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In This Week’s Issue

Cool Links, Inspiration, Information, The Healing Power of Laughter, and these articles:

·    News – Personal Interest: How To Ensure Lost Wallets Are Returned

·    News in Pictures: The Festival of San Fermin, 2009

·    News in Pictures: The First Week of the Tour de France

·    Politics: SON OF “STIMULUS”

·    Politics – US Healthcare: ObamaCare: JUST SAY NO!

·    Investing: Are Your Stocks Doomed?

·    Investing: Find out what stocks the World’s most successful investors are buying!

·    Global Warming Scam: A Handbook for Deniers

·    Energy: Wind or Nuclear?

·    Energy: Obama Blocks New Energy Exploration

·    Energy: Palin Slams Obama’s Energy And Environment Plans

·    Business: What is a Great Workplace? 

·    Business: 8 Ways to Get Creative During a Credit Crunch

·    Personal Finance – Credit Cards: Hidden Perks Of Credit Cards

·    Personal Finance: Things You Can Do To Survive In This Economy

·    Personal Finance: Banks’ ‘Courtesy’ Loans At Soaring Rates Irk Consumers

·    Privacy & Security: Seven Secret Places To Hide Cash In Your Home

·    Privacy & Security: Don’t Become a Victim of Check Washing Fraud

·    Money: The Case for Doing Nothing

·    Travel: 5 Amazing Holes

·    Health: Walking For Fitness

·    Health: Research: Swearing ‘Helps To Reduce Pain’

·    Health: Not All Sunglasses Are Created Equal

·    FREEDOM: A wise and frugal government…

·    Computers: 30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac

·    Computers: 12 Incredibly Useful Lil’ Utilities for Your Mac

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” ~Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

“Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.”

—Art Linkletter

“To the world you may be only one person, but to one person you may be the world”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

—Dale Carnegie

“Life is a journey… NOT a guided tour. So don’t miss the ride and have a great time going around you don’t get a second shot at it.”

INSPIRATION

10 Rags to Riches Stories

As humans, we all like to hear inspiring and uplifting things, especially in times of economic woes and downfalls. In today’s world, I think a rag to riches story could easily inspire people to continue to fight through hard times.

Rags to riches stories are most definitely inspiring. Even if you’re one of those people who doesn’t dream of extreme wealth, these stories are able to show just how far determination, confidence, and perseverance can get you in life, no matter if you start from the very bottom.

Here are the top ten rags to riches.

THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER

We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing! 

World’s Most Clued Out Woman

A South African DJ phones up a “Christian Family Bookstore,” and enquires after a particular book. A woman in the Christian bookstore fails to identify a rather popular book based on his description. Normally this wouldn’t be very amusing but, ah… Well, the book is rather well known. You have got to hear to believe! Audio (4:37)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQaAm8TRmLg

Parking Disaster

Some people shouldn't drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIY3RJxj_Yw

NEWS – PERSONAL INTEREST

How To Ensure Lost Wallets Are Returned

By David Barrett, telegraph.co.uk | July 11, 2009

Lost wallets, which contain a snapshot of a baby, are more likely to be returned to their owners, scientists have discovered. Those containing the picture of the infant were most likely to trigger an honest reaction from the finder, with 88% being returned, followed by those containing pictures of the puppy at 53%.

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NEWS IN PICTURES

The Festival of San Fermin, 2009 – July 13, 2009

The Festival of San Fermin attracts thousands of visitors to Pamplona, Spain every year. The nine-day festival includes a carnival, bullfights and of course, the famous Running of the Bulls. Deeply traditional, it has been held since 1591, and remains a popular, if dangerous and controversial event. This year, dozens of runners and revelers have been injured, and one has been killed – a 27-year-old man who was gored in the neck, heart and lungs on Friday. Animal rights groups continue to level criticism toward the event, in which dozens of bulls run through small, packed streets toward a bullring where they will be killed during later bullfights. Collected here are some of the scenes from this year's Festival of San Fermin.

