In other words have you ever met an interesting new downloadable app that you didn't try?

Are you addicted to some degree to seeing what a new downloadable apps will do?

I find it irresistible to check every so often and see what's new on Versiontracker and MacUpdate.

Some of the useful apps I've found this way over the years:

CopyPaste, Typeit4me, MaxiBidder, Bookdog, AppZapper, ABDialer, MenuCalendarClock, Pixel Check, Screen Cleaner Pro, Tiger Tamer, VLC, XMenu plus Viou and Zinio (both of which I still haven't tried)

This list goes on. One problem though, some of the app I've downloaded and installed, I've forgotten where they are and what they do

How about you? What's your experience? what do you recommend and what do you advise to avoid?

i'm definitely a do-hickey junkie.

most recent fave is TextExpander which works a lot like typeit4me only simpler. (if i was on the computer i installed it on i'd link but i'm not so i'll do it later.)

other favs include Keyboard Maestro, FileChute, PDFLab, TigerLlaunch, BusinessCardComposer and Swift Publisher.

i also add a number of extensions to Firefox...

Nope. I wait until one of you guys says there's something there I absolutely HAVE to have, and then I consider it. I'm not a fontaholic either.

I'm amazed at the number of useful "helper" apps I've found.

I hate to say this but it's a guilty pleasure for me to download and evaluate a bunch of these goodies every so often (whether I need them or not )

Yep, GROWL is my latest, love it.
Widgets is another passion.:
[www.dashboardwidgets.com]

BGnR

There are so many great freeware apps for OS X, that it is nearly unbelieveable. Some of them may be one trick puppies, but others, are full blown apps.

I make a habit of perusing versiontracker every couple of days....

Bryan

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Bryan
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Mac Studio 2022
MacBook Pro 14 inch 2021
iPhone 14 Pro
Location: Cincinnati

My name is vorkosigan1, and I am a shareware addict......

I think we should have a sticky listing our favorite freeware/shareware apps with a description, recommendation and a link.

I'll bet we have each found some that not everyone else knows about.

Like Grumpguy said, I find it amazing, how many of these apps there are.

GeneL Wrote:
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> I think we should have a sticky listing our
> favorite freeware/shareware apps with a
> description, recommendation and a link.



NO... no more damn stickies . . .

They are an abuse of the entire system . . . (my apologies to my friend GeneL who is trying to save my bacon with last weeks 24 episode . . .)

No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies, No more stickies,

Pretty please . . .

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

Carpe Vino!

Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
— David Rains Wallace

You nice people are killing me! What am I missing out on?

A sublime addiction without pain or physical dependence?

I can't say I ever go over to those sites and "look around for freeware/shareware apps to try." I guess it has to do with my puritanical outlook on this G5: never, ever bring unnecessary 3rd Party Applications into the pristine environment of the boot HDrive. I don't do widgets, in fact I have them disabled. I'm so paranoid about this particular Mac, that I unknowingly protect it from *any outside stuff* to speak of, would be the best way to explain why I don't do what the nice people here are writing about.

Ok, ok, I'll go take a look right after posting this. Maybe I'll find something to like. I mean I never liked Baskin-Robbins until my best friend's mom opened San Diego's 1st B&R ice cream parlor, back in the day. Maybe there's something equally good to discover at V&M...

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What's the difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make some sense.

TextExpander

like typeit4me

[www.petermaurer.de]

I check versiontracker daily.

Not that such actions constitute a compulsion.

Clocks are my-- interest. I'm always looking for a good floating analog clock. But if wClock were updated for Tiger, I'd just use the OS clock floating, and wClock info in the menubar.

I also have way too many widgets. Some of these are so cool, I can't help myself.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

I used to, but not so much lately.
I'm still waiting on a spellchecker that works with Firefox.

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Hey Bill,

No more stickies, eh!

I just call the post office and told them not to deliver the DVD (just kidding!).

You should have it in today's mail or if not, by tomorrow.

Let me know. I'm anxious to hear if it played ok for you.

I have quite a few in a folder (mentioned this a couple days ago in response to a kajowct post) which I keep forgetting to look at. But most which I have and use I heard about in this company.
Cocktail, Onyx, NeoOffice, SnapnDrag, ThumbsUp, Teleport.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts

After years of installing lots of shareware and then not knowing which extension was screwing up my system (this was in OS 9 days), I vowed to try not to install anything I didn't *have* to have.

I also sort of decided that I wanted to use the OS in exactly the way it shipped as much as possible, without modifying it if I didn't need to.

One of my favorite things in OS X, though, is the apps that are just a single file--not an installer that puts a dozen files in different folders. Thankfully, most apps seem to be like this.

I *do* like scrolling through the widget list, though.

My cool discovery for today is Tickr.

[www.versiontracker.com]

Print Window is indispensable.

Main Menu, VLC, Audacity, CyberDuck, CleanArchiver (for making zip files to send to Windows users), EasyFind, iStumbler/MacStumbler. All free and work great.