You will find a vast array of utilities here, from communications utilities that help you retrieve the latest source code examples from the Internet, to utilities to help you manage all those files already on your hard drive.
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Anarchie 1.4.0
Peter Lewis
peter.lewis@info.curtin.edu.au
Apprentice:Utilities:Communications:
ftp://redback.cs.uwa.edu.au/Others/PeterLewis/
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Anarchie queries Archie servers to find programs stored on FTP sites on the Internet, and then allows you to fetch them directly to your Mac. It will also allow general browsing of anonymous FTP sites. It requires System 7 and MacTCP 1.1 or later.
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Audiodeck 2.0.6
David Lebel
lebel@iro.umontreal.ca
Apprentice:Utilities:Miscellaneous:
ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/mac/lebel/
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Audiodeck is a very cool audio CD player. It lets you maintain a list of track titles for all of your discs, program the order in which tracks are played, and even extract audio information directly from CDs on capable CD-ROM drives. Audiodeck is a FAT application (68K and PPC).
Shareware (send author a CD)
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BBEdit Lite 3.0
Bare Bones Software
bbsw@netcom.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Mediatilities:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbsw/
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BBEdit Lite is a popular text editor for programmers. It supports many features that make it easier to program.
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CDIconKiller 1.0.0
Quinn
quinn@ncrpda.curtin.edu.au
Apprentice:Utilities:Miscellaneous:
ftp://amug.org/pub/peterlewis/
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CDIconKiller is an INIT that attempts to suppress all of those custom icons that people like putting on CD-ROMs. This tends to speed up your CD-ROMs by a factor of about a zillion. Only works with Apple's CD-ROM driver, but it does work under System 6 and 7. Warning: this program was written in 4 hours.
Freeware
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Disinfectant 3.5
John Norstad
j-norstad@nwu.edu
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/
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Disinfectant is one of the best anti virus utilities you will ever find for the Mac. It can optionally install an INIT that will protect your Mac, even upon disk inserts. John Norstad won a lot of deserved praise for this essential Mac utility.
Freeware
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DOCMaker 4.1
Mark S. Wall
mswall@aol.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Mediatilities:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/text/
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DOCMaker is an application which creates standalone self-running document files. It features scrollable and resizable windows, graphics, varied text styles and fonts, and full printing capability. The standalone files are self-executing applications which you may distribute to others to read and print.
Shareware $25
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DropConversion 1.0.1
Bill Hayden
BMOC1@aol.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/dev/
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DropConversion will convert the file types of any files, regardless of whether you drop one or one thousand files onto it. Additionally, it can set the stationery, visible, locked, and namelocked attributes of files. Finally, DropConversion allows you to install a custom 'vers' ID 2 resource in each file. This is the string that people see when they do a Get Info on files from the Finder.
Shareware $8
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Easy View 2.50
Akif Eyler
eyler@bilkent.edu.tr
Apprentice:Utilities:Mediatilities:
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Easy View is a viewer utility that supports setext, which is a plain text formatting system.
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File Tracker 1.5
Mark Aran Aiken
marka@ee.mcgill.ca
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://gaea.kgs.ukans.edu/applescript/addons/
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File Tracker is a utility package that can "watch" folders or files on your hard drive or other people's hard drives over a network. If these items ever change, File Tracker can execute a set of actions on the files or folders involved in the change.
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Icon Gallery Samplers
Component Software
76004.2162@compuserve.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Icons, Etc.:
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Icon Gallery is possibly the largest commercial collection of Macintosh icons in the entire world (and probably even the galaxy). There are three collections of icons available: Volume 1 (the original series), Volume 2 (folders, documents, and trashes, oh my!), and Volume 3 (weird, wild, wacky, and wonderful). This sampler shows you many icons from each collection.
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Iconographically Yours
Paul Celestin
celestin@olympus.net
Apprentice:Utilities:Icons, Etc.:
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Iconographically Yours is a collection of icons that you can use in whatever way you would like.
Freeware
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KeyQuencer 1.2.1
Alessandro Levi Montalcini
lmontalcini@pmn.it
Apprentice:Utilities:Miscellaneous:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/
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KeyQuencer is a powerful and solid macro engine designed to use very little memory; it can perform complex tasks that are invoked by a single keystroke. KeyQuencer uses a very simple scripting approach and can be extended through external extension, which are the basic building blocks that make up a full macro.
Shareware $10
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List Files 2.0
Alessandro Levi Montalcini
lmontalcini@pmn.it
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/dev/
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List Files is a utility that you can use to create a text catalog of your disk, a folder, or a document dropped onto it.
Shareware $5
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MungeImage 1.2.0
Quinn
quinn@ncrpda.curtin.edu.au
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://amug.org/pub/peterlewis/
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MungeImage allows you to mount DiskCopy and DART disk images. You will find a lot of these files on the Apple ftp sites. Using MungeImage means you don't have to have any real floppies. Just drag a disk image onto the MungeImage icon, and it will magically appear on your desktop.
Freeware
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Pict2Pict 0.6.3
Ingemar Ragnemalm
ingemar@lysator.liu.se
Apprentice:Utilities:Mediatilities:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/grf/util/
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Pict2Pict is a program that move PICTs between the single-file PICT format and PICT resources. It supports drag-and-drop under System 7, but will work under System 6 as well. If you open a PICT file, it will ask for a new resource file to create and put it in. If you open a resource file, it will display each PICT and give you the option of skipping it or saving it. There is a "save all" feature to save a whole range of pictures at once.
Freeware
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ScriptSynch 1.0
Mark Aran Aiken
marka@ee.mcgill.ca
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://gaea.kgs.ukans.edu/applescript/addons/
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ScriptSynch allows you to attach files, scripts, and applications to the launch or quit of programs. This is useful for running a "startup script" whenever an application loads, attaching one application to another so they launch and quit at the same time (Eudora and Nuntius, for example), or tracking application usage through scripting.
Shareware $10
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StuffIt Products
Aladdin Systems
aladdin@well.sf.ca.us
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/leonardr/aladdin/
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StuffIt is a collection of compression utilities from Aladdin Systems including StuffIt Lite, StuffIt Expander, and DropStuff with Expander Enhancer. You will find that most Mac-related files are either stuffed or compacted, and these utilities will be able to handle them.
Shareware
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suntar 2.0.3
Sauro Speranza
speranza@cirfid.unibo.it
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/dev/src/
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suntar is a utility for handling tar files, which you will probably run into on the Internet. Tar, which stands for "tape archive" is a way some people archive lots of files into one big file. It doesn't support compression, just grouping of files.
Freeware
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Tim's Widgets 1.0
Tim Herzog
hertim@aol.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Disk and File:
AOL:MacDev:
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Tim's Widgets is a collection of utility functions which (the author thinks) are very useful, especially for hackers and programmer types. Each by itself does not warrant a full-blown program, so the author placed all these tidbits into one program. Includes Text Translator, Line Counter, Resource to PICT File, and PICT File to Resource.
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ValueFax 2.0.4
Pancomm
valuefax@netcom.com
Apprentice:Utilities:Communications:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/valuefax/
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ValueFax is a send and receive fax product. It will work with most Class 1 and Class 2 modems. It will not work with Class 2.0 modems or the Apple Express modem.