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One thing that most Mac users pride themselves on is the incredible amount of quality software to quickly and easily get a task done. Some of the best Mac software out there is single-purpose driven.

It makes the most sense, and it has been Apple’s philosophy for years. All this being said, however, there is something missing when it comes to word processing on the Mac.

We just love the close friendship between our dear friends Apple and Google. They keep giving us neat collaboration like the Google Maps iPhone App. Today’s reason to love the love comes to us from a post on Big G’s Official Gmail Blog. The Google Calendar team has worked with the Mobile team to create a custom tailored interface for mobile Safari users that makes checking out your Google Calendar dates and events easier than ever from your iPhone or iPod touch. This is certainly becoming a growing trend in the Web 2.0 scene and it’s great to see Google jumping on board.

We previously reviewed The Unarchiver, a free replacement for the built-in archive manager inside OS X that could handle anything thrown at it in a much cleaner, light-weight manner. The same guys who made that great app put that same philosophy into an image viewer. The result? Xee - a free, lightweight, easy-to-use app that is designed to easily give the user plenty of options in a slim, no frills interface. So is it worthy of replacing Preview as your default image viewer?