MarsEdit 2 - Red Sweater Software

As blogging matures, so do blogging applications. MarsEdit, originally created alongside NetNewsWire by Brent Simmons, is now under the new ownership of Daniel Jalkut at Red Sweater Software. The result is an injection of fresh blood for MarsEdit. MarsEdit 2 benefits from some helpful interface tweaks and a handful of much-needed new features... read more at MacUserUK

iWeb '08 - Apple

The first iteration of iWeb (3.5 mice) appeared a little more than a year and a half ago, giving iLife users a quick way to publish Web sites via their .Mac accounts. Designed with family users in mind, iWeb took the guesswork out of Web publishing. Without any knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, Web novices could publish home pages... read more at Macworld

NetNewsWire 3.0 - NewsGator

With the Web’s great wealth of news, it’s easy to collect a set of sites you like to gather your news from. But it takes a while to visit them all. Thanks to NetNewsWire, you can spend your time getting informed instead of getting from site to site, muddling through headlines... read more at MacLife

Thunderbird 2.0 - Mozilla

Every copy of Mac OS X comes with a feature-rich email client in the form of Mail. So why would anyone look any further? There are several potential reasons. First of all, although it's powerful enough for most users, if your working life is organised around email then it lacks some of the organisational features you might need. Secondly, if you need to move your mail archive from Mac to Windows or Linux, you need to rely on Apple's export tools working properly, as Mail stores its files in a non-standard format... read more at MacUserUK

GoLive 9 - Adobe

As soon as Adobe bought Macromedia, the writing was on the wall for GoLive. Although it has many supporters willing to argue its superiority over Dreamweaver, Macromedia's web design tool has been an industry standard almost since the industry started, so it was inevitable that Adobe would push its own child out of the nest in favour of Dreamweaver... read more at MacUserUK

Shiira 2 - Shiira

Shiira's designers have set themselves a straightforward task: to create the best web browsing experience on Mac OS X. They've certainly created the best looking, but as for the best experience, that's a different matter... read more at MacUserUK

CSSEdit 2.5 - MacRabbit

With a new edition of Dreamweaver hitting the shelves, you may think late spring 2007 is a silly time to be releasing new web design tools. Not so. While Dreamweaver may be most designers' first choice for powerful site and online application development, some tools are simply better at doing specific tasks, as our cover feature on application alternatives explains... read more at MacUserUK

Coda 1.0.3 - Panic

If you’re like many Mac-based Web developers, you have a regular set of working tools: a text editor, an FTP client, a CSS editor, an e-book or two, a Web browser, and the Apple Terminal window. And given that you have a limited amount of screen real estate, you’re no doubt constantly switching between them. Panic’s goal is to combine all of those tools into its new program, Coda 1.0.3... read more at Macworld

Dreamweaver CS3 - Adobe

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 has always been a solid tool for creating and maintaining Web sites. The latest version builds on an already powerful product by adding support for Intel processors, Photoshop integration, and templates and tools that simplify CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) design... read more at Macworld

Fireworks CS3 - Adobe

Adobe’s first release of Fireworks as part of its CS3 suite of Web design programs includes several new features that will please graphic artists, Web developers, and hobbyists. Fireworks was originally conceived for creating and optimizing Web-based bitmap and vector images, and its user-friendly interface and relatively modest system requirements made it the tool of choice for many Web designers who didn’t need Photoshop’s high-end print-preparation and -editing features... read more at Macworld

Contribute CS3 - Adobe

Adobe Contribute CS3 is unusual because it allows you to edit existing Web pages, and even to create new Web pages from templates—but you can’t use it to create a new site from scratch. It is targeted to Web designers and administrators, but used by non-designers—writers and editors—to update only Web site content... read more at Macworld

SpamSweep 1.5 - Bains Software

If you’re looking for the easiest-to-use Mac-compatible spam utility on earth, look no farther than SpamSweep 1.5.3. Yet its ease of use is a double-edged sword. While it’s a cinch to set up and learn, it provides precious few options for configuring its filters ... read more at Macworld

Personal Antispam X4 10.4 - Intego

Intego’s Personal Antispam X4 (10.4.2) is one of a couple of easy-to-use spam utilities that work within your e-mail application. I prefer this approach because it leaves all my e-mail in one location where I can easily manage everything. I’m nervous about a stand-alone spam filter accidentally deleting or failing to forward mail that I want ... read more at Macworld

SpamX 3.0 - JLS/JLSDevelopment

C-Command’s SpamSieve 2.6.1 is the gold standard of spam utilities, by which other utilities should be judged. It earns this high regard for a variety of reasons, not least of which are its accuracy and ease of use ... read more at Macworld

SpamSieve 2.6 - C-Command

C-Command’s SpamSieve 2.6.1 is the gold standard of spam utilities, by which other utilities should be judged. It earns this high regard for a variety of reasons, not least of which are its accuracy and ease of use ... read more at Macworld

Spamfire 2.3 - Matterform Media

Matterform Media’s Spamfire 2.3 is one of several spam utilities that act outside of your e-mail client—downloading all your e-mail, filtering it, deleting the spam from the server, and leaving only the good stuff for your inbox ... read more at Macworld

