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One of the most popular E-mail programs for Macintosh, and deservedly so. Powerful, portable, and easy to use, this program comes highly recommended by Panix.
These applications are necessary to get into your Panix shell account (the text interface) to manage files, maintain Web pages or use our UNIX system in general. Telnet is unencrypted (bad), and SSH is encrypted (good).
Better Telnet is a Mac telnet client developed by Sassy Software; it's based on the original NCSA Telnet, and has added many needed improvements, including a native PowerPC version.
Nifty Telnet is another popular Telnet program for Macintosh,
preferred over Better Telnet by several of our subscribers.
It comes packaged with Kerberos support, and an SSH1 version is
available.
MacSSH is a modified version of BetterTelnet with SSH2 support.
Interarchy combines the functions of several "old standard" Mac Internet applications (Anarchie, Mac TCP Watcher, and Internet Config) into one program. Very nice, whether you're looking to transfer files, diagnose network instability, or just standardize your Internet settings.
WhatRoute is a wonderful tool for diagnosing network connectivity problems. It incorporates pop-up menus within the traceroute results, for quick and easy pinging of suspected delay points.
Fetch is the most popular, and best supported, pure FTP program for Macintosh. If you upload files frequently to FTP servers, you need this program.
More information about Macintosh newsreaders can be found at the Newsreaders.com Mac clients page.
YA-Newswatcher stands for "Yet Another Newswatcher", and is based on the venerable "Newswatcher" by John Norstad.
MT-Newswatcher is another newsreader based on John Norstad's wonderful old "Newswatcher". It adds support for multi-threading, advanced filtering ("killfile") functions, and spell checking.
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. IRC "channels" are much like "chat rooms" on some online services, but much more customizable and less rigidly structured. Unlike newsgroups, the conversations on IRC are in real time.
IRCle is a decent Mac IRC client, but an anonymous Panix staffer recommends irc-4.4 over any GUI client. irc-4.4 is available from the Panix shell command line.
Terminal Emulators (Shell Dialers):
Direct-dial terminal eumulators let you dial directly into your UNIX shell account, instead of using the two-step process of PPP-dialing plus telnet. Some kind of direct-dial terminal emulator is required if you have a Panix shell-only (Basic or Inet-Shell) service.
ZTerm is the best freeware terminal program for the Mac. Panix staff recommends it for direct shell dialing from a Macintosh. It's also a good full-featured replacement for Microphone, MacLink Plus, and the Claris Works terminal application.
Helper Applications and Utilities:
Great shareware front-end to OS X's built-in firewall. Provides a simple
and easy interface to setting and activating your firewall's filters.
MemoryMonitor is a small application that displays the memory usage in its Dock icon (and optionally in a floating window), like CPU Monitor displays the CPU usage. It is published under the GNU General Public License, and the source code is included in the download.
OmniDictionary is a Mac OS X client for network dictionary servers. It's
pretty straightforward - type a word into the entry field, hit return,
and the definition is displayed. If the dictionary server supports
multiple dictionaries, you can select your desired dictionary from the
dictionary popup to limit queries to that specific dictionary, or you
can query all the dictionaries.
A leading distributor of e-business services and applications on the
Internet, Tucows simplifies downloads with a large network of regional
libraries.
The Mac Orchard is a carefully cultivated list of the most vital
Internet applications and links for Macintosh Internet users, along
with reviews by users.
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