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Application Version Date Size Description
Apple Memory Guide 4/97 4/97 1479 K The Apple Memory Guide includes diagrams and information on the memory configurations of each Macintosh computer and printer (excluding the latest series).
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Apple Spec 11.96 12/10/96 839 K The Apple Spec Database contains detailed technical specifications on a variety of Apple computers, displays, and printers introduced since 1984. You'll need to have Filemaker Pro 2.1 or the Apple Spec application to view this file.
BeforeDark 1.03 2/22/93 121 K Here is a System 7 clean application (not an extension or control panel) that collects and installs colorful patterns on your Macintosh's desktop.
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CD Finder 1.3 5/12/97 314 K Catalogue anything that spins and involves storage on your Mac. Works automatically, with drag and drop, or most any way that's convenient for you.
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Clip Dragon 1.2 7/28/97 227 K A Mac utility that allows you to convert documents such as text, pictures, sound files and icon folders into Apple's Clipping format. Professionally crafted with a fine interface and many useful features. By LnA Concepts.
PPC only version
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Clock^3 1.2 4/4/97 99 K Only on a Mac! This is a killer free-rotating 3D clock that resides in a window on your desktop. Version 1.2 allows you to add textures to the clock. Really cool! Requires a PowerMac with Quickdraw 3D.
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Dark Side of the Mac 4.2 3/25/95 993 K DarkSide is an application screen saver that requires System 7.
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Deluxe Folder Icon Creator 1.6.1 4/10/97 68 K Drag any icon onto DFIC and get a customized folder. Includes several customizing features that are very simple to use.
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Disinfectant 3.7 7/15/97 209 K Disinfectant 3.6 is the latest release of the free anti-viral utility for the Macintosh.
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Disk Charmer 3.0.9 7/17/97 150 K Disk Charmer either runs at launch or can be used as a small icon on the screen on which to drag disks. This app lets you quickly initialize floppies, erase any kind of disk, verify floppies, create DiskCopy images, and more! Author recommends System 7.5.1 or newer, but features depend on Apple extensions available. Be sure to read the docs file. Alternate source. Visit the website.
Disk Copy 6.1.3 7/28/97 493 K Disk Copy is an application program from Apple that creates reliable exact copies of floppy disks from a 3.5-inch master disk or from a disk image file on your hard disk. Version 6.1.3 is a vastly expanded version of 4.2 which mounts volumes of all sizes.
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Disk Surveyor 1.3 7/28/97 224 K As hard drives get larger and larger, it becomes easier to lose track of why you have no more space on your 2 GIG drive. DiskSurveyor handles the task by providing a graphical representation of your hard drive so that you can see each folders contents and it's relative size on the drive. It even allows you to click on sub menus to see what's buried. Excellent! A product of TwiLight Software.
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Disk Tools Collection 3.3.3 5/8/97 452 K A suite of 5 desk accessories for the Mac including DiskTools, a file management "do-everything" utility, a Phone Pad, a nice Calendar, and RPN and Sci calculators. A complete collection with a long history in the shareware world. The DiskTools accessory is especially impressive!
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Disk Tracker 1.1.2 5/27/97 815 K With DiskTracker, you can quickly and easily create a catalog of every file on every one of your floppy disks, hard drives, CD-ROMs, optical drives, servers, or whatever.
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DragThing 2.0 7/23/97 1.2 MB DragThing is an application dock designed to tidy up the icons littering your desktop. Simply drag an application from the Finder onto an empty square in a dock and then drag documents onto it as normal. Requires System 7.5!
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DropStuff with Expander 4.01 5/1/96 673 K Installer for DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 4.01, shareware from Aladdin Systems! Create stuffed or self-extracting archives, or BinHex files from Finder.
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Easy Errors 1.1.1 4/2/97 98 K What does a Type11 error mean, anyway? Easy Errors will tell you the official meaning. The errors mostly mean nothing at all to anyone but programmers, but at least you can impress your friends by saying "yeah, my core routine number is out of range. I think I've got it pinned down though."
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File Buddy 4.1.1 7/18/97 477 K File Buddy will do just about anything you need to organize and work with your files and folders, including creating icons. A great all-purpose utility.
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File Typer 5.3.1 7/3/97 776 or 386 K FileTyper is used to change file types, creators, attribute flags and date stamps. Minimal install version does not include the user's guide or folder of sample AutoTypers. More detailed information is available at the FileTyper Homepage. - minimal install.
