What software?

[b0redom]

Hi All,
I've just bought myself a new 17" MacBook Pro, and very nice it is too. Is there any must have software I should get? I've just finished getting MySQL and Firefox.

Any highly recommended widgets?

Cheers...

Tom

[trashcanmonkey]

oooh. so many,
limewire, free
toast titanium,
open office (universal, mac office is just so slow) free
Audacity, (sound editor) free
Adium, ( multi chat client) free
Lab Tick, (lets you activate the keyboard backlight) free
You Control Tunes, (funky plugin for itunes) free
Flip4mac, (lets you play WMV file in quicktime) free
Xbench, benchmarking tool free

just to start with!
enjoy

[Beninio]

Quicksilver - app launcer
AppZapper - uninstaller
Stuffit - expander
just to add a few more.

[chrism]

VLC - really useful for video playback
GIMP/GIMPshop - fairly decent graphic editing package
UnRarX - Rar extraction tool

iStat pro - system resource usage/stats (very slick)

all free

[Guy]

firefox and thunderbird, i could never really get on with safari, and ive got firefox on my main pc so I just copied over my bookmarks

[b0redom]

Thanks for all that! Can anyone recommend a decent context sensitive (PERL/JAVA/C++/PHP) text editor? Preferably free. :-)

Tom