I read today, that

The big difference between the world of Unix and that other place is that in the other place they have applications and we have tools.

To me, it seems, that on Mac OS X we've got the best of both worlds. I can run big fancy "Power Applications" such as Photoshop or InDesign (come to think of it, those are the only two remaining "Big Ones" that I still use. Everything else are little Shareware tools or Open Source software...)

And then there is the wealth of *NIX tools right at my fingertips. But then there is still a whole bag of tools that fall in neither category. They are Aqua-based GUI Applications that focus on doing one thing and doing it well, i.e. a tool. I have reported on EasyCrop but there's also goodies such as Launchbar or SubEthaEdit.

Today, I would like to draw your attention to a little productivity enhancer called address-o-sync.

It does only one thing: it synchronizes two (or more) instances of Mac OS X's builtin AddressBook. Fire it up on two computers, select the one you want to sync with and click on the 'sync button'. That's it. Other address-o-sync instances are discovered automatically via Rendezvous.

I've got to wonder, though: will this neat little App^WTool suffer the same fate as Watson, namely, that Apple will include its functionality in one of the next OS releases? From a User standpoint I can only say "Hopefully!". The geek in me sympathizes with the developers... We'll see what will happen. In the mean time there's no choice, anyway!