Having made my second PC to Mac transition back in 2006 I have decided that I would share a few programs that helped my transition period:

  • Instant Messaging - Best one I found was Adium, you can add just about ANY IM account to this including Facebook & Skype
  • FTP - Tested a few over the years but by far the best is Transmit
  • DVD Ripping - Never had much luck with this and usually went back to the PC for this until I discovered WinX DVD Ripper for Mac
    • This rips DVD into a variety of file formats and I ripped quite a few movies a few weeks ago for my trip to the US last week
  • Password Reminder - 1Password was the best I could find and it allowed me to upload my old list of sites and passwords from my PC
  • Bit Torrent Downloader - Azureus seemed to be the best one
  • Back to PC - Still not sure, both VMware and Parallels are shaky.

So there is a small list, hope it helps.