Mac Places on the Web — There’s Tons of ’em

Favorites places I frequently visit.

Information and News

• Grand Central Station for Mac News — www.macsurfer.com
• Mac Central (Now includes MacWEEK )- www.maccentral.com/
• MacInTouch (News and Forums) – macintouch.com
• Macs Only – www.macsonly.com/
• Mac News –www.macnn.com/
• Tidbits – www.tidbits.com. You can also get it by email subscription.
• Alltop – They have Mac news covered

Resources

• A clearinghouse for problems. Free, but archive access is by paid subscription – macfixit.com/
• Accelerate your Mac for hardware issues — xlr8yourmac.com/
• A great repository of information on older Macs —  lowendmac.com
• Apple manuals in PDF
• Apple manuals for older products in PDF
• Sign up for Apple’s email technical notes and support notices
• The Mac OS X download page
• Macintosh Products Guide, a catalog of over 23,000 products
• The Apple Discussion forums
• Mac and Printer repair in the south bay area
• How fast is your Internet connection?  – Speed Test
• Find an Apple User Group
• Apple Seminars – many are free and in the LA area
• Torrance Adult School — Some Mac classes
• Software libraries and downloads
  • Extensive software library with special sections on music, audio and MP3 software – www.pure-mac.com/

  More download Sites:

  • Download.com,
  • Shareware.com,
  • TuCows
    and Info-Mac (scroll down)

  Find any software, updates and reviews you’re looking for at www.versiontracker.com/ and  MacUpdate.com

Shopping Tips — where to get the best deals

• See our Shopping page
• dealmac.com – they track the best Mac deals
• MacReviewZone — weekly updated buyers guides (G4, eMacs, Powerbooks, iBooks, iMacs)
• Memory Prices
• DealRAM – www.dealram.com
• RAMseeker – www.macseek.com/sdramgraph.shtml

Buyer Beware:

Shopping sites are rarely operated by  philanthropic organizations. If you click on a link the referring site may get a kick-back, a redirect fee. We have a Shopping page where the commission goes to SBAMUG members.

Great Freeware and Shareware products

Native for both OS 9 and OS X.

• Tex-Edit — Gotta be the best general-purpose text editor out there ($15).Barebones Software has released TextWrangler, a free text editor program — powerful but technical. OS X only.
• GraphicConverter — Opens and edits almost any graphic file and has a great slideshow and image browser ($30)
• URL Manager Pro — A very handy program for managing your bookmarks. Lots of features. ($25). They also sell Web Confidental, a nifty program for storing all your passwords
• FinderPop — It’s the most incredible enhancement I’ve ever added to my Mac. Bazillions of features. (Pintware). There’s finally an OS X version (beta).

OS X Only

• Apple’s iLife is a collection of cool programs. It’s $80, although it comes free with new Macs. iTunes is still free.
• Safari, free from Apple, is my favorite browser. It’s fast. Also try
  Camino and Firefox
• Pixture.com – a nice collection of free contextual menu items for managing images and media
• Some free, cool OS X utilities for techies at http://free.abracode.com
• SilverKeeper (free) is the backup and synchronization program I use.
• Carbon Copy Cloner is a donation-ware program to backup (clone) a bootable copy of Mac OS X. I clone a copy to an external Firewire drive in case my system goes south.

OS 8-9 only – they’re disappearing fast

• Coaster 1.1.3 This is an incredible, free audio recording program.
• Audio Recorder 1.2 is a free audio recorder for OS X. It’s limited, but it does support saving as MP3 files.

Comics

• King Features Comics
• washingtonpost.com – Comics
• redmeat.com – Sick but funny

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