A not so standard list...
All listed tools are freely available with very few outstanding exceptions.
- In fact I made this list... and didn't want to mention stuff like Nmap or Nessus... LittleSnitch or so. Everybody knows these e. g., everybody uses them. Why mention them multi-million times? ;)
Here's some alternative stuff for true seekers.
Vulnerability checks
OpenVAS - develops in an interesting directions... One day hd might release what he does in secret with Metasploit and OpenVAS :).
If you cannot manage to build it: here's a download.
Be careful if you chose to download the Nagios build. It may be vulnerable because it's old (the PoC is in msf). Seems like a feature to me anyhow.
GrendelScan - a deep webapp security scanner. Does spidering, fuzzing and more. Great for manual testing. Try it with w3af e. g..
Firebug light - light version of the famous Firebug Firefox plugin, that works with Safari.
File-management
sandbox - HFS+ ACL lists for osX non-server. A frontend to take advantage of this hidden feature on non-server MacOS X.
ncdu - has some interesting ncurses capabilities to show how much space certain folders take. There're similar projects linked, utilizing TreeMaps and more visualizations.
Development
LLVM - a special compiler tool suite with a virtual instruction set and many additional tools I regularly utilize and describe in my blog here.
Valgrind - for debugging and profiling. Memory checking, error detection, cache and branch-prediction... priceless suite.
splint - versatile C/C++ static code checker, that includes with c.vim nicely; in MacVim.
Darwine - wine build for Mac. Look into the wine.bundle to have some fun with the command-line. Valgrind wine greets at this point.
cgdb - GDB on ncurses. Great if you've got debugging symbols attached because it's highlights the breakpoints.
NetBeans - nowadays it has a Cocoa GUI. Great for Java, Ruby, Python and more. Offers different building environments.
Porticus - MacPorts GUI if you dislike the TCL commandline tool, too.
0xED - did you ever want to use ed for editing hexfiles? Well... I didn't. But 0xED has a plugin-API, opens large files and is awesome.
ICC ($) - Intel compilers for C/C++. Speeds up stuff. I found out that's a time-saving alternative to the Developer Tools' gcc, especially for fuzzers. And Apple's gcc is dubious in any case.
Terminal
Blurminal - looks good. Another transparency effect.
TerminalColorpad - saves the hazzle to go after the "LSCOLORS=DxGxcxdxCxcgcdabagacad" (yellow) and stuff.
MouseTerm - X11 mouse support for Terminal.app. Some at least. The IDApro ncurses interface will not work with that.
Network
WaterRoof - a half decent AppleScript based ipfw frontend.
Netifera - network information gathering framework.
SquidMan - get Squid painlessly on your Mac together with GlimmerBlocker as global http(s) ad-blocking Java-proxy.
TOR client - the wild days are over. Nowadays there's state in the net. So be stealthy. In case apps lack socks support you may have a problem torifying them anyhow with proxychains and stuff.
Tunnelblick - a really bad OpenVPN client. But it's free at least.
Academia
Maxima - LISP based CAS.
MathPad - a scientific calculator.
Aquamacs - emacs with auctex LaTeX inline preview, enhanced spell-checking support, nice GUI and tons of features and plugins that has got MacOS native key bindings and no learning curve.
Multimedia
Mplayer osX extended - a multi functional frontend for Mplayer that includes a recent build.
PetitDOSbox - a DOSBox frontend with some addional features. In case you love the old Apogee games and want a game manager and so on.
mocp - music on console is a terminal-based player frontend. You can play all sorts of formats: flag, mp3, ogg... Something mpd cannot do by default.
Desktop environment
SizeUP($)/TwoUp - screen tiled window positioning in Aqua.
f.lux - daytime based color-temperatur changer.
Evernote - browser (Safari, Firefox) integrated note management application.
Clipper - a clipboard history Menubar application.
Butler - a priceless ability extender that just assists to generate time-saving usability experience.
iStat - a well known monitoring app for the Menubar.
Untested
GlowWorm as LittleSnitch alternative to restrict outbound network connections.
Maltego - it's a browser not for the web, but for whois, rdns and other footprinting stuff. I just tested the Linux version. Maltego Mesh grabs stuff from Firefox into the client application.
KeePassX - you can integrate this password manager and generator with some browsers and let it remember your logins.
Abandon Ware
MacKrack - really: it never worked.
MacAmp - still works. I deleted iTunes ;). But not for this one instead.
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