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There are thousands of programs out there for Mac freeware and shareware, here are some of my favorites:

 

 

Graphics

Photo and Image Editing

- The Gimp is free and really good, but a bit hard to learn.

- Grab is a screen capture utility that works great

 

Desktop Publishing

- Fontbook - for managing fonts on your computer

 

Web Authoring

- JAlbum - for Web Gallery creation. Awesome program that is very customizable

 

3d Animation

- Blender

 

 

Video Production

- Grab can be used to capture an image of a Video frame when you use VLC DVD player

- Mac the Ripper for ripping from a DVD (Most likely will have issues with Lion and above)

- MPEG Streamclip, Handbrake, and ffmpegX for encoding a riped file

 

 

Office Suites

1. -OpenOffice is free and works incredibly close to Microsoft Office
   

2. -NeoOffice is the Mac specific version of OpenOffice
   

 

 

Computer Utilities

- Stuffit for unzipping files

- Preview (Part of OSX) works just fine for reading pdf files

 

 

Spyware & Security

- Turn on and configure your firewall :-)

 

 

Multimedia

- VLC for playing DVD's (Besides the native player that comes with it)

- DiVX for movies

- iTunes (Part of iLife 05 and free to download) for mp3 playing. Ok, but all I am aware of

 

 

Internet

- Firefox For web browsing (Google Chrome is good as well)

- iChat (Part of OSX) works just fine for instant messaging