Links to Apple Websites and Books
Also Software and utilities.
Apple.com - Sitemap
MacAddict
MacRumors
Apple.slashdot.org - News and Gossip
MacOSXhints.com - Hints & Tips, Q&A
MacTipsandTricks.com
MacDevCenter.com - Technical Tips
Cringely - Pundit
Ultimate Mac - What's New
Primer: What is Mac OS X - Architecture, Features, Software, Why choose it?
Darwin Project - Open Source at Apple
X11 on OS X - Configure and run X11 applications on Mac OS X
IBM - Run Linux on Mac - Distribrutions for the mac platform, advice, dual booting.
Customer Installable Parts - Apple Support
Apple Manuals - for old hardware
Apple downloads - New and old versions of Apple software
OS X Help
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal - Chris Stone (menu)
OS X FAQ - Unix Tutorials
ManOpen - A GUI to find and open man pages
Developer.Apple.com - OS X Documentation
Apple Developer Connection - OS X Documentation
Apple Support - Patches and Security updates
Repair Manuals - in PDF format
Apple Developer Tools - Extra shell commands plus development tools.
(supplied on CD with OS X 10.3 )
MacOSX.org - 8 lessons on the Mac command line
Colour Picker - How to share colour schemes between Mac applications
Man Pages - Huntsville Mac Users Group
Apple Corp. Discussion
OS X Books
OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
by David Pogue
The "must have" guide for all Mac OS X users
Learning the bash Shell (O'Reilly 3rd edition)
by Cameron Newham
Bash shell programming, flow control structures, job control.
Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks
by Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
The book to buy if you already know UNIX
Learning Unix for Mac OSX Tiger
By Dave Taylor
Compact book that provides a user-friendly tour of the Mac's Unix base.
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
Aimed at the advanced to expert user who wants to dig into the underpinnings of Unix.
Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide
by Chuck Toporek
A small and affordable reference bookAppleScript : The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg
The whole truth about AppleScriptBooks that are popular with the staff at Apple Corporation.
Buy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from Amazon
Hardware
Apple 60 GB Video iPod - MP3 Player
Griffin powermate - USB controller (GriffinTech)
SideTrack - 2 button driver for PowerBook and iBook trackpads
iskin.com - Cases and covers
Utilities
AbiWord - Word Processor
Colloquy.info - Chat/IRC client
Apple Remote Desktop - Software Distribution & Remote control
Brian Hill Utilities - Launcher, firewall and more.
DiskWarrior - Disk Repair
Data Rescue II - Data Recovery
DoubleCommand - Remap keys to change the way the keyboard works
DragThing - Improve the OS X Dock
Fink - Open Source Games, Audio, Crypto and more
FTP: Cyberduck
FTP: Panic Transmit
FTP: PureFTPd
iPulse - System monitor, CPU & Network activity
Max - Convert between MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF and WAV
Menu Meters - CPU, memory, disk & Network activity
Monolingual - Save ~500MB by removing foreign languages
Neo Office - Open Office for Mac (MS Office compatible)
OnyX - Maintain and optimize OS X
Parallels.com - Run win 32 programs in parallel with OS X apps
rsyncX - Backup / File copy & Synchronize
RCDefaultApp - Set default applications
Service Scrubber - Clean up the Apple/Services menu
Secrets.textdriven - OS X preference pane (10.5)
Splunk - Log Files: monitor, report, search.
StartupSound - Adjust volume of the boot chime
TinkerTool - User interface tinkering
Unpkg - unpack the files in a package
UnSanity - OS tinkering
Darwine - Run windows apps on OS X
Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 or Upgrade By Microsoft Corp ~ Examples
VNC for OS X - via RedstoneSoftware.com
OS X Virus Scanner - based on open source ClamAV
X Windows for OS X By Apple Corp
Scripting and Programming Utilities
CocoaDialog - GUI controls from the command-line
Platypus - Create a MacOS X application to execute a bundled script.
Pashua - Aqua dialog windows for Perl, Python, AppleScript and shell scripts.
DeepVacuum - wget, Get Webpages.
iTerm - Tabbed Terminal sessions
Freshly Squeezed - Mail, RSS and Terminal utilities.
MacPython - Programming
Tidbits.com - Memory monitor & Applescript
osx gnu - Open Source - Gimp, Ghostscript etc
CocoaMySql - Database management
Oracle 10g - Oracle Database
ScriptGUI - Run shell scripts from the finder
Smultron - Text Editor
TextWrangler - Text Editor
Graphics Utilities
ArtRage - Painting
BitCom FreeSee - Browse & preview pics and graphics
Blender - 3D graphics
Delicious Monster - Manage books, movies, music
Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
ImagingFactory - B&W Convert
iPhoto Buddy - Use more than one Library with iPhoto
Media Pro - iPhoto replacement
PictureCode - Noise Reduction
SnapNDrag - Capture screen shots and save as PNG, JPG or TIFF
Audio and Video
AcquisitionX - Filesharing client
Ardour.org - Multi-track digital audio
AudioHijack - Capture streaming audio (Real)
Blacktree.com - Apps Launcher, iTunes encoder
CarbonCopyCloner - Clone/backup hard drive
DropMP3 - CD ripper
Handbrake - DVD Ripper
Mac the Ripper - DVD Ripper
VLC Audio/Video Player - MP3, wma, DVD, Flac etc
WireTap pro - Record at preset times (capture from radio etc)
Windows Media Player & QuickTime components
Everything else..
Download.com - Mac Section
VersionTracker.com - Mac Applications
cool osx apps
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