What is the difference between Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain?
Shareware is software that you can try before you buy.
After a trial period, usually a week or two, you have to decide whether to register it or toss it. In some cases, certain features may be disabled until you register, or you may see annoying reminder messages until you register. In other cases, it may be entirely on an honor system. Usually the fee is simply money, but the author may ask for a postcard, a box of chocolate, a donation to a charity, or anything else.
Freeware is software that may be used and distributed freely. Usually the author retains the copyright.
When an author places software in the public domain, that means that he or she has explicitly given up all rights to control its use. This term is often used incorrectly in reference to shareware or freeware.
"Shareware" programs are generally elegantly designed to do a specific task, and do it well; designed by bright folks deeply immersed in the genre of which they develop. Purchasing the magazine & phat Disk did not give you these programs; if you like, and use, these programs then REGISTER & PAY for them - don't screw it up for the rest of us!!
NOTE: The descriptions following each listing are taken from readme files included with the application and/or other sources. For more detailed information, see the readme files included with the individual applications.
What's in the Connectivity Folder:
Anarchie
http://www.stairways.com/
Anarchie is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client for the Macintosh. It will let you browse FTP sites, upload or download files, or find them using an Archie or MacSearch. It requires System 7 and MacTCP 1.1 or later. System 7.5 and MacTCP 2.0.6 or later are both highly recommended. Will also work with Open Transport.
Stairways Software, PO Box 1123, Booragoon, WA 6154, AUSTRALIA, support@stairways.com.au (email)
BookMark Manager
http://www.walrus.com/~noyo
BookMark Manager allows you to import, organize, and search a variety of bookmark types from Netscape (all versions). It runs as a separate application from Netscape; it is not a plug-in.
NOYO Systems & Design Inc., 307 East 44th Street #722, New York, NY 10017, 212-697-3609 (voice), 212-867-7383 (fax), noyo@walrus.com (email)
CommFigure is a small utility that should speed up the time it takes to configure Internet applications, by configuring multiple applications at once. CommFigure is designed to be modular, that is new modules to configure new Internet applications can be added by dropping them anywhere on your hard drive, and new field settings (those found within the program - ie. Real Name, Organisation) can also be added by using ResEdit or a similar editing tool. In this way it should be simple for Internet Providers or institutions to customise CommFigure for their personal needs. CommFigure actively configures applications by editing their preference files - this approach should enable virtually all Internet applications to be configured by just one program - CommFigure.
Jonathan Dean, 44 Short Street, Invercargill, New Zealand, jon.dean@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (email)
Cookie Monster
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1778/monster.html
Cookie Monster removes the Cookie files created by Netscape and Internet Explorer. What Cookie Monster does is simply trash the MagicCookie file every time it is launched. This works for NetScape as well as for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Just install it in your StartUp Items folder (inside the System Folder), and voila!
CU-SeeMe is a free videoconferencing program (under copyright of Cornell University and its collaborators) available to anyone with a Macintosh or Windows and a connection to the Internet. With CU-SeeMe, you can videoconference with another site located anywhere in the world. By using a reflector, multiple parties at different locations can participate in a CU-SeeMe conference, each from his or her own desktop computer.
The Cornell University CU-SeeMe development team maintains an email list devoted to on-going technical discussion about the software, reflectors, trouble-shooting installation, on-going use, related software and hardware, and events that involve CU-SeeMe (although event information is migrating to the Events List, below). This list has very heavy traffic. It's a superset of Cornell University's CU-SeeMe Announcement List, so you don't need to subscribe to both. To subscribe to Cornell University's CU-SeeMe Discussion List, send e-mail to listserv@cornell.edu that says "subscribe CU-SeeMe-L firstname lastname".
ePress
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~desimon/intro.html
Create standalone electronic business cards (eCards), which can be distributed on conventional media or over networks to facilitate exchange of personal information. Typical use of an eCard would be to send it as an attachment to an email message to provide the destinatary with more than the usual text-only signature.
Gabriele de Simone via Trento, 3 56100 Pisa Italy desimon@cli.di.unipi.it
The latest free version of the email client Eudora. It can be used to download your email from any standard POP email server over a TCP/IP connection.
