Personally, I prefer the following: Adium CleanArchiver coconutBattery Free Ruler iEatBrainz ImageWell MacOSaix MenuMeters Photo Desktop Preferential Treatment TinkerTool TreoCallLog URLwell There are other freeware applications worth noting in the following websites: http://brilliantignorance.blogspot.com/2005/08/essential-freeware-for-mac-user_20.html http://www.freemacware.com/
Ensemble RSS or Vienna RSS. Not as pretty as NetNewsWire Lite, but almost as much features and most of all, let's you archive selected stories from your feeds.
for itunes Fetch Art is a freeware utility that lets you get artwork for your converted songs. It looks for the appropriate album cover and is very easy to use. Made me not do cutting and pasting.
Just found this site: Free Open Source Software Mac User Group with lots of software for macs. :cheers: