Earlier this weekend, I was clicking through the Apple download database and I came across a little app called Fruitz. It’s a wonderful little time waster that you can throw into your dashboard and play when the “boss” isn’t looking. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Someday, I’ll actually figure out how to play without losing my shirt. haha!

UPDATE: I hit the jackpot this morning! Got myself 20,000 bucks from the digital one-armed bandit. I only I wish I would have bet more (oh crap, I think I’m hooked). Now can I get up the courage to hit the button again?

Seriously, I’m wasting way too much time with this thing.

Recently I entered into the private beta for Mailplane, a desktop gmail app. Now that they are announcing their final launch and public release of the software, I thought it timely to blog my thoughts about this little app. For starters, Mailplane brings a bunch of time saving features to Gmail that once you get the hang of using, really prove themselves to be pretty useful. It’s like any other of these types of apps really. You get used to doing something one way and find it hard to switch your habit, even though they save you time. I do have to say that this is one little handy app that will save you some valuable time if you use it right. Here’s what their main features are and what they say about them: [Continued]

I was sitting on my couch listening to last.fm today and thought to myself, “It would sure be cool to use my AirPort Express and AirTunes to hear these tracks over my nice living room stereo”. The only thing I can do us play iTunes through there… That sucks! [Continued]

Recently I was invited into the private beta for Mint. An online financial management software. At first I was amazed how easy it was to use and get my information into the program. The displays are absolutely beautiful and the UI is just stellar! The only problem was I couldn’t blog about it since it was a private beta. Well, that is officially over! Today, they have launched their public offering and I have to say that I’m very proud to be part of the announcing crew. Mint is completely free and truly is the next generation for online banking and financial advice. It’s worth at least a stop by and tour just to see what it can do. I can’t wait to play with it some more. Thanks guys for a great app!

Did you check it out? What did you think?

UPDATE: Mint won the $50,000 prize at TechCrunch40 today. Congrats Mint! You deserve it!

Growl, one of my favorite system utilities for Mac gets an update today. Growl adds a system-wide notification control panel to your system preferences. Today’s update adds a type of “Screen GPS” to Growl’s notifications so they won’t overlap as well as a new on mouse over close button. The update, of course has several bug fixes as well and as always is a free download.