I even tried to rename it "filename.pdf" and open it with Reader.

In tech-success news, I added a second monitor, new speakers, and a new webcam to my PC at home. Then used them to skype my FiL, and ended up walking him through connecting his new Xbox to his home theater.

I know that this list is a couple years old, but since I'm putting my Mac back together I wondered if there was anything else one "needs."

Other than what's on this list I had to have:

• Bluephone Elite: integrates my phone with my Mac desktop. I can text from my computer and I get call notifications onscreen (in combination with Growl, methinks) that can even be read aloud in annoying voices. It's not free, but I like it enough to buy.
• Skype. My family is overseas. 'Nuff said.
• Opera. Browser of choice
• Chicken of the VNC, so I can control my desktops in the other room.

They got most of my big ones in there. I also love me some NetNewsWire, but if you're not an RSS Client kind of person there's no need. I also install LaTeXit about 20 minutes after installing because I require it for teaching, but that may not be a thing for you.

I use CyberDuck instead of Transmit because it's free and works fine. I like installing Gimp.app (and, by extenstion, X11) since I need image editing rarely but it's great when I do. iStumbler (wifi tool) is useful if it's a laptop. MacTheRipper and Handbrake if you do DVD encoding, ffmpegX for pretty much any other video encoding, PDFLab for editing, breaking up, and connecting PDF files. I don't use TextWrangler, preferring the look of Smultron, though it might not be as good for hardcore programming / editing (for which I tend to use vim in the terminal anyway). Transmission is my favorite bittorrent client. XSlimmer is cool if you have limited hard disk space (it strips the PPC code and useless languages from apps, making them much smaller). And last of all, audacity for audio editing.

MacTheRipper and Handbrake if you do DVD encoding, ffmpegX for pretty much any other video encoding

MPEG Streamclip is better than all of these put together. All Hail MPEG Streamclip.

I'd only used TextWrangler for, um, text, but recently I was writing a little JavaScript on the iBook and it really worked so well!

Does Smultron save to FTP? That's why I love TextWrangler and UltraEdit on the PC.

Does Smultron save to FTP?

Looks like, though it has to be done by choosing Smultron as the editor on the FTP program, I think. I quote the page:

Can I use it with my FTP-program?

Yes. You can usually decide which program should be an external editor in the FTP-programs and if you choose Smultron and then choose to open the file in the external editor it opens in Smultron, and then when you save the file in Smultron it is automatically uploaded to the FTP-site.

though it has to be done by choosing Smultron as the editor on the FTP program, I think.

Yes, that's how it is with whichever exernal editor you're using with FTP.

that's how it is with whichever exernal editor you're using with FTP.

You don't have to do that with TextWrangler (or UltraEdit). They have FTP programs embedded in them--you can either open from disc or open from an FTP site.

I love Speed Download, but it is not free. It is bombtastic though.