Here's a marketing story: a small UK design company couldn't find any bookkeeping or accounting software suitable for its Mac-only work group. Undeterred, our plucky team knuckled down and developed its own application

PaperToolsPro is a research organiser program that will appeal to students, writers, journalists and anyone who writes serious reports or articles, and needs to be able to back up arguments when called upon to do so

Opening up Eudora is like stepping back in time. If it weren't for theAqua interface elements, this email client wouldn't feel out of placeback in the mid 1990s, rubbing shoulders with Claris Emailer andOutlook Express.

Despite the jump in version number to 5.0, this latest release ofiTunes is actually a relatively minor update, albeit one that stillbrings with it some useful new features.

MailSmith is not for everyone. In many ways, it's the polar opposite toApple's Mail, eschewing the likes of HTML support and a refined, simple interface, in favour of a powerful and configurable, entirely text-based workflow

The iPod is a popular focus for enterprising shareware developers - asearch on software repository MacUpdate. com turns up 163 iPodutilities. Now Roxio has brought together five of the best pieces ofiPod/ iTunes software

Whether you're travelling for business or pleasure, planning the journey is essential. Relying on half-seen signposts, garbled radio traffic alerts and a deity of your choosing means you risk getting lost

Speak in tongues and escape the British climate with this light-hearted language tool

Popcorn is for backing up home movies and data stored on DVD - but can it outshine Toast?