Just ordered my new quad!

Hi All,
Well now I am a convert (from windows xp). Just ordered my new quad and picked up 2x1gb sticks of kingston memory.
So besides Final Cut Studio, what else should I tack onto my CC?

Not sure what you're going to be doing with your time and your equipment, but we do commercials, pop spots and cinema. So, since you're posting in the FCP forums, I'll keep it FCP related.
FCP Rescue
Very handy application that backs up your (working) FCP preference files and restores them in the event of a visit from Murphy.
Video Scopes
Better, standalone version of digital video scopes which examine the entire picture area.
MPEG Streamclip
Extremely useful formats conversion application which above all allows you to demux VOBs.
JES Deinterlacer
Handy standalone standards convertor.
Omni Disk Sweeper
Useful applicaction that scans your drive by file size and allows you to clean up long forgotten huge files. (Oxymoron?)
Graphic Converter
Whilst you can do a lot in Photoshop, GC is a great, scriptable, batchable tool for multiple image conversions etc.
All of those are free or shareware. Handy full price software:
Compression Master
Useful for producing WMV and other content on your Mac which Compressor might not handle.
Shake
I know, I know. But you know what, despite being infinitely profound and complex to work with for the first three days, once you get the hang of it it is an efficient and scalable tool which will let you run:
Furnace
From The Foundry. An outrageous set of utilitarian plugins which perform little miracles.
edit:
Oops, forgot to add, you can find more of the shareware stuff at http://www.macupdate.com/

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HT4528 I just ordered 2 new iPhones from Verizon. Can I purchase Apple Care on them?

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http://www.g-technology.com/
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Hi,
I'm glad we could help!
I get that it would be hard to teach your husband. Mine is surrounded by four financial screens all day and can do those computers in his sleep - but doing regular stuff on a computer? (He usually only used it at home to check out golf courses and sports scores.) He only wanted "the cheapest kindle," so he could read at night and when he had to fly, but, in front of him, I suggested we get him an ipad instead and we went through all the reasons. The poor guy sat there clueless which really amused us! He let us make the decision.
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