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Digital Photography

Cleaning your Digital-Camera Sensor
Digital Photography Review™: is an independent resource dedicated to the provision of news, reviews and information about Digital Photography and Digital Imaging.
ShortCourses: Famous for its books on digital cameras and digital photography.
iPhoto Buddy: Multiple Library Manager for iPhoto
The Digital Story: Podcasts: Weekly digital photography podcasts, photo tips, reader submitted pictures, equipment reviews and more.

E-zines Layers: A How-to magazine for everything Adobe
Mac|Life : e-zine Articles
Mac Hints & Tips: A monthly newsletter/column of tips collected from user group newsletters and other sources to aid Macintosh users in their work.
MacTech: Magazine focused on Macintosh technology and development.
MacWorld: e-zine
My Mac: e-zine

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Fun Flax Creations: Desktop art to beautify the Mac
Icon Factory: Icons and desktops
Macrocks.com: Macintosh, Music & Sound for all who Rock Different
RAILhead Design: Icons, desktops, fonts, software, etc.
Steve Jobs Information Site
The Apple Collection: Updates, desktop pictures and Add-ons
The Deskstop: Desktop pictures, icons, textures and more.
Think Pad Jam: Cool pictures and movies.
Xicons.com is the leading source of quality icons for Mac OS X

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Games

Feral: a leading publisher of Macintosh games
Inside Mac Games: The forefront of the Mac gaming market, providing news, previews, and reviews
Macfriends.com has a large selection of mac computer games, software, memory and much more.
MacGamer.com: Game Resources

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GarageBand

icompositions.com: the premier venue for sharing your GarageBand Creations and discussing GarageBand.
Macjams.com: an online community for users of Apple's GarageBand music software.
Music Making Tools.com: The tools you need to make great music with Apple's GarageBand

iPods

Audible.com: Your destination for digital audiobooks, radio programs, audio magazines and newspapers that download in minutes and let you listen anywhere and anytime.
Hacking iPods & iTunes
iPod 101: Your guide to rockin' out, gettin' down, and boogieing with your iPod, iPod nano, iPod mini, or iPod shuffle
iPoding: What's in your Pocket?
iPod Hacks: Your source for the latest hacks, mods, tips and tricks.
iPodLounge: All things iPod.
Mac Speed Zone - iPod InfoZone: The Best iPod & iTunes Information From Around The Net!
Five iPod Scripts: Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
These five scripts work nicely together:

  • Random Albums to iPod
  • Random Artist to iPod
  • Random iPod
  • Random Playlist Tracks to iPod
  • Clean iPod

Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal.
Podcastcentral.com
Podfly.com: The podcasting portal
Podtext 2.5X: a tool to transfer text-based notes into your iPod that can be read just like Contacts directly on the iPod's screen.
Book2Pod: a utility to format large text documents so they can be read on an iPod using the built in Note Reader software.
Text Reader: This simple program will take a text file, convert it to AIFF format, transfer it to your iPod so that you can listen to the text file on the iPod.
Versiontracker: at last count 76 links for iPod shareware/freeware

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iTunes Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
Paper CD Case.com: Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. Folding instructions included.
Keynote

Keynoteuser.com: Themes, Tips, Links, Troubleshooting, and other cool stuff.
Keynote HQ: Themes, Tips, Tutorials, Help.

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Lists Apple Mailing Lists
Lists at The Macintosh Guy
The Omni Group Mailing Lists
OS X Support

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Miscellaneous

Everything Mac: Links
Gethuman Database - find the code to go straight to a person on the phone.
Macintosh Operating Systems: Links, forums
MacintoshOS.com: Online destination for Mac users
MacPac: Training, Support, Tips, Products, Tech Notes, and more.
Mac Talent: Mac employment agency
MacWorld Expo: MacWorld Expo information
Your Mac Life with Shawn King: Mac Radio. Tune in to Hear the Difference.
Woz: A free exchange of information, the way it always should be.

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MUGs

Hershey Apple Core: Hershey's Mac User Group
The Mug Center: Resource Site for Mac User Groups
User Group Network: Articles, reviews

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News

Alltop: News! News! News! Collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web
AppleInsider: News, Reports, Forums
Applelust: Articles, forums
CNET News: Stock quote and pertinent business info
CoolMac: News, reports, reviews, games, forums, chat, free e-mail and much more.
IGM - Insanely Great Mac: A Macintosh news and information web site.
Macinstein: News, links, mac search engine
MacMerc: News and more
MacMinute: Up-to-the-minute Apple Mac News, MacMinute Reader Cafe, MacMinute Radio
Mac Observe: News, forums, links
Macslash: A daily dose of Mac news and discussion
Macs Only: News, Commentary, Reviews and Troubleshooting.
Mac Surfer: News
MacVillage Portal: News, Links
MyAppleMenu: Mac news for Mac users
OS X FAQ: Technical News & Support or Mac OS X
Res Excellence: Articles and links
Rumors: Latest rumors
Think Secret: News and bulletin board
TidBits: A free email and Web publication covering the Macintosh Internet community

