New sequel Pro, Ok, so its not new in terms of launch date as its been out a while but its not until now that I have actually bothered to upgrade. At first glance the UI has changed. Some nice little tweaks and really well thought out. The application runs faster and has eliminated some of the bad elements like loading all the table contents which can kill the machine. Export and Import runs smoother and the information on progress is more detailed and thus allot more constructive. My favorite aspect is the really nice way that in the query browser you can isolate the section of the code you want to run, run one statement or all the statements in the panel! very nice. All in all for free this is a sweet bit of software.

FTP, well, I love cyberduck cos its free and really easy to use, but my old favorite from Windows, Filezilla is on Mac! Thank god, the one major feature that gets me excited and happy about this software is the ability to upload or download files and choose to only overwrite if newer than destination file. In essence it works like sync but I just find it performs better than cyber ducks sync process.

Another pc and mac software I would recommend is Navicat, never wanted to pay for it till now! For a client project I needed it for mssql to mysql conversion and boy did it do that well, the software is just as good as most free mysql software but this package is alot more stable and faster. On top of that, it has a great little set of report tools for nice report generation to impress the clients.