Okay, so I am com­fort­able enough with the basics of the new Mac.  In fact, I am com­fort­able enough to ser­vice the non-user-serviceable parts (i.e. upgrade the inter­nal mem­ory because had some SDRAM DIMMs sit­ting around, but no extra lap­top mem­ory, which is what the user-accessible slot takes). 

Now, I know when I install a new Linux box or Win­dows box, there is a stan­dard set of tools I have on CD that goes in next: instant mes­sen­ger (GAIM or Tril­lian), extremely fast image viewer (gqview, gtk­see, or ACD­See), and var­i­ous other utilities.

My ques­tion to the OS X users out there: what are the appli­ca­tions, util­i­ties, and tools you would install on a new OS X box? Per­son­ally, I would like to find an instant mes­sen­ger that han­dles Yahoo.  iChat is really pretty and easy to use, but leaves me unable to talk to half my buddy list.  iPhoto is nice if I want to arrange a photo album, and Pre­view is nice to just glance quickly at a photo, but if I want to browse a list of thumb­nails and have a quick-and-dirty pgup/pgdn through a direc­tory of images with­out import­ing them into iPhoto, I am not sure what to use.  Like­wise, I am sure there is a plethora of other util­i­ties out there.  Let me know in a comment!

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