A few months ago when I was stumbling around with what to use for my e-mail system, I stumbled across a website promoting an application called Mailplane. Mailplane is a dedicated Mac OS X application designed to provide a new way for you to connect to and interact with the web-based Gmail client and help it feel more integrated with your desktop. Being a Gmail user myself, although a Gmail user who currently relies on POP access to use it, I waited a few months to receive my beta invite and gave it a try.
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Tags: email, Gmail, invites, plug-in, review, Software, Web 2.0, web browsing

There are a couple of phrases that I’ve used to describe Plasq’s Skitch since I got a private beta invite about a month and a half ago. Amazing. Awesome. Totally awesome. Completely brain-shatteringly inconceivably awesome. Insanely great (well, okay, that wasn’t my phrase, but it’s still a good description). Once you’ve played with Skitch for ten minutes, you’ll be convinced that you are using the best image capturing, annotating, and sharing app on the planet, and that the next runner-up doesn’t even appear for a nanosecond to come close.
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Tags: image editing, invites, Mac, Plasq, review, screenshots, sharing, Skitch, Software