Quite a while ago I was posting about cool Mac OS X apps I have run across. Now — there is a great blog about just that. It is called Cool OSX Apps and you can find it at http://coolosxapps.net.

It was quite active when it started up, and then it was quiet for several months. Just in the last month or so it has perked up again since they have added another blogger to their list.

As long as we’re talking about cool apps, I’m going to throw in one of the more useful ones I’ve seen in quite some time. It is called MailTags and it is a plugin for Apple’s Mail.app. It allows you to add additional metadata to your mail messages that can be used by Spotlight for searching and for the Smart Folders feature. In addition, you can add due dates to messages and send those directly to iCal. This is all very cool and very useful for anyone who gets TONS of email — like me. It is donationware. You can download MailTags here.

Another cool application that I’ve just started playing around with is called Chax. This app adds some modifications to iChat to make it do some additional things. My favorites — automatic switch to an away message when your machine switches to screen saver, tabbed chatting (just like tabbed browsing), and the listing of changes of chat status when a user changes their status while you are chatting with them. This is also donationware and you can get it here.

–Pete