The only support for Eudora Light is through online discussion and user groups. The main usenet group for Eudora Light is comp.mail.eudora.mac
Framed Pgs
http://www.sqe.ch/
Create complex (or simple) frame laden web-pages without typing a peck o'code. Select a frame layout from a comprehensive list of templates, key-in the data specific to your page and have the program crank out all the nasty HTML.
Drop ICeTEe 2 into your Extensions folder (and remove the original ICeTEe if it's installed). ICeTEe 2 is active after you restart your Mac. Then it works the same as ICeTEe: you can command-click a URL almost everywhere to open it in the appropriate helper application as set in Internet Config. The additional functionality is that if you hold down the option key the URL is not launched, but instead it is send to a bookmark helper application.
Michael Schürig, uzs90z@uni-bonn.de (email)
InterMod
http://www2.eis.net.au/~statham/intermod.html
Hey, I figure some of you are only maybe hangin' 1 or 2 when you surf so here's a useful reference file for learning about the World Wide Web and the Internet. The information contained in this set of documents is not sophisticated or in-depth, but it does give a good introduction to the Internet.
The Internet Configuration System was designed to make your life easier by reducing the number of times which you need to enter your Internet preferences into the various preferences dialogs of all your Internet applications. For example, currently you need to enter your Email address into many common Macintosh Internet applications, for example Eudora, NewsWatcher and Anarchie. The goal of the system was to get each of these applications to get this information from one common place and to give you a tool to edit these common preferences.
internet-config@share.com
IP Monitor
http://www.eskimo.com/~ravensys/ipmonitor.html
IP Monitor is a handy application which displays the current IP network (or subnet mask) address of your Macintosh right onto your desktop. With IP Monitor, you'll no longer have to open the TCP/IP (or MacTCP) control panel in order to view your Macintosh's IP address. Additionally, IP Monitor allows you to copy the current IP network (or subnet mask) address to the clipboard, where it can be pasted directly to most applications and documents.
Raven Systems Ltd., 3401 Werber Street, Orlando, Florida, 32806-7423, (206) 747-9819 (Voice West Coast), (407) 857-3968 (Voice East Coast), (407) 857-3968 (Fax), ravensys@eskimo.com (email), ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/pub/org/r/ravensys/ (FTP)
MacTCP Tracer logs the status of MacTCP connections and can be used as a companion to Peter Lewis' MacTCP Watchter. Unlike MacTCP Watcher, MacTCP Tracer writes the connection status of TCP/IP streams to a console window so you can see who is connected to your Mac.
MacWAIS is an application that allows you to find, retrieve, and intelligently process information via the WAIS protocol. MacWAIS is also EINet-authentication savvy, so it is capable of communicating with EINet-secured WAIS servers. (See EINet Manager for the Macintosh User Manual for more details on EINet authentication.)
EINet Mac Shareware, MCC, 3500 West Balcones Center Drive, Austin, TX 78759-6509, license-info@einet.net (email)
MailArchiver
http://www.blueworld.com/mailarchiver/
MailArchiver quickly and easily archives email messages from a variety of Macintosh email programs into a FileMaker Pro database. MailArchiver can archive mail from multiple source mailboxes or mail folders to separate, individual FileMaker Pro databases. Alternately, MailArchiver can be set to archive all mail to one database. The email source may be either on one's personal Macintosh computer or located anywhere on one's Local Area Network (and can mount remote volumes if necessary).
Blue World Communications, 1619 215th PL SE, Issaquah, WA 98029, 206.313.1051 (voice), 206.313.1056 (fax), blueworld@blueworld.com (email)
NetBots
http://htc.rit.edu/scott.html
If you do any work with the Internet from a Macintosh, NetBots can probably help you in one way or another. Ever tried to connect to a web or FTP site that was too busy? You can have a NetBot watch the site for you and let you know when it's available! Need to keep tabs on a site remotely? With a NetBot monitoring your site, you'll know right away if it goes offline. The shareware version of NetBots lets you run up to three bots.
klep@cs.stanford.edu
NNTP Sucker
http://www.netaxs.com/~ferrari
NNTP Sucker is a network news downloader. NNTP Sucker will suck all newsgroups selected by a Groups file from the NNTP server selected. Every time you run it it will suck only the NEW messages. It is much like MacSlurp, except it doesn't crash as often, and is automatic. It also can be quit at ANY time without losing any messages. NNTP Sucker will also post any new messages it finds. If it fails it will move them to the "Failed" folder in the spool folder. You can fix the error and put the file back in the spool folder and NS will try again.
