Free Software
- Instant Messaging: Adium
- a free client which can manage multiple protocols and accounts at a time
- VNC viewer: Chicken of the VNC
- the viewer is dealing much better with repaints compared to the MacOS screen sharing
- IDE: Netbeans; free and Open Source
- nicely themed to match with the Mac. Best platform to write standard Java code and more
- Virtualization: VirtualBox
- Why spending money for a virtualization solution? USe Virtualbox
- OpenOffice; free and Open Source
- Nicely adopted to the Mac
- Stable
- imports lots of MS formats
- Rich Calendar Client: Sunbird
- Twitter client: Tweetie
- Desktop Sharing: Teamviewer
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