The Sitter Downers

Alternatives to bundled apps by Apple Songbird vs. iTunes; pathfinder vs. finder; Adium vs. iChat; Firefox vs. Safari; SMART Utility vs. Disk Utility for checking S.M.A.R.T. status (from MacBreak — Weekly 171); One non-Apple alternative: Diskring Disk Inventory X vs. Daisy Disk ($20) / my login-desktop transition trick used sam adams and oliva cigar, but need some good wallpaper images…harder to find than you think / Typical Mac User Podcast / Firewire 400-800 shared and 400 will cripple 800 device GeekTool and weatherscrape

USB Christmas (thinkgeek.com) / Mac Sword / Jesus and Taxes / Blogging vs. Tea Partying

Beer (by Samuel Adams) / Audacity / Aaron’s Fancy New Headset (by Gigaware) / Bandit Drop: Battleground God / Global Warming Conspiracy / Bernanke Reappointment (nobody cares) / Healthcare Reform (one fifth of the economy) / Extinction Level Event vs. Never Waste a Disaster / How Google Sees You (Google Dashboard, GnuPG, Cygwin) / DynDNS Updater / Google DNS /
Why Aaron Doesn’t Subscribe To Cable Television / Caffeine for Mac / Logos Bible Software 4 /
No Smoking Around Your Apple / Aaron’s Christmas Wish List (Things, Pixelmator, Path Finder, 1Password, iPhone app coasters, Dell Mini 10v)

Oprah Ends It All / “New Moon” (pic) / Socialized Medicine / Patch Medicine / Apple Software / Social Networking / Swamis / Useless Fact

Aaron resumes and Anthony joins in / Show Server Change / Geo Cities is Gone / Short History of The Sitter Downers / Domain Schemes / The Ten Commandments Tradition / The Voluntary Society / G20 Arrest (video) / Shiny New Mac Hardware / Windows 7 / Swamis / Useless Fact