Now Utilities

Now Utilities was a collection of file and system management utilities developed by Now Software for classic Mac OS.

History
Now Utilities was originally released for System 6 in 1990. Version 2 was released in 1991 with support for System 7. It was listed as a top 10 best seller by MacWEEK in that year. French and German versions were released in 1993. Version 5 shipped in 1994 and was localized for the Japanese market. Version 6 was released in 1996.

Changes of ownership
On November 10, 1997, announced that it had acquired Now Software, which at the time was the 71st-largest software company in the United States. In August 1998, Power On Software acquired the Now Utilities product line from Qualcomm.

Discontinuation
The final release was version 6.7, which supported up to Mac OS 7.6.1. It was not updated to support Mac OS 8 and was discontinued. Power On Software attempted to replace Now Utilities with ACTION Utilities with support for Mac OS 9. However, it did not reach the same level of success and the company, which renamed itself to Now Software, went out of business in March 2010.

Version 6.x

 * Now Profile
 * Now Startup Manager
 * Now Tabs
 * Super Boomerang