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Online seminars are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the following topics.
Free, Free to Try or Shareware
Check your bandwidth
http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
Send clean emails.
Do you have some text that you would like to clean up ?
http://www.draac.com/stripper.html
Mac Help Website
http://osxhelp.com/
Everything Max OS X
utilities, information, networking, newsites, encryption, interfaces,
software, tech info, beer making (seriously!) .... you name it.
http://www.magicpubs.com/mac/macosx.html
Free online Photo Editing
Fix your photos in just one click; Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results;
Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time; Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun;
Astoundingly fast, right in your browser; Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool; Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers; Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux; No download required, nothing to install
http://www.picnik.com/
Free eBooks
Do you like to read, over 17,000 available for download
http://www.gutenberg.org
Another free book download
http://www.baen.com
Tired of long URL's, make shorter ones
http://tinyurl.com
Anyone can do it even for links that you did not create.
Several Free Programs
http://www.freesmug.org/
Microsoft has announced that they will no longer upgrade their Windows Media Player for the Mac which allows us to view Windows movie files (.wma and .wmv). A freeware program Flip4Mac will allow you to view Windows movies in Quicktime
Product Requirements:
Intel based Mac or Apple PowerPC OS
* Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
* Quicktime 7 or higher
Can be downloaded from: http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
Suggested by Apple as a place to find needs for older Macs
http://www.welovemacs.com
Tune Finder X
A Free Utility. play first 10 notes, it identifies the tune (from database of 14,300 classical compositions)
The database includes themes and melodies from scores of composers, including Arlen, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Corelli, Debussy, Donizetti, Dvorak, Elgar, Gershwin, Gluck, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Joplin, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Milhaud, Mozart, Offenbach, Prokofiev, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rodgers, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Smetana, Sousa, Strauss, Strauss, Sullivan, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, and Weber.
http://www.karelia.com/tunefinder
Mac Games and More
http://www.macgamesandmore.com
The focus of Macgamesandmore.com is to recognize and publicize the work of independent Mac developers, mainly via a weekly picks page, as well as special reports. Mac Games and More will periodically release games and software and will make every effort to support the work and creative minds of excellent shareware developers, game developers and Mac products, as well as appreciate the work of Apple, its computers and all its hardware, software and peripherals --- and any news surrounding these products and the community of Mac Users, including participants of Mac User Groups (MUGS). The site is for everyone, including PC users that just want to browse or may be interested in switching to Mac.
Winter Wolves
Demo and Purchase Games
http://www.winterwolves.com/mac_games.htm
MacJournal 2.5
Requires 10.2
http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf
MacJournal is a program for creating, modifying, and managing a personal journal. It can be
used for diaries, logs; most anything. And, because it's written using Cocoa in Mac OS X, it supports
all the cool OS X doodads you would expect. Things like toolbars, spell checker, font and color
panels, localization, and drawers are all utilized to provide you with a useful and consistent
interface that you're used to in Mac OS X.
R-Name
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12259
R-Name helps you to rename a lot of files or folders. R-Name has several way to rename files. You can find and replace characters in filename, add extension, make files numbered sequential, or etc. OS 10.2 or later
Macaroni
http://atomicbird.com
Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Why should you have to remember to clean up your
Mac every day, every week, and every month? Shouldn't a computer be able to remember for you?
Macaroni is a tool which handles regular maintenance for Mac OS X,including the Mac OS X repair privileges
process as well as Unix-style maintenance. Without Macaroni, some of these tasks normally run in the middle of
the night, and don't get run unless you leave your Mac on all night. Others don't run automatically at all, and won't happen unless you remember when they're due.
Cocktail
Another program for regular automated maintenance
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/download.html
FontFX7
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15260
FontFX7 allows you to create graphics from text and apply special effects. Text can be placed on an arc, a circle,
rippled, jiggled, or put in a column, a slope or lean can be applied, and a wall or floor shadow can be added.
Files can be saved as PDF, EPS or TIFF. Product Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later
RealPlayer for OS 10
Free Download, this is not the 14 day trial.
http://www.real.com
OmniDiskSweeper
OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big,
useless files and thus making space on your hard disks.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/
Lo Jack
Protect your Computer from Thief.
Also available for other items.
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/lo-jack-for-laptops-anti-theft.html
Miscellaneous
Donations
Recycle & donate electronics http://parityinternational.org
http://www.gooddeedfoundation.com/
Recycle your old and outdated cell phones with Good Deed to help lift women and their families out of poverty and help provide solutions to climate change. Click here for your free, postage-paid box or envelope, and mail in your cell phones today!
Donate old cell phones to a soldier
http://cellphonesforsoldiers.com
Consumers Guide to the green revolution.
Includes local information. Many links. http://www.thedailygreen.com/
Link to Apple Seeds Archive
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