Since I a) get asked that a lot and b) Mathieu Tozer has a post with the same name, that gave me the inspiration and c) some people around me will get a shiny new Mac and d) some people actually read my blog (surprise!).

Edit: I just found my old post on the same topic. Have a look around there as well.

Bookmarks

del.icio.us and to retrieve them, Quicksilver

Blogging

ecto

Coding

TextMate

FTP

Cyberduck

Instant Messaging

Adium (preferably over Jabber), seldomly Skype; Colloquy for IRC

Layouting the written stuff

InDesign

Note Taking

My hive mind and, though more and more less so, DevonThink

Notifications

Growl

Photos

Aperture, flickr

Reading Word-Files from other people

Nisus Writer Express / NeoOffice

RSS

Google Reader

Shared Documents

Google Docs

Spreadsheets

Since my needs are modest, I can do with OmniOutliner

To Dos / GTD

iGTD / iCal / Palm

Workout Log

A simple sheet of paper, residing at the gym … :)

Writing (Creative / Scientific)

Scrivener

And of course: there’s IUseThis as well …