FileBrowse - R Green Blue

FileBrowse is a beautiful, well-made media browser program, though how useful you find it will likely depend on what files you’re perusing. It can’t beat the Finder for everyday use... read more at Macworld

AppShelf - Kedisoft

I’m a technology writer and avid Mac user, so third-party software is an essential part of my work. To verify this, you need look no further than my e-mail inbox, which is littered with licensing and registration information for hundreds... read more at Macworld

Qu-s - Urban Design Limited

Staying organized is no easy task. One new option: Qu-s (pronounced like cues, for how software gives you your cues for the day) helps bring order in the midst of chaos. It’s a sticky note utility—similar to Circus Ponies NoteBook... read more at Macworld

Studiometry 6 - Oranged Software

Studiometry is a project management application that may not be as well known as some others, such as Marketcircle's excellent Daylite and the web-based Basecamp, but this new version is a good alternative... read more at MacUserUK

iBiz 4 beta - IGG Software

Igg Software's iBiz is a time-tracking and invoicing application aimed at freelancers and self-employed people. There are many similar applications, including Marketcircle's excellent Billings, so how does iBiz stack up... read more at MacUserUK

Things - Cultured Code

Cultured Code’s Things is the unique exception. At $50, it’s the most expensive to-do-list apps I’ve tested, but it’s a true standout thanks to a great set of features and an interface that makes it a good fit for nearly any level of task management... read more at Macworld

TimeBridge - TimeBridge

TimeBridge, which bills itself as a “personal scheduling assistant,” makes it easy to schedule meetings, regardless of which scheduling tool people are using. Ingenious and well designed, TimeBridge has the potential to be a smart and useful product, but it lacks a few important features... read more at Macworld

OmniGraph Sketcher - Omni Group

If you're familiar with OmniGraffle, the company's diagram editing tool, you will immediately feel at home inside OmniGraphSketcher. That said, anyone will be comfortable using it for the first time... read more at MacUserUK

Cultured Code Things - Cultured Code

For all of life’s to-dos--paint the guest room, take out the recycling, file income taxes--Things keeps a running checklist. A honed interface nearly always helps manage objectives in an empowering way... read more at MacLife

On The Job 3 - Stunt Software

If you're a freelancer who needs to track your billable time and manage invoices, there's a confusing number of suitable applications. The choice is simpler if you care about looks... read more at MacUserUK

Bridge CS4 - Adobe

Bridge CS4 is the interchange application used to browse and open items for the entire CS4 suite. This version sees ahuge increase in speed, with a range of new features to make browsing images much more straightforward... read more at MacUserUK

FileMaker Pro Advanced 10 - FileMaker

For years, FileMaker has remained the database tool of choice for developers and consumers alike. But since its last major revision 18 months ago, releases from high-end rival 4D Developer and its own budget Bento 2, have given it much-needed competition... read more at MacUserUK

TaskPaper - Hog Bay Software

There are all sorts of clever methods, tricks and techniques to help you keep your life organised, but most of them can be boiled down to something very simple: make a list of the things you need to do, and cross them off once you've done them... read more at MacUserUK

NoteBook 3 - Circus Ponies

Circus Ponies’ newest version of NoteBook takes everything we loved about the last version and adds several new features that might be just the thing to convince Mac users drowning in data to give NoteBook a spin... read more at MacLife

TaskPaper 2.1 - Hog Bay Software

Wherever your needs fall along either spectrum, chances are you’re looking for something with a good interface and that ultimately helps you be more productive; Hog Bay Software’s TaskPaper 2.1 satisfies both requirements... read more at Macworld

MatchWare OpenMind 2 - MatchWare

Mind mapping is experiencing something of a golden age. As a method for getting ideas down in an easily shareable form, it can be a valuable tool. OpenMind is one of the newer Mac offerings to tackle mind mapping, and has a lot to like, despite its youth... read more at MacLife

OpenMind - Matchware

Matchware’s recently released OpenMind 2 offers features that aren’t available in a combined handful of other similar products for the Mac, making it a compelling choice for personal, business, or educational use... read more at Macworld

NovaMind Platinum - NovaMind Development

Mind mapping is an increasingly popular way to assemble thoughts and illustrate the relationships between them. NovaMind Platinum 4.6.1 is at the top of the NovaMind product line of mind-mapping software. NovaMind Express is the simplest version... read more at Macworld

