Apple Computer Info

Software to download:

• The One True Editor:
  • Emacs for Mac, download universal binary here. (can also get nightly "bleeding edge" builds).
  • Gnu.org Emacs releases.
  • Emacs Wiki
  • Franz Emacs page and Franz SLIME page
  • SLIME - The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs -- online SLIME manual
• a list of top quality, free, opensource software
• MenuMeters, other favorites: SnapNDrag, Witch, Ucontrol, Xmenu, etc
  
• Apple X-Code Developer tools, get the basix Unix stuf f
• Omni's Disk Sweeper and OmniWeb browser
• FTP: FileZilla, my current FTP. Previous: Cyberduck, free. or Interarchy.

  Music stuff:

  • Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes: JoinTogether to join 2 tracks.
  • Mac E-tree downloads
  • Audacity audio editor (Free)
  • Sound formats descriptions

  Little utility things:

• ManOpen
• Keyboard Maestro (keyboard shortcuts, multiple clipboards)
• Skim, free PDF annotation tool
• Demoronizer, Microsoft applications create Web pages that appear to be the product of a semi-literate moron.
• Git/SVN hosting
• MacCVS Pro, sourceforge, OS X
• some small shell scripts
• Unarchiver, use instead of Stuffit Expander
• VNC server: OXSVNC, VNC client: ChickenOftheVNC
• CNET downloads, reviews
  

Latex stuff:

• Instructions for Installing MacTeX, the governing LaTeX distribution for Mac OS X. My installation, /usr/local/gwTeX for Latex; XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012) from /usr/local/texlive/2012/
• Latex for OS X: TeXShop and TeTex, nice interface. Excellent, works great with Emacs.
• latex, fink project (have not tried)
• BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS
• More MacTex packages, http://www.tug.org/mactex/, I used gwtex.dmg (from math.utah.edu)

Publications and news:

• Macworld
• Wired News
• Mac News Network
  
• Fixit Guides for everything
• Deal Mac, shop for good deals
  
• MacInTouch
• O'Grady's PowerPage

Toys, games, parts, etc:

• Digital cameras
  
• Ritz cameras
  
• new batteries for your Powerbook, BTI 16500 Gale Ave, Industry Ca 91745, 626-336-6878

David E. Wilkins
Last modified: 2021-02-14 11:32