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Adobe Acrobat ^UPDATED!

• Version Number: 4.0.5
• Revision Date:June 20, 2000
• Byte Size: 5.923 Meg
• License: Freeware
• Also download: 4.0.5 Update 1
• Homepage
• Adobe Acrobat(tm) software gives you instant access to documents in their original form, independent of computer platform. With the Acrobat Reader, you can view, navigate, print and present any Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
• MacShare comments:This is the only PDF reader you will ever need. It's large, but worth the hard drive space.

BBEdit Lite

• Version Number: 4.6
• Revision Date: August 17, 1999
• Byte Size: 1774K
• License: Freeware
• Homepage
• A popular text tool for the Macintosh. BBEdit Lite offers a subset of BBEdit's technology and feature set, but retains the essential speed, flexibility, and ease of use. It's a great way to get a sense of the power of the commercial version of BBEdit, as well as a great text editor in its own right.
• MacShare comments:This is THE text editor standard with Macintosh programmers and Internet Webmasters. If you like "Lite", you should consider buying the full version.

Calcworks

• Version Number: 1.5.4
• Revision Date: August 25, 1999
• Byte Size: 313K
• License: Shareware
• Homepage
• The best and most widely used desktop calculator. CalcWorks is a professional, easy-to-use, and fully customizable desktop calculator with complete scientific and binary math functions, printable paper tape, RPN option, constants & conversions, time and foot/inch calculations, and a very realistic look and feel.
• MacShare comments: This is my favorite calculator. It does anything you will ever need and it has a great interface, similar to Apple's. It even translates numbers to Hex code for programmers.

Excalibur ^UPDATED!

• Version Number: 3.0.2
• Revision Date: June 20, 2000
• Byte Size: 1034K
• License: Freeware
• Homepage
• Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text spelling checker too. Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes it a good spelling checker for any text based application.
• MacShare comments: This is a great little application. Just select the text you wish to check and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for all those times when you can't access your real spell checker.

MicNotePad Lite

• Version Number: 4.5
• Revision Date: May 20, 1998
• Byte Size: 443K
• License: Freeware
• Homepage
• MicNotePad Speech Recording Software for Macintosh Computers; Ideal for Transcription: Talk Now, Type Later; Personal Digital Audio in Your PowerBook and on the Internet. MicNotePad Lite allows you to save, attach to e-mail, dictate, record lectures, etc...
• MacShare comments: This is an innovative piece of work from Nirvana Software. Worth a look.

SimpleText Color Menus

• Version Number: 3.4
• Revision Date: March 30, 1998
• Byte Size: 161K
• License: Freeware
• Homepage
• SimpleText Color Menu modifies Apple's SimpleText utility. It installs Color, Sound and Goodies menus. Added functions include Find and Replace commands, word counting, print margins, color icons and a Windows submenu inside Apple's SimpleText text editor. Now your SimpleText documents can come to life in full color and with enhanced functionality.
• MacShare comments: This "goodie" really makes a difference with SimpleText. After you install it, you'll wonder why Apple didn't do it themselves. Current version will modify any version of SimpleText up to and including the version that ships with MacOS 9.0.

Smart Calendar

• Version Number: 1.0.4
• Revision Date: 1994
• Byte Size: 83K
• License: Shareware
• Smart Calendar is a small, yet powerful featured calendar to help you keep track of daily events. You can set it to remind you of weekly/monthy/yearly events. Room is included for each day in a scrollable window, so that you can keep many notes or even a diary.
• MacShare comments: Put an alias of this in your start up folder and you'll never forget your apointments again.

Tex-Edit Plus ^UPDATED!

• Version Number: 4.0.1
• Revision Date:October 1, 2000
• Byte Size:1387K
• License: Shareware
• Homepage
• Tex-Edit Plus is a styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the internet. Features: PowerPC native (fat), extensive munging abilities, unlimited file size, Drag&Drop support, AppleScript support, Word Services support, Speech Manager support, picture handling, sound handling, ability to create SimpleText Read-Only documents, and much more.
• MacShare comments: A favorite of mine for many years. It includes many features that you will find indespensible. Highly recommended. Now PPC native.

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