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Adobe Acrobat. May now come as shipped. I had to get it for free from Adobe. Note, Safari can use a plugin called Schubert to display inline PDF (may now be as-shipped), or you can configure it to use the external PDV has a built-in PDF viewer. You can also open PDFs in an external viewer.

MS Office: (Bookstore)

Word
Powerpoint
Excel
Entourage (Microsoft's Outlook for Mac). I use Entourage for mail rather than Apple Mail, but i have friend friends who prefer Apple mail. I use Entourage as IMAP client, rather than Exchange, so it works from home seamlessly, but it can do Exchange too.
For lots of Microsoft Mac stuff see http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.

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May now come as shipped. Otherwise download free from www.stuffit.com. Like winzip but much smoother and better integrated into the downloading system of the browser.

AFS.

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Get MacLeland from Stanford http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss/macstanford/macleland/. This includes both Open AFS, and the Stanford GUI for managing it. See me for some tweaks that make it smooth (like getting /afs to look as though it is mounted in the root, rather than /Volumes/afs, so it looks just as it does when you're on an AFS machine at work). Also at Stanford ESS. (NB: You need a SUNet ID to access this.)

For Tiger 10.4OS (From Doug):
I've been using OpenAFS for MacOS X (Tiger), and it works pretty well. Easy download, and simple to configure for SLAC access. I'm assuming you don't use AFS access at LLNL or ANL. (Added by Steve L: I use it from LLNL; works fine except if you forget "klog" or the token expires after 25 hrs...then it can hang up Finder even when just "reading".)

Stephen Norum got the initial information, which indicated a few problems like the system would hang up when you go to sleep or shut down. We've been using this for a couple of weeks, and haven't seen any of these issues; if the AFS daemons can access the net, they will and if not, they won't - silently. I don't see any of the issues with sleeping or shutdown.

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5. Duplicate these lines, and change the '>slac.stanford.edu' to '>slac'. You should be ready to go. You'll probably have to reboot.

Editors/IDEs

Xcode - http://developer.apple.com^{Image Added}
SubEthaEdit - http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/^{Image Added}

Emacs.

As Shipped, but only "curses" interface. Better use "OS X"ified version of GNU distribution available from a few places, see http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/emacs.html and linked pages. See me for .emacs and redo.el setup. Strongly recommend also installing JDE and JDEbug from www.sunsite.dk (as I recently got SCS to install on /afs/slac/package/emacs), this makes Emacs great java IDE.

For Tiger OS - You must get a different version of emacs compiled for Tiger-
get emacs download from http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html
I placed an alias into my login .bashrc file : alias emacs="/Applications/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs" so that I can emacs from xterm command line.

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Xtools.

Apple's own IDE. As shipped on Developer CD. Heard it's great for C and Java development too but I don't use it. I use emacs and eclipse.

Eclipse.

http://www.eclipse.org^{Image Added}

Netbeans.

if you want netbeans as well as eclipse, it's at www.netbeans.org.

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Netscape and Mozilla are also ported to OS X. Some people like them. Cheap and cheerful html editing. SubEthaEdit is a great HTML/CSS editor.

OmniGraffle.

Great diagramming package, very "Mac-like". www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
Another alternative to Visio is ConceptDraw

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So, I whole-heartedly recommend this OmniGraffle tool, even though it has an odd name. And, this Pro version can be upgraded to the next version (v4) free of charge when it's available. (Added by Steve L 12/9/2005: current version is 4.0 to purchase and 4.1 for beta; I recommend going immediately to 4.1 as quite a few bugs are fixed.)

-from doug m.

eSuite4X.

SQL tool.

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Where to get what you want (other than Google)

VersionTracker

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/^{Image Added}
All mac os x software in one place.

Apple

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/

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gnu software packaged so it will install with the Apple installer

Information

Apple.

http://www.macintouch.com/^{Image Added} - reviews and trouble-shooting http://www.macosxhints.com/^{Image Added} - mac os x hints....

Especially see developer resources (www.apple.com/developer)
http://www.osxfaq.com^{Image Added}

Acquisition.

http://www.acquisitionx.com/. Something to do with file-sharing (Limewire network), whatever that is. Never use it myself.

IRC chat clients for mac:

Instant Messaging:

Adium - http://www.adiumx.com/^{Image Added} - AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more (free and the best ever)
iChat - comes with Mac OS XAOL and iMac. Both work with Apple's iSight video chat system!

Just plain cool

Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities).

Manages all your passwords. many apps talk to the keychain for you to get things like Exchange Server credentials, but it also lets you just put in passwords records and secure notes yourself so you can keep records of frequent flyer numbers or bank account numbers.

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Download oodles of widgets from Apple site.

Quicksilver (Tiger OS)

http://macquicksilver.softpediablacktree.com/get/Utilities/Quicksilver.shtml^{Image Modified}
Quicksilver allows you to navigate to what you need quickly and easily, while keeping your hands on the keyboard. For example, if you want to launch an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it. When you don't need Quicksilver, it keeps out of your way, preserving screen real estate. (Stephen, Doug, Diane and Debbie are using)