Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
Here’s an interesting app that takes email to a whole new level. It lets you create Internet postcards—complete with images, audio messages, and text—and send them off as an attachment to your Mail or Entourage email app. The app works with images in your iPhoto library, or you can import graphics from any other source. Just drag a photo or two into the interface, record your message using the recording controls, add a title and borders, and click Send. This trial version lets you send 10 postcards.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, 64MB RAM
This full-featured FTP and SFTP (security) client was designed specifically for Mac OS X, and features a clean and intuitive Aqua interface, multi-tasking, and compatibility with almost every FTP server available. It also features segment donwloading and a copy manager. You can use this full-featured trial version for 14 days before registering.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
This Cocoa download manager can help make your Internet download sessions go a lot smoother. It features download resumes (if the server supports it), download recovery in case of network failure, HTTP and FTP support, drag-and-drop addressing, and more. This is the freeware version of the app—register to upgrade to the Pro version, which adds browser integration (Safari, IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Chimera, and OmniWeb), download acceleration, cookie support, PPP recovery, and AppleScript support.
iSparx 1.1.2—Shareware
P. Dreiss, info@isparx.de, http://www.isparx.net
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Tired of always bugging your coworkers for various client and vendor contact info? This handy app allows you to share information stored in your OS X Address Book with others on your local area network and vice-versa.
Mail Forward X 1.2—Shareware
System Support Products, support@sspi-software.com, http://www.sspi-software.com
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
If you’ve got a Web-based email account, this app will forward email from your Hotmail, MSN, and/or Yahoo account to any email address. Standard POP email accounts can also be forwarded. Choose to have email forwarded automatically or at a specified time interval. It also features basic scripting capability for use with AppleScript.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
This easy-to-use, customizable RSS news reader allows you to subscribe to any RSS-supported Web site and view the latest headlines and articles with one-click access to the full story. It features a 3-pane interface to display individual Web sites and their news.
SpamStopper 1.4.1—Freeware
Railhead Design, http://www.railheaddesign.com
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
A word of caution to those of you who post email addresses on Web sites—you’re making it easy for any spambot spider to crawl around and dig up those precious nuggets to add to their spam lists. Short of spelling out email addresses as yourname at yourdomain dot com, SpamStopper can keep spambots from grabbing email addresses from your site. The app encodes the text of your email address so that it no longer looks like an email address in your HTML to spambots. Them simply copy and paste the encoding into your HTML page.
Speed Download 1.9.9—Shareware
YazSoft, info@yazsoft.com, http://www.yazsoft.com
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.6-9.x or OS X 10.1.5 or later
Impatient with file downloads? Give this app a whirl. This download manager can improve your file download speeds and maximize your bandwidth—no matter what type of connection you have or which browser you use.
If you need access to an FTP server from your machine, give this hearty app a whirl. Transmit is an FTP client that allows you to upload and download files via drag-and-drop, and features a text preview drawer, built-in text editor, batch download capabilities, automatic file queueing, file synchronization, AppleScript support, and a heckuva lot more.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
If you need access to any FTP server from your OS X machine, give this hearty app a whirl. Transmit is an FTP client that allows you to upload and download files via drag-and-drop, and features a text preview drawer, built-in text editor, batch download capabilities, automatic file queueing, file synchronization, AppleScript support, and a heckuva lot more.