Calaboration - Google

Google’s Calendar feature has become a popular part of the company’s suite of online tools. Yesterday, it became even more popular among Mac users thanks to support for the CalDAV protocol—a way to store, access, and edit calendars online... read more at Macworld

MindNode Pro 1.0.3 - Markus Müller

The use of mind mapping software is becoming increasingly common in corporate America, but who wants to fork out hundreds of dollars just to create these tangled bubble diagrams at home? Thankfully, you don’t have to... read more at Macworld

FreeMind 0.8.1 - FreeMind

Looking for a mind mapping application that packs a powerful punch, takes it easy on your wallet, and is a dream to use, even for a novice? FreeMind 0.8.1 will get you two-thirds of the way there... read more at Macworld

ConceptDraw MindMap Pro 5.5 - CS Odessa

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, a new idea could spring to life. For most of us, jotting down that idea means fumbling for a pen and paper. Desktop software such as ConceptDraw MindMap Pro can help you capture the thought just as easily... read more at Macworld

XMind 2008 Pro - XMind

Getting thoughts out of your head and into your Mac isn’t always easy. All of us have created a new, blank document only to stare at the vast empty space wondering what to do next. Mind mapping aims to prevent those cranial logjams through a process that gets the ideas out quickly, without needless organizational burdens... read more at Macworld

Marketcircle Billings 3 - Marketcircle

We thought we had a handle on our business expenses, invoices, deadlines, and missing payments, but Billings 3 proved us wrong. This small-business software so thoroughly reorganized our bookkeeping that we’re embarrassed to even imagine our previous system based on scraps of paper ... read more at MacLife

TaskPaper - Hog Bay Software

There are all sorts of clever methods, tricks and techniques to help you keep your life organised, but most of them can be boiled down to something very simple: make a list of the things you need to do, and cross them off once you've done them... read more at MacUserUK

SketchBox - Omz Software

SketchBox offers a new twist on the sticky notes concept, with a nice minimal approach to design and some clever feature ideas... read more at MacUserUK

Studiometry 5.0.2 - Oranged Software

Project planning and time billing are two chores that wallow near the bottom of most freelancers' favourite activities. Oranged Software's Studiometry brings both tasks together to make your work life less chaotic... read more at MacUserUK

Desk Doctor 1.3.1 - Einspine

For some people, working at the computer all day can be a painful experience—literally. While doctors still don’t agree on what causes this type of pain or how best to treat it, most do recommend taking frequent breaks—stepping away from your computer for a couple of minutes or performing stretches—as part of developing healthy computing habits... read more at Macworld

Notebook 2.1 - Circus Ponies

It may be the information age, but have you figured out what to do with all that information - scattered emails, sticky notes, browser bookmarks, desktop documents, and even random slips of paper? With NoteBook, you can file that information in one place using a familiar interface... read more at MacLife

Project X 1.1.1 - Marware

Marware’s Project X is a new project management app that elegantly integrates Address Book and iCal, and it provides robust network-collaboration tools based on Mac OS X’s Personal Web Sharing. Project X is easy to use. Templates for common tasks in Home, Education, Government, and other categories help you get to a fast start. Even without using a template, we entered the major tasks and resources for a project in less than an hour... read more at MacLife

Midnight Inbox 1.1.5 - Midnight Beep Softworks

Consider the load of digital detritus that crosses your Mac’s virtual desktop every day: e-mail messages, spam, calendar items, work projects, home projects, homework, and the serendipitous discovery of some important information on the Web—to name a few. Add to that pile the day-to-day stuff that crosses your physical desktop, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Midnight Inbox 1.1.5, from Midnight Beep Softworks, is a software-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) principles developed by David Allen. It’s designed to keep you on top of the numerous demands vying for your attention... read more at Macworld

Actiontastic - Kaboomerang

The central concept of GTD is that of contexts, or making sure you have the right list of tasks to hand at the right time. So computer-related tasks need to be done while you're at your desk, but shopping-related tasks or meeting-people tasks can be put aside for that period... read more at MacUserUK

FlyPath - FlyPath

If FlyPath looks familiar, that's because it's very similar to the File Viewer application in NextStep, the system that formed the core of Mac OS X. Like File Viewer, FlyPath uses a series of columns to display nested folders and the files within them. It also has two wide horizontal bands across the top showing user-defined shortcuts (the Shelf) and your current path within the file system (the Navigation Bar)... read more at MacUserUK

