35 Absolutely Essential Mac Appsin

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. It may be the raw power, the stability or they may just look rather - cool? Well, both of us know why that really is. It’s the apps! The software that makes the hardware bling, and it’s not necessarily thanks to Apple. Aperture and iCal may be nice, but often we rely on the smaller, even more useful applications. Here’s a list of great little applications that the Mac-powered freelancer should consider.

full article: http://freelanceswitch.com/working/35-absolutely-essential-mac-apps/

Geek to Live: Mount a file system on your Mac over SSH

You already know how to access shared files on the PCs on your home network from your Mac, but what about any old file server on the internet via SSH? Earlier this year, a few Google engineers released a new software package that enables Mac OS X to mount remote file systems using a variety of methods, including SSH.

This software, called MacFUSE, lets you drag and drop files to an SSH-connected folder right in Finder, as if it were a regular network drive. Because it's SSH, the file transfers are encrypted, and because it's implemented as a Mac network folder, you don't need other software like Fugu or Transmit to work with it: the remote drive is accessible like any local drive.

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http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--mount-a-file-system-on-your-mac-over-ssh-246129.php

Watch and record live television

DVRs, such as the ubiquitous TiVo and even those nameless boxes that many cable companies provide, have changed the way we record and watch TV. While they do a great job of time-shifting your favorite TV programs, DVRs either tether you to your TV or require extracting and converting content for other uses. But with a Mac-based DVR and a little know-how, you can watch shows on your beautiful Apple Cinema Display or your laptop—or encode them and use iTunes to put them on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.

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http://www.macworld.com/2007/09/features/now_gearup/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

15 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Career 24

Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how to get ahead, how to “win,” and such things that are on a much larger scale than the daily grind that most of us face. In fact, it is that day to day grind that pulls down many of us - we go to work, come home exhausted, and often feel as though we’re just spinning our wheels.

If you want to get ahead in your career and in your life, you need to start small and look at the immediate things you can do to help out your situation. If you’re sitting out there at your desk, tiredly wondering if there’s something better that you can be doing with your life, start with these fifteen tips that you can start executing immediately that will lead you down a path towards a better career.

FULL ARTICLE http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/02/19/15-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-help-your-career/

11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac's Performance

Every now and then, my Macs begin to feel a little sluggish. There are many potential reasons why: I tend to run 8-10 applications all the time - and sometimes push 15 or more. This alone will bog down any Mac.
At other times, I realize that it's been weeks since I restarted the computer, and a simple restart will solve a lot of these woes.
When those don't speed things up, I've found a number of things I can do to encourage my Macs back to their youthful snappiness. Here are a few tips I've found for restoring my Macs to full speed without spending a penny.
Editor's note: None of these tips will improve your Mac's performance like more RAM, a faster hard drive, or a CPU upgrade would. They mostly have to do with reducing memory use by limiting the number of active processes and freeing up drive space, since a too full drive (especially past the 90% mark) can slow down your Mac. These are tips for getting the most out of the Mac you currently have without investing in any upgrades. dk

full article http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html

Jena Report Attempts To Sift Fact From Fiction; FBI Probes White-Supremacist Response

Some details of the case have been distorted, Associated Press reports.
Like a game of telephone, the story of the "Jena Six" appears to have gotten a bit mangled as it leaked from a small Louisiana town to worldwide recognition over the past nine months.
And while the central facts of the case — the hanging of nooses on a tree on the Jena High School campus and the racially charged fights between black and white students that culminated in six black teens being charged in December with attempted murder and conspiracy for attacking a white fellow student — have not shifted very much, other details have reportedly been lost in translation (see "Jena Six: What Sparked Protesters To Descend On Small Town In Louisiana?").

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1570444/20070924/index.jhtml

Jessica Alba Needs Luck To Top Zombies At The Box Office, In Projection Booth

It must be the end of the world, we think, since the likely winner of the weekend is yet another zombie movie — and not just any zombie movie, but a Paul W.S. Anderson and Russell Mulcahy zombie movie.
"Resident Evil: Extinction," the third in a trilogy of video game adaptations, makes its way to the big screen this Friday (see " 'Resident Evil: Extinction' Takes Milla Jovovich — And, Of Course, Zombies — To Vegas")
Not to sound like old fogeys, but it used to be that zombie classics like the ones made by George Romero were satires of life in America, digs at soulless, commercialistic, like-minded, bland people and the equally uniform culture that spawned them. Now zombie movies have become the very thing they once railed against: slick video game adaptations in which zombies represent nothing more than moving targets — the better to have Milla Jovovich fight against, of course. Alas, we think we're fighting a rising tide: Opening in 2002, the first "Resident Evil" made $17.7 million in its opening weekend, while the 2004 sequel, "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," scored $23 million during its first frame. Expect part three to come down somewhere in the middle.

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1570113/20070919/story.jhtml