Must Have Apps for Switchers?!?

[GraceMolloy]

So I was playing with my new baby (yes the computer) and installing some "necessary apps", and I thought I would ask for opinions on can't live without it type apps for the typical mac user.

Installed So Far
Firefox
Perian
Flip4mac
Skype for OSX
App Zapper
Handbrake
Mac the Ripper
Stuffit Expander
VLC

Anything else really good to have?

Specifically USENET binary applications.

On the windows side I am deeply in love with :
Newsleecher
QuickPAR
uTorrent
Tag&Rename


Any information would be appreciated

Thanks!

 

[neonblue2]

GIMP - Graphics manipulation (like Photoshop)
Adium - MSN, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, etc
ffmpegX - Video/audio conversion
Shiira - Web browser of my choice, based on WebKit and faster than Safari
Aqua4iTunes - In case you don't like the look of iTunes 7
Audacity - Audio manipulation
Burn - Disc burning
Camino - Lightweight Mozilla web browser (like Firefox)
ClamXav - A/V program, only if you want to protect Windows computers
Disk Inventory X - Visual guide to your HDD
iSquint - Windows Media and FLV conversion (and iPod if you have one)
Onyx - System maintenance and optimisation
Transmission svn - Lightweight Bittorrent app (but is banned on some trackers)

 

[Chaszmyr]

NetNewsWire - Shareware RSS aggregator... also available in a slimmed down freeware version
Handbrake - Freeware DVD ripper (Edit: that's probably what you meant when you said handbreak, actually)
Transmit - Shareware FTP client

 

[Scarlet Fever]

sizzling keys for iTunes. best app ever made 😀

 

[XNine]

iPaste
OverFlow
Xchat Aqua
Fetch AND Captain FTP for ftp (transmit sucks)
Azureus for torrents
Toast
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
Adium for chatting
Stuffit Expander 11
Unrar X
Microsoft Word/Excel
Tinkertool
Connect360

 

[ozontheroad]

Popcorn ( i think Toast 7 does the same thing)

Quinn (tetris)

Pac the Man X

MacJanitor (daily - weekly and monthly maintenance scripts)

Maintenance (like Onyx - light version)

 

[solaris]

Camino
Adium
Quicksilver
Smultron
VLC

 

[dogbone]

•Little Snitch
•X-Assist
•ClearDock
•WindowShade

 

[mad jew]

UNO - to make your GUI look amazing and uniformed.

 

[Eraserhead]

On the windows side I am deeply in love with :
Newsleecher

Try Unison, though I've never used it.

QuickPAR

Disk Utility (Included with your Mac , Applications==>Utilities) possibly?

uTorrent

Transmission

Tag&Rename

Check out Doug Scripts which includes lots of addons for iTunes.

 

[ozontheroad]

here are two more games to make you feel right at home:

. Solitaire XL (this one is quite good)

. Mine Swept