- Anil Saldhana

Unix like tools

• fink on sourceforge.net provides a lot of tools to install stuff like cvs etc.

Subversion

• http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/ OSX Subversion

IM

• fire on sourceforge.net provides connections to MSN,AOL, Jabber etc.

• Adium is a great chat client similar to fire. Find on macupdate.com.

• Yahoo Messenger for Mac is pretty good.

• Microsoft MSN Messenger for Mac is available.

• Skype is available on Mac OS-X.  Try to update your version as often as possible.

• Proteus is excellent http://www.defaultware.com/proteus/ (although for a small fee).

IDE

• Eclipse 4.0 is Ok.

• JetBrains IDEA 4.5 is ok.

• NetBeans 3.6 is good also. Good debugging and cvs support.

Terminal

• iTerm on sourceforge is good with support for tabs. This can replace the default Terminal.app

Java Console in your browsers like Mozilla

• http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net This may bring up applets which hesistate to show up.

SQL/JDBC

• CocoaMySQL 'The' Open Source SQL Database Manager for Mac OS X

• PostgreSQL for Mac

Other Utilities

• Quick Silver is a utility that is freely available that can locate apps/files on your desktop with few keystrokes.

• Launchbar is a similar utility to quick silver, but it seems to be able to index more files and runs faster than quick silver.

UML Tools

• Violet UML Editor A GPL based UML Editor.

• ARGOuml

Java 5.0

• Works fine on Mac OS X 10.4 - much faster than 1.4.2. Can also set as default JVM.

Jar Inspector

• http://www.codeland.org Nice utility that allows viewing and manipulating Jar, EAR, EJB archives. JAD decompiler built in.

References

• http://www.faisal.com/docs/osxforgeeks.html is a good reference site for tips.