I hate to criticize your list, but your missing the best back-to-school app there is for the mac (IMO). Check out SchoolHouse, which you can find directly at the developer’s website (http://www.loganscollins.com/schoolhouse), at Apple.com, or at SoftPedia.com.

This program rivals iProcrastinate, which you have listed, and I think it is better because it has more features like keeping track of grades and more. What it does is it allows you to create “terms” based on your school terms, and then add all the subjects you are taking to that term.

Once you add the subject, you can add all sorts of information to better organize you: the name of the teacher, the specific times during the day and week that you will have the class, daily assignments or long term projects, exam dates, class notes, and most importantly GRADES. SchoolHouse takes all your information and processes it to make a large calendar that helps you through the year, and I think theres even an option to sync the info with iCal for even better efficiency.

The main reason I love this software is that it has the ability to add grades in. When you first start a new subject in a new term, it will ask you how much the teacher places importance on things like exams, homework, quiz grades, projects, etc. This way the program will be able to understand how much each one of these is going to affect your overall grade. Then it asks what kind of grade system your teacher has (either a percentage base system or a point-base system). All you have to do from then on, is keep entering all the grades you receive, and the program will calculate the averages based on what you previously gave it, and show you your current over all grade.

Like all programs, this one has setbacks, such as a weak, over-simplified word processor for taking notes and the grade calculations it makes are not always exact as it can’t factor in class participation, but overall I like it alot and it helped me get through the last term of school last year. Looking forward to use it again this year and to hear your comments about it.

Oh and to “bipolar2,” I’m interested to know how StumbleUpon is ideal for research? LOL, seems like you’d have a one in one thousand chance to find the article you were looking for, but I like the thinking.

–Ethan

I hate norton, mcafee etc. They seem to do more harm than good, but I agree that Mac users seem to play off the virus issues… We always have the theoretical potential to pass them on to our Windows counterparts.

Thanks for the list.

But anyways, I had Azureus on the Windows list, so I thought I should find a different one for macs.

And, I like I said before, I just picked one program for every category, so I picked the rubber ducky one; but there are tons of alternatives.

And I do like NeoOffice, but running on my brother powerbook, it is actually slower than Office… but that may just be his system

@Sil: Actually, xtorrent is really cool; i just narrowly chose transmission over it.