(Haven't read other suggestions. Certainly all of these have been suggested before, in that case bump the vote count on those apps!) - First thing you should d

(Haven't read other suggestions. Certainly all of these have been suggested before, in that case bump the vote count on those apps!) - First thing you should do: Install Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ - IRC: Colloquy - http://colloquy.info http://colloquy.info - Editor: Sublime Text 2 - http://www.sublimetext.com/2 http://www.sublimetext.com/2 - Launcher: QuickSilver or Alfred - Lion's Mail.app is great. I used to use Sparrow (http://sparrowmailapp.com http://sparrowmailapp.com) on Snow Leopard, but don't need it anymore. It's a little buggy and I like Mail.app's UI better. - IMPORTANT: Check http://gpgtools.org http://gpgtools.org for a simple app that lets you manage PGP credentials and use them in Mail.app and elsewhere (don't miss this one) - RSS reader: Reeder - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder/id439845554?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder/id439845554?mt=12 - You're new to Mac, so install CheatSheet (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id529456740?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id529456740?mt=12) to learn keyboard shortcuts by heart (press down CMD key for 2 seconds to get a list of all shortcuts) - Check this blog out - it has plenty of great stuff about OS X that even veteran OS X users don't know (trust me, I know a lot of them): http://www.macyourself.com http://www.macyourself.com - You'll inevitably wonder what 'ocspd' or 'mdworker' are, when using 'ps -Ac' or 'top' (spoiler: ocspd is for certifications, and mdworker, or metadata-worker is a process that gathers information about files and feeds them to Spotlight for search), so install atMonitor (http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/ http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/) instead of searching for process names on the Internet. It offers tons of other cool features. - Markdown Pro (http://www.markdownpro.com http://www.markdownpro.com) and Mou (http://mouapp.com http://mouapp.com) for Markdown. - As much as I despise iTunes, nothing comes close to it (unfortunately) in terms of media management. - Bartender - tidies messy menu bars: http://www.macbartender.com http://www.macbartender.com