Week after week, season after season, the series captivated the country as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigated the paranormal and bizarre in The X-Files. Now David Duchnovy and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The film, directed by Chris Carter, who also created the television series, opens in theaters on Friday, July 25.

Bento, the personal database application for Mac OS X Leopard, ”may be one of the most user-friendly relational database applications I have ever encountered,” suggests Tom Nelson (about.com). “For a remarkably low price of $49, FileMaker has created a truly easy-to-use database product.”

After taking it on a test drive across Michigan for ten days, Mike Wendland (freep.com) concludes that “the 3G network makes the iPhone about as close to a laptop in convenience and functionality as a mobile phone can be.” Yet “it’s the new iPhone 2.0 software upgrade that is the most impressive — allowing users to connect seamlessly to business e-mail and run hundreds of new games and programs.”

“It’s a candy store, dude,” David Pogue (nytimes.com) exclaims — a “single, centralized, utterly complete source of software” that makes “the iPhone (or the iPod Touch) do absolutely amazing things…stunts a cellphone has no right to perform.” And because the new App Store “is beautifully integrated with the iPhone itself,” it makes “it fast, simple and idiot-proof to download and install new software morsels.”