I recently upgraded both my personal laptop and the operating system. Through the process of getting back up to speed and moving things to the new laptop, I’ve had a unique look into what apps I use most. These few apps I can’t live without:

Development

TextMate: A great Mac OS text editor. Blackboard theme.
Terminal: Comes with every install, but for quick edits and work. (Vim not emacs).
Cyberduck: Many choose Terminal, but I really prefer Cyberduck’s minimalism.
Tower: Fantastic Git client, useful as I’ve been doing a lot with Git this summer.
XAMPP: Localhost.

Adobe Photoshop CS 5: I’m no designer…but Photoshop is the best for quick edits.

Browsers

Google Chrome: Main browser. Simple. Powerful. Sandboxes.
Apple Safari: Chrome used to be my primary browser but it’s notoriously horrible in Lion and I’ve been using Safari more and more.
Mozilla Firefox: This is for Firebug. Firebug, firebug, firebug.

Music

iTunes
Spotify: iTunes isn’t being used that much anymore minus syncing my iPhone.

Social

Skype
Adium: Best IM client for Mac OS.
Twitter for Mac

Productivity

Sparrow: Gorgeous and simple email application. Better than Apple’s Mail application – especially the new Lion update – by leaps and bounds.
Pages & Keynote: Keynote surpasses PowerPoint in every way; Pages is all I need for word processing, as I don’t do a lot of complicated tasks.

Reading

NetNewsWire: My RSS reader. Thinking of trying Reeder soon.
Kindle for Mac: Lets me read my books on my laptop.

Other

Guidance: Really nice Prayer Times app, available from the App Store for free. Used to have Prayer Times Pro, but Guidance is more elegant and packs more feature. It’s a win-win.

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