Another bug fix of Microsoft’s somewhat buggy but popular Office suite of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Entourage. Welcome relief for many, certainly. We’ll spare you ad copy, and go right to what you want to read about—bug fixes.

This update fixes a calendar issue in versions of Microsoft Entourage that were updated with the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update. The issue prevents Exchange accounts in Entourage from sending meeting invitations and responses. This issue can occur when an Entourage identity is configured with more than one mail account. We strongly recommend that all Entourage users who installed Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update install this update.

9WR - Microsoft Office 2008: Another bug fix update enhances security, stability, and performance.

Free media browser to search iPhoto photos, iTunes music, iMovie movies, and Safari bookmarks. Drag and drop media from iMedia Browser to other Mac applications. From the same developer of Sandvox, the popular Mac website creator.

Use it whenever and wherever you need to access your library of photos, music, videos, and bookmarks.

9WR - iMedia Browser: Drag and drop access to photos, music, movies, bookmarks.

Inspired update of the excellent notebook metaphor outliner organizer. Manages clippings, tasks, projects, notes, media, photos, links, schedules, all in a notebook metaphor using a simple outline structure. Not easy to master but worthwhile to try, even better when accomplished. Now with diagramming, sketching, PDF annotation, and more.

Circus Ponies NoteBook helps you keep track of photos, e-mails, graphics, documents. Create project journals, directories, or portfolios. Clip images, e-mails, and news stories. Add formatted, searchable notes. Find anything using NoteBook’s patented indexing technology.

9WR - Circus Ponies Notebook: Organizer for notes, tasks, projects, in onscreen outliner notebook.

Best Mac spam filter gets better with age. Incredibly accurate, easily trained, integrates with Apple’s Mail, Microsoft’s Entourage, and Address Book. If email spam bothers you, get SpamSieve.

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.

9WR - SpamSieve: Easily configured Bayesian email spam filter for Mail, Entourage.

Handiest set-it-and-forget utilities ever for the Mac. Preference pane that auto inserts text and corrects common typos—on the fly. Kate’s detailed review.

TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

9WR - TextExpander: Auto corrects typos, inserts text with user-defined keystroke combos.

Editor for RapidWeaver users. Edits RapidWeaver themes. Yes, you’ll need RapidWeaver. Otherwise, what’s the point? Good way to customize any RW theme.

RWThemeMiner is a RapidWeaver theme editing assistant. It enables you to edit or replace any element in any RapidWeaver theme. It provides a user-friendly interface between the contents of your RW themes and your image and text editing applications.

9WR - RWThemeMiner: Edits, customizes, manages, custom web site themes for RapidWeaver.

Highly regard professional grade personal task management utility. If you’re sincere about managing tasks and projects, and you’re disciplined, OmniFocus is a top choice. Good for pros and small business.

OmniFocus works great as a ‘Getting Things Done’ trusted system but can also be used to fit other task management styles. You can add or hide features such as start and due dates, time estimates and task recurrence based on how you manage your tasks.

9WR - OmniFocus: Personal task, project management system; GTD; integrates iCal, Mail.

Great utility to upload and manage files to Amazon’s S3 Simple Storage Service of very inexpensive online file storage. JungleDisk is a one trick pony that runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux.

Jungle Disk makes it easy to store any data securely online, and access it from any computer just like a local disk drive… even better than adding a larger hard drive or an external USB drive to your system.

9WR - JungleDisk: Utility to back up, upload files to Amazon’s S3 service.

Addictive 3D moving satellite image view of the world. It’s always fun to find out where you live. Earth Plus version is $20, Pro version is $400. Still in beta after all these years. iPhone users rejoice for Google Earth for iPhone.

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

9WR - Google Earth: Satellite images and 3D buildings all in one place.

Soothing background of melodic tones; digital wind chimes; iTunes-like interface for mood chimes with bells, crystals, violins, and nature sounds. Quirky and cool at the same time.

SonicMood creates a soothing background of melodic tones… polyphonic sounds with stimulating harmonies… to have a relaxing effect.

9WR - SonicMood: Beautiful wind chimes, mood chimes, nature sounds, sensual harmonies.

Powerful backup utility loaded with features and versions, including N-way backups, ZeroScan for faster incremental backups, scheduling, and filters.

The professional’s synchronization toolkit. N-way synchronizations, advanced rule capabilities for arbitrary actions and archiving, flexible scheduling options, and more.

9WR - Synk Pro: Backup utility features N-way, incremental backups, filters, automatic scheduling.

Feature packed CD and DVD label printer for discs, covers, and cases. Burns iTunes playlists, easy access to iPhoto images.

Create, print, & share CD labels, jewel case inserts, and DVD covers that look truly professional.

9WR - DiscLabel: Professional disc label printer—CDs, DVDs, uses iTunes, iPhoto.

Free and simple financial software for Mac, Windows, Linux, which uses Java. It’s not pretty, but works very well as a basic utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

9WR - Buddi: Simple, free personal finance utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Minor update to the popular but poorly named Leopard maintenance utility. Does far more than clean Leopard’s caches, including creation of bootable Emergency Disks, and built-in ClamAV antivirus system, opens many hidden settings.

Makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. LCC can improve system performance by tuning internet and file cache settings, implementing ram disks, and cleaning out various cached and stale data. LCC includes tools to help optimize files and memory. LCC can recover wasted disk space by eliminating language localization files and slimming Universal Binaries.

9WR - Leopard Cache Cleaner: Utility cleans caches, creates bootable emergency disks, ClamAV antivirus.

Image editing utility takes your digital photos, stuffs them into attractive templates, prints through the iPhoto Kodak photo print service. Like iPhoto’s print services but with more options and a price tag.

Posterino creates stunning life-posters, photo frames, and postcards… choose a template, an iPhoto album and hit a button. Posterino will choose, place, crop, enhance and render your images into a poster.

9WR - Posterino: Designs, prints attractive posters, postcards, frames from iPhoto’s images.

Latest version of open source (free) FTP utility by David Kocher. Not as fast as Yummy or as simple as Transmit but worthy and priced right.

FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser… with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, Quick Look and the Keychain.

9WR - Cyberduck: Free FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 browser, many languages, features.

The perfect gift for the truly obsessive compulsive Mac user. Hazel handles every Mac file and folder organization task, automatically. Files, cleans, empties trash, remembers rules (you create them), keeps files and folders tidy. Clever but geeky.

Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash and uninstall your applications.

9WR - Hazel: Unique file, folder organizer; moves, sorts, cleans, empties, uninstalls.

Perfect for runners, joggers, even walkers. Set milestones and goals, track dates, times, distance for each workout, then view stats, including calories burned, average pace.

Whether you’re a new or experienced runner, it’s easy to create an exercise journal and personalize it with your own notes and comments. Import Stopwatch or Nike+ data from your iPod, or enter data yourself with the easy to use interface. Runner’s Log lets you track your progress or follow a workout plan using graphs and history tools, and also view derived data and statistics such as the number of calories burned or the average lap pace.

9WR - Runner’s Log!: Exercise journal logs dates, times, distances, then view stats.