Mac using BitTorrent junkies rejoice. You will soon have a new tool at your disposal, and a fine one at that. BitTorrent Inc. has announced thata Mac version of the popular uTorrent client is now in private beta, and will soon be available.

uTorret has a reputation of being light, fast, and free to boot. I have been a licensed user of David Watanabe’s Xtorrent for some time now, but if uTorrent is truly as fast as the reviewers claim I may soon have a new icon in my dock.

Click over and read TorrentFreak’s early review: uTorrent for Mac is Coming

Every so often someone comes up with a bit of software that makes you ask, “Why hasn’t anyone done this before?” Enter MiniMail. I’ve only been playing with it for a few minutes, and I’m already hooked.

MiniMail is a plugin for Apple’s Mail application. Just as the mini-player in iTunes does for music; MiniMail puts information about your inbox at your fingertips. You can easily see messages as they arrive, and quickly action them. You can resize the window any way you like to conserve as much screen real-estate as possible.

Check it out at OliveToast

Webjimbo: A Web Interface for Yojimbo

>Webjimbo is a web interface for Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo. It lets you view and edit your Yojimbo data from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.

The software is currently in closed beta testing, and they are promising a release in the near future.

RubyOSA is a bridge that connects Ruby to the Apple Event Manager infrastructure. In other words, it allows you to do in Ruby whatever you could do in AppleScript.