Mac

[edge_of_within]

I bought a Mac.
I'm excited to transition away from Windows as my primary machine, but I certainly don't have as much experience in OSX.
So I ask you, faithful readers who already run OSX - what should I install?
What apps do you love and/or use often?
I've upgraded to Snow Leopard & installed iWork.
IM Aggregator? (I use Digsby on Windows)

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My two cents

[frederik]

To begin with, a few comments on what some other folks said:

Dan Morgan: iCal supports Google calendars natively. I'm not sure if Calgoo Connect gives you any additional features, but the native support seems quite sufficient.

eric: If all you need are the protocols that iChat supports, then that's awesome. But I still have friends on Yahoo IM and AIM, plus Adium also supports GMail chat and Facebook chat. (I seem to remember that iChat supports some of these, too, but not all of them.) Every year they're adding one or two more, and having them all in once place is pretty awesome.

Most of the other recommendations are pretty good. Also in my standard arsenal (apart from the iLife apps and the MS Office suite):

PasswordWallet (though 1Password is good, too)
VMWare Fusion (or Parallels or the new free VirtualBox from Sun)
BBEdit (awesome text editor, TextWrangler's big brother)
Chicken of the VNC (slightly better than the Mac's built-in VNC client)
OmniFocus (task management using the GTD method, plus syncs with the iPhone version over the cloud)
Toast (for burning CDs & DVDs; also comes with TiVo Connect)
OmniGraffle (think Visio for Mac, but better)
Sequel Pro (MySQL client)
MarsEdit (for blogging)
Adobe CS3 (I'm upgrading to CS4 soon)

I do in fact own Delicious Library, and it's pretty awesome.

For affordable image editors, I'd actually recommend Adobe Photoshop Elements. I haven't used it (I've got the full Photoshop as part of CS3), but I hear it has some nice features, including the ability to merge several shots of a group shot into one, letting you pick the best face for each person from all the shots (something Photoshop, at least the version I have, doesn't even do).

Last but not least: sound editors. I actually use Amadeus II (now replaced by Amadeus Pro), and I like it a lot. But for specifically slowing down and speeding up music, I'd recommend Amazing Slow Downer (stupid name, but apparently a great product).

One last thing, regarding closing windows. One thing I find that new Mac "switchers" have trouble with is the concept that on a Mac, closing a window does NOT (for the most part) quit the application. You need to hit Cmd-Q or select Quit from the application's menu to actually quit the app. Probably not something you'll have trouble with, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. (My wife's been known to have issues with this. :-)

Welcome to the World of Macs!