Useful Mac Stuff Sticky

[IceDigger]

Feel free to add any advice you have here.

Mac OSX Hints

Mac Specialist - Good list of useful Mac programs.

Mac of All Trades - Place to get used macs.

Mac Sales - Cheapest place for mac upgrades/accessories.

 

[Cloud121]

For instant messaging, get Fire. Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC, and Jabber. I use it for all of 'em (Don't use Jabber though). I don't like it, but some others prefer Adium.

For videos, you got QuickTime obviously. If a movie won't play in QT, go with VLC and MPlayer. Get both.

 

[Weston]

A couple things to get are definitely Fink and Portage(for OS X).

They both give you one hell of a selection of unix programs and do all the work of compiling and installing them for you. And yes that is Gentoo Portage system, so it works like normal: emerge whatever.

Fink is easy to use to (like portage, but fink has been around for a long time, since the early days of OS X). Just use: fink install whatever (or fink list, to see what it has).

Also, there is a GUI front end you can get for Fink at: http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/

 

[Weston]

And before I forget, another awesome site is: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

It's got tips for speed, bug reports, compatibility reports, etc. Good stuff to check out.

 

[ExCyber]

Portage(for OS X)

As a fairly long-time Gentoo user, I can only say