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Snowbook
The Teel Family

Download and print 10 pages full of wintertime fun! Find totally cool craft ideas and things to do when it's cold outside. Freeze water in a bucket and make an outdoor candleholder to melt the hearts of visiting relatives. Then make a polar bear puppet with the pattern provided. Chill out in the snow with a frozen mirror and a can of hair spray to perfectly preserve the beautiful crystal snowflakes. Parents and kids will both have fun exploring all these icy activities! - Download

Speed Startup
Casady & Greene

By caching all your startup files and delivering them at once to the operating system, Speed Startup can cut boot-up time almost in half. Try the demo, and you will be able to access a statistic panel that will tell you just how much time you just saved. One minute a day represents six hours a year - enough to see three movies or have a couple of pleasant dinners with friends.

Speed Doubler
CONNECTIX

Speed Doubler may not make your PowerMac twice as fast, but it will greatly accelerate file copying on any Mac, and provide other features such as folder synchronization, automated file backup, better disk caching, basic macro capability, and option-key access to the Finder's menus.

Spring Cleaning
ALADDIN SYSTEMS

The makers of Stuffit have produces a swiss-knife of a utility with Spring Cleaning. It let you scan for and clean out unwanted files such as duplicates, empty folders, broken aliases. It's not a panacea, but does a good job of it.

SpeedType 1.0

SpeedType is a simple little program that measures how fast you can type in Words Per Minute. It's handy if you need to know this to put on a résumé, or if you're just curious. Check your typing speed periodically and see if you improve!

Screwy HTML Fixer

If you have PageMill, you need this program. Adobe PageMill is great, but it will add funny junk to your HTML code. PageMill adds height tags to tables and cells, but gives you no good way to delete them. It adds NatrualSizeFlags to all your images. It even claims the hard work of creating your page with a Meta tag, even if you do most the work in BBedit. No more! Screwy HTML fixer tightens up those loose tables and kills stupid code. It even allows you to preview each change as it is made in your browser of choice. If you use PageMill, your going to love this program.

Minimum Requirements: - 640x480 screen - 3 megs of free ram - system 7 or later

"Web Community Builder" - Spinalot is a user-friendly tool to help create small to medium-sized, web-based learning communities. Features include simple messaging (posties), discussions, and keywords, page-authoring, online bookmarks, workgroups, site newspaper and multimedia file-upload.

This celestial program will create starfields for use in your favorite 3D or image editing program. It allows you to design your own universe right on your desktop. It features a series of tools to generate various starfields, add large stars, flared stars, stars and nebulas, spiral galaxies, and star streams, and then render it all into a gorgeous starry night..

This collection of four Photoshop plug-ins includes ChromaSolarize&emdash;adds hyperpigmentation to images for a bright burst of color effect, Tachyon inverts the light and dark areas of your image but doesn't change the hues, Make Opaque turns an image layer 100% opaque and can help repair a corupted transparency channel, and Ghost&emdash;turns any image layer into a semi-transparent picture in greyscale. Requires a Photoshop plug-in compatible host program.

Spooky Pictures
Catherine B. Kunicki

Requires: Color, Hypercard 2.2 or 2.3, 3 meg RAM
Source: info-mac/edu/yng/spooky-pictures-101-hc.hqx
Download Size: 204 Kb

Description: Spooky Pictures is a freeware stack intended mainly for pre-school kids, although I suspect some older ones will enjoy it, too - Katherine definitely does. It allows a child to make and save a color halloween picture by selecting images from palette choices which include witches, bats, pumpkins, ghosts, cats and so forth.

Download from: - info-mac hyperarchive - ftp://amug.org - ftp://mirror.apple.com - and - ftp://mirrors.blue.aol.com

Surf the Net and control your CD audio right from your Web browser. This browser-based CD audio player will allow you to build sophisticated Web interfaces that can play, stop, pause, navigate, and adjust the volume of a CD in your CD-ROM drive right from your favorite browser. You can even control your tunes right from the location/URL field of your browser. Supports both Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Skull Puzzle
A.D.A.M. Software Inc.

Requires: 68030 processor/16MHz or higher or Power Macintosh in native mode, System 7, 13-inch or larger monitor, 256 colors
Source: kidstuff/mac/ADAMSkullPuzzle.sit.hqx
Download Size: 957 K

Description: Piece the skull back together, and learn the names of some of the bones in the process. When you're done, press the 'done' button for a creepy animation. This will startle young children - beware!

Download from: - US: ftp.gamesdomain.com - UK: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk - UK: ftp.gamesdomain.co.uk - and - Russia: ftp.gamesdomain.ru

Spooky Sound Utility
Cartoon Network

Requires: Color Mac
Source: spooksnd.sea.hqx
Download Size: 2.2 meg

Description: Join the ghastly ghouls in a serenade of howls, hoots, and haunting sounds. Click around on the "Spooky Sound Utility" to find the levers and knobs that flip through scary pictures that are accompanied by eerie sound effects. Bats, rattling skeletons, or a howlingly haunted house can add a lot of fear to an already frightening Halloween!

There are only 7 pictures and maybe 10 sound effects, so play time is limited.

Download from: - US: For Mac 68k - and - US: For Mac PPC

Spooky Nerds Game
Willy Wonka Candy Factory

Requires: PPC Mac
Source: SpookyPPC.sea.hqx
Download Size: about 1.4 meg

Description: Find your way through the maze to Dr. Dren's Laboratory to destroy his machine and save the nerds. Along the way, pick up light orbs and shockie zaps. You'll need the shockie zaps to change the Spooky Nerds® back to friendly nerds, and you'll also need them to keep the Whangdoodles from stealing your light orbs! Find the keys, and the candy to bribe the Snozzwanglers so that you can get to the next level of the maze. You need to make it through three levels to get to the lab! Good luck!

Download from: - For PPC Macs: US: ftp.gamesdomain.com - UK: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk - UK: ftp.gamesdomain.co.uk

Scooby Doo in Monster Manor
Cartoon Network

Requires: Color Mac
Source: scooby_68k.hqx, scooby_ppc.hqx
Download Size: about 3 meg

Description: Creep into this spooky story with Scooby and Shaggy. Kids will need to read their way through this short, but mysterious game to find a secret passage and a fun, monster-matching game. Match the pictures to shut down the monster machine, and save Shaggy and Scooby Doo from fiendish Frankie!

Download from: - US: For 68k Macs - and - US: For PPC Macs