![]() I define mini-apps as applications that only do one thing, but do that one thing very well. It’s still a little glitchy because it was translated from German (and stubbornly uses Amazon Germany to look up ISBNs no matter what you do), but if you don’t mind looking up books by hand, you’re golden. – Books - It’s a database for your books! And you can input info based on ISBN, which is crazy useful because there’s so much crap to fill in. for the first-time writer, but if I used this more often it definitely wouldn’t be just an honorable mention. The pre-made info fields for songs and characters can be a little too restrictive, esp. If you have ever written a screenplay or had an idea for a movie, you’d appreciate how much is packed into this powerhouse of a media pre-production app. It often crashes for formats it doesn’t support, but that’s often ‘coz the formats are either proprietary (like RealPlayer) or buggy. – VLC - Can play both music and videos, handles DVDs well and can play lots of things fullscreen (like. I decided to give up Firefox because it’s slow and eats up so much of my memory and my time– I mean, do I REALLY need ten RSS feeds and a weather forecast in my bookmarks bar? It’s got all the basic image editing you’d need, like resizing (Scale) and cropping as a new file (Select, Copy, then New from Pasteboard). – Seashore - Mac version of Gimp, an open-source Photoshop. I also love the Dock icon– it’s a pirate ship! Hefty, but fewer crashes than my pirated version of Microsoft Office or the free but buggy AbiWord. ![]() – iTunes 4.7 - Before they added all the memory-hogging features (videos, album visuals and crash-inducing Gapless Playback) and went corporate on our asses, iTunes was a great, fast, and easy-to-use app, plus ourTunes made filesharing in college that much easier. Plus it’s got autosave on exit like Stickies. Nice use of the drawer feature for organizing all the text documents– it keeps things from looking disorganized like Stickies. – xPad - A worthy replacement for TextEdit or Stickies (or both). I love its cute “call ended” sound effect. Hangs a bit on login for me, but it’s got a skinnier interface and better call quality and is more internationally-friendly than Gizmo. And NeoOffice isn’t the fastest app, but it sure as hell beats Word in price, Mac-friendly design, and stability.Īpps I Like – Skype - The ubiquitous VoIP app. For example, Skype freezes for a minute during login, but it otherwise fits the other criteria very nicely. The ones with asterisks* indicate that these criteria can be compromised if the app is strong enough in the other features. – Mac OS X 10.3.9 compatible – Very fast* – Doesn’t crash – Doesn’t freeze* – Good-looking – Simple* – Easy to use – FREE I have very little incentive to pay for a piece of code when one can find so many wonderful and powerful programs for free on the Internet, so the following recommendations are all for free software. My Internet addiction has been exacerbated by all the beautiful and reliable Mac apps out there. (Un)fortunately, I got fluent in Mac in about a week and am now a big fan. Since I am a cheapskate and a computer junkie, I decided to get an Apple PowerBook G4 with Panther (OS X 10.3) instead of a MacBook with Tiger (10.4) to both save money and curb my addiction to the Internet and useless things on Windows such as the old-school Chip’s Challenge and Gunbound. ![]() I bought a new laptop in my freshman year of college. The program is categorized as Productivity Tools. This free Mac app was originally developed by Microsoft. This Mac download was scanned by our antivirus and was rated as clean. The 16.42 version of Microsoft Word for Mac is provided as a free download on our website. 3 Responses to “great free apps for mac os x 10.3.9” Feed for this Entry Trackback Address 1 Switchblog » Blog Archive » Try these great free apps for 10.3.9 Trackback on at 1:26 am. ![]()
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