xCHM is an open source (GPL'ed) viewer for reading Microsoft's proprietary .CHM (compiled HTML) files. These .chm files are commonly used as product manuals, and lots of e-books come in this format. For instance, the PHP manuals and the Java class library references are primarily available in .chm format. Previously, there was no way that I could find to read these on OS X, without using a utility that would decompress the HTML into a million tiny files. This program was originally written for Linux, but because it was written using the wxWindows (www.wxwindows.org) GUI Toolkit, it was fairly easy to compile it to run as a native Mac application. Even though this was originally Unix software, X11 IS NOT REQUIRED. All I did was tweak the source a little to get it to be a little more Mac-friendly, and create a double-clickable application bundle. What's New: Version 0.9.0: fixes a small index bug and adds translations for Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian. | 
