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:
October 6
- RAR 3.8.0 (Helper)
- Firewall Builder 3.0.1 (Network)
- iVPN 3.0 (Server)
October 3
- GraphicConverter 6.2.1 (Helper)
- IPNetMonitorX 2.3c3 (Network)
October 2
- FileZilla 3.1.3.1 (File Transfer)
- iCab 4.2.5 (WWW)
October 1
- LiteSpeed Web Server 3.3.19 (Server)
- NetBarrier "X5" 10.5.3 (Network)
September 30
- AIM.app 1.0b1 (Chat & Talk)
- InterMapper 5.0.5 (Network)
- Shrook 2.63 (RSS Newsreaders)
September 29
- OmniWeb 5.8 (WWW)
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Email)
- Firefox 3.0.3 (WWW)
- Perian 1.1.1 (Helper)
- VLC media player 0.9.3 (Helper)
September 26
- VPN Tracker 5.3.1 (Connectivity)
- Investor/RT 9.1.9 (Other)
September 25
- iTerm 0.9.6 (Terminal)
- Sharity 3.7 beta 1 (Other)
September 24
- Camino 1.6.4 (WWW)
- Vienna 2.3.0.2301 (RSS Newsreaders)
- VisualRoute 12.0i (Network)
September 23
- Skim 1.1.13 (Helper)
September 22
- LimeWire 4.18.8 (Sharing)
- RAR 3.8 beta 5 (Helper)
- IPNetRouterX 1.4c2 (Network)
September 19
- AbleFtp 8.07 (File Transfer)
- Viscosity 0.72 (Connectivity)
September 18
- StuffIt Deluxe 13.0.0 (Helper)
- StuffIt Expander 13.0.0 (Helper)
Other News in The Orchard . . .
Featured Forum Topic
Poll: Firefox 3 Beta Performance
February 11, 2008 — Despite all of the hoopla stating otherwise, Firefox 3 beta for seems to be a big step backward in rendering performance when compared to Firefox 2, which could be a bad thing for the Mac. What has your experience been?
New Forums
January 2, 2008 — As some of you have already noticed, the Forum has been upgraded to YaBB 2. In the process, I have rebuilt the member list and instituted a more rigorous registration process to reduce spam. If you were a previous forum member, please take a moment to re-register; you are encouraged to re-use your prior username! I apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone, but I hope you will find that it's all for the better.
Happy New Year / Netscape News
January 1, 2008 — Happy New Year, and best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2008 to all of you. We open this year with news that Netscape will once again be discontinued. This time, however, it will be discontinued for all platforms, and support for all versions, past and present, will be discontinued as well. See Tom Drapeau's blog post for more information.
Mulberry Now Open Source
November 26, 2007 — The Mulberry email client is now open source. See the Mulberry wiki for more information.
Trillian Coming to the Mac!
October 11, 2007 — Trillian - which is regarded by many (including yours truly) to be the finest cross-protocol IM client for Windows - is finally coming to the Mac. See the Trillian blog for information on this release, including a tester application form.
A Note on This Column of News
March 31, 2006 — 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.