Power Manager 3 - DSSW

While the Energy Saver preference pane in OS X offers limited scheduling options for sending a computer to sleep, or shutting it down at a particular time, Power Manager opens up many more options. It offers the ability to schedule
any power-saving action (Start Up, Wake, Sleep, Return to Login Window, Log Out, Shut Down or Restart) at any time, and at many times during any day... read more at MacUserUK

Project X 1.0.1 - Marware

Marware’s Project X 1.0.1, a promising newcomer to the Mac project-management realm, embraces the standard approach established by Microsoft Project, but it also provides an alternative approach to organizing and tracking projects in a flowchart-like Network view (also known as a PERT diagram) that’s likely to appeal to more visually oriented users... read more at Macworld

Merlin 2.0.3 - Project Wizards

Merlin 2.0.3, from Project Wizards, is project management software that is not only as good as its Windows competition, Microsoft Project, but much better. Merlin 2 takes the excellent foundation provided by the initial version of the software (4 mice) and evolves it into the kind of intuitive program that leverages the best features the Mac has to offer... read more at Macworld

Shoebox 1.6 - Kavasoft

Kavasoft’s Shoebox 1.6.1 is an excellent tool for cataloging large digital photo collections. Its Pro version (the one I reviewed) seems a bit pricey, but Shoebox’s ability to organize, search, and back up thousands of snapshots is truly impressive... read more at Macworld

Process 2.0 - Jumsoft

Jumsoft’s Process 2.0.2 is a friendly, intuitive project-management program with a superbly polished interface and an admirably easy learning curve. However, it lacks high-octane features like Gantt charts, which are useful for illustrating how tasks and events occur over time, and parts of the application feel only half-finished... read more at Macworld

SOHO Organizer 5.5.2 - Chronos

The SOHO Organizer suite from Chronos consists of three linked applications: SOHO Organizer, SOHO Notes, and SOHO Print Essentials. When you install them on your Mac, the programs share data with each other, as well as with Apple’s iCal and Address Book. All three programs share a database on your Mac, which backs itself up automatically and can be synchronized via .Mac... read more at Macworld

Merlin 1.3.11 - Project Wizards

If you have any role in managing a project, good software can mean the difference between smooth sailing and rough seas. A project management application allows you to create schedules, keep tabs on resource usage and costs, track documents and versions, and stay on top of who needs to be doing what... read more at Macworld

Daylite 3.1 - Marketcircle

Marketcircle’s Daylite 3.1.1 has just enough project-management tools for general business projects. It has the familiar-looking panes of an e-mail client or calendar, and it is useful for managing tasks, appointments, and contacts—but it does more than a PIM (personal information manager... read more at Macworld

FastTrack Schedule 9.1 - AEC Software

Many people approach the task of project management with a clunky combination of Microsoft Excel and a calendar. But, using these tools can feel like an exercise in futility; they are, in fact, inadequate tools for the job because they don’t provide a way for you to track the use—or overuse—of your resources. FastTrack Schedule 9.0.1, from AEC Software, is a project-management tool that can likely handle your most challenging project or schedule... read more at Macworld

Phlink 3.0 - Ovolab

Phlink 3.0.1 is a telephony automation application for Mac OS X that connects your Mac to a phone line and provides you with a simple hardware and software setup and interface for handling phone calls. Using the included adapter, you can connect both a phone line and a standard, residential phone using one USB port... read more at Macworld

Browseback 1.1 - SmileOnMyMac

When you first run the program, Browseback builds an index of your browsing history. Depending on how far back you choose to go, the initial indexing process could take quite a while. When I first ran Browseback and set it to import my entire history, I had to let it run overnight. But it took just a few minutes to build an index that covered a couple of weeks. Once the program has created its initial index, it will start more quickly... read more at Macworld

Browseback 1.0.2 - SmileOnMyMac

Essentially, browseback displays rows of thumbnails of the pages in your Web history. Moving your cursor over one of the thumbnails triggers an effect reminiscent of Mac OS X’s Dock magnification, popping up the page so you can get in for a closer look. New pages that you visit appear in browseback immediately or within a few seconds, depending on how many elements a page needs to load... read more at MacAddict

DayChaser 2 - Econ Technologies

At the opposite end of the information management software spectrum to DayLite is DayChaser. Despite the similar names, DayChaser is a much more limited application, eschewing all the standard PIM features. Its more limited feature set means it should have a much broader appeal than the very specialised Daylite - but all Mac users aready get an excellent, not to mention free, calendaring application in the form of iCal... read more at MacUserUK

