Links to Apple Websites and Books

Also Software and utilities.

Books

Learning Unix for Mac OSX Panther
By Dave Taylor
Compact book that provides a user-friendly tour of the Mac's Unix base.

Mac OS X in a Nutshell
Aimed at the advanced to expert user who wants to dig into the underpinnings of Unix.

Mac OS X Panther Unleashed (3rd Edition)
Get the most out of OS X including all the new components.

Photoshop - Secrets of the Pros
By Mark Clarkson

The Cult of Mac
Mac history and culture
By Wired journalist: Leander Kahney

Apple Stuff ...

Apple iMac G5

Apple 40 GB iPod (Music player/Backup device)

The Griffin powermate USB controller.

Apple Websites

MacAddict
MacRumors
Apple.slashdot.org - News and Gossip

MacOSXhints.com - Hints & Tips, Q&A
MacTipsandTricks.com
MacDevCenter.com - Technical Tips
Ultimate Mac - What's New
Primer: What is Mac OS X - Architecture, Features, Software, Why choose it?
Darwin Project - Open Source at Apple (OS X and some x86)
IBM - Run Linux on Mac - Distribrutions for the mac platform, advice, dual booting.
Apple Manuals - for old hardware

OS X Command Line

Learning the Mac OS X Terminal - Chris Stone (menu)
OS X FAQ - Unix Tutorials
ManOpen - A GUI to find and open man pages
MacOSX.org - 8 lessons on the Mac command line
Man Pages - Huntsville Mac Users Group

Apple.com

Apple Support - Patches and Security updates
Developer.Apple.com - OS X Documentation
Apple Developer Tools - Extra shell commands plus development tools.
300 Mb download (supplied on CD with OS X 10.3 )

Mac Software

Mac software at Download.com
VersionTracker.com - Mac Applications
iTerm - Multiple Terminal Sessions in Tabs
ComicTastic - Load and save daily comics
Clutter for iTunes - Album Cover Art
AcquisitionX - Gnutella filesharing client
iCommune - Extend iTunes to share music over a network
Delicious Monster - Manage books, movies, music
hymn-project.org - Hear Your Music Anywhere (iPod).
DropMP3 - CD ripping software
Blacktree.com - Apps Launcher, iTunes encoder.
CocoaMySql - Database management
Oracle 10g - Oracle is committed to making the Mac a first-rate development platform.
MacPython - object-oriented programming
OpenOffice.org - Office Suite
osxgnu.org - Open Source software for OS X - Gimp, Ghostscript etc
Fink - Open Source converted to OS X - Games, Audio, Crypto and more.

Utilities

DragThing - Improve the OS X Dock
TinkerTool - User interface tinkering
UnSanity - More OS tinkering
DeepVacuum - wget, Get Webpages.
Brian Hill Utilities - Launcher, firewall, BBC RSS feed.
Freshly Squeezed Software - Mail, RSS and Terminal utilities.
ScriptGUI - Run shell scripts from the finder
Salling Clicker - Remotely control your Mac with a mobile or PDA
Carbon Copy Cloner - hard drive backups - simple, bootable.
iPulse - System monitor, CPU, Network activity etc.
RAR - Create and extract compressed RAR archive files
Trash Can - On desktop
Virtual PC for Mac 6.1 + 7.0 By Microsoft Corp ~ Examples
X Windows for OS X By Apple Corp

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