This page contains links to software and resources that I have found very useful. Thanks to Brad Anderson for providing most of the MAC links.

PopChar Pro & PopChar X — Are you tired of the limitations of Key Caps, then you will love this software. Once it is loaded it is always available. PopChar Pro displays all the characters in the font that you are using.
http://http://www.macility.com/products/index.html

Drag Thing — DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. Simply drag an application from the Finder onto an empty square in a dock and then drag documents onto it as normal. Click a docked application to launch it or bring it to the front.
http://www.dragthing.com/

Drag Strip — Get one-click access to all your most frequently used files, applications, Web sites, pictures, music, and more. Even network servers or virtual online disks are just a click away. Launch, find, organize, and access applications and documents quickly and efficiently without having to search all over your computer. DragStrip puts everything within easy reach.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/dragstrip/index.html

StuffIt — StuffIt makes communicating via the Internet, email, and with other computer platforms, seamless and hassle-free.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/

ZipIt — ZipIt is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems.
http://www.maczipit.com/

Screen Catcher — Screen Catcher is a screen capture application capable of taking snapshots of screen images and saving them as PICT, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, Photoshop, SGI, MacPaint,TGA, and QuickTime files. It also allows images to be captured to the clipboard, the printer, or to Screen Catcher's own windows, where they can be manipulated to change the color palette or reduce the number of colors in the image before copying, printing, or saving.
http://www.stclairsoft.com/ScreenCatcher/index.html

Snapz Pro — Snapz Pro X supports saving screen images as .bmp, .pict, .gif, .jpg, .png, .tiff, .pdf, or Photoshop files, and can even record the action as a QuickTime movie! Screenshots can be scaled, cropped, color depth-changed, and dithered. Snapz Pro X can also add borders, generate automatic thumbnails, overlay watermarks/copyright notices... you name it, we got it!
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

Default Folder — Tired of wasting time opening and saving files? By enhancing the Open and Save dialog boxes on your Macintosh, Default Folder makes managing your files almost automatic. Simply install Default Folder, set your preferences, and start saving time and aggravation!
http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolder/index.html

Drag Strip — Get one-click access to all your most frequently used files, applications, Web sites, pictures, music, and more. Even network servers or virtual online disks are just a click away. Launch, find, organize, and access applications and documents quickly and efficiently without having to search all over your computer. DragStrip puts everything within easy reach.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/dragstrip/index.html

WinZip — WinZip is the premier archive utility for Windows.
http://www.winzip.com

StuffIt — StuffIt makes communicating via the Internet, email, and with other computer platforms, seamless and hassle-free.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/

EditPlus — is an Internet-ready 32-bit text editor, HTML editor and programmer's editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.
http://www.editplus.com/

EditPro — text editor allows you to edit several files of unlimited size at a time. Syntax highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Pascal/Delphi, Java, ASP, PHP, Perl, CSS, etc. The program has fully customizable interface. It supports tools, projects, cliptext libraries and much more.
http://www.serpik.com/editpro/

ExamDiff Pro — is a shareware version of a popular freeware file comparison program ExamDiff. There are several reasons why you would prefer to use ExamDiff Pro over ExamDiff: 

• ExamDiff Pro can compare directories.
• It also allows file or directory comparison from the directory comparison panes with a simple double-click on one of the files or directories to be compared.
• ExamDiff Pro allows the copying, renaming, and deleting files or directories from the directory comparison panes via menu, toolbar buttons, or a right button pop up. Any of these operations is followed by automatic re-synchronization of the compared directories.
• You can sort directories in the left or the right pane by name, size, type, or last modification time without losing synchronization.
• ExamDiff Pro highlights differences down to the level of words or characters in changed lines.
• You can also print (and print preview) the diff report.
• ExamDiff Pro allows synchronous word wrapping of long lines.
• It also lets you edit files right inside comparison panes.
• Finally, by registering this shareware program you will support further development of ExamDiff Pro.