Darrell Turner, 510 Lindsey Dr., Wayne, PA 19087, ferrari@netaxs.com (email)
Postcards from the Net
http://www.coolcards.com
A fun-to-use application that enables you to create and send colorful, expressive digital postcards via electronic mail.
Signature Generator is an AppleScript that picks a quote file at random, squishes it into a signature file, and copies its contents to the clipboard (sorry, you still have to paste it yourself).
TCPSerial simulates a serial driver and modem using a TCP/IP connection allowing you to use Apple Remote Access and other programs that normally only work with modems over the internet.
A macintosh gopher client. Requires a TCP/IP (internet) connection.
This program is unsupported.
WeatherTracker
http://chemgod.slip.umd.edu/~kidwell/weather.html
WeatherTracker provides an easy-to-use interface to the Internet weather servers. For cities in North America, temperature, barometric pressure, winds, current conditions, local forecasts, and climatic data are updated hourly. Coastal cities in the United States also have near shore marine forecasts available. Cities outside North America are limited to temperature and conditions, updated several times a day.
The program is designed to find the names of all the routers through which an IP packet passes on the way from your Macintosh to the destination host. In addition it measures the round-trip time from your Macintosh to the router thus enabling you to determine slow links (hops) in the Internet. It can also find dead links - ie routers that don't respond etc etc. If you have access to a UNIX machine you should read the man page that accompanies 'traceroute'. WhatRoute will PING remote hosts. In this function a small packet is sent to a remote host and then the time taken for a reply to be received is recorded. The DNS Query function is borrowed from the BIND software. The results of DNS Query show all the DNS Resource Records associated with an Internet host or domain. The explanation of this stuff is the beyond the scope of this document and for further information, I recommend the O'Reilly book, DNS and BIND.
bryanc@ihug.co.nz
Wusage
http://www.boutell.com/wusage/
Wusage is a statistics system that helps you determine the true impact of your web server. By measuring the popularity of your documents, as well as identifying the sites that access your server most often, wusage provides valuable marketing information. Practically all organizations, whether commercial or educational or nonprofit, need solid numbers to make credible claims about the World Wide Web. Wusage fills that need.
Yet Another NewsWatcher is a Usenet newsreader application for Macintosh featuring binary and anonymous remailer posting, article filtering (kill files), and article sorting.
"ElectroSymbols" is an archive containing a library of objects that can be used to draw electronic circuit diagrams, such as filters, amplifiers, signal generators, digital counters and so on.
Dr Franklin Bretschneider, Neuroethology Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, NL-5384 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands, bref@neuretp.biol.ruu.nl (email)
Escape! is a simple but very addictive strategy game.
John V. Holder, 1734 "S" Street, Eureka, CA 95501, USA, (707) 443-3813 (fax), johnholder@aol.com (email)
Oilcap Pro
http://www.soleau.com
The objective of Oilcap Pro is to keep the oil flowing for as long as possible by placing down pipe links to direct its flow.
Soleau Software, 163 Amsterdam Ave Suite 213, New York, NY 10023, 212.721.2361 (voice), 212.873.4994 (fax)
Prince of Destruction
http://www.badgercom.com
Prince of Destruction is the first game using MARS, the Multi-player Animated Role-playing System. Prince of Destruction is an epic fantasy game set in a distant land known as Nestaria.
BadgerCom Software Inc., 1205 West Elizabeth E111, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 USA, 1-800-254-3001 (Voice), badger@badgercom.com (email)
SideMinder! is a challenging strategy game played against the computer.
John V. Holder, 1734 "S" Street, Eureka, CA 95501, USA, (707) 443-3813 (fax), johnholder@aol.com (email)
Total Eclipse Icons
http://www.iconfactory.com
One of the original schemes that comes with Kaleidoscope is called Eclipse and is both simple and eye-catching. The Eclipse color scheme simply darkens all the Mac's windows from their usual stark white, to a dark and somber gray. I've been using KAL since it was released, and have tried many of the additional schemes there are out there. Somehow I always come back to Eclipse, and so I wanted to create an icon set to complete the look of the Eclipse KAL color scheme. What resulted is the "Total Eclipse" icon set (51 in all) and I hope you will enjoy the set even if you don't use Kaleidoscope.
