The almost perfect to-do app for the iCal obsessed Mac user. The unfinished but highly potential to-do app for the rest of us.

The wait is over. Last month, The Dropbox team released their long awaited iPhone app that works in conjunction with their award-winning file syncing service.

Grocery Gadget did what no one or no previous tech gadget could do: It made me want to go to the grocery store.

Take a Note removes the doldrums of time management with a visual, varied media interface, setting it apart from other iPhone organizers.

If you are heading coast-to-coast or across the oceans, Silverware Software's TravelTracker with TripIt is your “personal travel assistant” in making sure you don't miss a thing while on-the-road.

Do you use sticky notes as handy reminders or to help organize your thoughts? Stick It is an app that brings the handiness of sticky notes to your iPhone. But is this not so sticky relative of the Post It worth the two bucks? Read on to find out.

Disciplines can be applied to your iPhone. Let's be frank: the iPhone is dead sexy and dead snappy. It's a high tech toy that can do a lot of cool things, as seen in the commercials. But just because you got a smartphone that is smart in its attitude, this doesn't mean you can't accomplish amazing things with it.

MemoryStick is one of those applications that wants to be the tool you use in a pinch to get yourself out of a tight situation. In theory, that is what MemoryStick does. Your state-of-the-art iPhone transforms itself into a mountable flash drive. So if you suddenly find yourself in need of a few gigabytes of storage space and have no thumb drive within reach, MemoryStick makes that emergency storage happen. In theory, that’s what it wants to do. And yeah, it tries really hard to meet up to its potential.

As my friends know how busy I am, I was inundated with many Productivity application suggestions. So I went shopping. Window shopping. (Yes, you can go window shopping on a Mac, sacrilegious as it may sound...) I browsed through the various applications, reviewing what the paid downloads offered over the free ones, and I was a bit overwhelmed by it all. Then I stopped for a moment and considered all this organization, considered all the options being offered to sort and categorize one's lifestyle, and asked myself "When do I have the time to organize all this stuff?"

I make no bones about it — I am one busy guy. I have classes to teach, books to write, articles to turn in to my editor here; and on top of all this, I'm a dad to a beautiful 4-year old daughter. This is why you would think that something like Things, developed by Culture Code, would be the perfect application for someone like me. It certainly has earned a lot of love with so many reviews out there from MacWorld, MacLife, and Apple-related blogs. When I read up on its features and surf around the interface, I felt promised a new level of organization. But as I play around with Things, I can't shake this feeling of déjà vu. I feel like I've been in this interface before, but with one dramatic difference: I was ten dollars richer.