I bought a Macbook a month ago, and though I've used Macs every now and then this is the first time I have one of my own and thus have the time to do more than work and actually _learn_ it.

Of course, I need an IRC client to feed my NADD. Sadly, all native IRC clients for OS X seems to be designed by someone who once overheard someone describing IRC and then made a client based on that.

Like Colloquy. It has graphical emoticons -- and a menu to insert them. I just spent a good five minutes laughing hysterically at how I had to move my hand to the mouse, move it, click twice and then have it add this to the input field:

:P