Best OSX 10.5 apps

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Instant Messaging : Adium
Seriously the best IM client I've ever used. Has all the features that I enjoyed in Trillian and Pidgin (the Windows counterpart), but with an extra coat of sexy. Also the app stability seems pretty solid. I'm not so sure about its file transfer capabilities, but there always seem to be problems with that and multi-protocol clients (perhaps firewalls as well).

FTP Client : FileZilla
FileZilla seemed great on Windows, but the OS X version seems lacking in comparison to its brethren. I'm having problems getting it to edit files with the right apps too. It hasn't given me any real problems, but I may want to try some alternatives. It's still better than any other FTP client on Windows though, and there are a lot of features I like.

Wrong and wrong, sorry but I'm a huge fan of iChat. When you give it the Chax plugin it's so much better than Adium in that it actually looks nice. And functionality-wise, I think it's all you need (when you add Chax that is.)

It's not free, but that's never a problem. Transmit is probably the best FTP client still, with Flow at a close second. I don't use FTP besides coding though, so I just use the FTP browser inside of Coda most of the time.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Office Suite?
I need an office suite. What do you recommend? Has OpenOffice gotten any better in the last couple years? I need something to read and write files from Microsoft Office 2007 and earlier.

Besides word processing, I don't really use any of the Office programs. Therefore, I like Bean. It starts up probably 10 times faster than Word does.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

File Renamer?
For Windows I used ReNamer. It kicked ass because you could save lists of RegEx and other rules to rename files. Is there anything like this for OS X?

Uh, can't you just use Automator?

Quicksilver is essential, don't be ridiculous. Growl is pretty essential too.

For coding (on the web, at least), Coda is the clear winner on OS X. With Transmit built in, project management, versioning, built-in reference manuals, a CSS editor, among many other things, I really can't see why anyone would use much else.

For IRC chatting, I use Colloquy just because. Although it's been giving me a lot of grief lately with some nickname stuff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.