fuzzylizard

This just made my day. I saw this on the Daily WTF website in their Error’d section.

A coworker was asking me some questions about the Mac, he had just received his new ThoughtWorks MacBook Pro. As a partial answer, here is my list of must have applications for the Mac. I have divided them into two categories - free and not free.

Free Apps

• QuickSilver - the definitive time saving app getting things done without doing them
• Growl - displays messages directly on the screen in a little transparent window
• Adium - Instant Message app that works with just about every protocol out there today
• Chicken of the VNC - excellent VNC client
• iStumbler - for finding WiFi hotspots
• NeoOffice - OS X implementation of OpenOffice.org (a Microsoft Office replacement)
• xCode - Apple’s IDE, this gives you C compilers and other tools you will need for compiling things like Ruby gems
• SvnX - Subversion Client (if you don’t want to use the command line)
• iSquint - converts just about any video format into iTunes, Apple TV, and iPod compliant video
• MenuMeters - puts a set of graphs in the menu bar that show you what your CPU, Memory, Networks connections, Disks are doing
• Perian - added codecs for playing back non quicktime compliant audio and video files

Not Free

• TextMate - the only editor for the Mac
• Transmit - FTP/SFTP client
• Omnigraffle - Visio replacement for creating diagrams
• World of Warcraft - I think this one goes without saying

That is all I can think of right now, as more come to me, I will add them.