I've talked about lots of basic applications you may need on a mac, and I would also talk about something else. For example, the old powerbook do not have double finger scroll feature, and iScroll2 is needed; fortunately they build in this feature for the intel notebooks.
If you would like to monitor your CPU/memory usage on the fly, try this free iStat Menus , or the dashboard widget iStat Pro freeware. Of cause, you can always return to the build in utility Activity Moniter .
If you gots lots of little things to cut/paste, for example, lots of images/equations when you making a slides (not from LaTeX, but KeyNote, PowerPoint etc), you should try iClip shareware, the premier Mac multiple clipboard and scrapbook. Or if you need draw a flow chat in your slides, check OmniGraffle shareware out. My only complain with it is too expensive.
If you are not quite oragnized, and have lots of random stuff (webpage, tracking numbers, friends' bussiness cards, etc), and you want to remember and find them when needed, don't miss the EverNote freeware. You may drag the files/pictures into the application, and sync them on the internet, and access them on any computer or even cellphones. Or if you want to get organized with your collection of CD, DVD, books, games etc with a fancy interface, Delicious Library shareware is the application you deserve. You may use the build in camara to scan the bar code to put your collection into the library, and create a website to share with your friends in one second. Once again, to organize your papers, use Papers shareware, and I've also used DEVOthink shareware for similar task before Papers came out.
There is also some other interesting apps, for example Pzizz shareware for generating calm music helping you take a nap or sleep, and I've used it in the days preparing for the defence. Aparantely, I don't need it these days :)
There is way too much applications to write, but I'll just stop here. Here is a short list of must have applications (all free except Papers, and I omit all build in apps):
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