Speedometer 4 is the PowerPC native successor to Speedometer 3 which is a benchmarking suite for 68K Macs.  

Macintosh Explorer, developped by Rage Software, a Canadian, Toronto based software company, launched in 1999 and quickly made fans who were used to a Windows-like Explorer interface.  The software kept on improving almost every other year...

Start Your Engines! MAXON CINEBENCH R10 is here to put your hardware to the test. What Is MAXON CINEBENCH? CINEBENCH is a real-world test suite that assesses your computer's performace capabilities. MAXON CINEBENCH is based on...

Refusing to rest on its laurels, Now Software has devised an even more robust Now Utilities system-enhancements package. Version 3.0 includes several new tools as well as enhanced versions of existing Now utilities, making it the most complete...

HoverBar keeps icons and clipboard data at your fingertips by storing them on bars that float over everything, no matter what program you are using.   You can create two types of bars: Icon Bar - Store the icons of files, folders, and...

Used for general disk performance testing

8Tuner is an application that modifies certain resources in your System and Finder to change the appearances and functionalities of your Mac OSª 8. Since all changes are modified directly in your system software, the changes do not require...

CINEBENCH is the free benchmarking tool for Windows and Mac OS based on the powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D. Consequently, the results of tests conducted using CINEBENCH 9.5 carry significant weight when analyzing a computer’s performance...

DiskTracker is a very complete disk cataloging system for Macintosh.  It allows one to drag and drop a CD, a hard disk or any other kind of volume onto it and automatically create the disk files/folders hierarchy catalog, complete with the...

AppDisk is a ramdisk.  What is a ramdisk? Its a piece of software that lets you use some extra RAM memory as a really fast hard disk.  The disk will appear on your desktop just like any other hard disk, and you can copy files to it just...

StuffIt was the most versatile and used compression suite on the Mac since 1987.  It began as shareware and then it went commercial but StuffIt Expander (the decompression tool) always remained free and was even bundled by Apple on Mac OS...

Roxio Toast is an Optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser. Discs can be burned directly...

Toast is a CD image utility. It allows you to mount and burn .toast and .iso files. Once upon a time, Adaptec Toast took audio or data files and burned them onto CD-R media. That was it. Today, Toast 4 Deluxe still does that job admirably,...

OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the structure of the system files; run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks; configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari, and some Apple applications; delete caches; remove...

LineIn is a simple application for OS X to enable the soft playthru of audio from input devices. In simpler terms, you can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port, just as was once...

No longer do you need the skills of a computer geek plus the patience of a saint to manage your music collection. Rather than making you use several applications, iTunes lets you collect, browse, organize, and burn your favorite music onto CDs with...

Convertor is a small utility application that lets you select one or more text files and it converts them from/to Windows <-> Macintosh. It works fine for carriage returns and line feeds but Convertor doesn't do a very good job with the...

Creates Mac OS 8.5 thru 9.2.2 appearance themes

Creator Changer is a simple Application that is used to set the CREATOR and TYPE of a file. This is useful for when a file you are trying to open a file within a particular software, but does not appear in the list.