[Nicholas Pyers]

Again it was released a couple of months ago, but this disc contains some fantastic tools for all Mac Users and each application is FREE!

The Ultimate Collection of Open Source Software for Mac OS X v2.0
Over 650 Megabytes of installers on a single cd ready to install

Audio
Audacity: Simple sound recording tool.
Juice: Solid podcasting client.
Senuti: Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.

Games
Aleph One: Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps. Includes Marathon, Marathon 2 & Marathon Infinity
Armagetron Advanced: 3D Tron game.
BZFlag: First-person tank game.
Zombies: 3D zombie strategy game.

Graphics
Seashore: Graphic Editor based on Gimp, but doesn't require X11.
Xee: Fast image viewer and image browser.

Internet
Adium: Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
Colloquy: Great IRC client.
Cyberduck: Very good all-around ftp program.
Mozilla Firefox: The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
Mozilla Thunderbird: Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
Transmission: Very nice torrent downloader.
Vienna: Very nice, native RSS client.

Office Productivity
AbiWord: A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents & OpenDocument Format.
Bean: Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more.
Buddi: A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.
Cashbox: Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
ODF Viewer: OpenDocument viewing application
Smultron: Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.

Utilities
Burn: CD and DVD Burner.
ClamXav: Virus checker
Q Emulator: Run Windows programs on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower.

Video
Handbrake: DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use.
Miro: Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than QuickTime). Subscribe to video RSS, download,
and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
MPlayer: The interface and buttons are not as nice or as Mac-like in feel, but it may play even more video files
than VLC.
Perian: A plugin that allows QuickTime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.)
VLC: Plays more video files than most players: QuickTime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.


Note: The applications supplied on this CD are supplied as is. For system requirements and installation instructions, please read the appropriate Readme or website

The Ultimate Collection of Open Source Software for Mac OS X is bought to you by your local Apple User Group

The Ultimate Collection of Open Source Software for Mac OS X v2.0 is available for only $10, from participating Macintosh User Groups, including;
AMUG Sydney
AUSOM Incorporated
BEAUT
Central Victorian Macintosh Users Inc
Geraldton Macintosh User Group
Gold Coast Apple Users Group
MacTalk Hunter
South Australian Apple Users Club

Attached File(s)

•  About_UCoOSS_v2.0.pdf (112.16K)
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[mickdevlin]

Smultron: Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.

Cyberduck doesn't edit websites.

[pmoeser]

Cyberduck doesn't edit websites.

I think he means that Smultron edits websites and Smultron integrates with Cyberduck

[bitingmidge]

Would anyone care to comment on any of the software on the disc?

It would be useful to know a bit about some items, for instance Q Emulator reads as though one can run Windows programmes without Windows? I'm sure that's not the case, but why would one want that rather than running natively on an intel processor?

Similarly Burn: What can it do that the native software can't?

If anyone has the answers I'd appreciate it!

I use Cyberduck (which has done all I've asked of it as an FTP transfer application) and Handbrake ( which is also terrific) and I've had occasion to play with Audacity, but should I be using Miro instead of Quicktime?

Cheers,

P

[mickdevlin]

Would anyone care to comment on any of the software on the disc?

I use Smultron and have found it much better than TextWrangler. The major difference is that Smultron is a Cocoa application and thus can take advantage of all the features of Mac OS X. TextWrangler, like its big brother BBEdit, is a Carbon application and thus only uses some features of Mac OS X.