Ultimate Pool is a physically realistic pool simulation game for the Mac. The balls, pool table, and cues are all scaled versions of their real-world counterparts, and the balls roll and collide just as they would on a real pool table. But more important, Ultimate Pool is a lot of fun to play.
Quarter Note Software, qnote@kagi.com
What's in the General Folder:
Basic Black
http://www.four.net/~mason
Basic Black is a simple, incredibly efficient screen saver. It doesn't have whizbang graphics, and thus lets everything blast along at full speed. It's incredibly small - it takes up only four kilobytes of memory after it's loaded, or thereabouts.
BBEdit Lite for OpenDoc (BBEdit•od Lite) is a freeware OpenDoc part which includes the basic text-editing capabilities of BBEdit, our popular and critically acclaimed text editor. When properly installed, BBEdit•od Lite can be used with any OpenDoc container application, as well as any OpenDoc part that is capable of embedding other OpenDoc parts.
Bare Bones Software, Inc., P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048, 617 778 3100 (voice), 617 778 3111 (fax), bbsw@barebones.com (email)
Darkside of the Mac is an application-based screen saver for preventing monitor screen burn-in. It is not an extension or control panel, and therefore will almost never cause problems with your system the way extensions or control panels do. NOTE: Modern (i.e. after 1992 or so) color monitors are not vulnerable to screen burn-in due to the phosphor coating on their screens. In this case, a screen-saver is just for looks.
Tom Dowdy, 1610 Kamsack Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, dowdy@apple.com (email)
What's in the System Utilities Folder:
CopyPaste
http://members.aol.com/copypaste1
CopyPaste gives you 10 clipboards to work with instead of just one. By using keys 1 thru 0 on your keyboard after using cut, copy, or paste, you affect that number clipboard with that command.
Julian Miller, PO Box 854, Crystal Bay, NV 89402, (916) 546-9005, julian@sierra.net (email)
FileTyper
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dazuma/filetyper/
FileTyper is a very popular, small “drop box” program that you can use to quickly change types, creators, attribute flags and date stamps. It supports many “power user” features such as batches, filtering, and directory searches.
Daniel Azuma, attn: FileTyper, 1449 Belleville Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94087-3807, dazuma@kagi.com (email)
QuickHide allows you to easily move from your current application to the finder and back again.
Andrew Marder, andym@netmanage.com
QuickPop
http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder
This program allows you to define all those useless function keys on your extended keyboard (along with any other keys) to perform useful tasks!
John V. Holder, 1734 "S" Street, Eureka, CA 95501, USA, (707) 443-3813 (fax), johnholder@aol.com (email)
QuickScrap
http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder
QuickScrap allows you to easily store a piece of information from any document you're reading or editing.
John V. Holder, 1734 "S" Street, Eureka, CA 95501, USA, (707) 443-3813 (fax), johnholder@aol.com (email)
ScrapIt Pro
http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder
ScrapIt Pro is an editable, searchable multimedia scrapbook.
John V. Holder, 1734 "S" Street, Eureka, CA 95501, USA, (707) 443-3813 (fax), johnholder@aol.com (email)
Snapz Pro
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia.html
Snapz Pro allows you to quickly and easily capture any portion of your screen to disk as an editable image file. A single keystroke brings up the Snapz Pro palette, which allows you to capture, trim, crop, scale, and dither any portion of your screen in the blink of an eye.
Snitch adds numerous options to the finder's "Get Info" window, including the ability to change creator and type from popup menus.
MindVision Software, 840 South 30th Street, Suite C, P.O. Box 81886, Lincoln, NE 68510, (402) 477-3269 (voice), (402) 477-1395 (fax), mindvision@mindvision.com (email)
Symbionts
http://www.kagi.com/
Symbionts is an extension that monitors the startup process. Symbionts displays the name and number of bytes of memory each system extension allocates from the system heap.
