What is the difference between Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain?
Shareware is software that you can try before you buy.
After a trial period, usually a week or two, you have to decide whether to register it or toss it. In some cases, certain features may be disabled until you register, or you may see annoying reminder messages until you register. In other cases, it may be entirely on an honor system. Usually the fee is simply money, but the author may ask for a postcard, a box of chocolate, a donation to a charity, or anything else.
Freeware is software that may be used and distributed freely. Usually the author retains the copyright.
When an author places software in the public domain, that means that he or she has explicitly given up all rights to control its use. This term is often used incorrectly in reference to shareware or freeware.
"Shareware" programs are generally elegantly designed to do a specific task, and do it well; designed by bright folks deeply immersed in the genre of which they develop. Purchasing the magazine & phat Disk did not give you these programs; if you like, and use, these programs then REGISTER & PAY for them - don't screw it up for the rest of us!!
NOTE: The descriptions following each listing are taken from readme files included with the application and/or other sources. For more detailed information, see the readme files included with the individual applications.
The following categories have been taken from the first tier of categories used in the varios info-mac software archives.
Communication
Internet Explorer 3.0 PPC
http://www.microsoft.com/
The first version of Microsoft's free web browser to support Java on the Macintosh. For PowerPC only.
Microsoft does not offer support on this free product. Use at your own risk.
Quid Pro Quo is a high-performance web server for the Macintosh and Macintosh compatibles. It offers a wide range of features, making it suitable for virtually any Macintosh-based web site.
Chris Hawk, chris@slaphappy.com
Communication
32-Bit System Enabler
http://www.apple.com/
Apple's extension to make older macs 32-bit clean. Works only with system versions before 7.5.
MaxAppleZoom (or MAZ, for short) is an Extension which reprograms Apple-brand NuBus video cards so that they display a larger ( up to 704 * 512 pixels ) screen instead of the normal 640 * 480.
MODE32 7.5
http://www.apple.com/
Apple's extension to make older macs 32-bit clean. Works with system 7.5 and newer.
CLImax is an AppleScript client designed to bring a kind of command-line interface to the Macintosh. It uses a TSM (read: “magic floating”) window as an interface, which is always the foremost window no matter which application you might be in. A flip of a hotkey toggles the window's visibility, so you can execute quick AppleScript commands from anywhere!
Script Menu creates a "Script Menu Items" folder in your System Folder, and adds a Script menu to the System area of the menu bar. This menu is always available, in every application.
Carl Smigielski, CarlS22@aol.com
ScriptSynch 1.0
http://www.kagi.com/authors/marka/
ScriptSynch is a small utility that will trigger AppleScripts when specific applications are launched or quit. You can use this utility to write scripts that track application usage or to set up your application's environment when it starts up.
Flashcard Maker is a great, easy to use interactive learning aid for your memory intensive courses. Study efficiency is what Flashcard Maker is all about. Flashcard Maker is great for any course that requires a lot of memorization: foreign language, math, science, history, chemistry, vocabulary....
Gordon-Lynn Software , PO Box 337, Park Ridge, IL 60068-0337, T.Bird@genie.com
Fun & Games
Backwords 1.0
With the Backwords extension installed, your victim's Mac displays all text in reverse. The icons appear in their normal places, but with their names displayed backwards. Likewise, windows open normally, but their title bars are reversed. And all the menus in the menu bar operate, only it's difficult for your victim to tell what they're doing because the text is flip flopped.
Mark Adams, 11215 Research Boulevard #2036, , Austin, TX 78759-4177, MarkA38@aol.com
EV-Edit 2.0
http://users.aol.com/Burgr/evedit.html
Scenario editor for Escape Velocity.
Ben Chess, climax@grfn.org
Sproing 1.0
With the Sproing extension installed, the cursor moves around your victim’s screen as if it were attached to a spring. When your victim moves the cursor an inch to the right, it goes three inches right, then snaps back to the left, then bounces around for a bit until it finally settles down. The faster and farther your victim moves the cursor, the longer it takes to come to rest. The only way to avoid this fate is to depress the Caps Lock key.