Find In Files 1.2 5/17/97 159 K Search your entire hard drive for one specific word and Find In Files will do just that! Displays a list of sentences containing your word throughout your entire system. Very fast and impressive. PPC only and 68k only versions.
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Find Text 1.32 7/6/96 139 K FindText is a utility program that searches your files for specific text. Instead of manually opening all your documents and looking for a specific word or phrase, you can simply run FindText. It can work in the background.
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FreeRam Plus 1.1.1 7/22/97 14 K FreeRam Plus is a simple little application which displays the amount of RAM you have available. That alone would be pretty cool, but FreeRam Plus does more! Download it and see.
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Gramotki 1.5 6/20/97 273k K Take Sticky Notes to the extreme! Gramotki offers all the conveniences of the Stickies with some incredible additions - namely a calendar sticky, a list of notes note, creation date paste, and more.
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Guru 2.5.1 9/10/97 249 K This is a clean little freebie containing detailed technical info on nearly everything ever made by Apple, and now clone makers too. It was written by Newer Technology.
Hover Bar 1.28 3/23/96 145 K HoverBar keeps icons and clipboard data at your fingertips by storing them on bars that float over everything, no matter what program you are using.
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InformInit 1.3 7/21/97 482 K InformInit is a text document that details every control panel, extension, and other inits involved with your Maicntosh.
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iSearch 2.5 7/3/97 106 K iSearch will scan any file, folder, or drive you assign it for any word or phrase you give it. The interface is perfect, the options are plentiful, and the searches are fast! If you have ever named a document and then couldn't remember what name you gave it, iSearch can help you find it by searching for keywords.
Visit the iSearch Homepage. - Alternate source.
MacAppraiser 1.3 7/16/97 1100 K MacAppraiser is an incredible new MacOS application that will calculate the current market price of any used Mac with any given configuration.
MacBench 4.0 2/7/97 1.76 MB An exclusive utility of ZiffDavis (MacUser). Performs benchmark tests of every aspect of your MacOS system. Allows accurate performance comparisons between machines.
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MacErrors 2.0 9/25/95 58 K MacErrors will interpret the meaning behind any of the Macintosh system error codes.
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MacOS Purge 1.01 9/27/95 9 K MacOS Purge purges the System Software memory. In other words, it gets rid of useless old junk from the System memory.
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Mac Restart (PPC) 2.0.2 6/17/97 137 K Great for servers, MacRestart allows you to set a time and day to soft restart or hard restart your Mac. A professional quality utility with many customizable options.
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Author's website
Malph 2.5 4/16/97 73 K Malph is a small application which gives you a floating pallet on the desktop from which you can switch between and launch programs. Very quick, small, and handy.
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Neatnik 1.0.2 6/30/97 128 K This great utility helps busy Mac users keep their desktop workspace neat by arranging windows according to your specifications. A powerful way of keeping track of information. Includes a great manual. Requires scriptable finder found from System 7.5 on. Visit the Neatnik page.
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NotePad Deluxe 1.22 8/13/96 459 K Alas, the Rolls Royce of note pads!
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PowerScan 2.1 4/20/96 450 K PowerScan is an incredible disk-scanning utility for the Macintosh.
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Print Use Monitor 3.4 3/7/97 61 K PrintUseMonitor monitors the pages printed on Quickdraw printers, including all the StyleWriter series and LaserWriter 300 printer, and displays a warning dialog when the print cartridge is about to run out.
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ramBunctious 1.1.2 6/30/97 231 K RamDisks are really cool, but they're not real easy to setup and use. ramBunctious empowers you with all the tools necessary to create a ramdisk, and more. If you've invested in a good amount of RAM for your Mac, invest in ramBunctious to help all of your files run faster.
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Screen Gear 1.1.2 6/17/97 431 K Screen Gear can be used as a screen saver/security app, but it is really just a killer image and sound browser. Fill a folder full of images and sound and Screen Gear will give you a show! Needs Sys 7+, 1MB RAM, 1MB HD, QT, and Sound Manager 3.0+.
Alternate source. Visit the ScreenGear Homepage.
ShrinkWrap 2.1 1/15/97 389 K ShrinkWrap is a freeware utility made to manage disk images on the Macintosh. You can create disk images by simply dragging and dropping your floppy drive icons onto the ShrinkWrap icon, etc.
