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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 05 1:16 pm Post subject: Free Mac/Linux software
NickG suggested that it might be worthwhile compiling a list of useful free Mac and Linux software, any suggestions? Last edited by tahir on Fri Aug 10, 07 5:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 05 2:36 pm Post subject:
well there are the obvious standards https://www.mozilla.org/ mozilla for web browsers and mail programs https://www.openoffice.org/ for word processing https://www.gimp.org/ for image manipulation (only work on osx+ in macs) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html as a general text editor

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 05 6:39 pm Post subject:
Here's a roundup of plugins for Apple's Mail.app https://www.tikouka.net/mailapp/ many (or more?) of which are freeware

Mat S

Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 282
Location: Leicester

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 05 11:14 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

well there are the obvious standards
https://www.mozilla.org/ mozilla for web browsers and mail programs
https://www.openoffice.org/ for word processing
https://www.gimp.org/ for image manipulation (only work on osx+ in macs)
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html as a general text editor

All of the above are cross-platform - mac, windows, linux, whatever.

bagpuss

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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 05 11:57 am Post subject:
as far as I am aware there are version of these software about for most versions of linux and windows and osx not sure about old versions of macs

tigerminxy

Joined: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 11

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 05 3:49 pm Post subject:
The Quicksilver launcher/productivity thing for the Mac is my must-have, as I mentioned on this relevant discussion Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/topic/55703/

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 05 5:50 pm Post subject:

An editor. For Mac OS X.

But not quite your ordinary, everyday sort.
Of course it does HTML, with live preview.
And syntax colouring, indenting, that sort of stuff.

But that's not all

"Your favorite language
Modes: SubEthaEdit features built-in support for most common programming languages, like AppleScript , ActionScript , C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Lua, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and XML. Missing your favorite language? Try our growing repository of user contributed modes.

Make your own
If there is no mode for your favorite language available yet and you aren't afraid of getting your hands dirty a little bit, you can create your very own mode. Just check our extensive mode format documentation including a development kit and make your own set of syntax definition, function popup and autocomplete dictionary to create a custom working environment. If you created a mode, you can also send us an email, so we can put it online for others to use."

Oh yes, nearly forgot, its *specifically* designed for *collaborative* editing - multiple people *simultaneously* editing the same document/webpage/whatever...

And its free. ($35 for a commercial license)

https://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
and be sure to click on the "Collaborate" and "Customise" tabs...

dougal

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Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 05 5:02 pm Post subject:

There's a nice article (with links) about Open Source and Mac OS X here:
https://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/20/166254.shtml?tid=132&tid=6

Worth noting that ClamXav (anti virus software running on OS X) doesn't actually check for *any* Mac-specific viruses (there's a good reason why it doesn't) - but it will scan for MS Office viruses and PC viruses that you might potentially pass from one PC user to another.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 5:21 pm Post subject:
Some other folk have also had the idea of compiling lists of Mac specific shareware https://nothickmanuals.info/doku.php?id=opensourcemac https://www.opensourcemac.org/

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 07 10:14 pm Post subject:

Here's a nifty little thing.
Its only 1/3 of a mb to download - thats little these days.

It resizes pictures. In png, jpeg, tiff, pict, bmp and PhotoShop formats.
One at a time, a group or a whole folder.
You tell it what size you are after, and errr, that's it...

You want it/them to be 600 pixels across? (the long side of the rectangle) Drop your file(s) on the application and it pops up a window into which you type 600 and click the button.
It saves a copy shrunk to 600 pixels/dots across, and names it with the 600 added to the old name.
Mac easy or what?

Its called Pixer.
Its free (but a donation is requested).
Info & download https://www.1802.it/pixer.php
EDIT PS its written for OS X 10.4 (untested on anything earlier)

It'll do other things, like shrink to a percentage, convert to jpeg, mirror flip, rotate ... see the site! (And be prepared to make allowances for his English - its way better than my Italian...)

Last edited by dougal on Thu Aug 02, 07 10:04 am; edited 1 time in total

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 9:22 am Post subject:
Can't comment for Macs, but for Linux Ubuntu provides an entire machine of free operating system and assorted applications. And it's a doddle to install too. A.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 9:24 am Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Its only 1/3 of a mb to download - thats little these days.

I remember when applications used to be measured in Kb.. single digits too. Halcyon days

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 10:01 am Post subject:

I don't see the point of this thread being hihacked to a discussion of software that might be included with any particular distribution, or the merits (or otherwise) of any OS.

I think its best to be focussed on specific recommended useful *additional* offerings...

... such as PearLabelizer (v 0.6 is just 250k to download) which makes printing on specific labels on a sheet trivially simple.
Great little program. OS X 10.3 or later
https://www.pearworks.com/pages/software.html

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 2:26 pm Post subject:

This might be a bit specialist perhaps, but I can recommend Subversion version control software from Tigris. It's available for various flavours of Linux, Win32, Solaris and Mac OS X.

I'm also using the Tortoise SVN GUI client - but this is specifically a plug-in to Windows Explorer. Other SVN GUIs may be available for other platforms. (For example the RapidSVN GUI client is multi-platform, but it's an immature product.
A.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 6:24 pm Post subject:
A techie friend of mine has tipped me off about this: https://www.virtualbox.org/ - free virtualisation software. I've not played with it myself (as I have VMware), but apparently it runs on a good range of host systems and runs a good range of guest systems. A.

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