Serial Box
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Serial Box is a monthly compilation of serial numbers for many applications. With both hotly debated legitimate and illegitimate uses, Serial Box, the successor to Surfer's Serials, is the largest, most comprehensive and most popular serial compilation for the Mac OS X operating system. Although it has serials for major Windows compatible applications, the majority of serials are for Macintosh applications.
The primary application used to open the Serial Box database, SerialSeeker, is compatible with only the newest versions of the Mac OS and has many features such as AutoLoad/SmartLaunch, a feature that opens the newest Serial Box database on your computer. Another useful feature in SerialSeeker that is lacking in Saltmine Serial Reader (SMX) is the automatic copying of serial numbers when they are clicked on, called SmartCopy. Also, SerialSeeker has the ability to show only the updated entries, the ability to remember all of your recent searches, and the ability to do a live search, so you don't have to hit enter to see the search results. SMX, the older Serial Box reader, works on Mac OS X only and cannot be used to read the newer Serial Box databases. Saltminer & Passenger, the developers of SMX, have discontinued SMX.
Serials for the Serial Box database are gathered from messages on the alt.binaries.mac.serials newsgroup, emails to database authors and various other sources. The database file generated is in XML format and is averages less than two megabytes in size (unzipped and database only).
