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Working on your Mac these days can be quite exhilarating; with all the wonderful apps and tools at your disposal, multi-tasking has become easier than ever. The downside, of course, is that now there are so many things on the go to help us be more organized, more productive, and more efficient with our work that it’s becoming harder and harder to focus on actually doing it. The folks over at Freeverse are here to help, though, with their deceptively simple piece of productivity software called Think.

Recently, professional photographers around the world rejoiced in unison when Apple released version 2 of its acclaimed Aperture software — the one-stop photography management studio software. When we reviewed Aperture 2, it was inevitable that comparisons would crop up between it and its less-iLife-friendly competition from Adobe — Lightroom. The conclusion seemed to be that, while both solutions offered a slew of impressive editing features, Aperture was ultimately better suited to managing larger photo collections.

In a world where the vast majority of your contacts will be busily communicating with MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and ICQ, it’s hard to imagine that there’s much of a market for alternative chat clients. After all, what kind of advantages could they possibly offer over these massively-funded, professionally-scripted corporate mainstream clients?

Well, folks, it looks like Apple’s really taken their “Tuesday Newsday” philosophy to heart here; yet another major announcement hit the feeds this morning as the new generation of MacBooks was released, along with their beefy brothers the MacBook Pros. This latest iteration of the lean machines is as impressive as ever — displaying a variety of new features on the surface as well as brand new Intel Penryn chips under the lid (as it were).

Let’s face it: relationships are complicated things. Between keeping track of personal details, remembering dates, communicating efficiently and more, it’s a small wonder that we manage to get along at all.

And that’s just with personal relationships — what about professional relationships, where sometimes the extent of your contact with an individual is a series of digital transactions?

Jumsoft jumps to the rescue with an update to one of its award-winning pieces of productivity software, aptly named Relationship. This little gem is a piece of customer relationship management software geared towards the small business market. With its attractive price tag and competitive features, it’s easily established itself as a staple of the consumer corporate world, and the 1.1 update brings only improvements to the tried-and-tested formula for success.

It isn’t often that the world of software design generates newsworthy controversy with its products. After all, the whole point of creating new software is to help people by allowing them to be more productive, more organized, more speedy…right?

What it doesn’t generally do is force them to be more aware of their moral boundaries. One software developer, named Reza Hussain, decided to be a bit more ambitious in his design.

Much to the chagrin of numerous eager users, it was discovered that his seemingly-innocuous screen capture program called Display Eater had a much bigger appetite than they expected: if a pirated serial number was entered during registration, the software would delete the offending user’s home files; effectively killing their poor Mac.

Ask any cook about his/her collection of recipes and you’re likely to get a self-satisfied smile that says “Ah, zee greatest collection in zee vorld!” Continue on by asking them to find you their best recipe for Mexican Wallaby Steaks and the look they give you will more than likely turn to one of tired incredulity: “How do you expect me to find…?”

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple solution to keep track of all your recipes in a single zesty application on your computer? Say hello to Yum, the appropriately-named recipe organization tool for your Mac.

Now that we’re all settling in with Leopard and getting used to the “300+” innovations, it’s becoming painfully obvious that one innovation still lacking is a simple and convenient way to manage all the files lying around on your hard-drive.

Sure, you’ve got the improved Finder and Spotlight to work with, but wouldn’t it be nice if there was a magic word that could whisk you out of the Finder’s strict folder-based hierarchical structure?

In May of 2003, the Icelandic game development company CCP released their flagship title: a sci-fi MMORPG (Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game) called EVE Online. Now, four years later, EVE Online is one of the largest persistent virtual universes in existence, home to tens of thousands of dedicated players.

And with the release of their new Trinity expansion, this game world is finally open to Mac (and Linux) users everywhere.

Have you ever had the sudden, inexplicable urge to show off your Jedi powers at work? Has there ever been a nagging thought in the back of your head that there might be more to your Macbook’s sleek edges and glowing design than simple aesthetics? Well, your suspicions are correct, young padawan, and Jedi Master iSnoop from over at the SomethingAwful Forums has just the tool for you.

MacSaber is probably the most unconventional use of your Macbook’s (or Macbook Pro’s) sudden-motion sensor technology, utilizing it to trigger authentic light-saber sound effects that can even sense how fast or slow you swing your ($2,000) laptop around. This app is probably the most fun you’ll ever have with your Macbook and brings a whole new dimension to the corporate cubicle battlefield.

Best of all, it’s completely free, which should help you save some money for when you discover that you may have used a little bit too much Force for that last swing. You can pick up a copy of the latest version from iSnoop’s blog page. No word yet on whether or not “Light-saber Battles” are covered by warranty.

Slowly but surely, comic books and graphic novels have been working their way into a respected position in the literary world, owing to their attractive blend of visual and narrative story-telling ability. Once upon a time, comic enthusiasts (commies?) used to be restricted to flipping through the pages of their favourite chronicles alone in their basements under the soothing light of a lava lamp. Nowadays, with modern technology releasing us from such archaic conditions, these enthusiasts are now able to flip through the pages of their favourite chronicles alone in their basements - on a computer!