Lots of excellent pointers from others...I'll add a few I haven't seen posted: - InstantShot: nice little screenshot utility (I use it daily) - VueScan: swiss

Lots of excellent pointers from others...I'll add a few I haven't seen posted: - InstantShot: nice little screenshot utility (I use it daily) - VueScan: swiss-army knife of mac scanning apps if you need to hook up a scanner. Costs a little, but you get lifetime upgrades. Well worth it. - LittleSnitch: network monitor. tracks what kind of network activity your apps are up to. Costs a little, but also worth it if you value your privacy. - JollysFastVNC: fast and free VNC client (I've been using it over Chicken of the VNC). - OmniDiskSweeper: Disk utility shows you which files are hogging up the most hard disk space. Free. I also recommend many of Omni's other products. Omnigraffle (not free) is also excellent for diagramming. Also, not mac specific, but the sqlite manager plugin for Firefox is also very helpful. I don't know where others go to find different Mac apps, I usually hit macupdate.com (and sometimes versiontracker) these days, mostly out of habit, but would love to hear other recs for this.