Dan just got a new one of those new shinny Apple Mac Book Pro 13. It was really fun to just geek out and tell him my favorite programs that I use. Then he had a brilliant idea that I should share my list with you. So here it is, my Mac arsenal 
SMCFanControl2 – A must have . Control my fan rpms to keep my laptop cool.
The Unarchiver – better archive utility than the default Mac app
Terminal – that’s a given. Make it easy on the eyes w/ a theme.
VMWare – I have to use it, it’s the only thing that works with my handheld Windows only GPS
QuickSilver – AWESOME because how intuitive it is. You should really watch a screencast on youtube how to use it. It becomes second nature. I get lost w/o it.
Growl – Love the Bezel theme
Awaken: Get my ass out of bed when I’m on the road and have a meeting the next morning.
MenuMeters: gotta know how much ram I have, how much cpu I’m using, what network traffic there is…quickly.
WebKit – the *best* web browser. Safari’s OSS rendering engine and JS engine. Safari 4 is awesome.
FireFox – because of Firebug, when I’m having problems with Inspector
Fluid – it makes site specific applications.. If you use google reader for RSS, it turns it into a desktop app w/ an unread count badge. A must have for me. Get a cool icons from Flickr
DynDns Updater – Updates my dynamic IP address.
Wireshark: formally ethereal, packet sniffer
KisMac: robust wireless network discovery tool
CyberDuck – FTP
Fugu – SCP, SSH
MacFusion – Mount SSH dirs as Mac Volumes
CoRD: Remote Desktop
Transmission – Bittorrents
Tweetie – twitter (backup Nambu)
Colloquy – IRC
Adium – Instant Messaging
Mail.app (checkout WideMail plugin)
Ventrilo – gotta cowork.
TextMate – editor with packages (Get the GetBundle Bundle, then get git, svn, python, php, etc…)
XCode PHP 5.2.6
Python 2.6.2 (twisted, pylint, sphinx)
Apache – the default apple install, but modified with userdirs turned on.
RabbitMQ – Message Queue
Versions – SVN client… nice for browsing.
git – my first vcs love
Mercurial – my second vcs love
Bazaar, Subversion – I use these too.
GitX – I don’t use this as much anymore, but it’s great
MySQL Server (i just use the shell for the client)
CouchDBX – Document Database Engine in Erlang using JSON & REST
MacGDBp – You probably don’t need this, but it works w/ xdebug in PHP so you can debug code. You’re past that phase of your Sugar career :)
OmniGraffle – it makes those pretty UML diagrams when you’re trying to explain it to someone
Automator: best way to quickly get my wife’s daily crossword printed.
iWork: Beats Office six ways to Sunday
Address Book: this rocks w/ MobileMe. Syncing sucks.
Last.fm – yeah, i’m on Last.fm
Boxee – Awesome way to turn my mac into an awesome media center
iTunes – ’nuff said
HandBreak – Video compression tool
VLC – AV tool that rocks
Seashore – Open Source Graphic Editor
