Now Utilities 6.7(Demo)
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Now Utilities
6.7 is the award-winning, classic collection of utilities for System
7.x. Components include Now Menus®, Now SuperBoomerang®, Now Folder
Menus®, Now WYSIWYG Menus™, Now Scrapbook™, Now Startup Manager™,
Now AutoType®, Now Save™, Now QuickFiler™, Now Tabs™ and Now Mail™.
I really can't stress how great this software package is! It will redefine your enjoyment of the Mac OS. Truly worth the $. Unfortunately, some of the control panels do not work in OS 8 ( Now Folder Menus®, Now Startup Manager™, Now QuickFiler™, and Now Tabs™ that come to mind). But, if you download one thing you found on my site I hope it's this one! |
PICTify 1.5(Freeware)41 K |
PICTify is a free screen capturing control panel that can be used to capture user-defined areas, front most windows, and popped-up or pulled down menus. You may capture to a TeachText or ResEdit file, or to the clipboard. |
PopChar Pro 1.1.3(Shareware)1,769 K |
The best substitute for
Apple's Key Caps font tool is, undoubtedly, PopChar Pro. This inspired
control panel displays the character set for the current font and allows
easy pasting of selected characters into documents. It's a must-have for
desktop publishers. You'll instantly love it and refuse to work without
it. |
| PrintToPDF 1.2
(Shareware) 291 K |
PrintToPDF is a shareware
Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF (Adobe Acrobat™) files. You do
not need to have the full Acrobat package (as opposed to the Reader)
installed for PrintToPDF to work. You can create PDF bookmarks to your
section and subsection headings, and URLs will become hot links.
PrintToPDF is not as powerful as Acrobat, but it creates simple PDFs for a
much lower price ($20).
PrintToPDF has been primarily tested with Mac OS 9, but most of it should work with systems back to 7.0. Some of the Asian language functionality requires a PowerMac and the Text Encoding Converter extension. Of course, since it's shareware, you can find out whether it works well with your system and applications before paying for it. You will need Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later to view the manual and the created PDFs. To view PDFs containing Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text, you'll need the Asian Font Pack for Acrobat Reader. |
Pseud040(Shareware) |
Pseud040 is a control panel for your Macintosh which installs a software "processor upgrade" in your computer. It gives your Macintosh's processor the capabilities of a more powerful chip, allowing your computer to use hardware and software it wouldn't be able to use otherwise. If your Macintosh has a 68020 or 68030 processor, you can use Pseud040 to install a "virtual" 68040 which will allow you to run more applications. All of your current applications will run at the same speed they always have. Here is a patched version of Pseud040 virtual 68040 CPU program. The only difference to the original version is that it loads successfully under MacOS versions 8.0 and 8.1 when running Basilisk II Macintosh II emulator. Functionally this is identical to the original version. However, now that BasiliskII emulates a 68040 processor, this file is no longer needed if you are running a build after 94. |
ShutDown 1.2(Freeware)8 K |
ShutDown is a simple
application which shuts down your Macintosh at a user-specified time. The
interface isn't terribly elegant, but it's darn useful. Usable under System 6 (with MultiFinder) or System 7, ShutDown allows you to perform a hard (brute force) or soft (Apple Event) shutdown of your Macintosh. The hard shutdown will shutdown your computer, regardless of the state of the open applications and documents. This is the only option available to System 6 users. The soft shutdown performs a shutdown like the Finder would, prompting you to save any changed documents (and thereby preventing a shutdown if unattended). This handy utility is great for those people with older Macintosh computers which don't support Apple's own Auto Power On/Off control panel, and who need to run large jobs unattended after normal office hours but don't want to leave the computer running all night or weekend. |
Shutdown Delay 2.5(Shareware) |
ALM software Wait!
