After a clean re-install of Mac OS, add:
Excellent Applications
- AppleWorks
- Audio Hijack Pro
- Firefox
- Flip4Mac .avi plugins for Quicktime
- Google Earth
- LAME framwork & encoder
- LabVIEW
- LaTEX from
- LilyPond (there is an issue with getting a working version for Intel Macs)
- Microsoft Office
- Perian more Quicktime plugins
- Skype
- Sound Studio
- TextMate
- Transmit
- VLC
Also good apps
- Adium
- Adobe Reader
- GraphicConverter
- iTerm - a terminal program
- Magic Number Machine - a graphically laid-out scientific calculator
- Macintosh Explorer
- RealPlayer
- Remote Desktop Connection
- Style Master - CSS
- ScanWise X - Agfa scanner software
- TextWrangler
- Vine VNC Server
- Xfolders - an alternative file manager
3rd Party installers
- add the Ruby language, or maybe MacRuby
- Samsung ML-1710 printer driver for 10.5 and printer driver for 10.6
Other installs
- Sound Studio presets into ~/Library/Audio/Presets/
Things to setup
- On the Sharing System Preference pane restore the computer name (lgrovemb, etc)