As part of my new job, I got a shiny new 13″ MacBook Pro.  Even though I’m quite a Linux fanboy, I really enjoy the quality of the hardware and OS X. However, it isn’t perfect.  There are a lot of applications that I like to have available.  Since I have nothing better to talk about, I figured I’d list them here:

• Adium — one of the best instant messenger clients I’ve ever used.  It has support for just about every major IM protocol except…
• Skype — I don’t really use it for IM, but it’s great for audio and video calls.
• Firefox — I prefer it to the Safari browser that ships with OS X.  It happens.  And with that comes…
• Xmarks — a browser plug-in that syncs bookmarks.  It comes in very handy when you use multiple computers.  So does…
• Dropbox — allows you to synchronize arbitrary files between multiple computers.  I mostly use it for configuration files (e.g. .bashrc, .screenrc)
• VirtualBox — sometimes you actually need to use another OS to do some important task (like play Sim City)
• DOSBox — is good for playing some of the older games that I like
• Chicken of the VNC — I’ve played with several VNC clients for Mac, and this one is the best.
• iTerm — hands-down better than the default Terminal.app
• ZTerm — a program to make serial connections.  I used it a fair bit in my old job, I don’t anticipate needing it much in my new job.
• Colloquy — an Internet Relay Chat client
• VLC — a media player that will play just about anything
• Grand Perspective — a program that shows a graphical representation of disk usage, allowing you to find the files that are chewing up all the space on your hard drive.