fahad19

been thinking the same thing for a while now... I just dont know which one to get. Hope it gives you joy.

Welcome to the family :)

Congrats! For development, definitely get Textmate, sequel pro(mysql client), gitx (git gui), iterm (terminal substitute). All are free except Textmate.

Congrats! It is always nice to achieve the dreamed stuffs!

It is a dream of me too! but I am of two things
1. I am not comfortable of jumping to a closed source monopoly platform from current vast world of Linux
2. do I really need such a fancy stuff!

Apps for a webdev to get? Textmate, Transmit (FTP client, paid).

I suggest you take a look at macports, it's quite handy to install apps.

As a Transmit alternative, Cyberduck is a good ftp (sftp/s3/etc) client that is free. You shoud also have a look at Adium for a good IM client, and Growl for desktop notifications.

Enjoy OSX !

Congratulations!

For development.
Textmate
Coda
Sequel Pro
Transmit
LittleSnapper - Screen capture and library.
For fun
perian - quicktime plugin lets you play pretty much any format.
UnRarX
divvy - resizes windows, this is really awesome.
Quicksilver - shortcut keys to open things up, so I have mine as alt+space if i want to open textmate i do alt+space, te and then enter.

Coda, Sequel Pro, Adium, Divvy, Mailplaneapp (if you have multiple gmail accts), CSS Edit, LittleSnitch, unRarX, Coda, Coda, and more Coda. :)

Visor is a neat addon for working with terminal. Worth a try.

I have been using a Mac for lots o years. I work on PCs too, but find myself frustrated when trying to code on them. Coda makes me happy while I code.

Congrats, some of my favorites:
homebrew, textmate, 1password, navicat, transmit

computer is just awesome :D

Congrats Fahad! Nice computer.

I second other's recommendations for TextMate -- it's an amazing editor. Other really nice apps are those from the Omni Group. I use OmniFocus daily, and OmniGraffle Pro for creating diagrams.

Parallels Desktop is also invaluable for checking websites with various platforms - all flavours of Windows and IE, Linux, etc..

Be sure to install the Xcode package from Apple, and then Macports, which provides easy compilation and installation of thousands of open source software packages. It's a port of FreeBSD's package management system. It's excellent.

You can save a pile of money by getting the MacUpdate Promo bundles: http://www.mupromo.com/

Every now and then they have a package with one or more of the above-mentioned commercial packages for a super-cheap price.

If you ever need any Mac help, feel free to ask! :)

Cheers,
Brent

Oh yah, also get this:

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

It unarchives everything, and it's free.

TextMate is really cool, but... I would recommend going with MacVim. It's vim that looks and behaves like native OS X application. You can use your mouse, you can install NERDtree for project outline and many other extensions to fulfill your requirements. And, what is the most important, you'll get used to vim environment which can restore you hours when used properly. But still... I'm not vim's church evangelist. I just think that switch may be a good opportunity to give it a try.

Cyberduck (free) for FTP
Evernote (free), Yojimbo (paid) for notes
NetNewsWire (free) for news
Things (paid) for to do list

Adium (free) for IM
Echofon (free, ad-supported) for Twitter

i recommend:

-MacVim: With NERDTree and Netrw plugins. This is the KING of the editors and it doesn't eat up RAM, unlike other editors (cough TextMate, cough Coda, cough Eclipse).
-FileZilla: best free FTP app.
-The Unarchiver: this was mentioned before, but it's *the* unarchiver, period.
-Macports: but you need Xcode to get up and running.
-VLC: playing media.
-VirtualBox: free solution to emu different OS's (install Windows, Linux, etc).

i would use macports to install mysql or use the installer from mysql.

if you need a quick dev environment mamp is good too.

oh last but not least, smcFanControl. hope that helps, congrats on your machine! (thumbs up).

Coda (coding + built in FTP, Terminal, Browser etc)
CSSEdit (CSS Editer with live updating also ability to click areas of a page and see the attributes for that area)
Tweetie (Twitter Application)
1Password (securely store all your passwords for different accounts, categorise by folder, client etc)
Adium (best msn, facebook, im etc app)
Aneiaty (basic and quick to do list, shows on desktop)
CleanMyMac (program for speeding up and clearing out crap)
GaragePay (manage and monitor paypal payments)
NetNewsWire (RSS Reader)
ScreenFlow (screen recorder)
Things (Best to do list manager Cant live without this!)
Webbla (take full page screenshots of websites)
iStatMenus (Adds CPU, Ram and bandwith monitor to your mac tookbar)
Cocktail (mac tuneup tool)
MAMP (web server and phpmyadmin)
Transmit (Best ftp ever)

Where did you buy MB PRO?