How To Evaluate New Applications

Web Worker Daily has a list of tips to evaluate new applications that catch your fancy. My philosophy is to have applications simplify your work, not complicate it. It seems we are told to try a new application each day that helps us use the previous application we installed that was supposed to simplify the previous software we updated that pimped out the one we originally installed. I got hooked on Mac widgets some months ago, downloading whatever caught my attention - e.g. LOST counter widget, anyone?- but I only go back to use the dictionary & thesaurus that came in pre-installed.  Enough chat…read the WWD post.