No, I didn't want to shut down! Really! It was a mistake!... Is there
anything you can do? Shutdown Delay is a control panel that intervenes
when you initiate a shutdown or a restart. Its dialog box gives you the
opportunity to change your mind, should you remember something you had to
do at the last minute, or in case you chose shutdown when you really
wanted something else from the Special menu, like restart or empty the
trash. It really comes in handy, especially if your Basilisk crashes when you accidentally restart instead of shutting down. Or if you have a batch script to start Windows after exiting Fusion and you accidentally shutdown instead of restarting. A real time saver! |
Shutdown FX 2.1(Shareware) |
Shutdown FX 2.1 is a fun little software package which will fade your screen to black on restart and/or shutdown with one of over 60 graphic effects. It is one of those programs that make people say "Hey, that's cool! Can I do that on my PC?". You can just snicker at say NO you need to use an emulator or buy a Mac. If you have a spare 2 MB of disk space, this software package is a great Macintosh enhancement! |
Sleeper 3.1(Shareware)563 K |
Sleeper is a screen saver
control panel with a twist. In addition to dimming the screen, Sleeper
will spin down SCSI disks. The result is a dark and quiet Mac on your
desktop. The screen saver works by adjusting your monitor's gamma table to turn the brightness all the way down. This particular feature will not work on black and white compact Macs (512, Plus, SE, SE/30, Classic) because they don't have the necessary code in their ROM. Sleeper's SCSI drive sleeping function is SCSI Manager 4.3 savvy and will not scramble the operation of scanners and tape drives that may also be on the SCSI chain. Spinning down a disk drive cuts down on the noise and power requirements of the drive. Version 3.1 fixes bugs, adds a "Mute speaker while sleeping" switch, can tell At Ease or the Finder to shut down, is compatible with IDE drives formatted with older versions of Drive Setup, and more. I have not tested this software yet under any Mac EMU. |
Smart Scroll 3.5(Shareware) |
One nice feature of
Windows (yes, there are one or two) is the ability to display proportional
scroll bars. Smart Scroll brings this ability to the Mac in the form of a
control panel. If an open window is displaying half of its total contents,
then the indicator tab fills half of the scroll bar. It also enables
active scrolling, which allows you to see the contents of a window as you
are scrolling, not just when you stop moving the tab. Users can toggle
both of these features on and off. This control panel is not needed if you use Kaleidoscope since it can do this already. 8^) |
Snapz Pro 2(Shareware)1,467 K |
Snapz Pro improves on Ambrosia
software's original screen capture utility, Snapz, by adding a wealth of
selection capabilities, inlcuding QuickTime Movie capture! This makes
SnapzPro just about the coolest screen-shot utility ever. This extraordinary tool can do just about anything you'd want to with a screen shot. It can, with a simple click, grab a monitor, a menu, a window, or give users a cursor to grab whatever they want. It offers cropping, scaling, and dithering all while being able to save in a variety of color palettes and file types. It'll even dump an image onto the clipboard or printer for you. The original Snapz gave users the ability to capture anything, anytime. Snapz Pro can almost make the same claim, with two omissions: your Mac's startup screen and games and other apps that force the Finder to quit (since the Finder is required for operation). But these are minor faults and will almost never be missed... except for capturing that last battle against the Death Star in X-Wing. The manual suggests keeping the original Snapz around for those rare, if necessary, times Pro fails to come through. Hopefully future versions will fix these problems. Overall Snapz Pro is a dream come true for anyone who needs to use art right off their desktop, and It saves a number of steps in the old command-shift-three process. |
Snitch 2.6(Shareware)846 K |
Snitch expands the Get Info
window for every type of Macintosh file, folder, or volume. It allows
users to change a file's type, creator, and other resource attributes
right from the Finder. Not a utility for novices, but adds a depth of
functionality that only resource editing programs (such as ResEdit)
handled in the past. One fantastic feature includes a "change
all" button which executes the same changes on every open Get Info
window. The major change in version 2.0 is the additions of plug-ins. These additions allow the user to change the creation and modification dates and size of a particular file, preview a QuickTime movie, display the Stuffit Comments if they exist and more. |
SoftwareFPU 3.0.7(Freeware) 195K |
John Neil & Associates' softwareFPU is a
system extension for all Macintosh computers with PowerPC, 68LC040, 68030
and 68020 that need to emulate the Motorola 68K Floating Point Unit (FPU)
hardware chip found in other Mac models. This allows owners of FPU-less
models to run programs like PixelPaint Pro 2.0, Studio/8, Excel, and many
others. softwareFPU doesn't actually offer the speed advantages of a real FPU chip, but it cleverly fools software requiring the FPU into thinking your Mac really has one! For real performance, you'll want a computer with the real thing. If you're running a Power Mac be sure to check the advertisement for PowerFPU, the new high-speed 68K FPU emulator -- it costs more but it's much faster than softwareFPU. softwareFPU will not always work properly with the Macintosh models that use the 68LC040 chip. There is a hardware bug in an earlier series of this CPU that prevents it from working 100% of the time and there is no work around. Many questions about this product are answered at http://www.jna.com/sfpuquest.html This software was recommended to me by P. Darien on 9/19/99 |
SoundMaster(Shareware) |
You're a major Mac customizer and you don't have SoundMaster? Get it now, while you've still got some self respect left. SoundMaster is an excellent little control panel that lets you assign special sounds to various system events. For example, every time you empty the trash, you'll hear a burping sound. Or when you insert a disk, you can have your Mac say "Thanks, oh great one". Anything is possible. You do need to supply the sounds however. |