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I felt the same about BBedit, until I got good with textmate... I'd never go back, at this point.

Making Mac usable:
Path Finder - Finder replacement
TotalSpaces 2 - improves workspaces.. instant switching, very customizable.
Unclutter - better than leaving files on desktop, stores notes very well
Bartender - tidies the menu bar
Quicksilver - launcher
Xee - image viewer

Productivity:
Parallels
MS Office
TextMate
OmniFocus

For admins, I'd also add:
Apple Remote Desktop
VPN Tracker (if you need a bunch of IPSec vpns)
Tunnelblick or Viscosity (OpenVPN)
lots of aliases, setting up .ssh, etc.

• Registration keeps out good posters. Imagine someone with an involving job related to your forum comes across it. This person is an expert in her field, and therefore would be a great source of knowledge for your forum; but if a registration, complete with e-mail and password, is necessary before posting, she might just give up on posting and do something more important. People with lives will tend to ignore forums with a registration process.
• Registration lets in bad posters. On the other hand, people with no lives will thrive on your forum. Children and Internet addicts tend to have free time to go register an account and check their e-mail for the confirmation message. They will generally make your forum a waste of bandwidth.
• Registration attracts trolls. If someone is interested in destroying a forum, a registration process only adds to the excitement of a challenge. One might argue that a lack of registration will just let "anyone" post, but in reality anyone can post on old-type forum software; registration is merely a useless hassle. Quoting a 4channeler:

  Trolls are not out to protect their own reputation. They seek to destroy other peoples' "reputation" ... Fora with only registered accounts are like a garden full of flowers of vanity a troll would just love to pick.

• Anonymity counters vanity. On a forum where registration is required, or even where people give themselves names, a clique is developed of the elite users, and posts deal as much with who you are as what you are posting. On an anonymous forum, if you can't tell who posts what, logic will overrule vanity. As Hiroyuki, the administrator of 2ch, writes:

  If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

Emphasis mine, Source: http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/

For FTP/SFTP there's Cyberduck for free, but I paid for Transmit. I was a WS-FTP user for years and love the 2-pane view.

And as you said, TextWrangler for text editing.

I wasn't talking about porn exclusively...

But you were talking about porn. And it really isn't used for that.

See http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1121956450/4 for examples.

Handling RARs in Mac is done with The Unarchiver

And are you really surprised that MDFs, created by proprietary Windows software, don't have a convenient tool on Mac? Try using an open format instead.

Psh...this is /. At least geek it up a little =P

http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/src/1123783702627.png

Xee

I do. I write forum software. And I don't even support registration, because I think it's a waste of time and lowers the value of a board.

And I know there are many other tricks that block spam just as well, without harassing the users. If your script requires you to force people to register just to avoid spam, it's your script that sucks.

One of the reasons anonymous posting hasn't taken off in the west yet (unlike in, say, Japan, where the biggest message board in the world is anonymous) might just be because people think anonymity is only good for hiding from some sort of super-powerful government persectution. Which is not the case. Besides just hiding from friends and bosses and such, it's also good for a number of other things.

Real men program in PerlHP!

It's even possible to do this in Perl.

And if you want to, I recommend PerlHP! It even gives you good old REGISTER_GLOBALS for Perl! In Perl, you can even do that much more safely thanks to use strict.

PS: Calling me an "MS fanboi" is totally hilarious. Maybe you missed the part where I am a Mac OS X developer? Like so: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html

Are the two terms absolutely equivalent?

As near as I can tell, yes. And, (if you need an argument from authority here to know I'm not just talking out of my ass) I've written apps that would fall under the term "AJAX", such as this:

http://wakaba.c3.cx/desktop-test/desktop.pl (login/pw is test/test)

Sarcasm. Pointing out how ridiculous your argument is by doing the same to the opposite position. I know /.ers often have trouble with non-literal interpretation (myself included), but really... wasn't it obvious?

Yes, far too obvious. Which is why I said you were intentionally daft, and didn't just call you an idiot. Sarcasm is no substitute for insight. Please try to think up and present actual arguments in the future.

The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another. I very much doubt the web will be a viable platform anytime soon, for bandwidth reasons if nothing else.

You might want to recheck that. It's been done before, and it will be done again. (Use test:test for user/pass.)

I'm not sure if it's compatible with Safari. I know FireFox/Mozilla works. Basically, it's a complete Web Desktop/Remote Management tool. You can download a copy for your own system here. Note that I'm unaffiliated with the product. I'm just happy to finally have a replacement for the long-defunct WebOS.com Desktop. :-)

People should stop developing with JavaScript. It's nothing but trouble.

Poppycock. This is nothing more than a typical knee-jerk reaction to a minor security flaw. Should we all stop using email because phisers can craft ones that look like someone elses?

Lots of sites use JavaScript very effectively. So many in fact, that it's rather difficult to make such a wild statement as "JAvascript is nothing but trouble." Google is a perfect example of a highly useful site with JS. For example, Maps and GMail both rely heavily on JS. In fact, most webmail sites contain JS. And without JS, you couldn't have neat stuff like this. (Login is test, test)

Related to this (but much cooler), there used to be a site at WebOS.com where the site lauched a full-screen browser window and allowed you to interact with an entirely HTML desktop. Even the applications were downloaded on the fly, and the files were saved on the server.

Related to this (but much cooler), there used to be a site at WebOS.com where the site lauched a full-screen browser window and allowed you to interact with an entirely HTML desktop. Even the applications were downloaded on the fly, and the files were saved on the server.

Here's one that actually does something useful.

My own, still kind of early in development, but fully usable for remote web administration. Try not to Slashdot it too badly, OK?