The following notes on PIC programmers apply only to PC (Windows). There are no programmers for Apple Macintosh.
Crocodile Technology is able to program microcontroller systems directly by using plug-ins (pieces of software through which Crocodile Technology communicates with programming hardware). Crocodile Technology comes with two plug-ins and allows the option of adding a third plug-in.
The Crocodile Technology plug-ins support embedded microcontroller systems and traditional PIC programmer systems.