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If you think of photo-editing, you probably think of Adobe Photoshop. It's the software that's probably used the widest. But sadly this doesn't mean it's the best out there. At least for the Mac there is a good alternative available: Pixelmator from the Pixelmator Team. One of the biggest disadvantages of (nearly) all Adobe Products is their custom built User Interface. I don't like it. That interface may work on windows, but it most certainly doesn't on the Mac. That's why I love Pixelmator. Pixelmator was specifically designed and developed for the Mac. But let's look into some of those features, shall we?

Lately I've realized how important my calendar is for me. And how badly Apple did screw up iCal. No offense, but iCal on the Mac is just nothing for me. I want my calendar to be always there when I need it, and to use as less space as possible. And I want the main things I do with my calendar, creating and editing of events, to be simple. This is where I came across Fantastical from Flexibits.

As you may have already guessed, I'm a coder. I code nearly every day. And when I code, I code a lot. Because of that, I depend on good tools to help me coding. I tried many code editors so far. From TextMate, to Sublime Text, Coda, SubEthaEdit and also Espresso. So for me, it was great news that Espresso got an update to 2.0.

I guess mail is the most important invention since sliced bread. And I really care about mails. I have already tested Postbox and MailPlane so far. But both of them weren't the perfect fit for me. Postbox was not very "Mac OS X"-ish and MailPlane could, of course, only handle my GMail accounts. And then SparrowApp made it to the Mac AppStore.

Maybe you know this: You are sitting downstairs on the couch and then suddenly you realize that you have to do something important on your Mac upstairs. But, hey, you have your iPad right in front of you, why don't just use it? With the great VNC-client Screens from Edovia Inc. this is no longer a problem.