Quiksilver is AMAZING for geeks. I've still not come even close to plumbing its depths. Most of those other programs I don't use as much - I'm an Azureus fan, for one.

My biggest programs are Camino (Firefox still feels slow to me), Path Finder (best file manager for the Mac, ENTIRELY worth the money), iTerm, and VLC. Oh, and XWords - with a little bit of individual effort it becomes a perfectly decent Scrabble replacement. And, as already mentioned, Adium. Far and away the best IM client I've ever used. I also use Liquid Ledger to keep track of my finances - much simpler than Quicken for my somewhat limited needs.

What is Liquid Ledger? I've got Quicken free with my Mac, but I"m not especially feeling the love...

Liquid Ledger: [link]

Man, am I so glad I didn't post here earlier. My Tivo remote stopped working for the Tivo (still did for the tv). I thought I'd gotten it miscoded somehow and went online to find how to get my codes. When I realized that the dog had sat on it and switched it from SAT to TV. Oops.

Liese, you can now tell about how advanced Biscuit's butt is!

Except I keep trying to press the right mouse button. It's driving me insane.

I've spent my entire computer life switching between unix mice, mac mice and laptop trackpads on a daily basis. Throw in the occasional ms mouse...I don't even think about it anymore. But if you are used to just one, it's got to be crazymaking.

The one-button-that-you-can-click-on-both-sides design is very pretty, but not as responsive as two REAL buttons would be

I must chime in with my concurrence that if you can't get used to it, any usb mouse will do.

Also, have you tweaked it at all, in the Keyboard and Mouse control panel [link] It can't do anything about the tactile difference, but it might help.

It took a while for me to get used to electric keyboards after growing up with a manual typewriter, too. hee.

(Although one would have to equate the touch mouse with a membrane keyboard, which I still haven't quite gotten used to.)

Liese, you can now tell about how advanced Biscuit's butt is!

Ha! It's really a tiny button. And it's a switch, not actually a button. It's possible he didn't do it by sitting, but did it surreptitiously with his paws so that I couldn't watch tv and paid more attention to him.

It backfired, though, because it got the tv stuck on Discovery during Mythbusters and then Most Dangerous Catch. Which was very addictive.

That Quicksilver looks cool. I'll have to give it a look.

My hesitation about going all Mac...what do I like better on the PC?

WS_FTP Pro. That duck program irritates me. I like the interface of WS_FTP Pro so much better.

UltraEdit 32. Have not found my one true Mac text editor. I'm playing with Zend Studio eval, and it's overkill in the other direction. What I mainly need is FTP Open/Save, syntax highlighting, regular expression search and replace...well, and everything else.

Paintshop Pro. I don't wanna go Gimp. PSP was a great price point ($80) for the complexity, and it's made me very happy. There isn't much that Photoshop does that PSP doesn't that I'd be willing to pay for.

SQLYog. Connects me to my remote databases and lets me manage them and run queries against them.

Typograf. I know the Mac must have a kick assed font manager. I just haven't found it yet.

Office. Need it. Don't wanna buy it.

WebLogExpert. Munches the stats from my websites and makes them pretty for me.

TiVo Desktop/To Go. I don't think that needs explaining.

Picasa. I'm quite addicted to it now. Helps me quickly sort through and manipulate images for my web sites. Sorting's the key thing. I have more than a thousand submissions sitting around waiting to be checked.

So I'm gonna be bicoastal for a while.

I don't watch TV/DVD on my desktop anymore. I haven't watched any Fox shows online because their app won't work on the Mac.

I don't torrent to the PC anyore. Azureus wouldn't work on it.

I don't IM/Skype on the PC anymore. Man, I thought I'd found my OTIM with Trillian, but nope.

The Tivo Desktop/Tivo To Go stuff on the Mac is working pretty well now. You have to buy Toast to get it, but I've been running it and liking it so far.

I goddamned bought Toast on the PC. No desktop without pay? Even without burning?