After working more and more with my Macbook instead of my desktop PC, I have found a couple of really nice tools for mostly all of my daily tasks. So here is a small list of tools and utilities which I basically use daily:

• Camino – This is basically the Firefox browser as a native OSX application. It has support for drag and drop, integrates the OSX keychain and spell checker and best of all, it’s completely free. The only downside is that you can not run the Firefox plugins.
• Textmate – Simply put: if you need a text editor there is absolutely no way around textmate. As a software developer you spend most of your time in a text editor and this is the most powerful editor I have ever worked with on any platform.
• Vienna – A very nice feedreader. Highly customizable and open source. As long as you do not read more than 200 feeds, this is a really good application.
• Quicksilver – To say Quicksilver is just an alternative program launcher is understatement par excellence. This is a completely new way working with OSX. It will save you a great deal of time. Also freeware.
• AdiumX – The multi protocol chat client for OSX. It has very nice theming support and it is open source.
• svnX – A GUI subversion client. Being used to TortoiseSVN on Windows, it is like a step back, but it is way better than using the command line tool.
• XAMPP – Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl preconfigured in one easy to install package. If you do web development, there is no way around this.
• Cyberduck – A great FTP/SFTP client. Easy to use and open source.
• iShowU – A great tool for recording screencasts. I prefer recording a screencast instead of writing long turorials. This tool is easy to use and produces great results.
• NeoOffice – This is the native OSX port of open office. I guess I will transition to iWork once the Numbers application is really stable, but in the meantime NeoOffice is working really great.
• Gimp – A powerful graphics application. It hase more functions and filters than an amateur will ever need.
• WhatSize – A really small but handy utility to find out which folders on your hard drive contains the largest files. Can be very useful when cleaning up your hard drive.

Well, I guess that’s basically it. I will keep you updated when I find great new tools.