New to macs - recommend some essential software

[Bengaboy]

Hi guys.

New to macs and was wondering if you could recommend some essential software that you cant live without.

eg : a unzipping tool would be great.

Also - I have downloaded a wmv file and tried to play it , but it just opens text edit - tried selecting quick time to play the video, but it just says the file is not a video?

Thanks guys

 

[Bengaboy]

Fantastic sites all - found a lot off apps that I need, so many thanks

 

[Bengaboy]

Forgot to mention, the bundled compression/decompression application is good enough if you are using Zip files and any other related Mac OS files such as DMG files. However, if you require to decompress Rar files, the above suggestions will do

Yea it was rar files - thought macs were just supposed to work?