Mac Orchard

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.

1. What is the Orchard all about?

There's nothing more vital to your Internet experience than the most powerful, most up-to-date Internet applications. The Mac Orchard a detailed compilation of what I feel are the most popular and most important Internet applications available today. I do bias my coverage toward shareware and freeware applications because I believe that the authors of these applications can use all the support they can get for the vital programs they produce, but the most worthwhile commercial applications are included as well.

2. What makes the Orchard different from other software download web sites?

First off, The Mac Orchard is not a general-purpose software download web site. I only cover Internet applications on these pages.

Secondarily, another thing that makes The Mac Orchard different from many other software sites you may have visited is that each program contained within it is something I have hand-selected for inclusion. Companies and authors have no automated (or even semi-automated) way of adding applications or updating their applications' listings to The Mac Orchard (although they may email me to suggest an application for inclusion). Additionally, most authors do not email me any information regarding their software updates (although I never refuse offers to supply this information). Instead, I check for application updates myself using software that checks each application's web or FTP site(s) on a daily basis.

The Mac Orchard is more like a "specialty" store that focuses on Internet software for the Mac than a "supermarket" or "mall."

I do this because I love it, not because there's money or fame in it. Anyone who knows me knows that I couldn't stop caring about cool Mac Internet software if I tried.

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