(32 photos total)

The First Week of the Tour de France – July 10th, 2009

WIth the return of Lance Armstrong from retirement and his expected battle with teammate Alberto Contador looming, the Tour de France began a week ago on July 4, 2009. Friday’s 140-mile trek from Barcelona to the Andorran ski resort of Arcalis was the longest stage this Tour. Competitors scaled the punishing Serra-Seca pass before the climb into Arcalis that is one of the toughest ascents in cycling. Lance Armstrong dropped one spot to third place in the Tour de France on Friday, with rival and teammate Alberto Contador breaking away in the final sprint up the mountain to claim second. Two more days of racing in the Pyrenees await before a rest day Monday. Saturday’s stage is a 110-mile route that features three hard climbs and finishes in Saint-Girons, France. The Tour ends July 26 in Paris.

(46 photos total)

POLITICS

SON OF “STIMULUS”

They Can’t Spend a Half-Trillion, So They Should Get a Trillion More?

By Sheldon Richman, Foundation for Economic Education | July 10, 2009

Bad economic policy proposals usually have a superficial logic that fools the economically illiterate into thinking the policies really make sense. For example, anti-price-gouging laws seem to keep goods affordable during emergencies. The government says no one may raise prices “excessively” on generators, batteries, and bottled water. Hurray for wise government policy.

It takes some sophistication to follow Henry Hazlitt’s economics lesson and trace the consequences. Under the new supply and demand conditions, if prices cannot rise beyond a certain arbitrarily set level, supplies will run short, since people have no incentive to conserve and entrepreneurs have no incentive to divert goods from where they are relatively plentiful to the stricken area where they are relatively scarce.

Similarly, most people think the minimum-wage law is a good thing because they dislike that unskilled workers are paid very low wages. What could be more humanitarian than to set a floor beneath which wages cannot fall? If they thought like economists, they would realize that a mandatory minimum wage set above the marginal productivity of unskilled labor creates unemployment or less-desirable jobs for the workers it is intended to help.

But lately an idea has been floating around that anyone should be able to see through because it has no superficial logic whatsoever. It goes like this: The government hasn’t been able to spend $500 billion fast enough to stimulate the economy, so the only thing to do is . . . give the government even more money.

Huh? How does that make sense?

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POLITICS – USA HEALTHCARE

ObamaCare: JUST SAY NO!

The Truth About Canadian Health Care

Please watch this (20:32) Video to understand what Obama wants to foist on the citizens of the United States.

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I also recount my own personal experience with my 4-year-old daughter, when I brought her to a Canadian hospital after an accident, on my audio recording on my website.

INVESTING

Are Your Stocks Doomed?

by Ben McClure

Few people seem to spot the early signs of a company in distress. Remember WorldCom and Enron? Not long ago, these companies were worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Today, they no longer exist. Their collapses came as a surprise to most of the world, including their investors. Even large shareholders, many of them with an inside track, were caught off guard.

 This doesn't mean it's impossible to see a corporate train wreck before it happens. Sure, it involves some work, but by digging into a company's activities and financial statements, even the average investor can identify potential problems. Here are some general guidelines for spotting companies that may be headed for trouble.

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GLOBAL WARMING SCAM

A Handbook for Deniers

Rise above the mud-slinging of the Global Warming debate

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ENERGY

Wind or Nuclear?

By Ray Harvey, Mises Daily | JULY 8, 2009

Energy is like a river; it exists in two ways: flows and stores.

When you store energy, you create a dam to capture it.

What environmentalists call “renewable energy” is really just the stored energy of the sun.

In actuality, there’s no such thing as “renewable energy”: all energy, even the sun, is limited.

Fossil fuels are energy stores as well–specifically, they are stored solar energy, a process that takes millions of years–and they are highly concentrated, ten times more so than, for instance, wood.

