What apps are essential for mac?
vansteen: I've got my Macbook pro 6 months ago. The best thing I ever buy. I'm programming and I use to use a Windows and a FreeBSD box before. 
Here, some free and commercial softwares I use everyday:1. Terminal: Visor - Quake-style terminal http://visor.binaryage.com2. Uninstaller: AppTrap http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/3. SFTP: http://www.expandrive.com/mac4. Quick remote filesharing: http://www.getdropbox.com5. IDEA: NetBeans or ZendStudio6. Virtual machine: Parallels - http://www.parallels.com7. Text editor: TextEdit or TextWrangler - http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/8. VPN: The native OSX thing does the job9. Mobile sync/Addressbook: iSync does the job (Use http://www.feisar.com/ to find your mobile plugin if iSync doesn't have it natively)10. SIP softphone: Telephone (works with Googlevoice+Gizmo5 and my local UK SIP provider) - http://code.google.com/p/telephone/11. Notifier: Growl - http://growl.info/12. Movie player: VLC or Quicktime+Perian codecs - http://perian.org/13. Chat: Adium14: Desktop display: GeekTool - http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/