In my "cities to visit" list, Amsterdam got a pretty high ranking, and while the historic canals, the Van Gogh Museum or the Anne Frank House sound really interesting, I would visit that place because its red-light district and the cannabis coffee shops first of all. Just... don't tell anyone from my family about it, OK?

The problem with new cities is asking for directions. English language is widely used in Netherlands, so this is no problem. The problem is that I really hate moving around, asking for directions, when I could be easily finding my way around with a proper guide... and if I can have that guide right on my iPhone's screen, that's even better!

Infomaps Amsterdam 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch is exactly the Amsterdam Guide one needs when travelling there, and consists of four categories:

- Hotspots (100 tourist attractions and hotspots)
- Tram (all tram lines of Amsterdam)
- Metro (the metro system of Amsterdam)
- Railway (the main rail connections in The Netherlands from Amsterdam Central Station)

The best part of it all is that Infomaps Amsterdam 1.0 comes with all the information you need, so lack of an active 3G or WiFi connection won't push you into asking your way around once again.

Priced at Euro 2.39/$2.99, Infomaps Amsterdam 1.0 can be purchased via the Apple iTunes App Store, so if you're going to visit this beautiful city, you should get this digital Amsterdam Guide right away!

The best bulk email software you can get is the one that suits your needs and works properly with your mail server. Once, I tried to send an advertising email to a huge list I got from a friend of mine(it was an opt-in list, so that wasn't spam), and the program I tried to use crashed while loading it. Too bad, but I am sure that sending out news for friends, like the next gathering around some bottles of beer, won't be that hard...

Now, I must confess I really don't care about your purpose. The fact is that, once you're here, you want to know what's the best bulk email software for Mac, or at least get a piece of code to play with, right?

R10BatchMail has just come out of Beta, and this is exactly the kind of program you need. You can easily employ it to send a newletter, let others know of your change of address, marketing, or initiate a gathering around the table full of beer... but it's more than just that, obviously.

The long list of R10BatchMail features looks like this:

- Supports HTML and Plain Text Email
- Minimal configuration
- Email Addresses imported from a Tab Delimited File
- Import Contacts from Apple Address Book
- Combine Email Addresses from Multiple Sources
- The Contact List can be Edited directly
- Columns can be sorted
- The HTML Message can be previewed within R10BatchMail
- Message text can be dragged/dropped from within another document
- Message can be created in any HTML page editor and 'direct linked'
- A text file can be dropped over the message input area
- Select Some or All of your Imported Contacts
- Remove Selected Contacts
- Export the Contact List
- Session History can be Exported to XLS, TAB or CSV
- To help with Proof Reading R10BatchMail can Speak your message
- Most Actions have a Keyboard Shortcut
- Remembers the Window Sizes and Positions

Available as Universal Binary code for both PowerPC and Intel, R10BatchMail requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, a G4 processor at 1GHz, and at least 20 MB of hard drive space.

There are three editions available - a free one, adding a link to the producer's website at the footer of each message, Standard, priced at £25, and Site License, available for £100, all waiting for you to get'em at the official website.

The first thing that comes into my mind when I hear "Clipboard Evolved" is a game - obviously, we're talking about Bungie's Halo: Combat Evolved here. Anyway, since no Halo for iPhone has been released yet, as far as I know, we're going to leave games aside and talk about Clipboard Evolved, a clipboard manager for Macs.

Mach Software Design's flagship product, Clipboard Evolved, just got a new version, bringing the current release to "age" 2.27. This program is extremely ease to use, comes with a great interface, and offers a few times as many way to get the clipboard data as needed by any "normal" Mac user.

