Weekend Review: This week's software

Each Saturday we're going to feature a review of all the software we've posted about during the week. Here is this week's entry.

Commercial software

• Toast 7 CD/DVD authorizing software receives a major update
• MacGourmet Organize, publish, sort and edit your favorite recipes via an iTunes-like interface
• ClamXav Anti-virus software for the Mac
• Unity Produce Mac games, Windows games, Mac web games and widget games
• ADmitMac Get your Mac to play nice with Microsoft's Active Directory

Shareware

• Launchd Editor A GUI tool that lets you set up your own lauchd items without having to use the Terminal
• PatioTunes 1.7 Search enhancements, PSP support and more
• NetNewsWire Popular RSS reader for the Mac
• Mariner Write Powerful word processor
• Mariner Calc Mac spreadsheet software
• MacJournal Create a personal journal, record daily ideas, manage scripts and novels, generate blogs and more
• MacPoet "Refrigerator poetry magnets" for your Mac

Freeware

• BitPlayer Quicktime alternative with playlist and full screen support
• Google Talk Get Google's new IM service working on your Mac
• Quicksilver Use Quicksilver with Apple's Dictionary to retrieve definitions
• SCIT Save OS X screencaptures as BMP, GIF, JPG, JP2, PCT, PDF, PNG, PSD or TIF
• FlashSaverMaker Convert Flash files into OS X screensavers
• coconutBattery Check on the status of your laptop's battery
• Gizmo Project Popular VoIP client reaches version 1.0
• iWannaSleep Timer that will shut down your Mac, run an Applescript and more
• Active Timer Monitor how much time you spend using a given application
• xJournal OS X client for LiveJournal
• FlickrExport Export photos directly to your Flickr account from within iPhoto
• Adium X Version 0.83 released with loads of bugs squashed

Donationware

• Texpander Define abbreviations to be replaced with a predefined phrase
• MailTags Add metatags, comments, project titles and more to Mail email messages