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Plex Media Center for OS X

Plex Media Center for OS X

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The Great Mac OS X Freeware List | MacApper

The list is sorted alphabetically by category and currently has 57 freeware mac apps.

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macosxhints.com - 10.4: Completely disable Spotlight

As the previous poster said, first modify /etc/hostconfig to read:
SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
Then to get rid of the existing index, run these two commands from Terminal:
mdutil -i off /
mdutil -E /
The first command disables indexing on the boot volume, and the second erases the existing template. You can then use Activity Monitor to kill any mds or mdimport processes or else just reboot. Futzing with permissions will probably break OS updates that try to update files in the zeroed-out directories and of course won’t survive a repair-permissions run.
If you later change your mind and decide you want Spotlight after all, it’s easy to reactivate. Set

SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
in /etc/hostconfig, run in Terminal:
mdutil -i on /
and reboot.

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Martin’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Power Mac G4 reloaded

I recently had the chance to obtain a sorted out Powermac G4 Gigabit Ethernet including a Mac OS X Tiger license for free from an Advertising Agency. It is nearly seven years old Steve Jobs: “Four Gigaflops The new G4 is screaming fast”–>yeah, alright… but this baby can still do a lot more than any MyBook Pro Disk and Buffalo TeraStation combined.

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Tracks

Excellent technical decks on architecture and best practices in engineering winning web sites

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The Cheap Revolution: Top 12 Books for Entrepreneurs
Sean comments on the cheap revolution blog with some good books to read

This is a good list for the concept stage, I would add “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen and “Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank for your concept stage list. For a marketing focused list I would point to an article that Mark Duncan (http://www.askmar.com/) and I collaborated on “Crucial Marketing Concepts” that’s available in a short and long form here:
http://www.skmurphy.com/resources/emerging-product-introduction/
the long form also includes book reviews for a dozen good books on new product introduction.

There is also a good list of business books at
http://personalmba.com/recommended-business-books/
that you might want to think about for your Launch Stage section.

I would also second the movies “Startup.Com” and Tucker from Peter Ireland’s list (but none of the others) and add the “Triumph of the Nerds” documentary by Robert Cringely on PBS.

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