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I've had my MacBook Pro for a few months, and I really enjoy it. Since then, a few friends have purchased MBP's as well, so I've decided to update the list of Mac apps that I use on a regular basis, and also the list of those that I thought I'd like, but decided to remove.

Apps I Still Use Often

• Quicksilver: My God, it's full of stars. QS actually reminds me of developing with a powerful IDE: who cares where stuff is when you can search? Just find it. For me, it's Command+Space and start typing. Wonderful app. Much faster than the build-in Searchlight.

• MenuMeters: Displays CPU, memory, and other system status information discretely in the menu bar. I display memory and CPU, but skip the disk and network info.

• Witch: Allows you to ALT/OPTION+Tab through all of your application windows, not just the main application itself. For example, I have 3 Mail windows open and I can ALT+Tab to all of them.

• NeoOffice Pretty free office applications. Gotta have at least one. Don't use it much but I feel better knowing that I have it.

• Eclipse: Yeah yeah, I know there are many Eclipse haters out there, but it's a free IDE with lots of handy plugins. Maybe I'll buy TextMate, but free is free is free.

New Apps I Now Use

• Jumpcut: One of my new favorites! From the site: Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.

• VLC media player: Media player that plays Flac files. Much better than Cog in my opinion.

• Gmail Notifier: If only it supported multiple email addresses...

• TextMate: The text editor I'm using right now to write this! A great all around text editor. One of the 2 apps I've actually had to pay for.

• Parallels: All the cool kids are using machine virtualization.

• Adium: Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Removed or Never Use

• VirtuDesktops: Multi-desktops. I feel like I'm supposed to like this, and I sorta do, but I don't use them much yet. Usually crashes on me after a while.

• Cog: Replaced with VLC media player.

• XTorrent: Kept expiring, forcing me to upgrade to the newer one. The search feature was handy, though.