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- Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Ralph: When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University.
- ApplCmptrDood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I have another great app: Genius. It's for notecards, and it has done me WONDERS for tests! It has a very mac-like interface, and implements this cool way of quizzing you so the answers stay in your head. http://web.mac.com/jrc/Genius/
- ntnwwnet, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Mirror: http://softwaredl.nwwnetwork.net/mirror/digg/Software.html
(Digg me down if nobody needs/uses it.) - ggko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Frozen Bubble and Aleph One listed. Now there's a classroom where nothing will get done.
- jchalmer85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I digg this story not just for the awesome mac apps, but because it was done in iWeb, hosted on .Mac, and it looks great. Props to the creator of the page just for that.
- Fiyerstorm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Wow, this is awesome. I just got my MacBook Pro last monday and this is exactly what I was hoping to come across. Great find!
- Duncan3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6LOGO!!! When I was 8, our school had the real turtle robot... awesome.
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yeah, or you could send it in and have it returned in 2 days. You know, the same thing everyone else does that doesn't have an Apple store within driving distance.
- stusb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5it's there on the list in the first column.
- Ouze, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Many of those applications (VLC, Blender, Abiword, Audacity, Firefox, Thunderbird, Netscape, Seamonkey, Skype, Google Earth, Yahoo Messenger, FFmpeg, Quicktime, Divx, Google Video, Handbrake, and others, maybe as much as 40%) also run directly on windows. I'd also say 100% of the apps on this list have some kind of freeware windows alternative. I'm not ***** on free or open source software - i use windows and linux both, and i'm all about choice - but It's pretty foolish to claim The Man somehow holds down your schools because they use PC's.
- jkgm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Actually, the school I worked at had an on-site AppleCare contract. We called in issues, and a technician was out same day or next day.
(Now that I think about it... if you read the fine print in the AppleCare agreement, it used to state that you could request on-site for your home as well. They may have taken that out though.) - aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4when I was in school you had to write your own software. BBC Basic... I wrote a notpad/word processor because the one they used was crap. ahhhh... them we'rt days. There were 16 of us living in shoe-box in't middle of road...
(Good list btw. Education is so expensive these days, every bit helps) - MonkeyFarts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I can vouch for this recommendation. It saved my ass in my political science class. I had to memorize over 1,000 terms and lists over the course of that hellish 10-week course! With the help of Genius, I blew the tests away and walked away with a 96% in that class.
- thecompkid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's people like you that make me hate calling myself an Apple fan. Here we have an amazing list of free apps and you have to screw the whole thing up.
- Ricky8765, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You're pretty much an idiot
- JoeDiggsIt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This is perfect, I'm getting my new macbook today and I can use this guide. Thanks!
- shmatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3YES, and it's ON THE LIST
- northernmunky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I still have my BBC-B
Still haven't completed Repton..... :p - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Apart from the fact that lots of options don't work and it crashes constantly.
Its no where near being a serious alternative. - LlFT, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is just a compilation of the what the Apple website has offered for years... Plus the Apple site gives a better description of the apps.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/ - alwaysnomadic, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Correction - Opera WAS missing - it was added! (see mirror link on 2nd comment)
At least they took note.. - OwenX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is really helpful, thanks.
- RoacXIII, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The guy is stoked about getting a new computer that works very well and you come here and insult him. If you'd consider your time worth something I guess he'd save alot by not having to deal with constant problems.
BTW: He never states that he's getting the computer for the single reason to be able to run these programs. - ApplCmptrDood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Also - Shiira has definitely improved from when I last looked at it. It has become very polished and a great Safari alternative!
- armo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1From the warranty "Service options, parts availability and response times may vary according to the country in which service is requested."
According to apple "(ii) by sending you prepaid way bills (and if you no longer have the original packaging, Apple may send you packaging material) to enable you to ship the product to Apple’s repair service location for service" Is not an available option in the UK. - picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes it did.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is QuickSilver free?
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thats why I digg stuff too, about 60% of the time.
- Narfmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That was so much fun! I was probably about 6 when I last played with one of those.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you digg it and later hit your "My Profile" link, the first option that comes up is all the articles you digg.
- simonelliott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Tell me which ones are not and I will remove them.
:-)
simon_elliott@mac.com - dupeduperson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3its probably wrong that I digg things like this because I want to bookmark it and examine it later. Why did digg remove the search my diggs feature?
Yes, I know digg is not supposed to serve as a social bookmarking site, but that is what I want. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1One Word: Cubed
- beerbarron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is an awesome compilation of utils and such forth, I would like to see more remote desktop support on the list though, and I don't mean server connection, apps like netop. Granted you can use apple remote desktop, but thats expensive...
- hamobu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I did not insult the guy, but I did insult the crappy computing platform and you seem to be taking it personal. Macs are elitist crap! They are really not about computing as they are about marketing and image. Open source software should not be used to promote them.
- ramshaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thanks for this some of this stuff is gonna come in really useful for me I think :)
- antitab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Schoolhouse has actually made me friends. No lie. People see me using it during class and are curious about it, I link them to a download and my classcast, and beautiful relationships blossom.
Mac: It gets you friends.
This post brought to you by Apple. - gaucho4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WriteRoom ($25), Art Rage ($25), and iCab ($29) are not free. Those are just the ones I know of.
You might also want to add iGTD (www.igtd.pl). Fabulous GTD app that I can't live without!
There are many apps on this list that I am not familiar with. I'll have to check them out! Great list. - gaucho4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, it's not... Just Safari.
- hamobu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Macs are garbage designed to lock users into proprietary platform. When it comes to open source, let us give credit to people which made the apps, rather than lump them all under the Mac logo. As if it is to the credit of Steve Jobs that Open Office and Gimp work on Mac!
- super_spyder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was the head tech for an entirely mac school district, and I never once had to drive a mac anywhere. We did one of 3 things we either called them told them the problem had them send us the parts and I would put them in, or we mailed the item back to them, or our final option was with a apple authorized service center we would call them they would pick the computer up ($40 for round trip transportation) and fix it and bring it back then bill apple if it was under warranty us if it wasn't.
- hamobu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I'll give Macs this: these applications would likely cost a school a lot of money for equivalent use on a PC. Thus is the greed of the majoritarian PC computer industry."
Are you kidding me! Those are mostly open source apps! Most of them run on Windows! You think Apple gives a deamn about schools. Apple is worse than Microsoft in many ways. At least with Microsoft you have a choice of hardware! - gaucho4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Macs are great and it's even greater that there is such a wealth of open source apps available to them. Is anyone saying that all of the apps on the list are Mac only?
- 0livero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I used to use eSword on the PC, but after my mac conversion I have been searching for sometime for a new Bible as eSword does not work on mac.. and now I have found the MacSword! Fantastic. Thanks so much for finding these applications.
- destroyerwi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0There was a time when I was up on Mac software enough to make a list like this myself. That time was 1996. Incredibly useful list. I downloaded SiteSucker first, then sucked this page so I'll have it always.
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Camino FTW
- simonelliott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If anyone wants to host the list in case of a bandwidth issue, I can make a site archive available. (I have 10Gb bandwidth per day)
Simon@the free mac classroom - Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That's on the list.
- simonelliott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Much is on the Apple site and the other free mac software sites that are linked from mine. I started the site as many of my students' parents complained that they had to buy new apps when they bought their child a Mac as they couldn't just borrow the Microsoft Office disks from work. The aim was to find a single page that had everything to hand.
Simon. :-) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Dugg for MP reference.
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