In terms of wind and raw solar energy, the flow is exceptionally diluted: solar is ten to fifty times less concentrated than fossil fuel. When you can’t concentrate it, then the only way to harvest it is to use more and more land. That’s the limiting factor for both sun and wind energy.

T. Boone Pickens’s now-infamous plan would require 1,200 square miles for a single power plant.

Compare that to nuclear, which would require only one square mile.

READ THE ARTICLE

Quote from the article:

“As with ethanol and recycling and a host of other issues, you must ask yourself again, if these things are so efficient, why do they need to be subsidized? Answer: they’re not so efficient.

Energies that require massive subsidization benefit absolutely no one; the only reason they need to be subsidized is that they cannot compete on the open market.

That fact alone tells you everything you need to know about them: they’re simply not good enough yet.

When they are, the free market will adopt them naturally.”

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Obama Blocks New Energy Exploration

by Doc Hastings, townhall.com |Tuesday, July 14, 2009

With 9.5 percent of Americans out of work and rumors of yet another costly stimulus, President Obama and White House officials regularly say that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to getting our economy back on track.

But after six months in office, President Obama should revise his statement to reflect his Administration’s unspoken policy that “nothing is off the table – except for the creation of many types of energy jobs.”

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The Administration’s decision has prevented Americans from enjoying 1.2 million new, well-paying jobs annually across the country and $70 billion in additional wages each year (source: American Energy Alliance).

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Palin Slams Obama’s Energy And Environment Plans

By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters.com | Tue July 14, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters)–Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in her last weeks in office after announcing she was quitting, has waded into the U.S. climate change debate, saying President Barack Obama’s energy plans would cost jobs and damage the economy.

“I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy,” the conservative Republican governor and defeated 2008 vice presidential candidate said in an op-ed article in Tuesday’s Washington Post.

“It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage,” said Palin, whose state is a major U.S. energy provider.

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BUSINESS

What is a Great Workplace? 

The Twelve Dimensions that Describe Great Workgroups 

Gallup Management Journal

Recognition and praise ranked fourth among the 12 dimensions that consistently correlated with those workgroups that have higher employee retention, higher customer satisfaction, higher productivity, and higher profits.

What makes a great workplace? A study conducted by The Gallup Organization of more than 80,000 employees revealed that several factors combine to create a quality workplace. The findings pointed to the importance of employee recognition as a critical source of employee satisfaction and retention. The objective of the research was to identify the consistent dimensions of “quality workplaces,” defined as those in which four critical outcomes– employee retention, customer satisfaction, productivity, and profitability–are all at high levels.

Recognition and praise ranked fourth among the 12 dimensions that consistently correlated with those workgroups that have higher employee retention, higher customer satisfaction, higher productivity, and higher profits. The dimensions do not include pay and benefits. That does not mean that pay and benefits are not important. But it does mean that compensation levels do not differentiate great workgroups from the rest.

The 12 components that make up successful workplaces

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8 Ways to Get Creative During a Credit Crunch

by Ali Brown

Although the credit crunch is still weighing on millions of people, it doesn’t mean the end for every small or medium-sized business. In fact, this is a great time for savvy entrepreneurs to grow a business and prosper by thinking creatively and strategically. To make sure your business thrives during the downturn, you need to take a good hard look at your business.

Here’s how you can flourish during difficult times. It just takes a bit of creativity…

1. Trim the fat. Now’s the time to review your company finances in a calm and collected manner. Be sure to look at what is being paid on time. Then look for waste and how you can save–there are sure to be a few places where this is possible. Eliminate expenses that aren’t essential to your core business.

2. Know your customers. Spend time with your customers and find out more about their needs so you can deliver what they want when they want it. Also consider sending out a customer satisfaction survey to gain additional insights. Continue offering great service and going above and beyond so that every customer feels as if they are getting the VIP treatment.

3. Stay ahead of the competition. Researching your competition is invaluable so you can make sure you’re competitive with their quality and service. Also remember that during a downtown, some of the people who are laid off may start their own businesses. Monitor the market for newcomers, but remember that you have a head start.

