Īs it says, allows you to combine multiple pdf documents into a single pdf documents. It takes a bit of learning, but the time you save after learning it is well worth it. It allows you to do many things at the press of a key, like a shortcut, but without you having to remember what key does what, because it guesses what you want to do by what you type in, and it learns, very clever. Good if you just want to watch one chapter of a DVD, or if you want to watch a DVD in the car without running your laptop battery flat – it uses much less power to watch a DVD from the hard drive than from the DVD drive.įantastic application, hard to explain how to use it and what it does, but I use it probably at least 20 times a day. Your friends need to have their computer on when you search for them in skype for the first time, or skype will not find them.Ī great little text editor, like textedit, but many features such as search and replace on multiple files without opening them, automatic formatting for html, compare two different text files and show the differences, open and edit text files over ftp, if you’re not sure why you’d need those features, stick with textedit!Īllows you to capture a DVD from your DVD drive, then view it in quicktime. If you have an imac or a powerbook or ibook you can use the built in microphone and speaker, but for better results use a headset microphone which will stop any ‘echo’ you may experience.

You don’t need to pay any money unless you want to make a call to a normal phone number. Simply download skype, create yourself a ‘skype name’, this is your unique skype name, and you are away.

Skype allows you to speak to other skype users anywhere in the world for free over the internet. Superdooper, a newer program, seems to be a more popular backup program and simpler to use, but it’s not free so I still use CCC. See the entry on backups, this application allows you to make a bootable backup of your hard drive. Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac.

Skype download for mac 10.4