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Monitor your Mac from the menu bar

Monitor your system status right in the menubar with iSlayer’s iStat menu widgets. (Mac OS X only)

Track your fuel use with FuelFrog

Are you worried about fuel prices? Perhaps you’re looking for a way to track your fuel usage and economy easily? FuelFrog is an online tool designed to help you do just that.

Papershow: Surviving Meetings

Chris gives us his thoughts on using the Papershow bluetooth pen to “survive meetings”.

Blogging on the move :: Wordpress for iPhone

The Wordpress application for iPhone is out, promising to make mobile blogging that much easier. We take a brief look at the application to see whether it does what it says on the tin.

Creating mindmaps with Mindnode

We take a look at Mindnode in our final post on mindmapping. This post also contains the conclusion of the mindmapping series.

Creating mindmaps with Mind42.com

Continuing our series on mindmapping, we take a look at collaborative mindmap site, Mind42.com

Creating mindmaps with Freemind

Chris takes a look at the first of two pieces of software designed to make mindmapping easy: Freemind.

Working on the move

Time for some feedback! We’ve already looked at portable applications, but what do you use to work while you’re on the move? Are you hi-tech or olde-worlde? Let us know in the comments.

Find colour-matched images with Colr Pickr

Colr Pickr is a clever app that finds images from Flickr that match the tone of your chosen colour. If you need images for a design, or just inspiration, check it out.

Firefox Add-ons 3

The add-ons for Firefox make the whole experience of browsing the web so much easier. Here are three more of my essential add-ons - which all work with Firefox 3:
Dictionary - One of the first add-ons you need, although I’ve not previously mentioned it, is a dictionary to check your spelling. Here is the link [...]