Chrome and Firefox for 2nd and 3rd browsers. Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive because one can never have enough free cloud storage. I used to be a big fan of SugarSync right up until they decided to get rid of the free tier. I have a Spider Oak account but can't think of anything to store there for now. Backups are handled through a NAS at home with Time Machine for now. I may look at CrashPlan again but last time I used it, it failed to backup something that was crucial, and I haven't looked at it since.
For the most part, I'm a die hard OS X guy. I don't think it's better than other OSes, it's just better for me. That being said, Windows window management (har har) is miles ahead of Finder, and to fill the gap, I use ShiftIt. FOSS and easy to use and my needs aren't great, I just want to sometimes put two windows side by side and this does the trick much easier than me dragging and resizing things every time.
This hasn't been updated in 3+ years so I hope that it doesn't break one day because it's the only way I can use multiple browsers on the same machine and stay sane. I like using Chrome say for my personal browsing, Firefox for work browsing, Safari for all other, and thus when I click on a link, I need more options than open in the default browser for OS X.
Split panes. Paste history. Ultimate configurability. Really there's no reason why this shouldn't be the first thing to install right after installing OS X.
TextEdit is not a text editor, it's a lazy word processor (default save to RTF?). TextWrangler is fine and dandy, but once TextMate went open source, I jumped on the bandwagon and haven't looked back. There are those who say that I should look at vim/MacVim more and it probably do me some good to be better at vi anyway. Some say I should buy Sublime. I'm sure Sublime is awesome, I just don't want to pay for the features that are cool but I think I can live without (for now). If TextMate does change from GPL to something else, then I'll reconsider what's out there.
Homebrew
This is probably for many OS X geeks one of the first things to run. I was a die hard MacPorts guy for years exactly for the reasons why homebrew people don't like it, because everything was self contained on the root level including all the dependencies. Everything lived in it's own world. Although that makes consistent deployment easier for masses of people who need certain version of tool X, the time lost because everything had to be installed even if it already existed has made me believe in homebrew more. Do people still use fink?
Simplenote
I go back and form between Simplenote and Evernote and right now Simplenote is my choice because I just want something, well, simple to store snippets of text for whatever reason. It also appeals to me that I can use other clients Notational Velocity or nvALT but for now the
This is probably for many OS X geeks one of the first things to run. I was a die hard MacPorts guy for years exactly for the reasons why homebrew people don't like it, because everything was self contained on the root level including all the dependencies. Everything lived in it's own world. Although that makes consistent deployment easier for masses of people who need certain version of tool X, the time lost because everything had to be installed even if it already existed has made me believe in homebrew more. Do people still use fink?
Simplenote
I go back and form between Simplenote and Evernote and right now Simplenote is my choice because I just want something, well, simple to store snippets of text for whatever reason. It also appeals to me that I can use other clients Notational Velocity or nvALT but for now the
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