Work smarter, not harder. Here are a selection of useful tools for you and your Mac, covering everything from archive and backup to virus-busting and .zip tasks.

Aladdin FlashBack
Keep a revision history of your work, and return to any point in the life of your documents in a New York minute. Works by keeping 'delta' (difference) snapshots of documents, and handles almost any regular file format.

Clear Skies
Brings the night sky to your desktop. Draws a picture of the sky and sets it as the desktop picture. Choose the time and date and enter a location anywhere on earth and the sky will be calculated accordingly.

Data Rescue
Tool for recovering lost Macintosh volumes. It recovers files and folders from crashed hard disks, floppy disks, or removable cartridges.

DragStrip
Make your Mac work smarter; make drag and drop strips for fast, easy access to anything you like.

Drop Drawers
rovides floating drawers on the side of your screen to store text, URLs, aliases, pictures, sounds, movies, and more. Unlike Finder clippings, the actual data is visible in the drawer. (For a Carbonised version see the Mac OS X Specials section.)

DropZip
Create .zip files for use with those poor Windows users not savvy enough to install the Windows version of Stuffit Expander.

Folder Compare
Allows users to gain complete control over the content of two similar folders. This program is fully AppleScriptable and will permit any customization.

FoldersSynchronizer
Choose two or more folders/files/disks and then they will be synchronized exaclty. The old files will be replaced with the newest files in both the directions. The new files (new entries) will be copied in both the directions, as well as the new Folders. (Carbonised for Mac OS X.)

Free Backup
Backs up any source to any destination on your computer at any interval you set. This version adds new features including an archive method (to keep the latest version of all files) and a mirror method (to keep a current list of files).

HALemulator
Brings a whole new startup look & sound to your MAC. It handels your startup applications and comes with a startupscreen randomizer tool.

iClean
Get yourself a cleaner! Clean up Website cookies, outdated cache and history files, fix orphaned aliases and more.

List Files
Creates a text catalog of any disk, folder or document you drop on it. Includes file filters, formatting options, easy-to-use worksets, automatic catalog saving, text file searching for fast file retrieval, and much more.

NetBackup
Complete data backup utility for the Macintosh and for small Macintosh networks. It is written in HyperTalk, the scripting language of HyperCard.

Norton AntiVirus virus definitions - May 2001
update Norton AntiVirus virus definitions and engine files to detect and repair the most recently discovered Macintosh viruses for May 2001. Requires Norton AntiVirus 6.

Scheduler
PIM that includes the ability to schedule which of you applications run when you start your Mac.

Signwave Speed-Camera
Takes screen-grabs of your Macintosh desktop at regular intervals and saves them as sequentially numbered PICT files in a folder on your desktop.

SpeakTime
Speaks a user-specified phrase at time of start-up, announces the time at different intervals, or calls out any number of custom phrases at user-specified times and dates. (Carbonized for Mac OS X.)

Stopwatch CSM
Stopwatch for your Control Strip. Measure up to 1,000 hours, freeze the displayed time, resume displaying the elapsed time (split), apply different time formats, and automatically start the stopwatch when you start up your computer.

SwitchBack
Synchronizes two folders, so that both folders contain copies of the most recent versions of given files. The two folders can reside on the same volume, on two different volumes, or on two different computers connected by a local network.

Turtle Copy
Folder-synchronizing utility which can back up documents and copy files from one folder to another, and is extremely easy to use.

VirusBarrier Updater - June 2001
Updater for VirusBarrier, uses the most recent advances in antivirus technology to identify and eradicate viruses, preventing your Macintosh from being infected. It eliminates all known system and macro viruses. Requires Intego VirusBarrier.