What do you install on a new Mac?

In no particular order: Quicksilver, Newsfire, NetNewsWire 2 (beta), Omniweb, iPodderX, Limewire X, Gmail Status Adding to barb's comments to Roger, for the most part I agree with Roger and don't really like app launch alternatives like DragThings. However, I'm a recent PC convert who started out with DOS 5.0 so I'm a bit partial to keyboard navigation. I like Quicksilver because it keeps me on the keyboard and off the mouse. Old habits die hard and for whatever reason keyboard access to programs is soothing.

Roger - I love Quicksilver for many reasons, one of which is it lessens my dependency on the mouse. I can launch all of my apps right from the keyboard. The more I spend time with it, the deeper it goes - I can append or prepend text to a text file without actually having to open it, e.g. I find it really handy, and I get the sense that I haven't even begun tapping into what else is possible in terms of automating workflow.

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Windowshade, ShadowClipboard, Meteorologist, Cocktail, Fontcard, FruitMenu, Firefox and Thunderbird......A great freeware application called RagTime Solo. What is with these application launchers? You can put aliases in a folder that you put in the right portion of the dock. You can put file destinations in the contextual menu. I can't find any reason for Dragthing and Quicksilver. I am not thing to be difficult; I have tried these applications and others of simmilar breed and they all seemed to be less than OSX's built-in customizing solutions. roger

RE: number 31 I have actually had way more problems (corruption and system crashes) with Eudora than with the other three mailing programs I have used - Netscape mail, Mozilla mail and Apple Mail. Eudora was sooo unstable...

Apple X11 Hacked ADBMouse trackpad driver to allow 2-finger scrolling (if it's a PB) aMSN (adium and Fire are not as good for MSN) Growl All the system updates TuneKeys Palm Desktop (then uninstall everything except HotSync Manager and use iLife to sync it instead)

Oddly I've just completed a list of 'The Top 100 OSX Applications' over on my site - http://www.creationrobot.com/index.php?p=728 I've most of the ones mentioned here on my list, the ones I don't know I'll have a look at.

Can't believe nobody mentioned Mozilla Thunderbird, do you all actually use 'Mail' ?!

Quicksilver, Little Snitch, Smultron, VoodooPad, Firefox (with custom .css and hostperm.1), PithHelmet, MenuMeters, Sidetrack, MS Office, Photoshop CS.

- Quicksilver - any Mac is broken without it - Quicksilver del.icio.us plug-in - keyboard access to all of my del.icio.us bookmarks - Office X - Excel only - iLife 05 - iPhoto only - iPhoto Buddy - multiple photo library support - Acquisition - P2P, not that I use it (-_^) - Cocoalicious - del.icio.us desktop app - Disk Inventory X - tree map of disk usage - iCal Viewer - overlays upcoming appointments on desktop - Temperature Monitor - overlays CPU temp on desktop, keeps history - RegionX - DVD multiregion hack - I bought the DVD so let me play it - Transmit - killer FTP app - Photoshop CS - Stand - Safari plug in; I use it to force links that open in a new window to instead open in a new tab