Is there a Macintosh equivalent of alt.comp.freeware?

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My future son-in-law is about to buy a Mac as he is about to receive an
academic grant that requires one. He's on a pretty tight budget and I'd
like to point him to a resource that can in turn point him to a source of
quality Macintosh freeware for the stuff that the grant won't cover.

This site seems to be PC oriented. anybody encountered something similar
for the Mac?
 
JunkMonkey said:
My future son-in-law is about to buy a Mac as he is about to receive
an academic grant that requires one. He's on a pretty tight budget
and I'd like to point him to a resource that can in turn point him
to a source of quality Macintosh freeware for the stuff that the
grant won't cover.

This site seems to be PC oriented. anybody encountered something
similar for the Mac?
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Don't know about newsgroup(s), but Henk de Jong has some freewarelinks for
Mac at:

http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/Mac.html

HTH Rod
 
JunkMonkey said:
My future son-in-law is about to buy a Mac as he is about to receive
an academic grant that requires one. He's on a pretty tight budget
and I'd like to point him to a resource that can in turn point him
to a source of quality Macintosh freeware for the stuff that the
grant won't cover.

This site seems to be PC oriented. anybody encountered something
similar for the Mac?
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Nope ther isn't (at least nog a global one)
acf is suposed to be other system friendly.
Just expect the same pc : mac ratio here....

MightyKitten
 
My future son-in-law is about to buy a Mac as he is about to receive an
academic grant that requires one. He's on a pretty tight budget and I'd
like to point him to a resource that can in turn point him to a source of
quality Macintosh freeware for the stuff that the grant won't cover.

This site seems to be PC oriented. anybody encountered something similar
for the Mac?
Click to expand...

Not as a separate newsgroup.

First, try sites which use the Open Directory Project, like:
<http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Freeware/Macintosh/>
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/Macintosh/>

You might also try:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:comp.sys.mac.*+intitle:freeware+-intitle:shareware&scoring=d>
(it's a search of all the comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups for subject
"freeware" but not "shareware", with recent messages on top).
 
JunkMonkey said:
My future son-in-law is about to buy a Mac as he is about to receive an
academic grant that requires one. He's on a pretty tight budget and I'd
like to point him to a resource that can in turn point him to a source of
quality Macintosh freeware for the stuff that the grant won't cover.

This site seems to be PC oriented. anybody encountered something similar
for the Mac?
Click to expand...
Gleaned from a thread a few days ago.

Not as a separate newsgroup.

First, try sites which use the Open Directory Project, like:
<http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Freeware/Macintosh/>
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/Macintosh/>

You might also try:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:comp.sys.mac.*+intitle:freeware+-intitle:shareware&scoring=d>


Some links with (non-tested) mac freeware :

http://www.thefreewaresite.com/macfreeware/macfreeware.html
http://www.macgamesandmore.com/best_freeware.html
http://www.macgamesandmore.com/best_freeware_applications.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/macfreeware/menu.html (french)

--

http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/Mac.html

HTH Rod

Not exactly but close...go to Version Tracker, then sort by OS, and
category (Freeware is at the bottom of the list). Here's the link for OS
X Freeware:

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/lt/freeware

John H.

www.jhoodsoft.org
 
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