Essential Software for a G4 Mac running Tiger

[bse5150]

What are some of the essential pieces of Software you'd be using in Tiger. I have Tiger installed on a G4 PPC but I have no software. I want to play with it but I don't have anything to run on it aside from Stuffit Expander and GraphicConverter.

Suggestions very much welcome.

 

[uniserver]

iLife is always nice to have on there.

Office.

iWork.

Marathon OSX port

Found this on the forum:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/894856

Chosen solution by the-edmeister

You have the latest version of Firefox for PPC Macs and for 10.4.11, the Firefox 4+ versions require Intel and 10.5.8 or higher.

For older Macs that aren't supported in Firefox 4 thru 8, try TenFourFox for PowerPC's running Mac 10.4.11 & 10.5.8 .

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/

Seashore - love it, Picture editing, good to 10.4.11 and its universal ppc/intel

remote desktop connection

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=465

thumbs up - a great image size reduction tool - they made a version for tiger contact them and ask them to send you the version that works with tiger

http://www.devontechnologies.com/contact.html

last version of itunes for tiger

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1056

widgets are fun... you can still load up, they are all universal.

https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

 

[Hugh]

Let me see now,

Gimp for Tiger is good (and free), very powerful image manipulation - search for GIMP-2.6.6-Tiger-universal.dmg

Burn is a great free CD/DVD burner

Caffeine for disabling the screensaver

Camino is also a very good free browser, in my opinion works faster than TenFourFox

Carbon Copy Cloner for backing up to and booting from an external hard drive - version 3.4.7 is the latest for Tiger

Handbrake 0.9.1 for video conversion

I find Image Tricks a good quick photo editor

Meteorologist 1.5.6 for weather in your dock

Onyx 1.8.5 for system maintenance

Stuffit Expander for all archive zips / rars etc.

VLC media player 0.9.10

Lastly, Perian to allow playing of Windows media files

That's all I can find on my Tiger that you don't need to pay for ...

Cheers

Hugh

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Camino is also a very good free browser, in my opinion works faster than TenFourFox

I realise I'm personally invested in TenFourFox, but let me point out one thing: Camino is based on Firefox 3.6, which is now several cycles out of date. It won't get any more updates, security or otherwise, and even if Camino does one day rise from the ashes as a WebKit browser it's also almost guaranteed there will not be another version of Camino for PowerPC. Mozilla 1.9.2, the underlying engine, is a lot smaller, but does a lot less.

Given that, if it does everything you need, great.

 

[Hugh]

Sorry, didn't mean to upset anyone, I like TenFour, but when running on an old PowerBook, Camino has the edge on speed for me.

I have recommended TenFourFox to countless folks who complain about lack of PPC support from Firefox.

Cheers

Hugh

By the way, I've looked for a "Donate" button to further support TenFourFox, and can't find one - can you help?

 

[bse5150]

Okay, I've installed iLife and the bundled software that was on the install DVD. So I've got Quicken, Zinio, Nanosaur, and MarbleBlast. I've also downloaded TenFourFox and am using it to type this message. Now I'm looking for a decent word processor and other interesting software titles. I wonder what I'll be able to find on eBay?

 

[ClassicHasClass]

By the way, I've looked for a "Donate" button to further support TenFourFox, and can't find one - can you help?

I don't accept donations. Money makes life complicated.

 

[Bunsen]

iTerm - improves upon Apple's Terminal app in several useful ways

Shadowkiller - makes your windows look a bit funky, but gives you quite a speed boost by killing the rendering of drop shadows in the Finder.

 

[uniserver]

Money makes life complicated.

amen, your a good soul sir.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Shadowkiller - makes your windows look a bit funky, but gives you quite a speed boost by killing the rendering of drop shadows in the Finder.

May I say that Shadowkiller makes a *huge* difference on G3s. My iMac G3 is very snappy in 10.2.8 with Shadowkiller (whereas without it it's rather poky). It's worth the initially jarring window change.

 

[mac2geezer]

Now I'm looking for a decent word processor

I happen to think Bean is a decent word processor and it's free. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of MS Word but is more than adequate for most uses. You can fine it, and other free software, at : http://opensourcemac.org/