Organise

Focusbar Intelligently Reminds You To Avoid Procrastination

Mac: If you find that procrastination often gets the best of you and you need help focusing on your work, Focusbar is a free utility that can help you out. It pays attention to what application you’re using to do your work and bugs you when you sneak off to do other, less productive things.


October 14, 2011
Work

NexTab Cycles Through Tabs In Nearly Any Mac App With A Tap

Mac: NexTab is a handy utility that lives in your menubar and adds some really nice functionality to your trackpad. If you’re in any tabbed browsing application, whether it’s a web browser or not, you can move left and right through tabs with just a tap.


August 23, 2011
Communicate

Tab For Google+ Adds Google+ Notifications To The Mac Menu Bar

Mac: If you can’t get enough Google+ but don’t want to keep a tab open to see the latest posts or share something of your own, Tab for Google+ is a menubar app that will show you the latest updates from your circles and let you post to them with a single click.


August 19, 2011
Work

Song Announcer Speaks Song Titles As They Play

Mac: Song Announcer is a utility that works with iTunes to announce the artist and name of the song that’s about to play, lets you control playlists and playback from the menu bar or even your web browser. The app uses text-to-speech to speak the song info to you so you never have to switch to iTunes to see what’s playing.


August 11, 2011
Work

CalmDown For Mac Encourages You To Relax

Mac: If your computer or something you’re dealing with on the web has you irritated, CalmDown can help you take a deep breath, relax, and move on with your life before you dive into a flame war or send an email you’ll regret later.


August 4, 2011
Organise

Desktop Curtain Hides The Clutter On Your Mac Desktop

Mac: Desktop Curtain is a simple utility for hiding all the icons on your desktop or de-cluttering your background so you can focus on just one window. It comes in a free classic version as well as a feature-rich $1.99 App Store edition.


July 26, 2011
Work

DesktopUtility Puts OS X System Tasks In Your Menu Bar

Mac OS X: If you ever do any advanced file browsing on the Mac, you probably spend a lot of time running terminal commands that show hidden files, force empty the trash, and more. Menu bar app DesktopUtility puts those functions just a click away.


June 4, 2011
Organise

Fantastical Is An Intelligent Calendar Tool That Costs Too Much

Mac OS X: Menubar application Fantastical translates plain language to calendar events through a keyboard-friendly, attractive and intuitive interface. It’s probably the best calendar supplement we’ve seen — but it ain’t cheap.


June 1, 2011
Organise

Breeze Makes Organising Windows As Simple As A Keyboard Shortcut

Mac OS X only: Breeze is a handy window management app that lives in your Mac menubar and lets you save the current state of any window in any application. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to the saved window state to easily activate it at any time.


May 4, 2011
Organise

XMenu Adds Custom Menus To Your OS X Menubar

Mac: If your OS X menubar is insatiable and you want to give it a treat, XMenu will provide it with one or many custom menus for easy access to your stuff. Some are pre-defined for folders you already have on your hard drive, and others can be set to whatever you’d like.