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Resources

Accelerate Your Mac: Resource for upgrading
Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ: The Frequently Asked Questions list for CD-Recordable, CD-Rewritable, and related technologies.
Apple: Apple Computer's site
Apple - OS X Drivers: Drivers for printers, Wacom Tablet, USB pointing devices and keyboards, and much more.
Apple Software Updates: Software updates from 2000 to 2002
Apple Support - Mac 101 - Troubleshooting 101
Apple System Software updates: System Software updates from 7.5 to 9.2
Applefritter.com: Forums, Articles, and more.
Apple Matters: provides original commentary on topics including the impact of Apple on our culture, exclusive profiles of people in Apple’s storied history such as Herbie Hancock and Guy Kawasaki, and product reviews.
Apple Manuals: Manuals for Apple products
As the Apple Turns: Apple News
Clark Howard Show: Consumer Action Center
CNET Computers: A guide to Mac hardware
Danny Goodman's Web site: Author, programmer
DealMac: Find the best deal on everything relating to computers
EveryMac.com: the complete guide to every Macintosh, Mac Compatible, and upgrade card in the world, with technical, configuration, and pricing details.
File Formats: Almost Every file format in the world!
Findershortcuts
FireWire: FireWire port failures
FixYourOwnPrinter.com: Guides, Printer Cross Reference, Print Drivers, Error codes, and more
Hawk Wings: Tips and Add-ons to make Apple Mail even better
Ink4Art: The Inkjet Diner
iWork Community: Template Exchange New!
iPhoto Library Manager: Split your photos up into any number of separate libraries, store them on any disk connected to your computer
Quick Assist (Apple): Need help with a certain activity or have issues that need fixing fast? Check out these Quick Assist topics and triumph over your troubles.
The Kim Kamando Computer Show
The Low End Mac: dedicated to helping users of discontinued Macs get the most mileage out of their aging hardware.
Mac2Sell - Best Guide ever to Used Macs
MacAttorney: How to Deal with Common Macintosh OS X 10.2 Jaguar Problems - current through update 10.2.6.
MacFixIt: OS updates, Software updates, News, forums, utilities
MacFriends.com: specializes in ipod accessores, mac computer games, powerbook batteries and all things Mac.
Macintosh Battery Page: Replacing batteries
Mac OS X Hints: Mac OS X hints, tips, help, forums and more.
Mac OS Zone: Reviews and downloads
MacPicks: Macintosh News, Reviews, and E-zines
Mac Resource: Product info
MacReviewZone: Comprehensive index of all online hardware and software reviews by the major Macintosh related magazines.
Mactopia: Microsoft for Mac
MacTreasures: Unusual software
MacUpdate: MacUpdate watches the latest Macintosh software updates every day, all day long, so you can keep your software up-to-date with the most current bug fixes and features.
Netscape Directory: Apple highlights
ScriptWeb: Links for Mac scripting
Shreve Systems: Refurbished Mac equipment
Small Dog Electronics: Resellers of Apple Macintosh computers, peripherals and software
TackyShirt.com: Because Training and fun are not mutually exclusive!
Tech Survivors: Free Mac Computer Technical Help and more
The Apple Collection: Addons, Desktop pics, Software updates and more
The Mac Orchard: The most essential links and Internet applications for Macintosh Internet users--updated around the clock.
The X Lab™: a private venture dedicated to providing outstanding troubleshooting information and services to users of Apple® Mac® OS X
Tucows: Software downloads
Version Tracker: Lists current software version
Whatis.com: Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words.
ZDNet: Help and how-to

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Search Engines
Search Engine program handouts "Finding the Needle in the Internet Hay Stack" (PDF: 187KB) Files contain internal internet links.

Yahoo!
Google
Ask
StartBot.com
alltheweb
AltaVista
Excite
lowermybills.com - for comparing long distance phone rates

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UNIX

SourceForge.net: Project Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.

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Web

ICANN: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; Maintainers of domain extensions
ICANN Registrars Accredited list: Accredited registrars for Top Level Domains
TLD: Top Level Domain List (Countries)
Host Search: Web hosting search sites
Web Host Finders: Web hosting search sites

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Widgets Apple.com - Dashboard: Handy widgets at your command
Apple.com - Dashboard Quicktime Demo
Apple.com - Dashboard Technology Brief (PDF)
Apple.com - Developing Dashboard Widgets
DashboardWidgets.com: a community for developers and users of Apple's new Dashboard feature in Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger.
MacDevCenter.com: Build a Dashboard Widget
Training/Tutorials

 

Adobe Expert Center: Your source for instructional content and downloadables.
AppleWorks User Group
: Updates, Forums, Support and more.
Atomic Learning: Online training including free resources for iMovie2, iPhoto and OS X Orientation.
www.awug.org
Eudora: Eudora Online Tutorials
Fieggen.com: Tutorials on computer graphics, file formats, scanning, retouching photos, and digital photography
Find Tutorials: The eLearning Website
Graphic Design Tutorials: from About.com
Least Tern: Resources for Teachers, Tutorials & Courses Online  
macProVideo.com: The Authority in Nonlinear Educating featuring in depth, real-time video training created by the multimedia industry's top educators, bringing high quality video training to your computer desktop.
Microsoft Office 2000 tutorials: Office, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Access, and Excel
My Mom's Guides: Step-by-Step Guides to using the Macintosh OS X system and iPhoto. Signup for their free weekly email Newsletter.
Photoshop Elements User.com: Tutorials, newsletter, Video Tips, more...
Photoshop Roadmap: Photoshop tutorials, tips and techniques by masters.

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Non-Mac Fun Sites
  Darwin Awards: The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
Internet Movie Data Base: Data base of movies, movies, and more movies...
lowermybills.com - for comparing long distance phone rates
National Do Not Call Registry
: Register your home and mobile phone numbers. Most telemarketers cannot call your telephone number if it is in the National Do Not Call Registry.
Playing with Time: See time sped up and slowed down, and behold the beauty of change.
Snopes,com: Urban legends, hoaxes, myths, folklore.
Scambusters.org: Urban Legends and Hoaxes Resource Center

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