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I heartily recommend the following shareware and freeware. |
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| Essential for reading PDFs (Portable Document Format documents). Compliments of Adobe Systems. | |
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| Potent text editor with powerful search and replace functionality. Compliments of Bare Bones Software. | |
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| Make a Finder selection comprised of files and folders and let Calculate Size see how much they weigh. Calculate Size is a contextual menu module. Compliments of Hide Itoh. | |
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| Indispensable system utility giving your Mac an infinite number of clipboards. Shareware, US$20. Now available for OS X. | |
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| Navigate using Open & Save dialog boxes the quick and easy way. Shareware, US$25. | |
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| What’s on the CD you burned last summer? DiskTracker will show you. Shareware, US$30. | |
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| The ultimate launching utility. DragThing is essential software. Shareware, US$25. | |
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| Put your contextual menus to work one-handedly with this essential utility. Pintware, US$8. | |
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| Put a timer in your Control Strip so you won’t let that soda explode again. Compliments of LizardBreath Software. | |
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| Full-featured FTP (file transfer protocol) client and Internet utility. | |
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| A real Swiss Army Knife of a contextual menu plug-in. Manage file types, creator codes, create thumbnail icons, change creation and modification dates, and zap resource forks with this ultra-nifty utility. Worth much more than its unreasonably low asking price. Shareware, US$10. | |
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| If you’re using a Mac there’s a 99.9-percent chance that you already have this, but make sure you have the latest version. Compliments of Aladdin Systems. | |
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| Want a calculator that has its own tape so that you can see your arithmetic path? Try this shareware gem. US$12. | |
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| Access recently used folders, manage open windows, and toy with with custom window background patterns if you’re into that sort of thing. After using Window Monkey for a month, I declared it essential software. Shareware, US$20. | |
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