Issue 121 Disc 1
Freeway 3.5.5 X
LE
Reviewed/Demos
BBEdit 6.5.2
Freeway 3.5.5
REALbasic 4.5
Tutorial/Features

Professional
Editing

Shareware/Freeware
(OS X)

Audio
Business/Finance
Games
Internet Tools
Utilities

Shareware/Freeware
(Classic)

Audio
Business/Finance
Games
Internet Tools
Utilities

Resources (OS X)

GraphicConverter
4.4.3

Netscape 6.2.3
Flash Player 6.0
StuffIt Lite 6.5
Windows Media
Player 7.1.3

Internet Explorer
5.2.1

Resources (Classic)

Acrobat Reader
5.0

GraphicConverter
4.4.3

Internet Explorer
5.1.5

Outlook Express
5.0.5

RealPlayer basic
8

StuffIt Lite 6.5.1
Windows Media
Player 7.1.2

Web links

Advertisers
Useful Mac sites

CDFinder  3.6.2
Disk cataloging tool

CDFinder is a very fast and powerful tool to create catalog files of your hard disks, floppies, Audio-CDs, ZIP's and anything else that spins.

  • It has a great user interface and very powerful search functions.
  • CDFinder supports drag&drop and integrates nicely into the Mac OS.
  • It also reads MP3 tag info and much more.
  • Use CDFinder to catalogue your iPod as well.
  • CDFinder is networkable, so you can share the data in a network.
  • With CDWinder for Windows, you can even share the catalogs cross-platform!
  • Also reads the contents of StuffIt, ZIP, Compact Pro, and Apple Installer (Tome) archive files.
  • Imports existing catalogs of DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker 1.x and CatFinder
  • handles large amounts of data
  • contains seven languages in one application: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Chinese

Product Details

Company: West-Forest-Systems
Web: www.cdfinder.de
Price: $25.00
Limitations: Shareware
Minimum system requirements: Mac OS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLib
Where on the CD: Freeware/Shareware (Classic) Utilities folder


DiskTracker 2.2.2
Disk catelogue application

DiskTracker is the complete disk cataloging and labeling system for the Apple Macintosh. It features an extremely intuitive user interface and a bunch of useful features.

DiskTracker has these great features, plus many, many more:

  • View the contents of scanned disks in a familiar, easy-to-use MacOS-style list
  • Automatically scan disks, even when DiskTracker isn't running, with the DiskTracker Extension
  • Built-in virtual memory scheme enables DiskTracker to handle the largest volumes and CD-ROMs, even when allocated only 700KB of RAM Intelligent background disk scanner scans and updates mounted volumes/servers and removable media
  • Scan the contents of StuffIt (all versions, including StuffIt 5) and Compact Pro archives
  • Drag & Drop copy and move between the Finder and DiskTracker Fast, multi-parameter searches on 22 different criteria
  • Complete disk labeling system for convenient and professional disk label creation and printing
  • Draw label templates with the built-in MacDraw(tm)-style editor, featuring powerful file-lists and rotatable styled text
  • Fat binary application runs native on both PPC and 68k Macs

Product Details

Company: Portents, LLC
Web: www.portents.com
Price: $30.00
Limitations: Shareware
Minimum system requirements: System 7.5.3 or higher
Where on the CD: Freeware/Shareware (Classic) Utilities folder


Mactracker 2.0
Information on every Apple Mac ever made

Mactracker provides detailed technical information on every Apple Macintosh model along with information on Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX clones. The database also includes Apple displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, AirPort Base Stations, iPod, Newtons, and Mac OS versions. In addition, a brief historical overview and image is included courtesy of Apple-History.com and The Apple Museum.

Product Details

Company: Ian Page
Web: members.shaw.ca/mactracker
Price: none
Limitations: Freeware
Minimum system requirements: Mac OS 8.5 or higher
Where on the CD: Freeware/Shareware (Classic) Utilities folder


LaCie SilverKeeper 1.0.1
External backup device utility

SilverKeeper is a freeware application from LaCie that automates Backups to external storage devices like hard disks optical disks, and other removable storage devices that have IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or Firewire interfaces. Essentially any read/write device that can mount on the Macintosh Desktop can be used with SilverKeeper.

Product Details

Company: LaCie
Web: www.lacie.com
Price: none
Limitations: Freeware
Minimum system requirements: Mac OS 9.0.4 or higher
Where on the CD: Freeware/Shareware (Classic) Utilities folder


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