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Last year, Parallels introduced a revolutionary program for the Mac. Parallels Desktop for Mac was the first commercial program to allow you to run multiple operating systems natively on an Intel Based Mac. It started out with limited features, but quickly built upon them to include what most people need for day to day use in a Windows environment. READ MORE »

View Switchers Guide - Part 2 Here
As more people begin switching to OS X from Windows, they are going to need some additional software, other than what comes stock with OS X. While this list isn't totally complete, it's a good starter list, to enable a somewhat seamless transition. I wanted to keep this list fairly simple, and not overwhelm the new Mac user. That's why you don't see my favorite podcast apps, big commercial packages, etc. Most of this software is free or donation ware. If you use it, support the developers.

Note: Nov. 27, 2007 - This list is becoming outdated, when I compile the new list, I will link it here.

Browsers:

Firefox, Camino, and Opera. While Safari is used 90% of the time on my Mac, I keep these on hand - most websites designed to lockout Macs will generally work fine if you use one of these browsers. You shouldn't have to worry about compatibility, but some web designers still cater to Internet Explorer.

Chat:

Adium X - If you access more IM services than simply AOL, then you will want to use Adium X, since it supports many plug-ins and also can keep you connected to multiple IM services at once.

Conversation - This is a very iChat like client for using IRC chats. READ MORE »