My selection of OS X applications
Adium (excellent multi-protocol IM client)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (for the PowerPC) and Photoshop CS3 (for the Intel; massive speed increase because of the Intel binary).
Azureus (BitTorrent client, comes with VUZE for checking out free HD quality video).
BBEdit (excellent text-editor; has support for many programming languages and versioning utilities).
Boot Camp beta (I run Vista Business on my MacBook, usually playing a game or running a few applications. Also note that Windows Vista support is excellent).
Camino (Firefox-based browser, but with a Safari look and feel).
Chmox (reads Microsoft .chm help files, usually e-books in my case).
CocoaMySQL (MySQL utility similar to PHPMyAdmin, but native OS X, so about a thousand times faster).
FinkCommander (very useful front-end application to the Fink command line utility - a UNIX package manager).
Firefox (Gecko-based webbrowser).
Flip4Mac (basic Windows Media support for OS X, far from perfect, but always better than no support at all).
Last.fm (social ‘music’ bookmarking, useful for finding new artists you might be interested in.. tracks the songs you’re playing in iTunes, making your bookmark list on last.fm).
MacParDeluxe (repair and extract .par and .par2 filesets).
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (my used-to-be favorite HTML and PHP editor, learned a lot from using it).
MAMP (Mac OS X Apache MySQL PhpMyAdmin - must-have complete testing webserver solution, one-click start and stop, resides in one single folder, all relevant PHP versions and extensions included).
Microsoft Office 2004
OpenTTD (open sourced Transport Tycoon, need I say more?)
Opera (just part of the webdev testing suite).
Quicksilver (similar to Spotlight, has a huge library of built-in utilities, easily accessed by keyboard; it’s buggy though).
Quicktime bundles (e.g. AC3 and DivX support, gives Quicktime the power it needs to enable system-wide support for these formats).
Remote Desktop (by Apple, great when you’ve got multiple Mac’s, easy remote access).
Remote Desktop Connection (by Microsoft, when you need remote access to a Windows desktop).
SafariSpeed (kicks out some Safari ‘features’ to speed things up).
Skype
svnX (great GUI to the SVN client, which you should get too)
Split & Concat (merges splitted files, useful when downloading from Mac-related binary newsgroups).
The Unarchiver (replaces the built-in OS X unarchiver, handles a lot of formats, including stuffit and rar).
Toast (like Nero, but for the Macintosh platform).
Transmit (excellent FTP client).
VLC (mediaplayer plays most video formats, including DivX, Xvid and region-locked DVD’s).
Zend Studio (PHP IDE, stands for Integrated Development Environment, from the developers of PHP).
I’ve compiled a list of applications I use on my Mac’s, a PowerPC iMac G4 and a MacBook. Most of these applications are universal binaries, the ones that aren’t run just fine using Rosetta.
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