4. Enhance your offering. Cutting prices is one way to make your product or service more attractive, but it’s not the only way. Once you lower your prices, it can be hard to raise them again. Think about adding other incentives like reduced delivery times or added bonuses instead.

5. Adapt to the market. If you notice that sales are declining in one area, focus your efforts on areas that are seeing more sales. Don’t waste your time on sectors that are in freefall. If your business is focused on a single product, consider repositioning it and be ready to cater to people’s changing needs.

6. Invest in you. Now is the perfect time to build on your knowledge, skills, and talents by attending conferences, taking a professional development course, or investing in a business coach. It will help position you as an expert in your field and give you a competitive edge!

7. Make more noise. Continue advertising if you can afford it, but look for other inexpensive ways to get the word out. Perhaps start a blog, join web forums in your field, or write a column for a trade publication or local newspaper.

8. Prepare for the good times. Remember that a recession is a periodic event, but it doesn’t last forever. Resist the urge to run for cover. Instead, keep doing business.

Come out fighting and energize your business to ensure that you don’t go the way of the dinosaurs. The good times will come again–this is your chance to make sure you’re a part of them.

© 2009 Ali International, LLC

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PERSONAL – SECURITY, PRIVACY & PROTECTION

Seven Secret Places To Hide Cash In Your Home

From frugaldad.com | July 8, 2009

It’s a good idea to keep a little cash in your home for emergencies. How much you decide to keep is up to you, but I would suggest keeping enough cash on hand to pay for a week of groceries, and maybe a night or two in a hotel. Because this money will not be earning interest, and is subject to being stolen by a burglar, I don’t suggest keeping a huge stash in your home.

When you’ve settled on an amount you should think about secret hiding places to stash the cash. We’ve all seen those spy movies where the guy removes the tile from the back splash behind his stove and pulls out a cache of bills, passports and ammo. Well, the following ideas may not be worthy of James Bond, but they will improve the chances of your money surviving a break in.

Seven Secret Hiding Places for Your Cash

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Don’t Become a Victim of Check Washing Fraud

The criminal uses Acetone to wash out the dye-based pen writing. They soak the check in the acetone and the acetone dissolves the ink. They soak the check everywhere except the signature area, which is held out of the soaking solution. The acetone removes the ink and evaporates without leaving a trace.

The criminal then fills out the check for whatever amount, dates it, and cashes it. The check has your actual signature.

How can you stop this from happening? Easy! All you need to do is use a Gel-based pen, such as a Uni-Ball 207 Gel Pen. This ink cannot be washed out, therefore foiling the criminals.

Watch this video to see a demonstration of check washing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwUTvIyRvdk

PERSONAL FINANCE – CREDIT CARDS

Hidden Perks Of Credit Cards

Dominate your credit cards. Here are several little-known perks available to anyone — but you have to ask.

Extended care warranties, car rental insurance, trip cancellation protection—you know they’re just margin boosters for companies, but you can’t shake that vulnerable feeling. Personal finance author Ramit Sethi interviewed on CNBC’s On The Money says you need only look in your wallet.

Watch the Video (2:20)

Ramit Sethi is the author of the New York Times bestseller I Will Teach You To Be Rich. His blog by the same name is at this link: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/. You can sign up for his newsletter and get a free chapter of his book at his website.

PERSONAL FINANCE

Things You Can Do To Survive In This Economy

One of the problems facing people today is the need to make more money. People need to make some extra money. But in the state of the economy today, a lot of businesses are cutting costs rather than increasing production, so a person is more likely to earn less money than make more money.

What can you do? One way is to take advantage of one of the 1,000s network-marketing opportunities available today.

Here is a list of 46 companies described on Wikipedia pages that use multi-level marketing, also known as “network marketing”, for most of their sales.

