Things is the latest in a long line of GTD apps for Mac for organising tasks and projects and getting your “things” out of your head and into a trusted system. This app is very definitely a Mac app, clean, slick and entirely appropriate for the task it is designed for, no more no less.

Plasq.com have today released the latest version of Comic Life, their excellent Photo compilation and annotation application. Version 1.3.4 is primarily a bug fix and corrects issues with iPhoto ‘08 libraries and generally stability issues.

The latest release of Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0 is now available for download. So far Parallels still has the lead over VMware’s Fusion as far as I can see, although there are some users who claim that Fusion is the superior product. Some of the improvements in build 5160 are shown below :-
Updated! Major enhancements to the look-and-feel of Coherence include drop shadows for Windows programs and Windows notifications on the Mac desktop
New! Enjoy new Coherence features, such as support for Exposé and transparent windows, overlapping Windows and …

The new .Mac Gallery feature is certainly impressive but would you subscribe to .Mac for this feature alone ? Personally I have been a Flickr subscriber for over 2 years now mainly to “backup” my photos online, and for this the service is perfectly adequate. However if I wanted to produce a showcase of my best photos ( and videos ) it seems as if .Mac would be a much better choice, albeit a slightly more expensive one.
Obviously there is more to .Mac than the Gallery but this feature alone …

Eavesdrop is a neat little network monitoring/packet capture utility written by Eric Shore Baur. As far as these sorts of apps go it is fairly basic being limited to only capturing TCP packets, but where it scores is in extreme ease of use.

Skitch is the latest cool app from Plasq.com, the company who bought you Comic Life. Skitch is a brilliant replacement for Grab that can capture images from your desktop or iSight webcam. You can then annotate, resize, crop, overlay labels, upload to Flickr, FTP sites, .Mac, email or transfer by Bluetooth and much more.
At present the application is in Beta and available for download by invitation only. I have a limited number of invites if you are interested let me know here.
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Pixelmator is a new Image Editing app from two brothers Saulius and Aidas. It has not been released as yet but if the screenshots on their web site are anything to go by it looks like being quite a hit. If you visit the web site you can register your email address to be Notified when the product starts shipping.