Page 2 - Mac essentials

Hey, sorry! I almost forgot about Boot Camp support under parallels. It is also very convenient!! Parallels supports Boot Camp partions - you can work with this partition directly from parallels

Some tools I've found useful:

Textmate - good editor, you can use a mate .file command to create a new file using terminal. good if you are working in root directories,

I like Apple's Mail program, it's smooth.

The Macromedia apps aren't so good for you right now if you have an intel processor. It should be way better when the new versions come out around summer.

Don't forget Flip4Mac, playing windows media files if you like to look at videos online.

There's a new burning app called Disco which shows real promise. The first finished version is out soon or maybe now. It's a revolutionary way to burn apps and the app itself create smoke to show that your disc is burning.

The useful one I have found is
Speed Download

A useful download / upload tool I would not be without.

Jon

Editor: Textmate

Client-side web development debugging: Firebug (not specific to OS X)

Office Suite: NeoOffice

check out:
http://www.pure-mac.com/
If you've never been.

It Is a catalog of Mac software.
It's kept very well up to date.

It's very rare that I go there and
don't find what I'm looking for.
I usually pick up a few extra things as well.

After looking for best general programmer editor, which must include sftp support, I finally settled with jEdit. This doesn't come with ftp/sftp by default, but you can add this by installing ftp plugin. Plugin for jEdit is the biggest reason I recommend this editor.

Another great and convenient sftp/ftp tools is muCommander. The best thing I like is its pure keyboard navigation, and files transfer across different remote servers!

Hmm, my fav apps have to be (and in no order)

Mail 3 (built in to leopard)
CrossOver Mac CodeWeavers
XChat Aqua xChat Aqua
iTunes (built in)
VLC VideoLAN

there are loads more that i use on a near daily basis, might update at a later stage