While TextEdit is lot more full-featured than NotePad on Windows, it still is lacking in many features for those who do a lot of programming or text editing.  In fact, TextEdit provides no easy way to save to .txt.  That is where TextWrangler comes in.  TextWrangler comes from the makers of BBedit, a professional text editor which costs $199 for a license.  Even though I have access to BBedit through school, I still prefer TextWrangler because it is lighter on resources and has all the features that I could ask …

I am a rather forgetful person, so I need to write things down in order to remember to do them.  I use lots of different methods to remind myself: send myself emails, write it on Post-its, use virtual Stickies on the computer, etc.  All this can get rather disorganized.  One thing that keeps my to-do lists organized is Anxiety.  Anxiety shares the same to-do list library as iCal, it just leaves a constant reminder on your desktop of what you need to do.  You can even add and edit to-dos …