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An App Lineup, Sorbet Leopard on G5 DP 2.3 GHz Summary: Now that you have Sorbet Leopard deployed and running on your PPC Mac, what can you DO with it? This post looks into the apps I have deployed on my Sorbet-equipped PowerMac G5 on the assumption that the apps deployed tell a lot about what the machine can do. Post Body: Previous posts have detailed how to install Sorbet Leopard and explained why it is superior to the base Leopard release itself. So, with Sorbet Leopard now installed and operational, what can you DO with it? Well, it turns out that you can do a LOT! The lineup of applications deployed on a machine reveals much about what the machine is used for. In this case, the machine is my Sorbet-equipped PowerMac G5 DP 2.3 GHz, but this same app lineup could probably be deployed onto any machine that Sorbet can be installed on. So what is the app lineup deployed on my Sorbet-equipped PowerMac G5 DP 2.3 GHz? Below is the list of apps currently deployed on the machine, most of which I use fairly often. Of KEY importance in this list is the version numbers of each application; it can often be incredibly hard to find out the correct version of an application for the operating system version that you want to run it on. With that in mind, I have documented below not just the applications, but each application's version number. MANY of these are available directly from the Sorbet Application Store and/or the PPCAppStore (which itself is available via the Sorbet App Store). Others can be obtained from Macintosh Garden (http://www.macintoshgarden.org) and the remainder from wherever "Mr. Google" may take you to. Sorbet App Store PPC App Store Omitted from the list below are the stock Apple applications that come with the OS: iTunes, Disk Utility and so on. These are base applications that come with every Sorbet install and so shed no light on anything unique. One deployed application set deserves special mention: Adobe Creativity Suite CS3. I am a long time Photoshop user, having purchased every version of it since Photoshop CS. HOWEVER, Adobe has made it impossible to use these versions any longer, or at least on any machines other than the ones they were originally deployed on, even though users have paid full price and have valid serial numbers to show for it. How has Adobe done this? They dismantled the Activation Servers for CS2, CS3 and CS4 (the last version that will execute on PPC)! WHY did Adobe do this? You tell me! You can install CS2, CS3 and CS4, but they can no longer be "activated" (no activation servers to communicate with!) and as such they expire after 30 days, becoming simply a waste of disk space. There is ONE exception to this, and I had thought it to be urban legend until just last week. It was reputed that Adobe had briefly fielded a Student and Teacher edition of CS3 that did not require activation, and that if you could lay your hands on such a version, you could still use it as long as you had a valid CS3 serial number. Of course I do, but my efforts to find such a version of CS3 had always come up empty. I therefore assumed that this was indeed wishful thinking: a classic urban legend. THEN, last week while I was looking for something entirely different, I stumbled across the holy grail: a version of CS3 that the site said was activation-free. I downloaded it and installed it, all with very low expectations. I assumed that I would just have to uninstall after it failed activation, but I had to try it anyway. In this case however, and much to my delight, the urban legend proved to be reality: there was no request for activation and with my valid serial number, it completed installation and works like a charm! I would much rather be using CS4 than CS3, but CS3 is now the only deployable PPC Photoshop I have and so I will wish for CS4 but will settle for CS3. Where did I get this activation-free version? I wish I could tell you, but my expectations were so low that I completely failed to record the source at the time. Now I can't find it anymore! It IS out there as of Aug 2024 - I found it, downloaded it and it works! With enough effort, I am sure I could find it again, and I am equally sure that you can as well. Happy hunting! Alright - on with the list of apps! Application Name Version Application Description AbiWord 2.4 Open source word processor, part of Gnome Office Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 Acrobat PDF Distiller and Reader Adobe Bridge CS3 Adobe Bridge, CS3 Adobe Contribute CS3 Adobe Contribute, CS3 Adobe Device Central CS3 Adobe Device Central, CS3 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Adobe Dreamweaver web design program, CS3 Adobe Extension Manager CS3 Adobe Extention Manager, CS3 Adobe Fireworks CS3 Adobe Fireworks, CS3 Adobe Flash Player CS3 Adobe Flash Player, CS3 