The Wikipedia List

This website: “Npros.com” – describes itself as the premier resource for work at home, home based business, MLM, network marketing and direct sales company information. The website lists over 1,000 network, marketing opportunities. It also has a lot of other resources and articles.

Npros.com Home

Npros.com Business Directory

PERSONAL FINANCE – BANKING

Banks’ ‘Courtesy’ Loans At Soaring Rates Irk Consumers

By Kathy Chu, USA TODAY | July 9, 2009

Even as regulators crack down on abusive mortgage and credit card practices, another type of lending threatens to mire consumers in a credit trap.

It’s called “courtesy overdraft” and has long been used by banks to automatically pay transactions that account holders don’t have the money to cover–and then charge them a steep fee. For years, banks have made it easier for customers to overdraw their checking accounts, aided by a cottage industry of consultants who make big money by helping to wring fees out of consumers, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

But what began as a customer service has often become an important revenue driver for banks at the expense of the most vulnerable consumers, according to bank memos reviewed by USA TODAY and interviews with industry insiders.

“This practice has gone awry and needs to be fixed,” says Alex Sheshunoff, a key consultant who once advised banks to pay, not return, overdrawn transactions. “This is something everyone should be trying to find a solution to, not fighting.”

Read the USA Today article

MONEY

The Case for Doing Nothing

The only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination

By Jeffrey A. Miron | August/September 2009 Edition of Reason magazine

The first thing to note about the financial crisis is that the federal government never had any business intervening in the personal decision of whether you want to own a home. There is no rational economic argument, or any argument I know of, that says the market of buying and selling homes is imperfect in some way, requiring government action. Construction firms have plenty of incentive to build homes and sell them. People who have the wherewithal have plenty of incentive to buy homes if they so choose. For the government to intrude into homeownership was an off-budget, nontransparent, backdoor attempt at redistributing income. And when the policy became a way of transferring income to people who couldn’t afford those homes, it was doomed to failure.

This provision of risky debt to low-income homeowners was exacerbated by a second misguided federal policy: the longstanding practice of bailing out private risk taking. Although this has gone on for decades in the U.S. and other countries, the Federal Reserve played a special role during the tenure of former chief Alan Greenspan. The Fed’s implicit and almost explicit policy before the housing crash was to say to the financial markets: “Don’t worry about the fact that there’s a bubble. We’ll lower interest rates and keep them low enough to prevent a collapse in asset prices.” This logic, broadly applied, was commonly called the Greenspan Put. The Federal Reserve was basically selling the market an option for getting out comparatively unscathed when things turned bad. The result has been a widely held assumption that market actors would not have to bear the full losses from their own risky behavior.

When people try to pin the blame for the financial crisis on the introduction of derivatives, or the increase in securitization, or the failure of ratings agencies, it’s important to remember that the magnitude of both boom and bust was increased exponentially because of the notion in the back of everyone’s mind that if things went badly, the government would bail us out. And in fact, that is what the federal government has done. But before critiquing this series of interventions, perhaps we should ask what the alternative was. Lots of people talk as if there was no option other than bailing out financial institutions. But you always have a choice. You may not like the other choices, but you always have a choice. We could have, for example, done nothing.

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Jeffrey Miron ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies at the Harvard University Department of Economics and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

TRAVEL | PHOTOGRAPHY

5 Amazing Holes

These holes are not only amazing, but some are really terrifying; the sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny you are.

Pictures of the 5 Amazing Holes

HEALTH

Walking For Fitness

By Kimberly Wesley, examiner.com | July 7, 2009

Walking is one of the most popular and the easiest fitness programs to start. It is low risk, inexpensive, easy to adhere to and has proved its health benefits in numerous studies. A study found that those who walked the equivalent of 30 minutes a day had a significantly lower risk of premature death than those who rarely exercised.

