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    Apple Refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

    Apple Refurbished MacBook 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - White

    Apple Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

    Best Consumer Wireless Router:

    Check out the DD-WRT project.

    iPad Available in US on April 3
    Apple World’s Most Admired Company
    10 Billionth Download for iTunes
    iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold
    Introducing Aperture 3
    Architecture in Motion: RTKL and iPhone
    Apple Launches iPad
    Apple Reports All-Time Highest Revenue and Profit
    Logic Pro 64-bit the talk of the NAMM music show
    The Apple App Store Economy: Infographic from gigaom.com
    A Guided Tour in the Palm of Your Hand: iPod touch at the Cooper-Hewitt
    Apple Releases New MobileMe Gallery App
    Introducing Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager
    iPod touch + Edu Apps = Happy Students
    Camera Pro Preaches iPhone Photography
    Global Mobile U
    How the iPhone Could Reboot Education
    30 Must-Have Games for iPhone and iPod touch
    iPhone Improves Legal Services
    Snow Leopard Server “a tremendous value”

    OS News

    CodePlex Refresh, FOSS Projects More Compatible with Windows
    Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of IDEs
    Mozilla To Update the Mozilla Public License, Invites Input
    Palm Releases Plug-in Development Kit Beta
    Mozilla Borrows from WebKit to Build Fast New JS Engine
    The Secret Origin of Windows
    Cisco Unveils Next Internet Core Router
    Schwartz Recalls Apple, Microsoft Patent Threats Against Sun
    European Parliament Opposes ACTA, Votes Wednesday
    The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement Leaks
    Cisco To Unveil News that Will 'Forever Change the Internet'
    QNX: The First OS to Support a PC Hard Drive
    Android Coders Get High-Speed Graphics Ability
    Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac
    W3C Pulls Former Novell CTO for CEO Spot

    Ars Technica

    Bad employee! 12% knowingly violate company IT policies
    etc: Cisco's Internet-changing announcement is a new router with "12 times the traffic capacity" of its rivals.
    etc: Some Vodafone HTC Magic devices have come pre-infected with a Mariposa bot client, Confiker, and Lineage password stealing malware.
    Cisco: Internet to change forever Tuesday (place your bets!)
    Microsoft kills off mid-market Essential Business Server
    Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
    Google buys DocVerse, steps closer to Office collaboration
    Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2010: two bulletins
    Windows XP downgrade lawsuit dismissed
    Parallels cuts virtualization down to the bare metal on Xserve
    Amazon gives EC2 a boost and broadens Windows support
    feature: Cloud storage in a post-SQL world
    EU antitrust enforcers turn their eyes upon Google
    Intel, VCs to replenish innovation pipeline with wad of cash
    Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero patent claims tested
    YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13
    feature: Tumblr vs Posterous: quick blogging showdown
    Microsoft-Amazon patent deal covers Kindle, Linux
    etc: Recent events are causing tech companies to feel less welcome, and they're "finding it increasingly difficult to do business in China."
    feature: Lockdown: creating a secure domain policy in Windows
    feature: Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit
    etc: About 3 billion malicious spam messages are sent per day, according to researchers, a number that spiked during the second half of 2009.
    RIM woos consumers with new WebKit browser for BlackBerry
    feature: Cloud platform choices: a developer's-eye view
    Upcoming Outlook for Mac remains shrouded in mystery

    Protect your files with Carbonite Online Backup.

    Genius Tech Blog

    The Genius Speaks on All Things Tech

    Cell Phone Reviews

    I find the best cell phone reviews at Phone Scoop.

    Keyfinder

    The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications. Another feature is the ability to retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations.

    http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

    Delicious Library 2

    “Or, have you ever loaned a book or DVD or $200 DeWalt Cordless Driver to a friend, and forgotten which friend? And then bought another? With Delicious Library you just drag any item onto any friend from your Address Book, and it’ll remember the loan for you — and even put an entry in iCal reminding you when it’s due. Or maybe you have something lying around you don’t use, like an out-of-print book, that’s worth serious bucks and you don’t know it? Because with Delicious Library 2 you always know the current value of your things, and can put your used items up for sale with three clicks. Or maybe you just want to publish your library to the web and share it with your friends…”

    http://delicious-monster.com/

    OpenSSH

    We’ve long been a proponent of OpenSSH.

    You can grab a client/server version for Windows from sourceforge:
    http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/

    However, here’s an interesting note about the SFTP server part of the package:

    Creating Home Directories for you[r] Users
    In the passwd file, you will notice that the user’s home directory is set as /home/username, with username being the name of the account. In the default install, the /home directory is set to the default profile directory for all users. This is usually c:\documents and settings.
    If you want to change this location you will need to edit the passwd file. The passwd file is in plain text and can be edited in Notepad or any text editor. The last two entries for each user are safe to edit by hand. The second to last entry (/home/username) can be replaced with any other directory to act as that user’s home directory. It’s worth noting that when you run SSH on windows, you are actually running SSH in a scaled down version of cygwin, which is a Unix emulator for Windows. So, if you will be placing the user somewhere outside the default directory for their Windows profile, you will need to use the cygdrive notation.
    To access any folder on any drive letter, add /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER/ at the beginning of the folder path. As an example, to access the winnt\system32 directory on the *c:* drive you would use the path:
    */cygdrive/c/winnt/system32*

    Emphasis added.

    http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows

    ImgBurn

    ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

    http://www.imgburn.com/

    VideoLAN – VLC media player

    VideoLAN is the ONLY video/multimedia player you need. It runs on nearly every platform, and is free.

    http://www.videolan.org/

    VMWare Fusion

    These days the developer’s workstation is not complete without multiple virtual machines. On the OS X platform, VMWare Fusion is the leading virtualization software.

    Unzilla

    Unzilla provides webhosting at a fraction of the cost of traditional webhosts. The best value are the Unzilla Management Solutions which transform your website into a worry-free, well-oiled machine!

    Dreamhost

    Cutting-edge Dreamhost provides excellent webhosting service at a fraction of the cost of traditional hosts.

    Check out Unzilla if you need more for less.

    Hostgator


    For cheap shared hosting, it’s hard to beat Hostgator. They also have dedicated boxes and reseller packages. Here at YCG, we’ve used them for years. However, if all you need are the basics, check out Unzilla. It doesn’t get any better than that.

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