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Free from NZ

This week I’m featuring freeware from a company called SubRosaSoft in New Zealand. While you’ll find plenty of quality free software on their site featured today, don’t forget they have some pretty nice commercial apps too.

Image Mounter

If you have encountered disk images that Apple’s Disk Copy is to finicky to mount, this tool is for you. This little app will mount problem images including those authored in applications other than Disk Copy.

Rebuild Desktop

The old cure-all from OS 9 is back, but don’t be fooled by the name. This is actually a cache cleaning utility. Use this to reclaim disk space and speed up your system by deleting temporary cache files.

ScreenBoard

This free utility takes periodic screenshots of you desktop and allows you to share them via http. Frequency settings can be adjusted from every minute to every second. ScreenBoard creates and updates the HTML itself. This one comes in OS 9, X and even Windows versions.

It’s good to be back. As always, I hope this week’s freeware finds a special place on your hard drive. If nothing tickled your fancy this week, tune in next week for more great free software.

Brian

Go Native with Sweet Suites

freeloader 20070913 212511 Go Native with Sweet SuitesOffice suites, creative suites, they’re all sweeter when they’re free.
The best-known free office suite has finally released a native Mac
client. And there’s another round of free native vector and image
editing apps.

Join me for a look at some fresh newcomers to the most basic apps on
your system. They’re in this week’s Freeloader Friday.

Note:

Security Update 2008-002 available

As well as the new more secure and well-adjusted Safari 3.1, Apple also posted Security Update 2008-002. What does Security Update 2008-002 do? It does a lot of great, mostly under the hood, things to keep bad things from happening to good Macs.

If you want more detail than that, I suggest you click the like provided above and get reading. There are about 46 individual issues addressed by the update in categories ranging from AFP Client to X11.

Download the appropriate update for your system:

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 (PPC)

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 (Universal)

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 (Leopard)

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 Server (Leopard)

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 Server (PPC)

Security Update 2008-002 v1.0 Server (Universal)

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