http://www.prestosoft.com/examdiff/examdiffpro.htm

FrameUsers — The Online User Group and Reference Site for Adobe® FrameMaker®.
http://www.FrameUsers.com

FrameUsers — PowerTools — Instead of listing them here I have provided a link to the FrameUsers Site, once there click on PowerTools.
http://www.frameusers.com/

IXGen — This is the first index tool that I used and still love it.
http://www.fsatools.com/

Archive, BookInfo, ImpGraph, MifSave, RtfSave, and SnapOff — Bruce Foster has created some great plug-ins, I have them all! Instead of describing them hear just click on the link below and read all about them.
http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/

Auto-Text, Index Tools, Index Tools Professional, Alert Tool, Master Page Tools, and Paragraph Tools — Silicon Prairie Software creates some great add-on software and utilities.
http://www.kagi.com/SPSoftware/

TableCleaner, FindChangeSpecial Plugin 1.2, PageLabeler 2.0, RenameFilesInBook 2.02, and RunaroundNone 1.0 — Carmen Publishing (a.k.a. Rick Quatro) has created some very impressive plug-ins.
http://www.frameexpert.com/

Toolbox — is a range of utilities created by Systec that are specially tailored for use with Adobe FrameMaker. It allows you to be one hundred percent certain when editing your documents that they are of absolutely top quality while at the same offering huge timesavings. Just click on the link below and select SOLUTIONS from the selection at the top right.
http://www.systec-gmbh.com/tdsolution/en/index.html

Visual Thought — is a cross-platform diagramming & flowcharting tool for the enterprise that runs on Windows 95/NT and UNIX. It lets you effortlessly create technical and documentation graphics, network diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, software design diagrams (UML, Booch, OMT, Objectory, etc.), circuit & logic diagrams and business and presentation graphics. Choose from a library of drag-and-drop palettes, or create your own with user-definable shapes. Edit your work easily with 100 levels of undo. Publish your diagrams into Word or FrameMaker documents or right onto the Web with GIF and JPEG output and instant clickable imagemaps.

The file installation.txt is essential for instruction and license number. The file VT14.exe is the Win application.
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/diagramming/confluent/

Leximation Tools — has a number of plug-ins that are available for FrameMaker.
http://www.leximation.com/tools/

CopyFlow — provides additional menu selections which let you automatically import and export text and artwork into QuarkXPress layouts.
http://www.napsys.com/cflow.html

MIF Filter — provides the capability of opening FrameMaker MIF files in QuarkXPress or saving QuarkXPress files as MIF.
http://www.goldwein.com/products/

Language Fonts

• Linguist's Software is where I go if I need fonts to work in Languages. They provide Type 1 and TrueType fonts for both MAC and PC.
  http://www.linguistsoftware.com
  
  
• Font World is a location that I just found that provides fonts for Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Central Europeon, Greek and Vietnamese. They provide Type 1 and TrueType fonts for the MAC, Windows version will be available later this year.
  http://www.fontworld.com
  
  

CrossPlatform Converter — This description is straight from their site. "The CrossPlatform Converter is a Macintosh utility that enables you to transfer Russian, Eastern European, Modern Greek, or Turkish documents that follow the Microsoft and Apple code page standards for each of those languages between the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The converter can handle documents saved in either Rich Text Format (RTF or Interchange format) or Text-only formatting."
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/CPlatfrm.htm

WebBudget — If you need to count text for a web translation project, you can count on WebBudget.
http://www.webbudget.com/

PDFCount — is a plug-in that gives you the statistics for your PDF file. It is a great tool for companies to determine word count.
http://www.pdfcount.com/

PDFZone — A great place for all things pertaining to PDF.
http://www.pdfzone.com/

Convergexe's WordTraverse — is an automated Microsoft Word bulk document counting utility with invoicing capabilities used by transcription companies and businesses that charge by rates based upon text document length specifications. WordTraverse works using Microsoft Word version: 97, 2000, XP or 2003, to count any supported document that Microsoft Word supports *(i.e. Word documents, Works documents, and WordPerfect documents)
http://www.wordtraverse.com/