need help with mac osx
 

if anyone can help me download things like bearshare and msn messanger onto my mac osx that would be greatly appreciated im not very apple savvy!

BearShare has only ever been designed to run on Windows. If you have Windows running on your mac then that's fine. Personally I use Parallels to run several windows. There's also the open source & free Wine. Alternatively can just install Windows either using Bootcamp or alone on another drive or partition (this last method means you need to use Windows specific drivers & equipment, etc.) My windows installations kept corrupting so I gave up on Bootcamp. One advantage of both Wine & Parallels is can run at same time as OSX, & even have several Window's OS's running simultaneously. It also has snapshot backup system in case of any issues. Easy drag & drop between the OS's.

To download BearShare, go to the BearShare section of the forum, you will see links to where to get it. :)