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Due to a DMCA notice served on our webhost by Apple, we have removed the Leopard screenshots. We apologize for the inconvenience. While you are here though, please feel free to take a look around at some of the other great articles, tips and stories we have to offer.

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Cross posted from our sister site, Techpedia, here’s a look at one of the cooler apps for the Mac, Lilt:

An excellent new app called ‘Lilt’ is out from Jon Nathan, the maker of such Mac gems as Docktop and Preferential Treatment.

Lilt allows you to control your Mac using the ambient light and sudden motion sensors on 2004+ iBooks/Powerbooks/Macbooks. By assigning actions to specific criteria (example: if the left light sensor goes darker by 25%, switch to the previous iTunes track), you can do almost anything using your hands. (Which, in retrospect, is a little creepy…)

Jon has thoughtfully included several Applescripts in the downloadable image, and just as an fyi, you can also use the actions to launch applications or perform such actions as locking the screen or starting your screensaver.

FUSE is now available for OS X! What does this mean to you? How about read/write to NTFS (whoohoo!), SSH FS, Picasa FS and more?

Boot Camp just got a little more attractive, eh?

Download and read more about Fuse here:
macfuse on Google Code

And if all the compilation instructions there seem tough, you can grab a pre-compiled installer here: …

Allume, makers of Stuffit, AquaZone and Spring Cleaning, have a special running for Macworld: up to 40% off, meaning you can get these apps for a substantial savings. Time to stock up!
Stuffit 11 Deluxe for Mac - Normal: $79 / Sale: $49
FAXstf Pro - Normal: $49.99 / Sale: $20
AquaZone Deluxe - Normal: $25 / Sale: $20…

Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Release Candidate:

# NEW! USB 2.0 support - “Plug and play” popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, scanners and USB 2.0 web cameras, and use them at full native speed.
* NOTE! Current Build 3120 doesn’t support iSight and some other web cameras
# NEW! Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive - …

It’s a new year folks, and it’s time to clean up those hard drives and develop some good habits.
In this article, we’re going to organize those millions of files and folders cluttering your poor little Mac and make it happy by using password protected disk images to archive and backup your junk!

Everyone from the newest Mac user to the grizzled veteran has run across a Macintosh Disk Image (DMG). The Disk Image, originated as a method of distributing multiple files in a secure and/or compressed format, has become the primary means of archiving installers for new software.

However, the DMG format has other uses, one of which we discuss in this article. By using the OS X included application ‘Disk Utility’ (/Applications/Utilities), you can easily accomplish the following tasks:

Put any number of files into a single file
Password protect that file
Compress it to save space

Some good reasons for doing this include:

Making system backups easier (instead of copying over 20,000 files, you only have one!)
Making your file system easier to navigate and manage
Securing private or sensitive documents

In this article, we’re going to do a little of each. We’re going to archive files collected into a folder into a password protected and compressed disk archive. By doing so, we can then have a nice, neat Documents folder that is easy to copy over to a DVD or backup drive, while still having instant access to our archived files.

Let’s begin! (As you progress through the tutorial, you can click any of the thumbnailed images to be shown a larger image.)