Link Checker 1.1.4 A continuing problem administrating web sites -- particularly broken links. The webmaster hates them, and the surfer hates them! Now go and fix them
- Shareware: Fun with Crystals
CrystalDiffract diffraction program from Chrystalmaker... This week we look at a fun little program that creates some dazzling graphics. (4/28/2003)
- Everyone needs a good maid
MacMaid is here for OS X users... with a new rule-based cleaning system, multiple cleaning folders, and a lot more (4/28/2003)
- Get a Laugh with iComic
Download your favorite Web comics... Now you can view your favorite online comics without having to surf to multiple web sites. It's all made possible by iComic's support for a plugin system that goes and gets the comics for you! (4/21/2003)
- Image in a Hurry for iPhoto
... blazing fast access to large photo collections... browse thumbnails and select images for export, resizing and re-compressing-- plus perform all the selection and setup without even picking up the mouse. Great shareware from James Sentman (4/13/2003)
- Diff'nPatch for Mac OS 9 X
graphic user interface Unix patch utilities... Bernard Desgraupes has released his new Diff'nPatch 1.2, a freeware application implementing the diff and patch Unix utilities with a nice graphic user interface. It is a Carbon application which can run on both OS9 and OSX. (4/13/2003)
- Fixing annoying OS X bugs and anomalies?
A lot of new OS X users are looking for ways to bring back the time-proven interface features that made Mac what it is today. Thanks to Jonathan M. Miller's FruitMenu we can now keep many familiar Mac menu functions, and perhaps learn some new ones . . . FruitMenu from Unsanity (4/1/2003)
- Air Whisper: Skinnable MP3 Player for Mac
... Air Whisper enables high-quality playback and easy browsing through your MP3 files. Download or create new skins for unique personalization (4/1/2003)
- PrintToPDF
... is a shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader or GhostScript on any platform).. (3/11/2003)
- Little Snitch
... an efficient weapon against applications which phone home, internet worms, trojans and other network parasites -- and does not affect normal operations of your Mac. It's a great firewall that watches every outgoing network connection to protect your back!. (3/3/2003)
- FileBuddy
The popular do-everything file utility is now upgraded for OS X. Also included is information about SkyTag's "Comment Converter " which brings your file comments to OS X. (2/24/2003)
- Beyond iPhoto: Plato Grande's ImageViewer
A powerful and inexpensive multimedia application, which provides a complete set of image viewing, cataloging, browsing, and editing capabilities. (2/17/2003)
- Photocropper
easy, quick photo modifications... Now, with PhotoCropper (Mac OS X) you can crop and scale your photos and save it as a Jpeg -- even optimized web jpg - file in just a few steps. (2/9/2003)
- Favorite Mac Desktops
...a new feature of the shareware column -- submit your favorite desktops! Here are the editor's choice for this week!
- SilverNetworks' Spy v1.0 is Free
final version of new remote screen capture tool, Spy. ... Spy allows you to run a small server on your Mac, that when accessed by any normal web browser. Download it for free! (2/2/2003)
- Serial Storage for secure organization
Shareware: application for secure organization... effortlessly organize your serial numbers, passwords, credit cards, (or any other information you'd like to store) into different folders. Of all the other Mac applications that do this on the market, Serial Storage is the most secure, easiest to use. (2/2/2003)
- JeepSafari
Safari bookmarks to go... Think of JeepSafari as iSync for Safari - lets you move and share your Safari bookmarks. (2/2/2003)
- Configure Mac OS X with a clean GUI
All-In-One Interface for Mac OS X... makes it easy to configure many Mac OS X options, that are difficult or impossible to configure manually -- including several unix command structures to optimize and secure your Mac. More than 20 configuration features X users will need. (2/2/2003)
- RealOne Player for OS X
Gold Release now available - Play and Browse MP3s from Mac OS X Dock
no need to run any other program to listen to your favorite MP3s
- Fun CPU Monitor Measles 2.0: Desktop companion
- DAVE v4.0.2: Free Upgrade... for OS X users
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