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Speed Beep 2.0.7 5/11/97 55 K Don't you get tired of the same system alert sound over and over again? Speed Beep rotates that sound, making your life exciting and fulfilling! You can even use long Monty Python sounds because Speed Beep lets you work while the sound plays.
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StartOnce 1.0 1/15/97 29 K Start Once helps to keep control of your startup items. It launches any items that are put into a "StartOnce Items" folder just once a day.
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StuffIt Expander 4.01 5/1/96 271 K StuffIt Expander is an award-winning freeware product that can be used to expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex & MacBinary files.
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StuffIt Lite 3.6 4/4/97 871 K Stuffit Lite creates compressed files for transmission over the web, onto floppies, or simply for archiving. Lacks several features of StuffIt Deluxe, but is still a must have utility!
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SuperClip 1.76 1/15/97 415 K SuperClip is a shareware extension that allows the user to have multiple clipboards. All transfer of data is automatic and there is no need to leave the original program. There also a viewer included that allows the user to view clips including movies.
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Synk 2.2.2 6/4/97 471 K Synk is an outstanding backup utility that helps you easily select a folder to backup, and a folder to direct the backup to. Has many nice features, like backing up aliased items in the folder and a detailed list of backed up files upon completion. Simple and thorough.
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TattleTech 2.55 8/18/97 582 K TattleTech provides around 850 different fields of information in 30 categories including general hardware and system software attributes/versions plus PCI/Nubus/PDS cards, ATA/IDE devices, PCMCIA, SCSI, etc.
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TechTool 1.1.4 5/9/97 561 K TechTool is the acclaimed utility shareware utility that tends to go deeper into a problem than others. It's repair functionality is limited, but it is an excellent diagnostics tool. It's main feature is the ability to perform a low-level PRAM zapping.
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Terminator Strip 2.5 5/19/97 45 K Terminator Strip specializes in hiding your Control Strip until you need it. Moving your mouse to the Strip area makes it reappear, just like magic!
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Tilery 3.1 8/17/95 157 K Tilery is an aplication that places a "tile" on your screen for each open application; clicking a tile brings the application to the front.
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Tile Switcher 2.2.2 4/29/97 41 K Tile Switcher adds a small, convenient set of tiles on your desktop which allow you to switch quickly between running applications. Tile Switcher retains its position on the desktop under any resolution, and grows up or down, depending on where it's located.
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UltraFind 2.5.3 7/3/97 500 K UltraFind is an impressive search application that combines ease of use, extreme customizability, and a beautiful interface all into one great app. Searches for file types, text within documents, creation dates - just about anything. Can also conduct searches on the web. Handily shrinks down to a floating icon with one click. An exceptional utility!
UltraDesign Software.
UnZip 5.3 5/19/97 115 K UnZip is a utility which allows you to compress and decompress PC files in Zip format.
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UULite 3.0 12/26/96 483 K UULite is one of the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use smart uudecoder/uuencoders available for the Macintosh.
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Virtual Desktop 1.9 3/16/96 209 K For 160K of memory, you can have a virtual desktop as big as you like -- excellent for PowerBooks and other Macs with the ability to run many programs at once, but nowhere to put the windows.
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X-Tension 1.6 6/5/97 825 K X-Tension works with X-10 type devices to automatically control electrical devices and appliances in your home. It relies heavily on Applescript for automation procedures and takes advantage of many of the Macs niceities to make things simple. Requires System 7.1, Applescript, and supports ActiveHome, CP290, LynX, and the Two-Way controller; one of which is required.
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Yank 1.31 10/24/96 88 K Yank is a shareware application that does two things: It cleans up your Preferences folder by moving outdated files to the trash and it uninstalls an application and all files created by the application.
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ZDNet's Quicklaunch 1.0 5/7/97 104 K An exclusive utility from ZDNet, publishers of MacUser and MacWeek. This utility provides a tabbed launchpad on any side of your screen able to hold many different categories of launchpads.
The Quicklaunch page.
ZipIt 1.35 1/3/96 498 K ZipIt is a full-featured Macintosh archival program. It is fully compatible with PKWare, Info-Zip, and other zip compression products. ZipIt includes a complete Macintosh interface, and boasts Mac-specific features
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