- Mail.app, which comes with OS X, is a powerful email program that allows me to manage the many, many mail messages I receive daily.
- iCal is another handy program that comes with OS X. iCal allows me to manage multiple calendars.
- Spanning Sync synchronizes my iCal calendars with Google Calendars.
- Address Book, also free with OS X, is a nice address book manager.
- Fusion by VMware is the one piece of software that convinced me to try OS X. While I love OS X I still must use Windows on a daily basis. Fusions allows me to run Windows hosted as a virtual machine within OS X.
- Firefox is my preferred web browser. Safari is nice and I use it from time to time. But Firefox is the browser I use most often.
- Adium is a friendly chat program supporting AOL, Yahoo, Messenger, Google Talk, and who knows what else. I like iChat, which comes with OS X, but I don't use it often due to its lacking support for IM services such as Messenger.
- iPhoto is my favorite application in the iLife suite. I enjoy taking pictures and I currently use iPhoto to manage all my digital pictures, a collection that is quickly approaching 7,000 pictures.
- iLife '08 is another reason I decided to switch to the Mac. Making movies, burning DVDs, and managing my digital photos was never this easy in the Windows world.
- CoRD is a remote desktop client. I use it often to RDP into other Windows machines on my network.
- VLC is a freeware media player.
- Unison is a nice newsgroup reader. I prefer the user interface from Agent but it is not available for OS X.
- Vienna is an open source RSS feed reader.
- SuperDuper is my preferred backup software. Easy to use, and powerful enough to make the types of backups I want.
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