Get Windows for Free for a year
For those of you that want to play around with Windows for some reason, you can. Microsoft is providing its Windows 7 Release Candidate as a free download! The coolest part is that the RC should run for about a year before expiring. So if your running OS X and maybe need to run Windows in a VM, you can get it for free for a year and not feel horrible for purchasing a copy of XP or even worse, Vista.
I recommend running the 32-bit version in a VM as it is a little less resource hungry. Get it while you can… The free download will end in June.
Online document editors
If you’ve been living under a tree, without wifi, not on the twitters or without a netbook for the last few years you may not have known or heard of google docs. It’s nice and gets the job done, but I’m not blown away by the user interface.
Today, I took a second look at Adobe’s offering, buzzword. Also, not super feature rich, but it has a nice UI and it gets the job done as well. Both services are free and provide ample storage for many documents. Both are in “beta” so watch for some form of service fee in the future.
Bottom line is, if you need to author a document and don’t need or want to pay for the insane cost of using all the features of Microsoft Word, one of these web services might be the answer.
Tune up your mac with these tips from LifeHacker
I’m a sucker for these kinds of helpful mac maintenance tips since I own a macbook pro and an apple fan boy.