A regular walking program can help:

§   Reduce blood cholesterol

§   Lower blood pressure

§   Increase cardiovascular endurance

§   Boost bone strength

§   Burn calories and keep weight down

A walking program is simple to start. All that is needed are comfortable clothes and shoes. Shoes specifically designed for walking are the best option. Be sure to warm up for five to seven minutes with a few dynamic stretches and begin to walk at a slower pace at first. Walk around the house or in place for a few minutes to get the blood flowing to the muscles before attempting to stretch them.

Read the article

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Swearing ‘Helps To Reduce Pain’

BBC News |Monday, July 13, 2009

Uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy, according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain. A study by Keele University researchers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers.

They believe swearing helps us downplay being hurt in favor of a more pain-tolerant machismo.

The work by Dr Richard Stephens’ team appears in the journal NeuroReport.

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Not All Sunglasses Are Created Equal

Pick shades with UV protection, and wear them a lot, optometrists urge

By Robert Preidt, vitacost.com | July 14, 2009

(HealthDay News)–Price and style–not protection from the sun’s harmful rays–are most people’s main considerations when buying sunglasses, a new survey has found. But that’s not a good thing, health-wise, says the American Optometric Association, which conducted the survey.

“Overexposure to UV [ultraviolet] rays has been linked to a variety of problems, including age-related cataracts and degeneration of the cornea,” Dr. Gregory W. Good, an optometrist and association spokesman, said in a news release from the group.

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FREEDOM MESSAGE:

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

—John Adams (1735-1826) U.S. Founding Father, 2nd US President

Life is a gift; Freedom is a responsibility!

A Wise And Frugal Government

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.”

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliance with none.”

—Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address.

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.”

—John Galt’s Speech, Atlas Shrugged

“Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ...

the right to believe what one chooses,

the right to differ from his neighbor,

the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best,

the right to associate with whomever he chooses,

the right to join groups he prefers ...”

—William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Source: 1958

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COMPUTERS AND INTERNET

30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac

From usingmac.com | July 08, 2009

It’s not an easy task to maintain our Mac system clean, healthy, and appealing with just relying on built-in applications. You could end up scratching your head just to delete some unnecessary binary files to clean your disk.

Therefore, the people at usingmac.com decided to make a good compilation of free system tools for Mac. Everything from system cleaner to system tweaker, from data organizer to system display manager, are collected in this article.

mac-free-system-tools here

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12 Incredibly Useful Lil’ Utilities for Your Mac

By Milind Alvares, smokingapples.com | Monday June 29, 2009

We come across a lot of apps in our trials for finding new goodies, but many of them are too limited in function to write a whole post about. We usually tweet them @smokingapples, but for those of you who despise twitter, and for the sake of posterity, here’s a collection of must-have apps (depending on your tasks) you can use with your Mac.

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TOYS, GEAR & STUFF:

Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day

By Jason Fitzpatrick, lifehacker.com | Tue July 14, 2009

Deeply discounted monitors, cheap computers, and even a compact media server are all on the menu today. Don't want to spend any cash? You can get a free MP3 and a subscription to Oprah's magazine.

Need a cheap computer or other gear? Check out this list

COOL LINKS:

View From Above - The Earth from Space, courtesy of NASA

NASA has a fantastic collection of earth images. At the end of April 2009, NASA’s Earth Observatory celebrated it’s tenth anniversary of using images and information from NASA’s satellites to help explain the science of the earth, or simply to show us a new view of our everyday surroundings. Earth Observatory also has a great blog where they display Images of the Day and tell the stories behind them. As part of the tenth anniversary celebration, Earth Observatory has also focused on Global Change, published hundreds of photos spanning the past ten years to illustrate how the earth has changed over the past decade. The photos below are a collection of favorites, each taken from the daily images of the day email. Follow the links to see even higher resolution images on the Earth Observatory site.

Photos From Above

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Time Lapse Construction of a F/A-18F Super Hornet

YouTube Video (3:39)

Constructing a Super Hornet

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Awesome Aerial Photographs

By Jerry Ting

http://useloos.com/gallery/?itemid=7422

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