Decaflon

Safari
iWork
Pixelmator

If you use more than just AIM for chatting I'd suggest Adium as well.

For those, I use FireFox, NeoOffice, and Photoshop. Adium is probably my favorite app as well.

I made the switch about a month and a half ago, and so I asked my blog readers and got some great suggestions in the comments, it might be worth checking out.

I prefer Firefox over Safari...

Depends on the depth of your graphic editing needs for the image editing. If it's light I'd suggest Pixelmator, otherwise I'd say Photoshop.

For office apps, if you need to make things in an Office suite to share with others using MS Office, you're MUCH better off just biting the bullet and buying MS Office for OS X. If not, go with iWork it's a blast!

Ozone nailed it.

In my experience, Safari is the way to go, Firefox is very slow and takes plenty of dock bounces to launch (with or without extensions).

iWork is awesome but at the same time, many people require Office and yes, it sucks for the Mac.

I haven't gotten to use Pixelmator yet but I cannot wait! It looks beautiful. I do not need everything that Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 supplies so this seems like the perfect app for me.

Beyond the applications you mentioned I would recommend...

- Newsfire
- Coda
- Quicksilver
- Handbrake

Those are my favorites : ) Enjoy your new Mac!

I'm not a Mac user, but I'm going to recommend not using Safari because of it has too many problems with JavaScript in my experience. I don't know if Camino is any better, but it is Mozilla's Safari if you like the way Safari looks. I personally like Firefox even though it swallows my memory.

I guess I'll give Firefox a shot. I'm a Firefox fanboy and I doubt I could settle in with anything but it!

Anyone here had any experience with neooffice?

Neo office works ok, but it's slow and... well it's a lot like MS office, warts and all. The plus side is that it's free.

I used it for a while, but dumped it when iWork 08 came about and I no longer need it for XLS files. I put together a direct mailing this morning, envelope, intro letter, trifold brochure... all in Pages. Mail merged from addressbook, printed. Took like an hour and I have a very pro looking mailing about to go out.

My only beef with Numbers is that it DOES interface with Excel... if you're only doing straight, bland spreadsheets on ONE sheet.

When you go all "Numbers Fancy" on your project you can't even come CLOSE to sharing with Excel anymore.

Yeah, same goes with keynote. You can't do anything fancy and have it work in powerpoint, just the basics (which covers powerpoint's featureset, and excel's.)

May sharing is only incoming to me, so that's perfect but if you need to give other people excel sheets or powerpoints you'll have to limit yourself to the features those two packages handle.

I'm a Camino guy.... rendering speed of Firefox without the bloat. Native OS X form widgets.

I recommend using Textmate if you will be doing any coding.

- Quicksilver
- iGTD
- Yojimbo
- Numbers
- Pages
- Textmate
- Keynote

If you do podcasts: Ubercaster

I tried using NeoOffice for a while, but it is quite slow. I've since moved to iWork '08 and I'm really happy with it. The OpenOffice devs are working on a native OS X version so you can keep an eye out for that, but I'm not sure how soon that will be a reality.

For a browser recommendation, I use Firefox, but be prepared; it's ugly. Quite slow at times, Flash basically just eats anything in it's path, and I'm staring at lots of beach balls (spinning rainbow ball when the machine is really busy). Camino is a great alternative. I stay far, far away from Safari.

Image editing will depend on what you're looking to do. If it's just photo touch-ups, Pixelmator is something to keep your eye on, or Acorn. If it's doing print work or other design-focused work, Photoshop will be king for a long time.

I use MS Office for work purposes, and it does suck in many ways, but Office 2008 for Macs is coming out, and it looks like it could be promising:

MS Office 2008
Screenshots

Pretty much what everyone's been saying.
I use Safari for browsing. Firefox is too slow and I never got into Camino for some reason.

For writing I am totally in love with WriteRoom.

The only apps I actually use on a daily basis:
Mail
Safari
Vienna (rss reader)
WriteRoom
Skitch (Flickr uploader and basic photo playing)
Photoshop
MS Word on the very rare occasion I have to do work at home.

And that's it. I have other pieces of software, but I use them so rarely they make no never mind.

Virtue Desktops is nice too, although Spaces will be with Leopard next week which is basically the same thing.

Along with the apps that everyone else has mentioned (especially Quicksilver), I'd highly recommend OmniOutliner Pro, even if you don't think you necessarily have a need for an "outlining" program. I've found about a million different uses for OmniOutliner.

Here is my top-list: Textmate, DevonThink Pro Office, PathFinder, LaunchBar and all the OmniGroup apps (Web, Outliner, Graffle and Focus).

If you like to know if your apps phone home, consider getting LittleSnitch.

For backups I'd go with Synk Standard.

Other good apps might be Adium, VoodooPad, K.I.T., SpamSieve and Hazel.