Mac OS Toolkit

Adobe Reader 6.0

The quintessential Adobe Acrobat reader is required to read PDF files. PDF files are a compact method of distributing publishable content in its original form, and you will find them used extensively for publications ranging from technical documents to press releases.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires:

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		Mac OS X

iSwipe 1.3b4

No longer need you swap between your Web browser, FTP client, Hotline and Carracho clients, Napster, OpenNapster and Gnutella network clients, as iSwipe does the job of all these programs. It enables you to find and download the files you need more quickly, regardless of where they are on the Internet. The latest version now connects properly to the Gnutella network.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.hillmanminx.net/iswipe/
Operating system: MacOS
Requires: Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X 10.x, Internet access.

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Mac OS 8				Mac OS 9 & X

If you live and work in Australia then you will usually print to A4 paper, not US letter. Run this program to make A4 your system's default.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.rwts.com.au/papersize/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X. Mac OS X 10.2 and later versions do not need A4 Paper Sizes. To set the default paper size, open Print Centre and choose Preferences from the Print Center menu. Set the default paper size from the pull down menu.

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		Mac OS X

Compiling a bibliography and presenting it in MLA format can be a real pain. Unless you enter all your books, articles, speeches and other sources into Bibliographer and allow it to create your sorted, formatted bibliography, ready for copy-pasting into your word processor of choice. It even knows to skip words like "a" and "the" when alphabetising your entries.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.stanford.edu/~tristanh/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1 or later

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		Mac OS X

Via Mac OS X's Show Info command, you can view when a file was created, modified and the applications you can use to edit it. Via Mac OS X's Terminal, you can view a file's Unix permissions. With InfoEdit, you can edit these settings and more via a simple point-and-click interface, which can be very handy when troubleshooting a stubborn file.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://homepage.mac.com/soporific/InfoEdit.html
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X.

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		Mac OS X

Usenet is one of the oldest and liveliest Internet communities. MT-NewsWatcher 3.2 is a new Mac OS X version of one of the oldest Macintosh programs for browsing, chatting and grabbing files off Usenet. It automatically rejoins and previews segmented image files and has loads of other useful features.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1; Internet connection.

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Mac OS				Mac OS X

System Preferences will let you change a few dozen of Mac OS X's system settings. TinkerTool will let you edit a few dozen more, such as the style of scrolling arrows in Finder windows and the default font used by Cocoa applications. It can even make the icons of hidden applications transparent in the Dock.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool2.html
Operating system: Mac OS X.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.1.x.

Install instructions

		Mac OS X