I will write very soon a review of working on a Macbook pro (I’ll have had it for one week this Tuesday). In the time between, I need advice from you: what are the best Mac software you use?

So far, I’ve installed MS Office, Norton Antivirus, Firefox, Parallels, Windows NT, Ubuntu, Eclipse & iTunes. I’m planning to get very soon:

- a UML free plug-in for Eclipse

- a good video broadcasting software, I’m thinking of VLC Media Player of course (since I’m studying at Centrale Paris and this project was born on this very campus);

- a free mindmapping software, my friend and blogger Vincent van Wylick suggests I use either Conceptdraw, Mindmanager or Omnigraffle;

- A good unzipping software, Vince, him again, uses The Unarchiver.

- Bleezer as a desktop client blogging software, but it’s not as good as Windows Live Writer I used to blog from on my HP laptop.

And that’s it so far.

Your input most welcome: which software do you use? Any recommendation? Safari or Mozilla (I prefer the latter)? Mail or MS Entourage? etc. Any bad or great experience? Needless to say, as a student, I’m keener on using free software, unless it really really rocks (like MS Office).

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