Power On Software, Voice 800-344-9160, sales@poweronsw.com, http://www.poweronsw.com/
ACTION GoMac offers the ultimate in ease of use and aesthetic design for Mac users who want instant access to all of their programs while maintaining precious screen real estate. It places a task bar anchored across the bottom of the screen that will allow program launching, keyboard application switching, drag and drop file opening, Quick Info on all running programs, Internet bookmarking, a perpetual popup calendar, layer management, QuickLaunch, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
Cat lovers, check this out. If you’re allergic to the fuzzy, carbon-based variety, value your furniture and rugs, or simply love cats, this collection will let you keep a virtual cat right on your desktop. This pack contains 4 different cats (plus kittens!), each with their own personality, that will wander around your desktop and do things cats do: walk, jump, run, stand still, sleep, stretch, claw, clean themselves, skip, hunt, fight, and more. You can control any one of them with your mouse or keypad, or simply leave them alone and let them wander. Plus, one of the cats even recognizes human speech (if you’ve got English Speech Recognition installed). Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or later and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
Chronos 1.0 - Freeware
The French Touch, info@french-touch.net, http://www.french-touch.net
This high-quality, real-time 3D screen saver taps into the power of 3D acceleration and unleashes unparalleled, mind-boggling desktop animation. This package comes with a bunch of high-quality modules including a French cow exploring a French landscape, a space ship in the middle of an asteroid field, and a walking Mech warrior. Plus, you can even create your own screen saver modules using another one of French Touch’s poducts, Fusion. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or later and QuickDraw 3D Rave.
Here’s a wonderful shortcut to navigating through your Mac’s interface. This useful tool allows you to launch, find, organize, and access applications and documents all from menu strips placed on your desktop. You can store and access information, graphics, and movies with these strips, which are similar in appearance and functionality to your Mac’s Launcher, and script commands via AppleScript. This latest version adds support for Mac OS 8.5 and quite a few nice enhancements. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.1.2 or later.
DragThing 2.7 - Shareware
James Thomson, james.t@kagi.com, http://www.dragthing.com/
This drag 'n drop utility for your desktop is an application dock designed to tidy up all those icons littering your desktop. Set up one or more docks for better organization and navigation. Docks can include files, folders, disks, servers, URLs, and more. 68k and PPC compatible.
This Control Strip Module will allow you to launch applications, files, folders, disks, servers, URL’s, or anything else stored in the “Favorites” folder. It eliminates the need to double-click through a series of folders just to get to a designated application, and will help keep your desktop free from a series of icons and aliases that may litter your desktop. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Give your Mac a total visual overhaul with this intensely popular utility. Change almost every aspect of your interface (basic windows, scroll bars, menus, buttons, pop-up windows, tabs, beveled buttons, and sliders) by choosing from thousands of plug-ins called schemes or creating your own. This latest version supports Mac OS 8.5, fixes a few bugs, offers better compatibility with various programs, and adds a few minor enhancements. 68k and PPC compatible running at least Mac OS 7.
This fun and amusing system extension replaces selected icons on your desktop with icon animations. Create your own animated icons with the Kineticon Editor and replace icons such as your hard drive, trash can, folders in windows, even dialogue box icons. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5 or later.
MultiPrefs 1.2.1 - Freeware
Matthew Hershberger, mhershberger@mac-addict.com, http://macsoftware.net/users/mjh
If you’ve got friends and family who are a bunch of Mac addicts but all of you share only one Mac, this little utility will help everyone involved. It allows you to save preference settings sets for each program used. Each user can have their own personal settings for every program they use, even if other users use the same program and prefer different settings. 68k and PPC compatible.
Neatnik 2.0.3 - Shareware
Karl Bunker, karlbunker@aol.com, http://www.ironsoftware.com
This “folder window wrangler” cleans up your folder windows by setting their position, size, and view options according to your preferences. 68k and PPC compatible running at least Mac OS 7.5 with Finder Scripting Extension, or Mac OS 8.0 or later without it.
OmegaWindow+ 1.0 - Shareware
Hyo E. Ahn, ahn@kagi.com, http://www.kagi.com/ahn/
Manage your windows with mouse-free control with this program. It allows you to resize, move, zoom, close, toggle, restack, and swap windows without ever touching your mouse. It relies on user-defined hot-keys to provide a consistent way of manipulating a window in any application or in the Finder. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Give your desktop a platinum makeover with this desktop picture. Designed to match your interface’s Apple Platinum Appearance, it’s based on the look of the new QuickTime Player interface. This file contains 6 pictures for monitor resolutions between 640x480 up to 1280x1024. 68k and PPC compatible.
SpeechFX 1.0 - Shareware
Robert Accettura, robert@accettura.8m.com, http://accettura.8m.com/
Make Apple’s Speech Recognition software on your Mac more useful with this program. It picks up where Apple left off by giving you a lot more commands to add to its technology. It gives you 27 more commands to use with Apple’s freely downloadable Plain Talk Speech Recognition, including commands to launch your Web browser, open email, print, restart your Mac, search, create a new folder, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.6 or later, a PlainTalk mic, and Speech Recognition installed.
Starfish 1.2 - Freeware
Mars Saxman, mars@redplanetsw.com, http://www.redplanetsw.com/starfish
This desktop texture pattern generator will crank out lively, colorful, unique, and eye-catching graphics on your desktop. It can be configured to automatically create new images at set time intervals, or you can manually change your desktop pattern at any time. It creates images from scratch, mixing layers of fractal and trigonomic algorithms, with color gradients and alpha-channel blending.
Variations on the Paper Theme - Freeware
Laine D. Lee, llee@txdirect.net, http://www.txdirect.net/users/llee/res/themes.html
This package contains seven variations of Paper, an Appearance theme by Eric Lob. This collection contains themes to match each flavor of the iMac including the original Bondi Blue, plus Sky, a light blue paper theme. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