Its feature highlights include the following:

- Fully customizable appearance and behavior
- New Quick Paste window feature
- Record your clipboard history with sophisticated memory options
- Support for plain text, rich text, images, files, colors, and more
- Access your data through keyboard combinations, drag and drop, right-clicking, double-clicking, menu bar access, and more
- Multiple Clipboards with their own sets of clipboard data, as well with their own appearance and behavior
- Three different window modes to choose from: Default window mode, Dock window mode, and the new Grid window mode
- Hot keys to access Clipboard Evolved from anywhere in the system
- Lock Items you don't want modified
- Stunning animations using Core Image

Priced at $15.00, this clipboard manager requires Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or higher, 64 MB of video memory, and 5 MB of hard disk space. The best part of all - Clipboard Evolved (I nearly wrote Combat Evolved, but I avoided doin' it in the last second, haha!) comes for both PowerPC and Intel Macs as a Universal Binary.

To buy Clipboard Evolved, just go to the official purchase page on its producer website. Pheew, another one without having to go to the App Store. Doesn't it ring any bells in Cupertino?

I don't know about you, but I think something's wrong with Twitter. Not just wrong, but extremely wrong. I see no reason for a serious guy or a lady to waste time posting short messages about what they're doing, or links to various sites, because there are plenty of other ways to do it more effectively, and most Twitter users are following so many others, that filtering the info they receive gets extremely time demanding, and time is the one resource you can't get more of, no matter how much money are you willing to pay for it.

One of these days, I found myself being followed on Twitter by a local supermarket. Just to make it clear, I got a Twitter account, I messed with it for half an hour, and that's how my relationship with Twitter evolved. All of it. Now, how many people were they thinking to reach via Twitter? How many of those subscribed to their newsletter already would find Twitter a more interesting way to get info about latest offers and so on? To close the subject, I have to add that the Twitter user of the superstore I mentioned sent out about 15 messages in 4 months, so...

...let's leave that aside and move to a Twitter game for iPhone and iPod Touch! Scary enough? It may not be scary to you, but it is really scary to me. After all, I am 100% positive that Twitter is one of the most successful stupid ideas on the Web these days, and it was only a matter of time until seeing Twitter-related games to pop up.

A few hours ago, kode80 officially released its EatWillGrow game, one that takes a completely new approach to storing and retrieving high scores - it uses Twitter to do that!

The game is about guiding Blob while floating through the cosmic stream by any means necessary - flicking around the screen, bouncing off walls, avoiding mines and, most important of all, eating food. With every piece of food your Blob is eating, it gets larger, and so it becomes harder to avoid hitting a mine. Not quite the game of my dreams, but sounds pretty fun, don't you think?

The Twitter game part of the story looks like this - "EatWillGrow's high score system is a first of its kind. Rather than using a single central database, scores are stored on Twitter and retrieved via the Twitter search engine. Upon achieving a high score EatWillGrow players are given the option of tweeting the score to their Twitter timeline. Each score tweeted includes a screenshot of their last moment in the game, the player they beat and the point difference between the two scores."

EatWillGrow requires an iPhone or iPod Touch with OS 2.1 or later, and can be obtained for only $0.99 via the Apple iTunes App Store.

Eheeem...finally, a good use for Twitter! ...or not? What do you say?

The Seinfeld answering machine I have in mind today won't answer any phone calls. In fact, it has nothing to do with Seinfeld's answering machine, but has a lot to do with Seinfeld's approach to accomplishing tasks. What approach? Well, it's the Seinfeld Chain!

I know we're jumping from one question to another here, but we'll get to the end of it all right away, don't worry. OK, so the Seinfeld Chain is all about motivating you to do something each day. Each task you accomplish is a link, and as days go by, you have a chain that you need to be careful not to break.

Talking to the aspiring comic Brad Isaac, Jerry Seinfeld said that "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."

Now, the Seinfeld answering machine I mentioned is the iPhone to-do list called Actions, and released by Ghost Park Software. The last version of Actions is also the first public release, so we're talking about Actions 1.0 here.

This applications gives you more than just one way to view your to-do lists - you can group them by context and project, making the app perfect for the Getting Things Done (GTD) method, while other features include a two-minute intro to help you take off, a logbook with all your completed tasks, as well as full-text search.

Priced at $9.99, Actions 1.0 works with the first generation iPhone, as well as the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch, as long as they have the OS 2.2.1 installed. This handy little app can be purchased via the Apple iTunes App Store.