The Mac Orchard is a community resource - a carefully cultivated list of the most vital Internet applications and related resources for Macintosh Internet users, along with Internet software reviews contributed from The Mac Orchard's audience. These pages represent the most complete, most up-to-date collection of Macintosh Internet applications available anywhere on the Internet.
Recent application updates:
July 23
- Tomcat 6.0.29 (Server)
- SurgeMail 4.3g4 (Server)
- SurgeMail 5.0e2 beta (Server)
July 22
- AIM for Mac 2.1.299 beta (Chat & Talk)
- MailForge 2.0.1 (Email)
- ntop 4.0 (Network)
- Viscosity 1.1 (Connectivity)
July 21
- Thunderbird 3.1.1 (Email)
- dataComet 10.2.1 (Terminal)
- dataComet-Secure 10.2.1 (Terminal)
- Firefox 3.6.7 (WWW)
- Transmission 2.03 (Sharing)
- MacTelnet 4.0 beta build 20100721 (Terminal)
- Rumpus 6.2.10 (Server)
July 20
- MaxBulk Mailer 7.8 (Email)
- iCab 4.8a (WWW)
- Blue Crab Lite 1.0.5 (WWW)
- InterMapper 5.3.2 (Network)
July 19
- Little Snitch 2.2.4 (Network)
July 12
- Investor/RT 10.2.6 (Other)
- iVPN 4.8 (Server)
July 9
- Tomcat 5.5.30 (Server)
- GrandReporter 1.2.2 (WWW)
July 8
- Google Chrome 5.0.375.99 (WWW)
- MacWise 12.11 (Terminal)
- RBrowser 4.6.4.2 (File Transfer)
Other News in The Orchard . . .
Hiatus
July 25, 2010 — I'm taking another break from the Orchard. Please stay tuned for more information.
Stop the Cap!
April 3, 2009 — With all of the discussion about Time Warner Cable's move to cap Internet bandwidth, nobody has answered the question: How is TWC going to ensure that the "garbage" traffic that constantly flows into routers from all over the Internet going to be distinguished from (and not included in) folks' paid traffic? In other words, even an Internet connection with nothing other than a cable modem generates traffic. It's an IP address, and it gets attacked/pinged/etc. constantly. Until TWC can guarantee that they will only charge users for the traffic they genuinely invoke, then I maintain that we are all getting ripped off. Voice your opinion!
A Note on This Column of News
I just wanted to take a moment to note that the "other news" you see in this middle column may not get updated very often, and that's by design. The news I cover here is limited to items of interest in the Macintosh Internet application space - items that go beyond simple application updates that are handled in the leftmost column of the home page. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending upon your perspective), there isn't always a lot of earth-shattering news in the Mac Internet application space. That said, I'll do my best to keep this interesting for folks in the future with more regular tidbits so that this space can seem a little "fresher." The main reason to visit this page, however, will remain (as always) the application updates!
Application Types on The Mac Orchard
- Chat & Talk applications, including instant messengers (IM), IRC, and conferencing.
- Classics that run only on pre-Mac OS X systems.
- Connectivity applications (VPN, PPP, etc.)
- Email software, including clients and spam filters.
- File Transfer, including FTP software.
- Helper applications, like file decoders and selected browser plug-ins.
- MUSH/MUD applications.
- Network applications, including analyzers, optimizers, and firewalls.
- Older Protocols, including Gopher, WAIS, VRML, and the like.
- Other applications that don't fit into other categories.
- RSS newsreaders.
- Server applications.
- Sharing applications, such as LimeWire, BitTorrent, etc.
- Terminal emulators.
- Usenet newsreaders.
- Web Browsers and related applications.
Also See . . .
Can't find what you're looking for? Try a search:
Also, if you have an older Mac, be sure to check out the "Classic" applications page for more options.
Finally, take a look at ALEMIA if you think you know that name of an application, but aren't quite sure.