Mac Tricks and Tips has posted a pretty thorough list of useful applications. Although some are definitely not essential (it has Photoshop and some other apps that you probably don’t need) but none the less it is a great list. This list is useful for both beginning and veteran Mac users to just to see [...]

Just to keep everyone up to date, Brent Simmons posted parts 3 and 4 of his series on helping you master the great RSS Feed Reader, NetNewsWire.

So to round up:

Part 1 - Browser

Part 2 - Reading

Part 3 - Subscriptions

Part 4 - Misc

For some other resources you can check out some scripts made for NetNewsWire . [...]

Suppose you and a friend are at a hotel room with one ethernet port, but you both want to use the internet. Do not fear, you can come to the rescue by establishing a wireless network through your Macintosh’s built in AirPort card.
1) Plug the cable into your computer
2) Open System Preferences and go to [...]

Here’s a quick and painless way of “printing” anything that can be printed into PDF format. Simply click file->print->PDF, then select “Save as PDF” or whatever else from the list that you want.
Note: Picture from Leopard, the Tiger interface is different but similar

I’m a huge fan of Macfuse. If you aren’t familiar with it, it allows you to make “mountable” real-looking drives out of remote connections. You can have a virtual disk (like an iDisk) for many different types of accounts. Personally I use this for an ftp account, and a ssh account.
How it works.
Macfuse is the [...]

Lifehacker wrote up a feature that contains the best free applications of 2007. It’s an interesting read definitely worth your time. Among their favorites are a few of ours including Adium, Handbrake, and Quicksilver , among many others.
Lifehacker

Ever since OS X 10.2, Apple has included a very good tool to help developers refine the speech synthesis for any word.
The idea is that you may sometime want to have a word pronounced in a slightly different way that OS X regularly does. Maybe, simply have it sound more natural -perhaps even with a [...]

As we all know, OS X has fairly good speech synthesis/recognition capabilities; however, the real good news is that these resources are actually there, open for any developer to use them. If you have the developer kit installed, there are a number of great manuals and examples of the kind of things you can do [...]

FreeSMUG, the Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group, recently released an update to an incredible package of free open source applications for OS X. At nearly 700 MB, FreeSMUG is an excellent set of all types of applications for Mac users who do not want to pay $1000s for the commercial alternatives, or do not [...]