> I use Fire for IM/chat. http://fire.sf.net/ I used to use Fire. bot anymore. You can connect to to *any* IM with iChat. ICQ, MSN, Y!, and of course, AIM and Jabber. See how: http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber To participate in the can't-live-without app: - Colloquy for IRC (has been mentioned) (open source?) - Cyberduck for FTP (open source) - Firefox (along with Safari) - PithHelmet as adblocker for Safari - Fugu for ssh an scp (has been mentioned) - Sente GPG for PGP directly in Mail - Gimp for graphics (the latest mac build is quite fast on my old iBook :-) - Goban for Go... ;-) - MacCVSClient (open source) for CVS - OpenOffice and NeoOfficeJ (not as full features as MSOffice, but open source) - Nvu for html (ok, Nvu is not exactly mature yet) - Keynote for presentations. There is *no* comparison to powerpoint. Keynote rocks :-) - Screen Spanning Doctor for two separate screens on iBook - SiteSucker to grasp html files from websites - TextWrangler because textedit is just powerful enough - tranquility, one of the best there is (free) - VLC fir divx, xvid and anything video That's most of it I guess. Have fun :-) Alex