If you want to open a file with an application other than the default one with which it opens, simply context-click (right-click or control-click or two-finger click) on the file and navigate to the "Open With" menu, then click on the application with which you would like to open the file.
If you want a file to always be opened with an application other than the default one with which it opens, simply hold option while you perform the above.
If you want all files of a given type to always open with an application other than the default one with which they open, pull up the Get Info window for a given file of such type by context-clicking and selecting the "Get Info" option (or select a file and press command-i), and under the "Open With" section of the Get Info window, press the "Change All..." button and follow instructions.
I believe OS X stores "Open With" information in three places: your Launch Services Database, the preference file for each application, and somewhere in the metadata associated with each particular file. Many Tricks' "Open-With Manager" provides a nifty graphical user interface for editing the relevant fields in the preference files of your applications so that you can easily see and change which applications will show up in the "Open with..." menu that appears when you context-click on files of certain types.
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