Some months ago I went looking for the Pac Man arcade game, during a bout of boredom or insanity, I don’t know which. I looked first for the PC, seeing as how they always seem to do games for Windows first, but wasn’t able to find an acceptable freeware version. But then I found Pac the Man 2 for the Mac, a freeware Pac Man true to the arcade genre, and it’s actually very good. If you have countless hours to waste and don’t mind getting your fingers all achy, go ahead and try it.

By way of that introduction is the site I linked to for the download: Version Tracker. A site that keeps track of new versions of software, and often completely new software. You can search the archive, or you can resolve categories. Under Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X or PalmOS (I linked to Mac OS X above) you can access Shareware, Freeware, Beta or Commercial software, or choose a software type (Utilities, Games, etc.), presented in sortable lists. I usually do a weekly check for Freeware under the Mac OS X section. Each download has an area for use reviews and version histories. It’s a pretty good tool for getting the software you want.

A good Mac download from the past few days: Drop2DV, a video encoding app that allows you to take either MPEG files or VOB (DVD Video) files and convert them to DV files, which are easily editable by iMovie–and MPEG/VOB files are not easily–if at all–editable by standard software. I just tried it out, and it works–at least for me…