Stalking the Mac thrill of yesteryear

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Numerous online stores are available to provide additional software titles for Macintosh enthusiasts. ZD Net (www.macdownload.com) offers more than 5,000 titles, although it notes the decreasing number of Macintosh shareware. A special title is Spell Tools 1.2.1, which can read highlighted text in any computer application. Other shareware sites include www.macupdate.com and www.ualberta.ca/~mmalowan, but programs on retirement incomes and child development perform at full strength only after users have paid a registration fee. An offbeat an freeware program, Ivolution (www.trickfx.demon.co.uk), mutates a snapshot of an abstract image in five ways. Unusual versions of standard card games are available from Freeverse Software (www.freeverse.com). Arcade-style game enthusiasts can visit Ambrosia Software (www.ambrosiasw.com), but the current offerings recall only older games.

Computer Stores, Computer and Software Stores, Computer software industry, Software industry, Retail industry, Retail trade, Marketing, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, World Wide Web, Internet/Web technology, Distribution channels, Retail/reseller channel

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How to get more than you pay for

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Shareware is typically available for downloading from Web sites. There is generally no fee associated with this service, but if the user likes the application it can be paid for by mailing a check to the developer. Jim Knopf, an IBM employee, invented the concept of shareware in 1981. The lines between commercial software and the various types of shareware have blurred considerably since that time. Some shareware applications have millions of users and many of these applications are as good, or better, than competing commercial products. Shareware authors tend to upgrade their products more frequently than commercial vendors, often responding to the discovery of a defect by a user and offering a fix overnight.

Design and construction, Technology overview

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