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I have installed Ruby and Rails and the whole stack. Sadly, I haven’t had a chance to do any Rails development after yet because I have to do some Flash development to pay for the Mac. Yes, I’m actually a full time Flash developer by day.

To continue with my series of “switching to mac” posts, here’s a list of applications that I have installed so far (in order that I have them bookmarked):

Freeware:

• Tomato Torren – Torrent client for OSX
• CocoaMySQL – a better MySQL GUI
• Linotype FontExplorer X – very good font management tool
• VirtueDesktops – virtual desktops.
• iTerm – better terminal application.
• Shiira Project – pretty browsing.
• MenuMeters – status LEDs for your Mac.
• Google Notifier for Mac – my replacement for calendar and email applications.
• La Chose – SVN client for OSX – um… SVN client, it’s better than shell.
• Aptana with RadRails – my favorite Rails IDE.
• Adium – amazing IM client.
• VLC – for a platform that pimps itself as “user friendly”, OSX sure lacks a way to view any media that’s not produced by Apple.
• Firefox – seems to be just as slow as on PC.

Shareware:

• Path Finder – because Finder blows.
• VMWare Fusion – seems much faster than Parallels.
• TextMate – I guess I should check out what’s all the fuss about.

I think this sums up a basic starter kit. Please let me know if I missed something.