Essential Software for your Mac

The following links are good starting points:

http://weblog.mrbill.net/essential-mac-software/
http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/essential_mac_software.html
http://geekable.com/blog/2004/11/12/essential_mac_software.html

What I'd like however is to get a Hivemind specific narrowing down of what is essential. Feel free to edit/update.

Must Have Software

• Quicksilver: Application launcher, http://www.blacktree.com
• Mailplane (for Gmail interface)
• SSH Tunnel Manager: Setup SSH tunnels for secure mail transport, http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/stm/

Office Applications

• NeoOffice...

Text Editing

• Textpander: text shortcut keys / macro assignments, http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/
• Scrivener: Useful tool for authors, including corkboard layout, reference panes etc, http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

Graphics

• something

Internet

• Vienna (RSS reader)
• Skype