New to the site and the htc touch

[vlcm810]

Hows it going guys, I am new to the forum and i am getting my crimped Verizon HTC touch on Monday, was wondering if anybody could make me a list of the software ill need to modify my phone like add new apps open it for GPS and change the themes,also where i go to find them. i read on hear that you use tc and something else to edit files rename them. any help would be greatly appreciate it. I hope i posted in the right Forum . sorry if i didn't.

Thanks