No worries about the Italian, I used Google to translate it for me :)

url in english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showthread.php?t=1004690

“What’s most important at this stage is getting used to the new computer ‘as is’: don’t add a lot of new software onto it; don’t assume you need anything else (for mostly likely you do not). Get used to using that computer as it came out of the box for now.”

http://www.rixstep.com/2/20070102,00.shtml

I’ll add that you should be particularly wary of any software that interferes with system frameworks and somewhat wary of any software that uses an installer.

Most software on OS X is installed simply by drag-and-drop. You see an icon but what you actually have there is an application bundle - the support files the program needs are packaged with it.

Best practice is to run as a non-admin user for day-to-day use. Inside your Home area you can make a new Applications directory -

this will be;

~/Applications

as opposed to:

/Applications

OS X is expecting that and will automatically give the folder the “applications” icon in the GUI. Leave the main applications directory for the pre-installed apps - and anything that uses an installer and really _insists_ on putting itself in there. (Palm desktop would be an example.) User installed apps should go in your own user applications directory in your Home area (they’ll have the right ownership and permissions set for that location, anyway). That’s a standard old Unix practice - and a good one. More on such things from two ex-Apple technicians:

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/security/basic_mac_os_x_security

What you might want extra now, or later, really depends on your particular needs/interests.

For example, if you like RSS, you may find that Safari’s built-in RSS capabilities don’t go far enough for you. In that case, I’d look at NetNewsWire or its free version NetNewsWire lite.

http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire

Then again, if you write very long documents in word-processing programs, Mellel might be worth a look. It can turn out near layout-standard documents and handle documents of a length that would dismay Microsoft word.

http://www.redlers.com/mellel.html

If you’re after a text editor, you might want to try TextMate.

http://macromates.com/

Depends what you’re into.

I’ve heard that TextMate is pretty awesome! I didn’t know that all you had to do to install apps in OS X was to drag and drop. I guess I have a whole lot of learning to do when my machine arrives. :)

Being controlled by the keyboard is pretty cool. Does this basically help prevent your dock from getting cluttered?

http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/18/c6-on-utils/

http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/20/c6-internet-apps/

http://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/01/20/10-essential-apps-for-the-new-mac-user/

http://stufffromkevin.blogspot.com/2007/01/essential-free-software-for-mac.html