Converts and compresses 24-bit color images with minimal loss of image quality. Very useful for making images for use on the web.
LizardTech, 911 East Pike, Suite 231, Seattle, WA 98122, 206-320-9969, info@lizardtech.com
Patched VfW Utilities 1.1
Various utilites for use with windows video formats, including avi.
These utilities are not supported. Use at your own risk.
Snapz Pro 1.0.0
http://www.ambrosiaSW.com
Snapz Pro allows you to quickly and easily capture any portion of your screen to disk as an editable image file. A single keystroke brings up the Snapz Pro palette, which allows you to capture, trim, crop, scale, and dither any portion of your screen in the blink of an eye.
Ambrosia Software , PO Box 23140, , Rochester, NY 14692, 716-325-3665, 716-325-3665, help@AmbrosiaSW.com
SoundApp 2.2.2
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~franke/
SoundApp can play or convert files dropped onto it in a variety of formats. In addition, it supports Play Lists which are lists of sound files that can be saved for later usage. Files in a Play List can be played or converted as a group or individually. SoundApp supports a randomized shuffle playback mode and repeated playback of Play Lists.
Norman Franke, franke@xenon.stanford.edu
Information
The InformInit 1.3
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/DEF/InformInit.html
The InformInit provides information on hundreds and hundred of System Folder files: control panels, extensions, system folder contents, and more, from both Apple and third-party developers. Information includes file descriptions, who needs what, version numbers, RAM consumption, and helpful tips (even a few "secrets"). Where appropriate, files are organized into "groups" that are mainly used together. Files that require extensive discussion provide live URLs to information sources.
Dan Frakes, frakes@kagi.com
Text Processing
BBEdit Lite 4.0
http://www.barebones.com/
BBEdit Lite is the freeware "cousin" of BBEdit, the popular and critically acclaimed text editor. BBEdit Lite offers a subset of BBEdit's technology and feature set, but retains the essential speed, flexibility, and ease of use that is the hallmark of the full version.
Bare Bones Software , PO Box 1048, 213 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730-1048, 617-778-3100, 617-778-3111, support@barebones.com
Big Brother 1.1
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/index.html.en
Big Brother is a hyperlink validation tool. Feed it your HTML source and sit back while it checks it. It will notify you when a remote document is no longer available and will display its new address whenever possible. It can also check internal links offline, which can be very useful if you maintain a large site.
Francois Pottier, Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
HTML ColorPicker 2.0.3
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~machack/yinyan.html
A utility that allows you to pick a color and then generates the hex codes needed to use that color in HTML code.
Church Windows is a Control Panel which allows you to change the style of windows used by your Mac (so that they look like Be OS, NeXT, Motif, Windows 95, Mac OS 8, Silicon Graphics, etc).
Set various options of the Finder normally inaccessible. Options include allowing the keystroke Command-Delete to move the selection to the trash, allowing control-drags to make an alias, and adding a Reveal Original item to the File menu. You can also turn off zoom rectangles and/or translucent dragging. All this from one control panel! Requires System 7.5.3 or later.
Rolf Braun, rbraun@geocities.com
Hidden Finder Features 1.0.3
http://www.intellinet.com/~rickb/
Enables the hidden features of Finder 7.5.4 (included with System version 7.5.2 and up).
Richard Burgess, rickb@intellinet.com
Michael's NeXT icons 2.5
http://www.earthlink.net/~ronin47/
Lots of NeXT folder icons.
Michael Jardeen, 4613 S 300th PL, Auburn, WA 98001-2929, ronin47@earthlink.net
NeXT LeAP 1.0
http://home.sn.no/~htjensen/
NeXT color scheme for Kaleidoscope.
Hans Trygve Jensen, htjensen@sn.no
NeXTicons
A collection of various NeXT icons.
Use at your own risk. They're just icons, for pete's sake.
