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It's been almost a year since I switched to using a Mac from a PC.  Since then there have been a number of other converts.  Our entire household now uses Mac computers and I know other people who are switching as well.  I wanted to list out some of the software that I've found helpful over the past year.  Note that this is mostly from the perspective of a web devleoper

• Transmit – Great FTP clients that even supports S3 – http://www.panic.com/transmit/
• Sequel Pro – Must have manager for anyone who deals with mySQL – http://www.sequelpro.com/
• Time Out – Prevents eye fatigue by prompting you to take breaks – http://www.dejal.com/timeout/
• Text Wrangler – Good text editor – http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
• Apple developer tools – Install these from the disk that comes with your Mac.  The program I use the most is FileMerge
• Growl – notification software – http://growl.info/
• Adium – IM client – I love how it can be tucked away off screen – http://adium.im/
• Hyperdock – I use this to manage my windows – allows them to be made full size or part size by dragging them around the screen – http://hyperdock.bahoom.com/
• USB Overdrive – http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html - a necessity for running my Evoluent Vertical Mouse – http://www.evoluent.com/
• Typinator – a shortcut text expander program – http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/
• Alfred – quick launcher application – http://www.alfredapp.com/
• Clean Archiver - take the junk out of the standard mac compression – http://www.sopht.jp/en/cleanarchiver/
• Jing – great for quick screen casts – http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
• Jumpcut – clipboard app that keeps a record of your latest clipboard cuts – http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
• iStats Menus – allows you to keep an eye on our processor and memory – http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

There are a lot of other programs that I use that are more well known, but these form the foundation of smaller apps that make computing on the mac even easier.