Adobe Flash Video Encoder CS3 Adobe Flash Video Encoder Adobe Help Center CS3 Adobe Help Center, CS3 Adobe Help Viewer CS3 Adobe Help Viewer, CS3 Adobe Illustrator CS3 Adobe Illustrator, CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Adobe Photoshop, CS3, THE golden standard of image editors Adobe Stock Photos CS3 Adobe Stock Photos, CS3 Adobe Reader 7.0.7 Adobe PDF Reader 7.0.7 Adobe Reader 9.5.5 Adobe PDF Reader 9.5.5 AppleWorks 6.2 AppleWorks Office Suite, 6.2 AquaWeb micro unversioned DuckDuckGo Search Interface, Needs InterWebPPC Aquafox 1.0.0-beta1 AquaFox Web Browser, current and maintained TenFourFox build Audacity 2.0.6 Audio player, encoder BBEdit 9.3.1 Long standing, powerful Mac text editor (last PPC version) Bean 2.4.4 Lightweight but surprisingly good word processor Burn 2.5.1 CD/DVD burning program CandyBar 3.3 Alternate icons for Mac OS X Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3 Classic volume clone utility Chicken 2.2b2 Chicken of the VNC, a VNC client ChocoFlop 0.909 Image editor, based on GIMP Classic Menu 2.8.1 Multi-colored menubar Apple, classic Apple Menu, for Mac OS X CocoViewX 0.9.6 Image viewer, web image gallery generator Cog 0.7 Audio player CorePlayer 2015 Media player Cyberduck 3.2.1 FTP client Disk Inventory 1.0 Disk usage analysis program Disk Order 3.2 Dual pane file manager Fetch 5.6 FTP Client FileZilla 3.8.0 FTP Client Find Any File 1.8.6 File finder - much better than Spotlight IMHO Firefox 3.6.19 Last PPC build of Firefox web browser ForkLift 1.7.8 EXCELLENT dual pane file manager, FTP client GNUMail 1.3 GNU email client Geekbench 2.2.0 Performance analysis program Gimp 2.6.8 GNU Image Manipulation Program, THE classic Linux image editor GraphicConverter 7.6.2 Hugely capable image editor, format converter HandBrake 0.9.3 Video converter Iconverter 0.9 Create .icns files from any image iClock 3.0.5 Color and added details for menubar clock and date iGlasses 2.1.3 iSight camera settings interface ImageWell 3.4.1 Image editor, can add text, shapes and watermarks to images InterWebPPC RR4 Web browser, current up to 2021 Internet Explorer 5.2 Microsoft's web browser for PPC iStatMenus 3.1 Real time menubar status of CPU, network, RAM, etc. iTerm 2.0-legacy An alternate to Terminal.app jAlbum 10.3 Image, thumbnail viewer JustLooking 3.3 Very good image viewer Lanikai 3.1.13 Email client based on Thunderbird LibreOffice 4.0.6.2 Open source office suite, version 4.x LibreOfficeDev 5.2.0 Open source office suite, version 5.x Logitech Control Center 3.3 Settings for Logitech keyboard, mice Lynx 2.9.2 Terminal-based Gopher, Web browser MPlayer OS X 1.4Extended Classic Linux video player, for Mac OS X MacLampsX 2.0 Christmas lights on your Mac desktop! Macintosh Explorer 5.2 File manager Max 0.9.1 Audio player, converter MenuMeters 1.8.1 Menubar real time status for CPU Usage, network usage, RAM etc. Microsoft Office 2004 Microsoft Office 2004 (doesn't support .docx, .xlsx, etc.) Microsoft Office 2008 Microsoft Office 2008 No-IP DUC 3.1.5 No-IP Dynamic Update Client OmniWeb 5.11.2 Fast web browser, current to 2012, no longer maintained OnyX 2.0.6 Classic Mac OS X maintenance program, Leopard edition PPCAppStore unversioned Excellent repository of PPC apps Pacifist 1.6.2 Install assistant PathFinder 5.2.2 File manager, Finder alternative PixelMator 1.5.1 Very capable image editor QuickFans 0.1 Menubar real time status of CPU temp, fan speed Screenium 1.5 Screen scraper, real time video capture Seashore 0.5.1 Image editor, based on GIMP Skype 2.8.0.866 Microsoft's Skype client for PPC - no longer supported Smultron 3.5 Excellent GUI text editor SoX Wrap 1.2 Audio editor, converter Sorbet App Store 1.0 Excellent repository of Sorbet and other PPC apps Spyder2PRO 2.2 Color calibration for monitor - requires Spyder colorimeter StuffIt 10.0 Classic Macintosh compression/expansion program SuperDuper! 2.6.4 Another classic volume cloning utility TenFourFoxG5 So Long and Thanks for all the Fish PPC build of Firefox, current up to 2021, no longer maintained Tenfourbird 38.9.0 PPC build of Thunderbird, no longer maintained TextMate 1.5.10 Text editor The Unarchiver 3.9.1 Swiss Army Knife of archives; open any archive format TinkerTool 4.5.1 Adjust Mac OS X GUI and other parameters ToyViewer 5.0 Image viewer Turbo.264 1.4 Accelerated H.264 video player VLC 2.0.10 THE classic Linux video player Vox 0.2.6 f Audio player WhatSize 10.3.91 Disk usage analysis program X-MasTree 1.2 Put a Christmas tree on your Mac desktop Xee 2.2 Excellent small, inobtrusive image viewer Xfolders 1.6 Commander-style dual pane file manager xACT 1.73 Audio player, converter xv 3.10a THE classic unix image viewer Does this make you think of any killer PPC apps that are not on the list? Don't hesitate to Comment on this post and I will add your suggested app(s) to the list. Enjoy!