Mac OS Toolkit

This software allows you to open and view Adobe PDF files for viewing and printing. Version 6 is significantly easier to use than its predecessor, which ships with OS X (up to 10.2), and can also display Adobe Photoshop Album slideshows and electronic cards. Note: the product's name has changed from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Adobe Reader for this release.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.adobe.com
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

Authoxy solves one of the greatest problems with Mac OS X - the operating system's inability to make connections at a system level to Microsoft Proxy Servers that require a username and password. Authoxy cleverly solves this problem by running a Web proxy on the local computer and bouncing Web requests over to the Microsoft Proxy with a username and password filled in. This allows OS X users to access iTunes track names, MacHelp, QuickTime, Software Update and so on through a corporate authenticating Web proxy.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://hrsoftworks.hopto.org
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. Also requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 (included with Mac OS X).

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

Do you want a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Or perhaps you want to upgrade to a larger hard drive without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Carbon Copy Cloner makes these tasks simple by harnessing the Unix power built into Mac OS X to perfectly copy one drive to another.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher with BSD Subsystem.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. It allows you to display and interact with a remote computer screen as if it's your own computer. Importantly, Chicken features Tight and ZLib screen encoding, which provides better screen performance with less network bandwidth used.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Chicken requires the remote computer to be running a VNC server in order to view and control its screen (these are freely available on the Internet for all major operating systems).

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

DragThing is a tabbed dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. You can have as many different docks as you like, with very flexible settings for each one. You can choose the size of icons displayed, whether the names of the items are shown, and much more. You can even show the Trash on the Finder Desktop again. Many users like DragThing's ability to create "spring out drawers" on the side of the screen.

Licence: Shareware.
Online: http://www.dragthing.com
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

This little ripper of a utility imports 175 graphic file formats, exports 75, and includes an image browser, slideshow and the ability to batch-convert files. It also makes it easy to optimise graphics for the Web.

Licence: Shareware.
Online: http://lemkesoft.com/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.0 or later.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

iGetter accelerates your downloads by making multiple connections to a Web server and downloading many chunks of a program at once. This effectively circumvents per-user speed limits applied by server administrators, and also maximises download speeds from international sites. iGetter also helps you find the fastest mirror for the file you are downloading, by logging what other iGetter users are downloading (reporting of what you download can be switched off for privacy). Features include ZIP archive preview and support for Quartz text rendering.

Licence: Shareware.
Online: http://www.igetter.net
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

LaunchBar is a productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to control your computer. It provides instant access to thousands of documents, folders, bookmarks and email addresses, applications and preference panes just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.

Licence: Shareware.
Online: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac allows you to connect to a Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer. To use Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, you need network access and permissions to connect to a Windows-based computer running Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.asp
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. Requires the remote computer to run Windows XP Professional, any Windows .NET Server version, any Windows 2000 Server version or Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

The PDF Browser Plugin allows Web browsers to display and print PDF documents. You can preview PDF documents before downloading them to disk, and your browser can display PDFs embedded into Web pages. With the help of Ghostscript, PDF Browser Plugin can also display PostScript documents.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. Also requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 (included with Mac OS X).

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

For uploading and downloading files to/from FTP servers, Mac users can't go past RBrowserLite. It uses a familiar directory window interface to provide access to files on the local host as well as remote FTP servers. It also provides a uniform interface for file transfer and file related operations, greatly simplifying access.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.rbrowser.com
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X

VLC media player is a the Swiss Army Knife of Mac media players, offering MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG audio formats, as well as Audio CDs, DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or later; G4 processor for smooth MPEG-2 decoding.

Install instructions: N/A

		Mac OS X