Mac Freeware
http://www.thriftmac.com/
When I switched to Mac, This is where I started. It's still one of my favorites!
http://osxfreeware.blogspot.com/
Your daily roundup of the most recent freeware for Mac OS X.
Musician
http://www.fender.com/
Fender Frontline online, Products, Artist's and Fender Store.
http://www.ampwares.com/ffg/
Here you will find very usefull information on fender amps. The parent site, Ampwares also sells replacement parts.
http://www.guitargeek.com/
Here is the guitar rig database. It is a pretty good site. It is mostly live rigs. I wish it had more studio rigs. That would be cool!
http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi
Here you can find out about all those guitar gadgets you love to stomp on. This site has the biggest selection of pedals for sell that I've seen.
MacHelp
http://lifehacker.com/
Daily weblog on software and personal productivity recommends downloads, web sites and shortcuts that help you work smarter and save time. Basis for a book.
http://developer.apple.com/
Provides news and technical information for Apple Developers.
Research
http://www.wikipedia.org/
The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
The information on this site is also available in a print booklet, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, Fourth Edition, by Diana Hacker.
Free Office Productivity Alternatives
http://www.neooffice.org/
NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac featu
http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=3
Desktop publishing. Complicated install, but a nice app.
http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15699
Nvu is a standalone 'WYSIWYG' (WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet) HTML editor based on Gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine.
http://www.inkscape.org/
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that ofAn Open Source vector graph
http://www.postgresql.org/
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system.
OS X Software You Need!
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Macs are not completely maintainence free. You will find the best FREE maintainence apps for Tiger & Leopard here.
http://www.santasw.com/
Here is where you find 'mainmenu.app' that can park in the finder bar which makes it very accessible to run maintainence tasks 'on the fly, It works quite well and it's FREE!
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Transmission bittorrent client runs natively on multiple operating systems. It's open source and works great on OS X!
http://www.panic.com/unison/
It's not free but well worth it's current price. Unison is the best usenet client I've come across.
http://www.skype.com/
With Skype you can make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like, to wherever you like. It is free to download.
http://www.plaxo.com/
Plaxo keeps your contact info up to date and coordinates with all your emails such as gMails, Yahoo, Hotmail. Works with Outlook and Apple Mail.
http://www.circusponies.com/store/index.php?main_page=notebook&sub=organize
Notes & Outlines.
http://getxpad.com/
One window unlimited documents, automatically saves and opens your documents.
Music
http://www.emusic.com/
Here is a great site for hard to find, unusual, as well as new releases.
Library
Movies
http://www.imdb.com/
IMDb: The biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet.
http://movies.go.com/
Movies.com: movie reviews, movie trailers, movie tickets and showtimes. Movies.com: Get Movie Night Right!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Movie Trailers, Movie Reviews and New Movie Previews from Rotten Tomatoes - The Ultimate Movie Reaction Site!
http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=BJyaM1Ir_R9-JKIHUeIHO8N8I3LmjP5z_xY8ElOHE9wPw9RIIABABGAE4AFCByYzs-f____8BYMnGiI3kpIgUyAEBgAIB2QMbtH6SuFvC4Q&sig=AGiWqtxEKjLtHBjwUZnlNZ60T0pDyOeP1g&q=http://www.indiepix.net
Foreign Films, Festival Favorites Find Them in our Curated Catalog
Photography
http://www.photography.com/
Photography: Share, Learn, Create in the Photography.com Community
http://www.dpreview.com/
Digital Camera Reviews and News: Digital Photography Review ...
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/
Digital Photography School — Digital Photography Tips for You
http://www.shortcourses.com/
ShortCourses-The On-line Library of Digital Photography