Chat Transcript Manager 1.0.1 - Unsanity

Chat Transcript Manager makes it easy to sort through your chat transcripts. It provides flexible search tools, helpful sorting abilities, and even a way to view a transcript without launching iChat... read more at MacAddict

Soho Organizer - Chronos

Soho Organizer from Chronos is billed as an integrated productivity suite. However, it's not particularly well integrated nor will it make you more productive... read more at MacUserUK

Devonthink Pro 1.0 - DEVONtechnologies

Devonthink Pro is flexible, feature-rich, and extensible (via plug-ins, AppleScripts, and Automator actions), but its interface is clean and intuitive. Unlike information managers that mimic notebooks, such as Circus Ponies’ NoteBook and AquaMinds’ NoteTaker, a Devonthink Pro database offers a choice of views: List, Icons, Columns, Vertical or Horizontal split views, and a Three Pane view similar to Apple’s Mail... read more at Macworld

FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced - FileMaker

Just last year, enthusiastic software reviewers throughout the computer industry greeted the release of FileMaker Pro 7 as the most significant upgrade in the product’s history. With the release of FileMaker Pro 8, the company has done something surprising: Rather than resting on its laurels, FileMaker has released another significant upgrade about a year sooner than many industry observers expected... read more at Macworld

Design & Type Tools 5.2 - Veenix

FONTS ARE LIKE baseball cards. They're fun to collect and examine, but they can be a pain to manage. We often remember what fonts look like, but not what they are named. A font tool should help you find what you are looking for quickly. Unfortunately, finding the perfect font in a folder of thousands is often overly difficult... read more at macHOME

MediaPro 2.6.4 - iView Multimedia

iView’s MediaPro is a souped-up media manager that can also handle PDFs, fonts, sound files, and over 100 image formats (including RAW images taken directly from a camera). There’s no doubt that it’s very clever and extremely customizable... read more at MacAddict

DeltaGraph 5.6 - Red Rock Software

Excel makes charting as easy as one, two, three for business folks; but scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians demand a bit more than Excel can handle. That’s where DeltaGraph comes in—it not only creates spreadsheets for the number crunchers, it also creates charts and graphs that math geeks will love... read more at MacAddict

Mediaboard One 1.1 - InterServices NewMedia

Mediaboard One's opening user interface— the Asset Manager—is simple and streamlined, albeit not aesthetically appealing. There's a list of catalogs, an album view, a preview window for the selected photo and a tabbed information section. Non-pros will like the metadata and media info sections where they can enter keywords and descriptions... read more at macHOME

Shoebox Pro 1.2 - KavaSoft

Shoebox is available in an Express version, which allows you to create up to two catalogs of 10,000 photos each with viewing of up to 1,000 photos at a time, and a Pro version, with unlimited catalogs and photos... read more at macHOME

Now Up-To-Date and Contact 5 - Softline

Although Apple includes contact and time management software with every copy of Mac OS X in the form of iCal and Address Book, they're simplistic applications that act as little more than replacements for a paper diary... read more at MacUserUK

Phlink 2.2 - Ovolab

A telephone and an answering machine can help you communicate with some efficiency, but if your communications are increasingly e-mail based, you may want your phone calls to also move to your Mac for easier management. But in order for that old-fashioned analog telephone to earn its place alongside your powerful Mac... read more at Macworld

Curio 2.4 - Zengobi

Zengobi describes Curio as “the ultimate idea development environment,” and the description is an apt one, if vague. In plainer English, the application is an ideal brainstorming tool for out-of-the-box thinkers... read more at Macworld

Media Rage 1.9.3 - Chaotic Software

Anyone with a large digital music collection has likely struggled to keep it organized and to correct inaccurate track data. My own 30GB collection was rife with files with erroneous tag data, improper filenames, and items that were simply haphazardly archived. Fortunately, Media Rage 1.9.3 from Chaotic Software provides a suite of powerful organizing and editing tools... read more at Macworld

OD4Contact 2.5 - Objective Decision

Objective Decision’s OD4Contact 2.5.3 bundles powerful contact, task, and communication management abilities in a polished interface. If you’re a salesperson or small-business owner—or anyone who needs to forge and nurture lots of relationships—OD4Contact will help you manage your contacts better than OS X’s built-in Address Book... read more at Macworld

