This is a quick intro on how to use the 'Terminal' application with Mac OSX to log into a remote computer using SSH. There are dedicated apps for this (equivalent to Putty on Windows) but this is nice as it is built into the operating system. This also shows you how to display colors with your ls command with a quick little change to your account profile information. I am sure there is a more tightly designed way to to do this, but this quick solution seems to work well. Here are a couple links to where I got that tip from, and on how to do a similar thing with your own local terminal. Enabling colors for SSH to Linux from Mac OS (I based my solution off of the third post, but with a couple slight changes. Use '-color' instead of -G as your option, and you can insert it directly into your.bashprofile file if you would like.

Ssh Software For Mac

Enabling colors in Terminal in Mac OS.