WinRar & Torrent Downloader

Hi all, ive had my unibody macbook for about a week now having used windows for 12+ years and i am in need of WinRar or a similar app, a link would be really good. Also i D/L torrents alot can any recommend a good torrent downloader, again a link would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.

unrarx for the rar's
UnRarX - Mac OS X RAR Extraction Utility
transmission for the torrents the most lightweight client i know of and pretty feature rich also
Transmission

For Rar, you might want to look into SimplyRAR. I recommended it to someone else and they enjoyed it.

Transmission will be a popular response for torrents. There is also a uTorrent beta and Vuze.

*cough blatant self-promotion to follow*
OS X Bittorrent clients compared - 2009 Edition

I just wrote a piece comparing bittorrent clients that you may be interested in.

UnRarX.app
Transmission.app

gotta agree those are great... simple and powerful

thumbs up for transmission

I use Miro for my torrent downloads

transmission seems pretty good so going to stick with that for a bit, thanks for all the suggestions. this forum will be very useful to me

Transmission is great, but as far as decompressing RAR archives, I prefer The Unarchiver.