EmailCRX 1.6.2 - Hendrickson Software Components

Hendrickson Software Components’ EmailCRX 1.6.2 is one of a number of spam utilities that attempts to separate good messages from junk using a variety of spam-busting techniques ... read more at Macworld

iGet 2.6 - Nakahara Informatics

Having many Macs is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you have all the geeky joy of playing with more than one machine running on OS X. On the other, you have all the geeky horrors of keeping all of them synchronised, backed up, properly updated and maintained ... read more at MacUserUK

BBEdit 8.6 - Bare Bones Software

How do you make BBEdit, the Sawzall of text editors, even better? Start with luxury features, like on-the-fly spell checking, autosave, and "folding," which automatically hides completed sections of code so you can focus on the incomplete parts. The document window, where we used to wade through a good half-dozen toolbar icons, now sports just a few... read more at MacLife

Safe Eyes 2006 - SafeBrowse.com

From sexual predators in online chat rooms to graphic violent and pornographic images, there are lots of reasons why parents are concerned about what their children may find online. And as much as we’d like to monitor our kids 24 hours a day, that is neither practical nor desirable. Safe Eyes 2006 is designed to help parents control the flow of content from the Internet... read more at Macworld

SiteAssist 3.0 - WebAssist

Enter WebAssist’s SiteAssist 3.0.3, a wizard-based Dreamweaver extension that steps you through the process of creating the layouts, choosing the navigation menu structure, and building the pages for your site. SiteAssist lets you choose from a wide variety of appealing page and navigation bar styles, and it lets you change your mind and redo the site at any time, without losing any custom elements you may have specified... read more at Macworld

SnapMail 5.0 - Glass Bead Software

Organizations such as schools and medical offices frequently need simple stand-alone messaging systems that can keep internal communications secure and free from spam and viruses. ... read more at Macworld

VisiStat 4 - VisiStat

If you use a Web site to attract customers, sell products or services, or make money from advertising, you need to know as much as possible about how people are using your site so you can fine-tune it to meet their needs. How do users find your site? Which pages are most (and least) popular? What are the times and days when your site gets the most traffic? Web analytics software answers questions like these... read more at Macworld

Firefox 2 - Mozilla

The 2.0 release of everyone's favourite 'alternative' web browser, Firefox, is all about features. We say alternative but, frankly, these days Firefox is nearly as mainstream as its competitors, Internet Explorer and Safari. It has become a well-established and recognised brand, and has gained a respectable chunk of the market... read more at MacUserUK

BBEdit 8.5 - BBEdit

Mentioning TextMate in a BBEdit review is dangerous. Both applications have an enthusiastic following and comparisons are apt to draw flaming emails. Despite both being essentially for editing text, the philosophies are clearly different... read more at MacUserUK

OmniWeb 5.5 - Omni Group

OmniWeb is perhaps the last of the paid-for web browsers, but shelling out £16 gets you a solid browsing environment with a large number of unique features.The biggest change in version 5.5 is the technology used to display pages, which is now powered by a slightly modified version of the WebKit system built into Mac OS X. This means pages should appear in OmniWeb more or less exactly the way they do in Safari and other WebKit-powered browsers... read more at MacUserUK

RapidWeaver 3.5 - REALmac Software

You can build websites the hard way, cranking out those hand-coded pages in BBEdit, or you can take the lazy option and use a GUI web editor such as RapidWeaver. And that's nothing to be ashamed of, especially when the results look stunning, comply with web standards and take a fraction of the time to create... read more at MacUserUK

Flock 0.7 - Flock

Flock is effectively a skinned version of Firefox, the world's second most popular browser. The menus are almost identical, and themes and extensions are installed in the same manner. All Firefox 1.5 plug-ins should also, with a minor tweak, work in Flock 0.5 or later, so we can expect this browser to quickly learn new tricks... read more at MacUserUK

Opera 9 - Opera Software

You have to admire the folks behind Opera. They've been plugging away at their independent, alternative browser for years now, watching the big names eclipse their efforts at every turn as their innovations become standard features elsewhere. All for little financial return and not a great deal of glory... read more at MacUserUK

DevonAgent 2.0 - Devon Technologies

Aimed at casual Web surfers and serious researchers alike, the program queries multiple search engines simultaneously, visits each link for you, and filters and summarizes the results. Thus it steers you much closer to the content you want, without a lot of fruitless clicking... read more at Macworld

ShutterBug 2.0 - XtraLean Software

ShutterBug 2.0 is an easy-to-use Web building application that is aimed at non-designers who want to showcase their photography online without having to wrestle with the complexity of HTML. More than 25 Web site themes are included to help users create sites quickly. More advanced users can customize the built-in themes or create their own... read more at Macworld

Skype 1.4 - Skype

While each program has strengths and weaknesses, they all do basically the same thing: they present you with a buddy list like the one in an instant-messaging (IM) program, and they allow you to communicate by voice (and sometimes video) with the folks in that list...While you can make basic calls for free, more-advanced features will cost you... read more at Macworld