If you are on a certain data plan on your mobile provider, and don't want to exceed it, you can set data usage warning and a limit which can help you save some of your money.
Mountain Lion enables you to set notification alerts to remind you of upcoming birthdays, tasks, meetings and other important events you might have in your calendar.
If you know how to sing or hum a song, but don't know the title or the artist performing it, you can use a midomi website which will help you find the the song.
If there is a vast number of unimportant unread emails accumulating your Gmail inbox and it's starting to bother you, but you don't have time or nerves to mark them as read page by page, this is what you can do.