Software

Operating System

Apple Mac OS 10.5 Tiger

Digital Lifestyle

The Apple standard software as Mail, iTunes, Safari, iCal, iChat and AddressBook
The Adobe Suite for media composition

Recommended Software

Default Folder X your directory accessing assistant
MenuMeter a free system monitoring tool
Little Snitch as a software firewall to allow inbound and outbound network traffic
Launchbar for keybord based application, shortcut and document search and launch utility
Omniweb a great featured web browser
OnyX a multifunction system utility
Smultron a free powerful editor
TextExpander a shortcut text expander
Witch access all of your opened windows
X-Tunes a free iTunes controlling utility
VLC for viewing all kind of video format
iMouseFix for regaining control of the mouse acceleration
NTFS-3G for Mac OS X
Firefox an alternative browser to safari
Flip4Mac play wmv in quicktimes
MPlayer a simple but powerful video player
Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen
OpenOffice an open-source office software suite
Paintbrush a simple paint program for Mac OS X
Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser
TeamViewer an Remote Desktop Sharing Application
CyberDuck free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X
Skype - chat
AdiumX - multi-protocol instant messenger client
Sprited Away hides inactive applications.
unRarX GUI front-end for unrar
Unarchiver A replacement for the built-in unarchiver in OS X.
X Resource Graph (XRG) CPU, RAM, network, disk, and weather monitor.
HandBrake Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.
Real Player streaming video/audio player

For Windows users

Ad-Aware Personal to protect you from all kinds of malware
Avast Antivirus a great free online-virus scanner for personal use
CCleaner a free system optimization and privacy tool
Firefox, the onlinbrowser for windows
Irfanview the fastest image preview programm I know
iTunes the music programm from apple also for windows
Open Office the free office program
Spybot a great malware search and destroy utility
Thunderbird the mail client for windows
Tweak UI the windows power toy
VLC for viewing all kind of video format