T. Rex may be the traditional king of dinosaurs in popular consciousness since its discovery about a century ago, but ever since Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park film series, the real stars of scary reptilian carnivores in people’s minds have been the velociraptors. Small (in truth, about a third of their size as portrayed in the films), fast, intelligent and lethally efficient, you definitely want them to be on your team.
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This is a really nifty little app (not something I say very often). I’ve only recently put my iTunes music collection in order, but one thing I haven’t done is add the lyrics to any but one of the songs. Having lyrics of a song is useful – you get to see them on the iPod, too, when the song is playing. But it’s too much trouble: you need to look them up on the web, copy them, then right-click on the song, Get Info, go to the Lyrics tab, paste them in…
iClip Lyrics saves you all that effort. Read More...

If, like me, your desk tends to get piled up with receipts that you mean to enter into bookkeeping but keep putting off because you have better things to do at your desk, XpenseTracker offers the enticing prospect of allowing you to do your bookkeeping on the road, on your iPhone or iPod touch. Read More...

The ScanSnap S510 document scanner (510M, for Mac users) is the best tool you didn’t know existed for dealing with the tsunami of paper that threatens to engulf any business or householder these days. It’s certainly one of the best peripheral buys we’ve made in over 20 years of office computing. Read More...