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throttled is a bandwidth shaping application for Mac OS X and FreeBSD which allows you to cap your upstream bandwidth, prioritize ACK packets, and keep your download speeds high even when your server is sending out at full speed.

Squeeze is a background file compressor, which uses the new HFS-compression technology in Snow Leopard to transparently compress the folders you configure it to process. Mac OS will read those files normally, they will just take less disk space. How does it work? Just select some folders to compress and Squeeze will silently work in the background to compress the files contained on those folders, regaining disk space. Whenever you use any of those files, Snow Leopard will read it like any other file in the system - it will simply take less space.

I love Time Machine for its simplicity and the fact that it's free. Apple did the right thing in creating a backup utility that was integrated into the OS and was actually useful.

Mac OS X only: GeekTool is a nifty utility that incorporates text files, the output of shell commands and images onto your Mac's desktop. GeekTool ranks up there with Quicksilver in my "Oh my God, why doesn't this exist for Windows" list. Especially indispensable for command line lovers, GeekTool is fantastic for keeping tabs on your system or tracking your life in .txt right on your desktop.

"This is the first of a series of letters to Apple on your behalf, telling the gang in Cupertino what would make their wonder-phone even more wondrous. This letter strictly focuses on the iPhone OS in general - the home screen, navigation, and settings. Future letters will deal with hardware and applications. "

Demand a pretty easy way to extract audio like MP3, AAC, APE from mp4 video on Mac OS X? The site explains a quite nice way to how to extract audio like mp3 from mp4 on mac.

OmniDiskSweeper is another quality product from The Omni Group, it's a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper makes this easy by highlighting the biggest files on your disks, and by noting which files are used by the system, so you don't accidentally delete important files.

GrandPerspective is a utility application for Mac OS X that graphically displays the disk usage of a file system.

"Every time Apple announces something new, it's probably groundbreaking. Yesterday's iPhone OS 4 announcement was yet another example, especially with its number 7 "tentpole" feature - the iAd. We covered it 2 weeks ago and it was already coined as "next big thing" by Apple then."

Demand a pretty easy way to extract audio like MP3, AAC, APE from QuickTime MOV video on Mac OS X? The site explains a quite nice way to how to extract audio like mp3 from video flles like .mov on mac.

Have you ever wonder to get Windows 7 experience on your Apple iDevice. Now you can convert your iDevice into a virtual version of Microsoft's latest desktop OS like Windows 7 with iWindows. This is not just a Windows 7 theme for iDevice like iPhone or iPod touch its complete run-able app that

McAfee released its updated version of WaveSecure app for the protection & securing sensitive data on the iPhone. Before this WaveSecure has been available for all major smartphone platforms including BlackBerry OS and Android, and has a sharp focus on the protection of user data such as contact