(MACintosh Operating System) In late 1994, Apple officially renamed its System 7 operating system Mac OS and introduced the Mac OS logo. However, the term has been used for years to refer to all versions of Mac operating systems.
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- iVideo Converter 2.1.2 (Mac)
- Video : mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, H.264, XviD, Theora, avi, wmv, mov, flv, dv, 3gp, svq, mvk, ffv1 and more. Audio: mp2, mp3, m4a, aac, flac, alac, wav, wma, ac3, ogg and more. Other Formats: .avs, .dxa, .flic, .fli, .mlp, .mvi, .nsv, .pva, .nuv, .swf, .mts, .dca, .mpc, .mtv, dca, ......
- Software downloads 2009-11-28
- gnuplot 4.4.0rc1 (Mac)
- Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data...
- Software downloads 2009-11-28
- MacPilot 3.4.9 (Mac)
- Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want. MacPilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of...
- Software downloads 2009-11-27
- VUWER 1.3.1 (Mac)
- VUWER (pronounced like "viewer") is an Applescript application designed to remotely track your MacBook or MacBook Pro or any other Apple computer in the event that it is lost or stolen. VUWER is not foolproof, but it is reasonably secure, easy to implement, and costs nothing but a little time...
- Software downloads 2009-11-27
- iNMR 3.3.8 (Mac)
- Today you can find many alternative NMR applications that run on Mac OS X, and all of them have been ported from some other operative system. Under a minimal cosmetic retouch, they still sport the original interface, be it X11, Windows95 or Windows XP. Some alternatives are written in Java,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Kinemac 1.8.1 (Mac)
- Kinemac is a 3D Real Time Animation & Presentation Software for Mac OS X. It allows you to create your own professional 3D Animations with the simplicity of a 2D presentation tool. Just drag your images, texts, movies, songs, SVG and 3D OBJ files onto the Kinemac stage to get...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- iSMARTtrain 3.0.6b15 (Mac)
- iSMARTtrain is a Mac OS X and OS 9 application to track and analyse athletic training. The software allows multisport athletes to store information about their training sessions, such as duration, distance and speed, and view the data in either a graphical or tabular form. Any number of...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- ShareTool 1.3.4 (Mac)
- ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world. No server or technical skills required. Also works with VPN connections. For anyone that's been itching to get Bonjour working over VPN, ShareTool is for you! Why...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- SEE Finance 0.9.7a (Mac)
- SEE Finance is a new personal finance manager for Mac OS X. Whereas many personal financial managers compromise function for form, this software offers comprehensive financial management with an elegant user interface. SEE Finance allows you to track and monitor all your income and expenses quickly and easily. With SEE...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Amnesia 1.1.4 (Mac)
- Many software titles on Mac OS come with the uninstall directions of simply "Drag the application to the Trash and empty it". In reality, this often leaves many related files on the computer taking up valuable hard drive space. Amnesia performs a smart scan to determine all related files to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- KVideoPages 1.8.01 (Mac)
- KVideoPages is a powerful application Mac OS X to convert video and publish web-page. KVideoPages creates QuickTime movies can be included in a web page Allowing visitors to your website to experience media seamlessly inside their browser. This is accomplished by adding some HTML to your web page that tells...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- FolderGlance 2.5.9 (Mac)
- FolderGlance is a small plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. FolderGlance also has the following features: Adding your own...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- FretPet X 1.2.1 (Mac)
- FretPet is a music sequencer with an interface based entirely around the guitar in which you compose using chords, fingerings, and picking patterns. FretPet plays through the built-in Quicktime synthesizer and provides a MIDI source for synthesizers like GarageBand, Absynth, FM7, Reason, MIDIPipe, etc. FretPet has been completely re-written to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Puzzles for Android 8750.5 (Mobile)
- The Puzzles package contains a collection of 27 small one-player puzzle games, which were initially developed by Simon Tatham for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. The actual games in this collection are re-implementations of many well known classic puzzles. The puzzle collection for Android includes Black Box, Bridges, Cube,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...
- Product reviews 2009-11-25
- Are cheap LCDs a good choice for classroom sharing?
- Are viewing angles an issue? ntntRE: Are cheap LCDs a good choice for classroom sharing?I have a substandard sized classroom for my lab. A 40" screen would be great to have, even have hdmi on one computer to connect.What we've found in the LCD vs Projector issueLCDs are better for...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Six updates for your parent's computer over Thanksgiving
- LOL, great suggestions!![i]Run Disk Utility (it?s in Applications > Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions. This cleans up a lot of system gunk that builds up over time and makes the Mac run better.[/i]But... but... but... you don't need to defrag OS X and since it has no registry, the system...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m
- Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- SOHO Organizer 8.09 (Mac)
- SOHO Organizer is the official successor to Personal Organizer and Group Organizer and represents a 100% Cocoa rewrite of the former products. This means SOHO Organizer presents a first-class Mac OS X experience complete with all the features Mac OS X users expect: Aqua interface, Unicode compliance, built-in spell checking,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Jack OS X 0.84 (Mac)
- Jack Tools is a Mac OS X implementation of the Jack Audio Connection Kit Jack. Jack is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system. It connects any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
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