Good stuff in the comments.

Pass stuff to your phone from your Mac.

Time Sink helps you track how you spend your time on your Mac. It automatically logs opened windows and applications, and keeps track of how long you've spent using things in total (i.e. running), and in the foreground (i.e. actively using). It does this without any user intervention required to start or stop processes - it's just set-

Tictoc is a simple task timer for your menubar. It was built to integrate with YOUR workflow not someone else's method of tracking time. Tictoc offers exporting of all your data to XML and CSV for easy importing into your favorite accounting or project management application.

"Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn't require any learning." I still use quite a few of Quicksilver's more fancy features, but if you don't this looks like a great little launcher.

"For people who want their writing synced online. SimpleText keeps a folder of text files on your Mac synced to the SimpleText.ws website. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText merges your changes so you'll never lose data." Not sure I need *another* sync option...

Simple CMS in PHP, designed for art/design portfolio sites. No database, just text files and directories.

"MyTextFile is ajax-powered online text editor for a single plain text file."

I'm using mutt at the moment, but thought I might as well give this a try. Looks like it's a bit easier to set up and use.

A (short) list of incompatible software.

Checking out the new Firefox build, Minefield - - which is insanely fast. Looks like all my add-ons work okay with it, too.

Mark's fave apps and tools on Linux. getmail and GNOME Do look interesting.

Interesting app that lets you record voice notes on your iPhone, which are then transcribed to text files which are synced to the web app or Firefox extension/turned into reminder emails or text messages. It's Evernote for audio rather than images, very roughly speaking.

"A.I.Disk is an elegant solution to access files on your MobileMe iDisk, save them to the iPhone or iPod Touch, read on the go and even email to friends."

Best Twitter client for the iPhone - very simple, just lets you get on with reading and tweeting.

"Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development." Must download immediately! Even though it's not aimed at people who write words (as opposed to code).

In iPhone form. Searchable, shows current location, generally looks quite slick, and you don't need to be online to use it (which, since I drain my battery using Google Maps whenever I'm in London, is the tempting feature). £5.99.

"We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software." As a user, does this mean the developers who have made apps that can email files will tell all their freinds how to do it? Hope so.

FTP client for iPhone. Shame it doesn't let you email files as well.

Panic are giving away Transmit 1.7 for OS 9, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the app. I'm pretty sure Transmit (née Transit) is the only app I've used for ten years. Though nowadays it only gets launched very occasionally, thanks to ExpanDrive, which suits my light use of SFTP much better.

I've been avoiding downloading the demo just in case it's ace (I'm sure it is for coding types, but it's a fair few quid to drop on something I'd use primarily for writing words).

A proposed app for turning all the power draining/useful iPhone features on and off with one click (or should that be push? poke? jab? finger?). This would need to be provided by Apple, and that they might be reluctant to admit the need for such a thing.

After a quick play around with this, I'm very impressed (earlier versions I tried were awful). It scanned my 100GB of tunes quickly, has a good interface and some really appealing features (nice last.fm support, plays FLAC) Sadly, it's really only a curio until they add iPhone support. Update: Hmm, playback glitches occasionally.

As a user, I'm inclined to agree with Aaron. I've been an early user/beta tester of plenty of stuff, and I'd much rather the slow approach of contributing bug reports, inviting people who I think would also like and enjoy the app, ending up with something well-tuned and usable. With "Hollywood" apps, I'll sign up, find bugs but get no response from the developers, because squillions of other users are reporting the same problems, then, more often than not, decide that, despite the hype, I don't really need the app after all - the result is that I'll either tell no one about the app, or slag it off (partly my fault for being a trend slurper, but still...). The prime example of a slow burning launch is Flickr, which was pretty rubbish when I started using it (back when it was basically a GNE spin-off chat room with image-sharing options), but gradually improved to the point that I was pretty much begging my friends to sign up.

I've gone with SSH. (It's annoying that you have to wait for reviews like these to pop up, or purchase every single app of a given type to find out which is best - if demo versions were available, I'm sure I would've spent a lot more at the App Store by now.)

iSSH comes out top.

Calvin & Jobs (Steve).

With Fire Eagle support. Not checked the app yet, but their website doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Intriguing.

Not available in the UK. Aaargh.

I'm pretty gutted I was away when Netshare made was popping in and out of the App Store.

Good round up. Though there's not much point reading past "...there are currently no to-do-list apps that can sync with your existing to-do lists in iCal or Mail." (Another thing to add to my silly "What?! But my bloody Newton can do that!" list.)

Very fancy-looking sampler/sequencer for the iPhone. (It is starting to annoy me that you can't get demos of iPhone apps.)

I've been getting vaguely into geocahing lately (there are quite a few caches dotted about Glasgow), so fingers crossed Apple approve this app.

Sleep monitoring with iSight camera

Transfer files to the iPhone (text, doc, PDF, RTF, &c.)

iPhone Flickr browser. The 'Near Me' feature looks fun.

"Take snapshots of a movie at one-second intervals. Stitch them into one image. What can you see? Pacing. Color palate. Maybe story"

Full-screen browser for OSX.

App for processing images from Hasselblad digital cameras. (Yet another reason to buy a Mac, Dad!)

Catching up with Mars Edit, plus it has Twitter support.

This would seem to be a bloody remarkable application. The facility for text searching images is particularly cool (business cards/wine labels/handwritten notes snapped with a webcam all worked well for me). At last, computers can fix my fried memory!

Crikey Moses, Firefox 3 RC1 is *ace* on the Eee PC.

Fancy word processor thing. I have no need for 99% of its features, but I'm still tempted, because you can set a target word count.

I'm well impressed with the current version of Moveable Type. (I used it for many years before switching to Wordpress, and it used to be a total nightmare.)

First thought: ooh, pretty. Second thought: Er, why would I use it in place of the website?

"Set the timer in the ScreenLogger preferences, and ScreenLogger takes a screen shot at every duration specified."

Super-basic photo-managing app.

Good comparative review of browsers on the Mac. I use Firefox (mostly for the del.icio.us add-on and Greasemonkey, which I need on a couple of sites I use heavily) and WebKit nightly builds for when I know I'll just be tootling around the web (it's fast).

Looks lovely. No Linux version as far as I can tell, though.

Automatically download WebKit nightly builds.

The latest version has even slicker collaboration features (which I don't need, but I've always like SEE as an editor). Also, good to hear a screencaster with a nice accent!

Fixes the only bug that bothered me: no more .DS_Store files littered everywhere.

Very nice. Defo worth a tenner.

Slick little app that lets you easily get rid of pref files etc. when you delete an app. Free.

Flsh-based online word processor. Very slick, to the point that it feels like a 'real' application.

Lets you make site-specific browser applications for, eg. Facebook, Gmail.

Screenshots of Frazer Spiers' forthcoming desktop Flickr app.

This Newton app has changed my life. Not by much admittedly, but it's still bloody brilliant.

"SyncPAppX.app is a shell script that syncs preferences between portable and local applications." (My keyring flash drive just got a lot more useful.)

"TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity and ease of use."

I've been tempted away from MarsEdit by TextMate's blogging bundle lately, but am still looking forward to this new version.