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Version 0.12b has just been released and it gets better all the time. You can download it at June Tate's blog.

Dimitry Kirillov has developed a widget that allows Live Journal users to post from their desktops. Download it at dashboard widgets, or at Dimitry's website. Beautiful interface and nice features: mood selector, private/public/friends only selection and music pick-up.

This is an awesome piece of software from Delicious Monster that catalogues books, CDs, DVDs and games and stores them on your hard drive in a - well - delicious interface. I have about 2,000 books and I've made half-hearted attempts to catalogue them the Dark Ages way (pen and card index) but never got anywhere. You can input details by hand or, if that's too slow for you, scan in the ISBN. There are other programs that do something similar, but DL is far and away the best IMHO.

I would like to see more places to look up in addition to Amazon such as Abebooks as many of my books pre-date ISBNs, but that's a minor peeve. I can enter the info myself and scan in the dustjacket or cover to provide artwork (once my HP all-in-one catches up with Tiger).

I've seen a couple of negative reports (I'm not going to link to them, but you can Google them easily enough), but these seem to relate to version 1; I have 1.5 (Tiger-ready) It even comes with a cute little widget.

Sorry PC-users - you'll just have to come to your senses and buy a Mac.