This is a list of all the software I use day to day. Some is free, some is commercial, and I only get commission on SmugMug.

• System/Maintainance
  • Backup
    • What I Use
      • Time Machine (on-site versioned backup)
      • JungleDisk (off-site versioned backup)
    • Recommended Alternatives
      • Mozy (off-site backup)
      • CrashPlan (backup to your friends’ machines)
  • System
    • OS X 10.5 or 10.6 (duh)
    • Apple Developer Tools (for compiling *nix packages and FileMerge)
    • Secrets (Finder hidden features & modifications)
    • MacPorts (Install/update/remove *nix packages)
    • Console (Apple’s log file viewer… Applications > Utilities > Console)
    • Terminal (The Mac command line, aka “Bash” Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
      • See http://ss64.com/osx/ for a list of commands
    • iStat Menus (Monitor cpu/memory/network & more, from your menu bar!)
• Communications
  • Services
    • Google for Domains (Email, Calendar, Contacts)
    • Google Voice (Phone management system)
    • Dropbox (Great for sharing syncing files between your computers, creating public shares)
    • Evernote (Awesome note taking app, multi-platform, synced)
  • Clients
    • Apple Mail
    • iCal
    • iChat (Chat client for AIM, Google/Jabber)
    • Skype
    • Tweetie (Twitter Client, I use the iPhone version too)
    • NetNewsWire (RSS Reader, I again use the iPhone version also)
    • Colloquy (IRC client)
      • I’m usually in #coldfusion on dal.net
    • Transmit (FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 data transfer)
  • Browsers
    • Safari
    • 1Password (Okay, not a browser, but it’s a password manager and more, iPhone version too!)
    • Firefox
    • Chrome
• Development
  • Eclipse (I start with Flash Builder 4 as the base, and install the rest as plugins)
    • Flash Builder
    • ColdFusion Builder
    • Subclipse (SVN for Eclipse)
  • TextMate (Text editor and so much more)
    • CFTextmate bundle
    • Flex / AS3 bundles
  • Versions (SVN GUI client)
    • Cornerstone is a viable alternative
  • FileMerge (part of the Apple dev tools, used to compare files and directories)
  • Navicat for MySQL (MySQL database GUI)
  • RegExr (Regex GUI)
• Development Servers
  • ColdFusion
  • MAMP Pro (Apache, MySQL, PHP manager)
• Virtualization
  • What I Use
    • VMWare Fusion
      • Download prebuilt VMs from the http://www.vmware.com/appliances/
    • VirtualBox (Palm WebOS Emulator)
  • Recommended Alternatives
    • Parallels Desktop
• Office
  • What I Use
    • Google Docs/Spreadsheets
    • Microsoft Office
  • Recommended Alternatives
    • OpenOffice
• Pictures
  • Services
    • SmugMug (paid, but you get unlimited everything… and I get a commission)
  • Software
    • iPhoto (great for organizing family photos)
    • Aperture (great if you have a DSLR / run a photographer business, can read from your iPhoto library)