We need to be more organised and in control of our personal finances, tasks and projects. Tools such as Microsoft Outlook are designed to enable us to send emails, but also track our events, meetings, tasks and other 'to do' items. We can invite other users to meetings, track their invitations/declines and more. However, there are few tools that enable us to do this on a personal level. There are a number of apps that will enable you to track your media collection, such as Libra or MediaMan, but these only offer a certain level of flexibility.

Bento is a new application designed specifically for Leopard, the new Mac OS X. It is a personal database and management application, but designed to work alongside your iLife applications, so it integrates with iPhoto, iCal and so on. It's going to be a commercial tool, but the preview has been released free of charge, so take a look for yourself.

14 Nov 2007