Common PC File Format Mac Equivalent Software Titles

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One software title which didn't fit into any category, but might be of interest, since it duplicates windows management more common to the Microsoft Windows management design is Coderange's Zooom which allows you to resize your window using shortcuts from anywhere within the window instead of just the corners. Another is RAGE Macintosh Explorer which combines the best of Microsoft Windows and Mac file management including tree based directory file management.

The following outline links to a series of tables that include Mac software equivalent titles to Windows compatible titles that work without emulation or virtualization:

Office formats
E-mail and addressbooks
Vector (line diagram and drawings), GPS (satellite tracking), and Raster (pixel based imagery)

Video and Audio

Office formats
Microsoft Access Filemaker Pro Migrator with Filemaker or Filemaker with Actual Technologies ODBC Plugin	Office 2007 and earlier (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint) DocXConveter, Neo Office Microsoft Office Mac, iWork '08, Think Free Office, Open Office, Neo Office, MacOfficePro	Word and Powerpoint only iWork version '06 and earlier	Word and Excel Only Mariner Software's Calc and Write, Open OS X Office, Appleworks (only limited support in Appleworks)	limited Word and Excel Appleworks	Word only Nisus Express, Mellel, TextEdit (comes with all versions of Mac OS X, and is mostly RTF only)	Wordperfect Abiword, Neooffice, MaclinkPlus	Powerpoint only (in read only mode) Tonicpoint Viewer also saves slides as PDF, JPEG, or PNG.	Excel only Mesa	Additional Word, Excel PC Word Processor and Spreadsheet conversion software Dataviz MaclinkPlus

E-mail and Addressbook
Exchange Apple's Mail, Entourage (part of Microsoft Office for the Mac) Exchange to iCal conversion in GoupCal.	Enterouge (included with Microsoft's Office for Mac) alternative Entourage Migration FAQ.	Hotmail Apple's Mail has a plugin available for it.	Lotus Notes VCU shows how easy it is to setup Lotus Notes for the Mac	LDIF Apple's Addressbook program has built-in support LDIF addresses.	Act! AB Transfer imports Symantec Act! to Mac OS X addressbook.

Vector, GPS, and Raster
AutoCad Engineered Software's PowerCADD, Open OS X Office, TurboCad, Ashler Vellum has several different CAD titles availalble, Artiface, Graphisoft's ArchiCad, Autodessys's Formz, LemkeSoft's CADintosh, Denaba CAD, Real CADD, Ilexsoft's High Design, VectorWorks The website http://www.architosh.com/ is a great resource for CAD programs and users of CAD on the Macintosh platform where you can check for reviews and user opinions about the various products.	Visio Concept Draw's Visio converter which converts all your Visio files to the crossplatform Concept Draw software. OmniGraffile, Crossover Mac has Visio module for editing Visio right on the Mac	Global Positioning System (GPS) RoadNav, RouteBuddy, GPS Connect, GPS NavX, MacGPS Pro, GPSY, Hiketech, Route 66 (mapping software that ties into GPS units), Macmap usergroup on Yahoo (no affiliation with Macmaps, and was discovered long after I created the Macmaps domain)	Photo and Painting Graphic Converter, MacOfficePro, Microfrontier's ColorIt, Seashore, iPhoto (included with every Mac), MacGimp, and of course plenty of Adobe titles from Photoshop, to Illustrator to InDesign to Photoshop Elements, Open OS X Office, PhotoLine

Video and Audio
Movie Editing iMovie (included with every Mac), Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier	Audio MPEG-3, AIFF, WAVE, Apple Lossless, AAC support iTunes (included with every Mac), Audacity with LAME supports free direct recording of MPEG-3 from audio input	MIDI support Apple Garageband (included with every Mac)	Mixing and notation software GVOX Encore, Sibelius, Apple Soundtrack, Apple Logic Pro, Apple Logic Express, Steinberg's Cubase.