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Mac WWW Section

• Home site reference page
• FTP introduction and Format chart
• Mac FTP list
• World Wide Web sites:
  • Large Mac Web sites and archives
  • Apple computer Web sites
  • Info-Mac, UMich, and related Web sites
  • Mac web sites with specific files
  • Miscellaneous Mac Web sites
• Search Engines (including web access to Archie)
• Notes on Mac FTP sites

World Wide Web sites

Large Mac Web, links, and archive sites

• Applelinks
• Apple Insider - "Insider News and Rumors"
• Cucug's Macintosh Web Directory
• Applelinks Mirror
• Everything Macintosh
• GB's Mac Watch Page - Site contains latest Mac and Apple information
• Insanely Great Mac
• Macs and other platform FAQs
• MacAddict and MacDaily Network
• MacAssistant - MacAssistant Tips and Tutorial Newsletter and User Group
• MacCentral Online - "The #1 source for Mac News online"
• Macintosh Related Sites - Web page of Macintosh sites listed alphabetical
• The Mac Resource Page
• Mac support
• Macintosh Watering Hole
• Macintosh Web Directory - Sizable collection of Macintosh Web sites
• Pure Mac - "All the software you really need"
• thessaSOURCE - "New industry ezine for MacOS professionals"
• Tucows - "the world's best collection of Internet Software"
• Ultimate Mac - The King of Mac web sites
  • Eastern US Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Australian (webfactory.com.au) Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Canada's (myth.net) Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Canada's (kawartha.com) Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Germany's Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Hong Kong's Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Japan's Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Norway's Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • Sweden's Ultimate Mac Mirror
  • United Kingdom (tcom.co.uk) Ultimate Mac Mirror

Apple computer Web sites

• Apple Computer's Main Web site
  • Apple support area
  • Asia Apple - includes India and Sinapore
  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Europe
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • Japan
  • Latin America
  • New Zealand
  • UK & Ireland
• Quicktime Continuum
• PlainTalk - Apple's Speech technologies which provide the MacOS with speech recognition and speech synthesis capabilities.
• Publishing and New Media

Info-Mac, UMich, and related Web sites

• Info-Mac mirror list - note that this site is not affiliated with www.info-mac.org or its moderators.
  • MIT Info-Mac HyperArchive
  • UI Archive browse and search
  • apple's Info-Mac mirror
  • http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/archives/mac/
  • http://www.univie.ac.at/ftp/systems/mac/info-mac/
  • United Kingdom Mirror Service - "replaces HENSA as the primary mirror service for the UK academic community."
• Umich's main web site - The ftp site disappeared around August 1998 and none of the ftp or web mirrors have had any new files after June 1998.
  • University of Michigan Mac Archive's Home page
  • NEXOR (UK) Mac catalog
• Arizona Mac Users Group
• Associated Services - An AMUG mirror that also has a huge collection of Christian files and carries the CyberChurch Christian network online. As far as I can tell http is the only type of access allowed.
• Jumbo - Collection of Mac, IBM, OS/2 programs
• Mac Internet Software
• Macs.Bon.Net - A Mac Freeware site
• MacShare Com - This website contains recommendations for Macintosh shareware that is worthwhile to download, and information to help you get the most out of your Mac.
• MacTCP Drive-Thru - last updated July 5, 1996
• Macintosh on the Internet
• UNSW Mac Archive collection, au
• VOLftp home page - Italy mirror that also gets its own files. Main page is in Italian though there ie and english link.

Mac Web sites with few specific file(s) or file types

• Adobe systems
• AG Group Inc - Home of EtherPeek
• Aladdin Systems inc. - Home of StuffIt
• Ambrosia software
• Macintoash AV FAQ - complete Mac AV Web pitstop
• Bare Bones Software - BEdit home
• Carnation Software
• Corel - Home of WordPerfect
• Donoho Design Group, Inc: MacSpin and TokaMac
• Emulators for MacOS - Computers, consoles, arcade, and handheld devices
• FreePPP Home site
• Hewlett Packard
• MacAddict
• Mac Gamer's Ledge - News, reviews, and some demos of MacOS games.
• MacCentral's MacGaming
• Inside Mac Games
• Mac on the Net
• MacMinix
• Mac Orchard - A collection of many vital Internet applications (some with reviews) and links for Mac Internet users.
• Mark/Space Softworks
• MicroSoft Homepage
• John Neil & Associates - SoftFPU and PowerFPU
• Netopia - Formerly known as Farallon. Company that makes Timbuktu
• Netscape's home page
• Nisus - Home of Nisus Writer
• PoV-Ray - Persistance of Vision
• ScriptWeb - MacOS scripting
• Skytouch Communications
• The Software Snifff...er (.it)
• Symantec
• TidBITS Home site
• Unofficial World Builder page and World Builder Index - Two sites dedicated to a 1986 Mac game creation program that still runs under current MacOSes.

Miscellaneous Mac or special intrest Web sites

• C|net
• Complete Macintosh Web Site - Mac Advocacy site
• Cult of Macintosh - last updated August 30, 1996.
• eMacsoftware - online shopping center for Mac software
• Macfixit - "Troubleshooting solutions for the Macintosh"
• Macintouch - information and services for Mac computing.
• Macintosh Shopping Directory
• The Mac Guide - Featuring a guide on hardware upgrades and options for the more resent macs
• MacReviewZone -"At this site you will find links to all online hardware and software reviews by MacAddict, MacHomeJournal, MacWeek and Macworld."
• MacTimes Network - Online Mac magizine
• MacSurfer's Headline News
• MkLinux- Mac Linux port
• Pro Mac - last updated Dec 5, 1996
• Project Gutenberg - Public Domain etext archive, not really a Mac specific site but a IMHO resource important enough to include.
• Version Tracker - "The Easiest way to find Macintosh updates."
• Useful and Fun Mac software
• Webintosh - "Daily Mac news, analysis, information, and resources"
• Ziff-Davis Interactive

Search Engines

Recommended search engines for individual files and programs are strong. Sites that also contain lists of search engines are emphasized.

| Alta Vista |Archie shell script and ArchiePlex list | C|Net's downloadable files search engine | C|Net shareware Search engine | Cusi | DejaNews | Filez | Excite | Galaxy | InfoSeek | Inktomi | Lycos | Magellan | SavvySearch | WebCrawler | Yahoo |

Note: Archie can be also be used directly either via Anarchie or a unix shell account [type archie <filename> at the prompt].

FTP introduction and Format chart
Mac FTP list
Search Engines (including web access to Archie)
Notes on Mac FTP sites