These are the things I use daily (most are free!):
[Development]
Spotlight - OSX built in app launcher etc
SourceTree - GUI Git/Hg/SVN client.
HomeBrew - like apt, yum package manager
MacVim - Coming from the GUI world look at Janus
iTerm2 (Zsh, OhMyZSH plugins)
MAMP - Apache, MySQL etc dev env (like XAMPP)
$ CSSEdit - GUI CSS editor, mainly use vim
CyberDuck - (s)FTP
Sequel Pro - MySQL GUI, SSH connection
$ Parallels - VM
[Calendars] - iCal or $ Busy Cal
[Mail] - OSX Mail
[Office] - $ iWork, LibreOffice
[Feed Reader] - NetNewsWire
[Torrent] - Transmission
[Transcode] - Handbrake
[Utilities]
$ little snitch - Network monitor
MenuMeters - Free limited version of iStatMenus
Flip4mac WMV in Quicktime
Perian (Make QuickTime like VLC)
TwoUp - free window basic management
RightZoom - Maximise zoom button
ClipMenu - Multi Copy, Paste board
UnArchiver - File Decompression
CleanArchiver - File compression (sans .DS_Store)
NameChanger - GUI for mass renaming files
Onyx - System maintenance and set extra OS defaults
Click2Flash - Extension in Safari blocks flash defaults to HD mp4, right click to download video.
[Development] Spotlight - OSX built in app launcher etc SourceTree - GUI Git/Hg/SVN client. HomeBrew - like apt, yum package manager MacVim - Coming from the GUI world look at Janus iTerm2 (Zsh, OhMyZSH plugins) MAMP - Apache, MySQL etc dev env (like XAMPP) $ CSSEdit - GUI CSS editor, mainly use vim CyberDuck - (s)FTP Sequel Pro - MySQL GUI, SSH connection $ Parallels - VM
[Calendars] - iCal or $ Busy Cal [Mail] - OSX Mail [Office] - $ iWork, LibreOffice [Feed Reader] - NetNewsWire [Torrent] - Transmission [Transcode] - Handbrake
[Utilities] $ little snitch - Network monitor MenuMeters - Free limited version of iStatMenus Flip4mac WMV in Quicktime Perian (Make QuickTime like VLC) TwoUp - free window basic management RightZoom - Maximise zoom button ClipMenu - Multi Copy, Paste board UnArchiver - File Decompression CleanArchiver - File compression (sans .DS_Store) NameChanger - GUI for mass renaming files Onyx - System maintenance and set extra OS defaults Click2Flash - Extension in Safari blocks flash defaults to HD mp4, right click to download video.