Apple's Intel Transition: A Brief Developer's Guide

A few of my friends have been making the OS X/Intel transition, and I have been kicking around some notes while I learn what works and what doesn't. Here's a brain dump of some of the advice I've been giving people.

• If you have more than one Mac, .Mac is the best $80 a year you can spend. The syncing alone is worth it over and over and over.
• Jumpcut, Steve Cook's clipboard management app, is really hitting it's stride.
• TextWrangler is still free, but I always end the day with both SubethaEdit and Textmate both open. For smaller text files, Yojimbo works the way you always wanted stickies to work. I love the .Mac syncing - my notes and PDFs are always where I want them to be. It's also very smart about encrypting passwords, serial numbers and notes you want to keep private.
• Fence is still a work in progress, but it's a very slick Cocoa/Atom uploader that works best with Typepad and Vox.
• This is a little exorbitant, but I also check a lot of configuration files into an svn repository, which TextDrive makes very easy.
• If you do any perl at all, it's worth it to blow away /System/Library/Perl and just reinstall all your XML modules. I install Plagger and Catalyst and all the good ones get picked up along the way.
• Lightroom Beta 3 is Universal (from Adobe).
• Macsaber (of course).
• I also have my Activity Log on all the time, so that when a PowerPC app pops up I can upgrade or replace it immediately. I notice a performance hit when Rosetta comes on.