I could use everyone's help here.

bump. i'll bbl and post some stuff.

http://macupdate.com
http://versiontracker.com

These are two sites where you can download freeware apps.

Here's a page that contains tons of apps you might like...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...2&page=1&pp=25

Personally, I suggest

BytesController (for controlling iTunes in the menu bar)
VLC (media player)
Smultron (text editor)
MenuMeters (a menu app for watching system performance)

A good forum to check out is at http://macrumors.com That site contains a huge amount of Mac information.

I second Macrumors.... awesome forum and very mature, unlike most stuff here.

VLC is also very nice.

Also check out Clutter, a very cool add-in for iTunes.

given the software sites listed above i'll list what i have onhand instead of links.

MSN Messenger 5.0

Adium (multi software IM chat program, manages MSN, yahoo, ICQ, and
AIM/iChat accounts)

Bittorrent (P2P software)

Azureus (bit torrent GUI/client)

Thoth (newsgroup client, u may oddly have to use a windows machine to get this, from the newsgroups as the SW maker is now out of business, PM me if u are interested or familiar w/ newsgroups)

Colloquy - IRC client

Camino - Mozilla OS X native browser project, like firefox, but better on OS X IMO

Mozilla - Internet suite. Browser/email/newsgroup/IRC clients. i'mplaying w/ this to find out how functional the newsgroup capabilities are.

Shiira -Another browser i'm playing w/, nice so far

Macjanitor - for running the scripts that OS X would run in the middle of the night that help maintain your system

Mplayer OS X 2 - Media Player

VLC - Media Player, 9 times of 10 handles/plays media better than quicktime. essential for anything that isn't an OS X officially supported codec, divx, ogg, xvid, etc...

NeoOfficeJ - Opensource office suite, MS Office compatible for the vast majority of your needs.

Audion - No longer developed by the software maker, but is a nice option for ripping your CDs into MP3s and into choosable names and folders. iTunes will do the folder bit, but in the actual album folder will only label the songs by number and title. i like to have artist, album, #, and song.

k, well that's all i can think of just now.

hope this helps.

I'd also like to add this app...

http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

It's for managing your fonts and it's free! I was using Suitcase to manage my fonts, but this app blows that away in terms of organization and ease of use.

Granted if you only have the main system fonts and a couple more, the default Font Book works fine. But if you start getting up in the thousands in fonts, you'll need something to activate and deactivate the fonts. So, check out this app that does it easily.

WeatherPop or Meteorologist

I new app I recently discovered is Quicksilver. It is pretty much a command prompt with a very nice UI. Give it a try.

http://download.blacktree.com/downlo...pe=dmg&new=yes

I also found this website: h**p://www.atomiclearning.com/osx_tiger_orientation , which has some free online video tutorials. It is just basic and the majority of them are very short. But it can still be helpful.

NeoOfficeJ is a javascript port of openoffice (open office requires x11 to be installed as u likely know by now). uninstall? drag the app or folder in your applications folder to the trash, it's that easy. there are a few apps that have an install script. if open office had this u may need to run it again and check for an uninstall option. if there isn't one, the 'ole drag and drop is the way to go. since both are free, play around with them and see which u like. i have NeoOfficej myself.