The Easy Way Out
OS X Power_User_Monday_Tip_of_the_Week
If you're tired of the same old terminal commands, you may want to try this: Cocktail
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Show Desktop
I've spent hours looking. I've spent hours looking for this feature inside OS X. Turns out you need an app: Show Desktop - the 'Minimize All' for the Mac Generation. (via the Godlike Alf Eaton) [Forwarding Address: OS X] 
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A Great Mac Utility
Tip of my hat to Howard Rheingold for telling me about a must-have utility that I didn't know about: Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Use a Linux box as an iTunes music server
Mac OS X Hints has a nice tip on running an iTunes music server on Linux. This isn't just sharing the files via Samba or NFS, it's to enable the music to show up as a shared library in iTunes just like if you were sharing music from another Mac.... [Artima MacOS Buzz] 
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Stupid AppleScript Games
a collection of thirteen games written in, you guessed it, AppleScript. Classic and Mac OS X versions are available. The X version was updated to version 1.6, while the Classic version remains at 1.5.1. The games included are Blackjack, Crazy Eights, Echo, Eight Ball, Find the Cheese, Fourmation, Guess the Number!, Hangman, Matcher, Pico-Fermi-Bagels, Poker, Rock Paper AppleScript, Scrambler, Tic-Tac-Toe, and War. (Download) [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Xtar - a free backup utility
via MacCentral: HELIOS Xtar for Mac OS X is a free utility that can be used to clone a Mac OS X system disk for backing up and restoring disks, files and folders [Mac Net Journal] 
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