T + 4. Everyday use now

Today is the second day of bringing the Mac to work. I'm forcing myself to use it, and things are going well. My coworker Luke gave me this list of must try software...

Menu Meters
$ Free
A Very handy system resources meeter for your menu bar (top of the screen)
Similar information to that of the iStatPro widget, but more compact
and easy to view

Quicksilver
$ Free
Keyboard launcher, file orginizer, finder, swiss army knife. VERY useful

iTerm
$ Free
Terminal.app replacement. Features tabs, Unix style copy/paste, etc
It's configuration screens are kind of unintuitive, but it's worth it.

Growl
$ Free
Nice system wide message tool. Basically it works with dozens of other
apps to deliver messages and status in a single way.

TextWrangler
$ Free
The free version of the extremely powerful BBEdit text editing tool.
Very nice for coding and scripting

OfficeTime
$40
Absolutely must have for the Mac based consultant. It's a time
tracking, reporting and invoicing tool. I've tried at least 4 of these
tools on the mac and this one is by far the best. Two of my friends
who do independent consulting and use macs have come to this same
conclusion. Worth every penny of the $40.

AdiumX
$ Free
Very nice multi network IM client. Works with MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, AOL,
and a dozen others



And another list of if the need suits you software

Yojimbo
$39
Simple but very effective organization tool. Stores text, passwords,
documents, PDFs, etc in an easy to tag and organize system.

NetNewsWire
$29
RSS/RSS2/ATOM/XML reader. I've used over a dozen of these tools (there
are TONS) and this is by far my favorite. Very worth the money if you
read a lot of news and other RSS feeds. I save lots of time with this.

Ecto 2
$18
Good blog editor. If you plan on continuing your blog, this tool will
prove handy.