Take a look at Anxiety, a nifty little to-do tracker for OS X. It uses the new Calendar Store in Leopard so that it keeps your to-dos in sync with iCal and Mail (and therefore also any devices you may sync with iSync). Best of all, it's free!
 

Soulver is a funky little calculator application (Mac only) that allows you to type in plain-english statements, and Soulver will figure out the necessary equations and calculate them.
 
An example from the Soulver website:
book = $12
If I sell 100 copies of my book, how much will I make?
$1200
 
Personally, I think that everyone needs basic math skills. But I can see a market for this sort of application.

Small business owners don't have much choice in the marketplace when it comes to accounting software. Here in Canada, our choices are basically Quicken QuickBooks and Simply Accounting. If only there were a free, cross-platform alternative accounting program that actually worked... well keep reading, because there is!
 

OmniFocus is a great app for tracking and improving your productivity. It's currently in beta, and you can download a free copy to test/play with here. The Omnigroup is offering a special discount to beta-testers - if you pre-order before January 8, 2008 you can get OmniFocus for $39.95 as opposed to the release price of $79.95.
 

We picked up an Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboard on the weekend and I wanted to share my first impressions with you.

I'm one of those people that needs more than one computer to work. My main workstation is a 15" MacBook Pro that is connected to a 20" Apple Cinema display. To its right is our 20" iMac, which serves as our media server, backup server, and VMware test machine. Due to limited desk space, I didn't want to have multiple keyboards and mice laying around. My first thought was to use a standard KVM switch to switch my keyboard and mouse between my Macs. But that requires a lot of USB cables, and I really didn't want that kind of clutter behind my desk.

I use a MacBook Pro as my primary workstation, and it's usually connected to the internet via an ethernet cable, although we do have wireless in our house for those "work from the couch" days.

For all those web developers who rushed out to upgrade to OS X Leopard - if you're like me and you used the Sites folder in your home directory for testing your websites, you may have noticed that you can no longer access http://localhost/~username/ after your upgrade to Leopard. It took me a minute or two to figure out, but here's the problem and a solution (if you are command-line friendly):
 

Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit that Apple knows what it's doing when it comes to product design. I stumbled across a great article over at Basement.org: 10 Things We Can Learn From Apple. Think about it: here is a company that turned itself around and went from being a minority player to a major trendsetter in technology. How did they do it, and can the lessons we learn from Apple be applied to other businesses and industries?
Some of my favourite points:

Wow.

I've been using Apple's new Leopard operating system for a couple days now and all I can say is that Time Machine alone made it worth the purchase price.

Time Machine is the backup software built into OS X 10.5 that everybody is raving about. Count me in too. Time Machine runs in the background, doing hourly incremental backups of your data to an external hard drive. What makes it so great is that it is painless to setup - just plug in an external drive, and OS X asks you if you want to use it for Time Machine. Click yes and you're done.