Top Freeware Apps for Mac Users

Web Browsing	Mozilla Firefox - The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
Video Player, Torrents, Podcasting	Miro - Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than quicktime). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
Email	Mozilla Thunderbird - Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
DVD Ripping	Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac - an excellent tool for Mac users to rip DVD to various video formats and audio formats for playback on iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Youtube (web), Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos, all kinds of video cell phones and digital video and audio players.
RSS	Vienna - Very nice, native RSS client.
Running Windows Software on Macs	Q Emulator - Run Windows programs on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower.
Podcasting	Juice - Solid podcasting client.
iPod Ripping	Mac DVD to iPod Ripper - can directly rip DVD (including protected DVD with CSS) to iPod, iPhone, Zune, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, Smart Phone, BlackBerry Storm, Bold, Palm Pre, iPod Touch 2, PSP Lite 3000, Google Phone HD video format, etc.
Word Processing / Office Suites	OpenOffice - OpenOffice is a full-featured, office suite compatible with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Friends don't let friends pay for Microsoft Office.
CD / DVD Burning	iMacsoft DVD Creator for Mac - a most convenient and demanded software to make home video DVD copies, create DVD discs for home DVD and Blu-Ray players and perform other burning tasks.
Wifi Scanning	KisMac - The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go.
Sound Recording	Audacity - Simple sound recording tool.
HTML / Text Editing	Nvu - Visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.