J ust got a bouncing baby MacBook Air, and now in the process of loading it up for Mac/iPhone work, scientific programming and other miscellanea. I'm jotting it down here for reference, and if anyone has items to add, please suggest your favorite must-have tools for on-the-go compu-zen.

In no particular order…

Xcode development tools, specifically the iPhone SDK 3 beta 2 (>2G download).

Scipy Superpack (NumPy, SciPy, PyLab, gfortran and more)

TeX and TeXShop (>1.2G download)

TextMate programming editor

F-Script language / environment

OmniGraffle & OmniOutliner

CocoaBrowser

For databases, CocoaMySQL-SBG and SQLite Database Browser

Some free media helpers: ToyViewer and VLC

Chicken of the VNC

MenuMeters to keep tabs on what's going on in my machine

teleport for home networking

ClipboardSharing, mostly for the clipboard history

MySQL and the MySQLDB Python module

and I copied over my .tcshrc, .nanorc and Terminal prefs from my current main Mac

Anything I'm missing out on here? It already has the paid versions of iLife and iWork. You can tell most of my scripting these days is in Python or F-Script, and most DB work in MySQL or SQLite (though I'm also a PostgreSQL fan, and may pop that on soon). I may put on Mercurial (hg) as well.