VelOCRaptor 1.0 is a new OCR (Optical Character Recognition) app for the Mac, which converts images of scanned text into computer text by simple drag-and-drop of the image file. (See our review of it here).
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$29 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ | For further info...

Label Wizard from Black Cat Systems allows you to create your own custom sheets of labels of around 400 different sizes. You have complete control over the layout of the label, with the ability to place text, picture, rectangle, oval, line and even a serial number on each one.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$19.99 | Requires: Mac OS X, Windows | For further info...

Schreiben 5.0 from German software house MOApp is a €9 wordprocessor designed to be lean and quick like TextEdit "with a nicer interface", but nevertheless open and save Word .doc, .docx, OpenOffice .odt, RTF and XML. and offer many Word-like features such as word count, drag&drop snippets etc.. The latest version (5.0) is for Intel-based Macs using 10.5; previous versions can run on PPC and 10.4.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: €9 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ | For further info...

A sixteen-year-old hit on a solution that has eluded scientists for years: how to make ordinary plastic biodegradable.
Observing that ordinary plastic does degrade, but takes a thousand years to do so, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Ontario, reasoned that he might speed up the process by selectively breeding the microbes responsible to break down plastic much more quickly. By immersing ground plastic in a yeast solution that encourages microbial growth, and then isolating the most productive organisms and interbreeding them, he managed to bring about a 43% degradation in six weeks – an unheard-of achievement.
The process holds promise of solving the growing problem of plastic pollution of the environment, and won its inventor first prize in the Canadian Science Fair last month.
(Source: Mother Nature Network) | For further info...

The iPod Touch is the only iPod that you cannot use as an external hard drive for storing ordinary files from one's computer. No more. With DiskAid 3.0, you can do so, complete with file or folder browsing, drag-and-drop support, ability to create and rename folders, etc. Also works for iPhones, and supports the new v.3 of the iPhone OS.
(Source: Macintouch) | Requires: iPod Touch / iPhone, Mac OS X 10.4+, Windows XP, Vista | For further info...

Love Art: National Gallery, London is a free iPhone/iPod touch app providing over 250 high-resolution, zoomable images of paintings and 200 mins of video and audio commentary and interviews. Includes access to a Google map of the gallery (provided Internet access) and a link to its website.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: Free | Requires: iPhone, iPod Touch | For further info...

DriveSaver from DriveSavers Data Recovery is an iPhone/iPod touch-based application that allows you to monitor a computer hard drive for signs of impending trouble, by simulating various types of hard drive failures. If a data loss does occur, it can help prevent catastrophic loss with do's and don'ts for data recovery.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: Free | Requires: iPhone / iPod Touch | For further info...

GlobeJot is an iPhone/iPod touch app that acts as a travel organizer: track flight data, reservations, activities and checklists. Store addresses and coordinates for one-tap viewing within the system Maps and (if you're using an iPhone) for phoning airlines and hotels. The "Dashboard" interface is customizable, and can import information that you input in the online TripIt service.
Use it not only to guide you when you're at your destination, but to plan everything you need before going there – or for multiple other trips that you might have in future.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: US$8 | For further info...

Postage 1.1 is an iPhone/iPod touch app from RogueSheep that allows you to create digital postcards using any photo from your photo album (or taken then and there with the iPhone), in a variety of themes (travel, love, parents, etc.), each with several options. Photos can be panned, zoomed and even rotated and applied various effects such as sepia, soften, etc. You can then type out a message in a range of fonts and styles, and have it sent directly from within the app (no waiting for it to go through the system Mail app) to one or more contacts in your system Address Book.
Macworld thinks it’s the bees knees.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: US$5 | For further info.../

For the most succinct – and scariest – depiction of the current state of the planet and how we must change how we live to allow it to survive, see The Story of Stuff – and pass it on.
(Source: Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook) | For further info...

System Explorer 1.5 is a full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system, from currently active processes to installed drivers, including network collections, startup applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have any. You can end any active process or delete items from the startup menu, to name a couple of examples. System Explorer can also obtain more information about each process from Google, or check it for viruses with an online anti-virus tool. The latest version includes support for external and internal plugins, filtering support to lists, and new plugin adds security enhancements.
(Source: ZDNet Tech Update) | Cost: Free (registration required) | Requires: Windows | For further info...