NoteTaker 1.9.4 - AquaMinds

Like Circus Ponies’ NoteBook, AquaMinds’ NoteTaker uses a spiral-notebook metaphor for note taking, outlining, and clipping information from other applications, such as your Web browser. NoteBook’s polished interface, multiple categories (NoteTaker still only lets you assign one category per note entry), and ease of use give it the edge in user-friendliness... read more at Macworld

IntelliScanner Express - Intelli Innovations

The Wine Collector software works extremely well. When you scan in a label’s barcode, Wine Collector will query an online database, and then categorize and sort the bottle by name, winery, vintage, and varietal. A location tracking feature helps you remember if that bottle is in the cellar or the cabinet... read more at Macworld

StickyBrain 3.4 - Chronos

StickyBrain is a freeform information manager modeled loosely on a filing cabinet. In this filing cabinet, nothing is ever lost or forgotten. With its recently added features and enhancements, StickyBrain 3.4 could be the perfect place to store your ... read more at Macworld

Process 1.2 - Jumsoft

You can password-protect Process projects, and switch between different projects via a menu in the upper-left corner. All items can have a priority and label associated with them, and can be sorted according to these and other criteria ... read more at MacUserUK

To-Do Stickies 1.2.3 - CrystalBall

As its name suggests, this tool borrows heavily from Apple's Stickies application. You can create three different styles of outline note: Colour windows look most like Apple Stickies notes, while Metal and Normal versions boast Apple's brushed-metal and Aqua livery respectively ... read more at MacUserUK

DayLite 1.7 - Marketcircle

When it comes to contact management, most people can muddle through with OS X’s Address Book or Microsoft Entourage. But salespeople typically need something stronger—something that allows them to gather detailed information on prospective and existing customers, track projects, create reports on the status of sales in progress, and forecast future sales. Marketcircle’s DayLite 1.7 provides these features and more, giving you complete control over all your sales information ... read more at Macworld

Delicious Library 1.0 - Delicious Monster

Like many people who have large libraries of books, videotapes, and music, I have trouble keeping track of everything, because it’s tedious and time-consuming to enter several hundred items into a spreadsheet. But now, thanks to Delicious Monster’s Delicious Library 1.0.6, I have an easy way to catalog all my books, music, movies, and video games ... read more at Macworld

Panorama V - ProVue

There’s good news for devotees of ProVue’s Panorama: Panorama V (or version 5) runs in OS X. And this version adds a boat-load of enhancements—including live clairvoyance (similar to the easy search feature in OS X’s Finder), more ways to get information from the Internet, extensions to Panorama’s programming language, custom functions, and a great new way to create custom menus ... read more at Macworld

Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.5.3 - Now Software

Like iCal and Address Book, Up-to-Date and Contact are separate apps. Unlike Address Book and Entourage, however, NUDC doesn't work hand in hand with any email app. Clicking the envelope icon next to any email address starts a new message in your default email app, but it's not the same as having your email, contacts, and calendar in one window (as with Entourage), or double-clicking a name in an email message's To or From fields and having it automatically added to your contacts manager (also as with Entourage)....... read more at MacAddict

BuddyPop 2.2 - Tynsoe

Once your phone is paired with your Mac and in range, you can call any contact just by double-clicking on his or her phone number in BuddyPop’s contact window. Even cooler, the utility provides an on-screen Caller ID feature that’s more useful than the one Address Book provides: when someone calls your mobile phone, a window pops up showing the incoming phone number and—if the person is in your Address Book—the caller’s name and picture...... read more at Macworld

BitPal 2.5 - bitpal

designed to be stored on solid-state media—a USB flash drive or a CompactFlash card, for example. Since the BitPal application and all its data are stored in the same folder, you need to copy only that one folder to your storage medium. When you need access to your data, simply mount your device or card on any computer and launch BitPal...... read more at Macworld

Missing Sync for Palm OS 4.0 - Mark/Space

HotSync Manager’s flaws are apparent: it’s slow, its interface is outdated and complicated, it has no real progress indicator, and it randomly duplicates calendar events. Also, after I used HotSync Manager to update contacts on either my Palm or my Mac, it often showed two records: the original and the new one...... read more at Macworld

PocketMac iPod Edition - PocketMac

One of the main scourges of the technological life is gadget creep: the sudden realisation that you have numerous devices in your pocket which could, if manufacturers were on the ball, be combined into a single super-tool.So, anything that manages to effectively combine one or more gizmos should be welcomed with open arms, and the iPod is proving to be one of the more extensible devices around...... read more at MacUserUK