Another week, another instalment of the GGP, and some more Mac goodness from the GGP Mac Lab.

The first application for the week dead.licious by Malarkey Software. This is an OS X application for validating the bookmarks stored in your delicious account. It provides an interface for reviewing and testing the bookmarks you have in your account, and identifies those that are broken or otherwise invalid. At that point it will allow you to either fix or remove the dead link. Dead.licious provides support for Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia & Simpy.

The application is offered as Freeware, but there is a donation nag box every 5 times you use it. It’s important to note though that this isn’t criple-ware, and won’t stop working if you decide not to contribute.

You can download dead.licious from the Malarkey Software website.

The second application this week is Pres Butan from developer Brian Kendall. This is a little OS X application that will let you open files or applications by pressing the enter or return key. This is a feature that makes OS X behave more like Windows or Linux, and will undoubtedly help many of the folks out there who are switching from one of those platforms. After a quick installation, I tried it out and used it to launch Garage Band when I was recording this week’s segment.

One thing that did bother me is that the application requires the “Assistive Devices” setting to be turned on in the System Preferences panel. So anyone who installs it will have to turn on that setting manually. I’d like to see the system provide a mechanism for turning that feature on all by itself, or with a prompt to the user.

Download Pres Butan from the developer’s website.

Next up this week, I have an update on a product that I covered back on GGP #62. Moodblast is an application that allows you to update your ‘mood’ or status messages on IM applications like iChat or Adium and microblogging services like Twitter and Yappd.

The update is that FaceBook support is back for MoodBlast. The new version integrates with Facebook’s new “remember me” features and allows you to use MoodBlast to update your status message. It does make you log in about three times before it will successfully remember everything, however once that’s done it won’t bug you again.

A nice bit of silliness to end off this week.  Have a look at Lobster Petting.  I really can’t say much about this.  It’s a picture of a lobster.  You pet it with your mouse.  It squeaks.  ’nuff said.

Check out the Lobster homepage to download. Enjoy!