Claire Rottenberg has started up a new directory of “quality Mac web sites”.

As she explains :

Sifting through the hundreds or even thousands of websites with Mac information is a time-intensive effort, so I decided to create this blog to help other Mac users with that task. I’ll be continually adding reviews of Mac websites that meet certain quality criteria.

Hawk Wings was lucky enough to get a work over in her one of her first posts.

She judges that “the writing is in clear, non-technical language that is easily understood, even when the topic is an advanced one” but points out (correctly) that “some entries have typographical errors”.

Sadly even with the best intentions, typos do creep in, a sure sign perhaps that the writer is an “established journalist”.

I’m guilty as charged (apologies), but couldn’t resist pointing out a delicious little irony in the review:

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Ed Eubanks over at Low End Mac has written a great article on the “Getting Things Done” school of work-flow productivity.

He talks a bit about the GTD system and getting yourself organised in general, then reviews nine web-based GTD solutions.

They are not the same as the ten I picked out. In particular, I would have added GTDGmail, a triumph of interface hacking and adaption.

Still, the fact that I can quibble about little things like this shows the abundance of Mac implementations we enjoy these days and how stimulating a list Ed has put together.

Well worth a read .

He has just posted a second part on twelve desktop GTD apps, which is worth reading too. Easy Task Manager wins the GTD app shoot-out for him.GTD, getting things done, mac, apple, productivity, web 2.0, tips, reviews

User reports on the beta version of Microsoft‘s Hotmail replacement, Windows Live Mail, are beginning to filter out. It is part of a wider online revamp by Microsoft called Windows Live.

You can see some pictures of the interface on Vinny Carpenter’s blog and at Tipmonkies.

Reviews range from “awesome” to “pretty good” to cautiously welcoming and mixed to damning (There must be one. I just can’t find it).

Two Mad Geeks compare it to Yahoo! Mail and Zimbra.