im: Adium
backup: Time Machine works pretty well and comes with it

I don't use an IDE on mac, I just use Textmate. You could also try Text Wrangler by the makers of BBedit.

Also check out Quicksilver for all your rapid program launching, file finding, contact searching, basically everything to do on the desktop needs.

I was talking to Kutis on concrete5 IRC.

He recommended me Coda.
http://www.panic.com/coda/

Although it's $99, It has everything you need.
So I may buy this one as well.

But I'm currently using...

TextMate
svnX
Dreamweaver
diff on Terminal

I also use Billings to track my contracting work:

http://www.billingsapp.com/

I use Transmit for BT.

Linkinus for IRC.

iphoto for photo collection management.

1Password or KeePassX as a password vault.

VirtualBox for virtualization.

RegExhibit for regex testing.

Ppl use Cyberduck for FTP.

Chicken of the VNC for VNC.

Handbrake for backing up DVDs.

Aptana for PHP HTML CSS Coding (free and great)
MAMP as PHP/MySQL Server
Billings as well for invoicing
Navicat for MySQL - fantastic tool
Parallels and Win XP with "Multiple IE" App for IE Testing

- BBEdit for all php, html, css, txt, etc. editing. I particularly like the powerful search and replace, built in diff and svn.
- SvnX for everything svn related that I can't do in BBEdit
- Time Tracker for time tracking -http://code.google.com/p/time-tracker-mac/...
- My own php app for billing :-)
- Entropy's php package for phphttp://www.entropy.ch
- MAMP for MySQL (and a second php on a different port)
- Cyberduck for ftp, sftp, webdav, cloud files, etc. (it integrates nicely with BBEdit for remote editing)
- Terminal.app, built into MacOS X. Yay!
- cd to... app to open current folder in terminal -http://code.google.com/p/cdto/
- touch here app to create empty text files in current folder -http://www.codium.co.nz/touch_here_app/...
- Yahoo Widget Engine with a custom widget as a file launcher. And MiniCal for quick calendar.
- OpenOffice for the occasional customer who insists in sending requirements as a MS Word document.
- My wife's PC for IE 7!

Thanks for the VirtualBox tip! I am downloading it at the moment.

Can you let me know your skype username or msn? Also I think I have your email. I have something I would like to offer/ask you about.

Congrats on buying a mac! I bought myself one about a month ago, and was the best decision ever! Took a while convincing myself that it was better then a PC as I was so slow on the mac to start with.

But now it's just pure awesome, and I love the apps, the simplicity and everything.

I use...

WHMCS - Billing
Coda - Development/FTP/SSH
Adium - Messenging
Skype
Firefox
Quicksilver (Although I am still learning it).
Microsoft Office for Mac

Spotlight is one of my most favourite productivity tools on the mac.

Anyway flick me an email or add me on skype: sparxdesign

it's taken me some time to get used to this thing, but I'm loving it. there's a few quirks about the mac interface that I've still got to get used too, but overall this is way nicer. things just seem way more thought through... smart defaults, transitions, install processes, etc. Thanks for the tips!

very late to this thread, but I spent quite a long time on this question.

textmate - it's really the best text editor for mac, be sure to check out the documentation

expandrive - lets you mount ftp and sftp (ssh) connections

versions - very nice svn repo browser (though you can use textmate for regular commits and updates)

sequel pro - very mac'ish database tool, similar funcionality to phpmyadmin, but not web based

xampp - great way to run a local m.a.m.p. for dev purposes without having the use the abandoned and buggy mamp suite

FileMerge - it's a tool that gets packaged with xcode, the best file merging program i've seen on any os

vmware fusion - $$ but it's the easiest (and most efficient) way to check for those pesky IE problems.

time machine - don't fix what's not broke, it works great and is _way_ more resource friendly than other solutions

photoshop - duh

adium - for everything chat'ish. the beta even does irc, facebook, and twitter

apple mail - great spam filter

iwork - makes very clean pdf's and isn't MS

Old thread but I just recently converted back to Mac and I use coda so worth the 100 bucks and my only other suggestion not listed here above is littlesnapper. I take a ton of snapshots and this thing is worth the $30 bucks it takes screenshots of websites full page so no more recreating a screenshot in photoshop to show everything.

Coda - coding
Fireworks - design and cutting templates
Screenium - screencasting
Skype - screen sharing with clients
Keynote - client presentations
Adobe Browserlab - cross platform checking
Google Chrome - main browser with dev tools

Coda is what I use the most....just the quick flipping between sites is REALLY nice, and I really like the CSS integration.

I have worked with Flux, but it's not my cup of tea.

Chad

Alright here we go :)

i use:

Coda
Text Wrangler
Cyberduck
Chrome/FF/Safari
Colloquy
Xampp(not mamp)
Versions
Gmail
Growl/Hardware Growler
Stuffit Expander
Toast Titanium
DarWine(for some win apps)
Dropbox
Logmein Free
NaviCat Lite
Jing
VLC
Teamviewer

Thats mainly the stuff i use that in someway pertain to stuff i do with C5

you can find some really nice stuff on Wakoopa:http://wakoopa.com

i use it to find all sorts of software

I was telling someone about this at the park this morning, so the activity in this thread is timely: though I'm using google docs more often now, I usehttp://www.neooffice.org as a free alternative to Microsoft Office.

The only thing I have to add to the excellent suggestions here is SuperDuper to create a bootable backup of your hard drive.

TimeMachine is great for getting back sets of files, but from what I've read not great in a catastrophe situation. In the unlikely (but possible) event that your hard drive goes kaput your SuperDuper clone will have you up and running in minutes (if you have another computer to hook the bootable copy to, that is).

There is flexible scheduling for backups. I run mine once a day and can keep working while it's happening with no problems.

Totally, SuperDuper is vastly superior to Time Machine when it comes to recovery of drive failure. It also works with wireless drives via disk image. Very nice app.

Also CSSEdit is a life saver for CSS editing (obviously).