Freeloader Friday Download of the Week

Apr 27 2009

Tiger Tracking and Backup Updated

This week we’ve got an odd assortment of old and new. Including a new version of an old favorite.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3 beta

CCC is the best free comprehensive backup solution out there. This utility creates bootable backups and includes invisible files.

CarbonCopyCloner3 Tiger Tracking and Backup Updated

In this new Tiger-only beta you can back up across a network and specify what gets backed up on a folder-by-folder basis.

DoIt

DoIt is an ultra-streamlined task manager. Use it to manage multiple task lists in a slick interface.

DoIt Tiger Tracking and Backup Updated

Apply deadlines and attach files to tasks in this unobtrusive free app.

Slife

This is a very meta application. It analyzes the time you spend using applications on your Mac.

Slife Tiger Tracking and Backup Updated

You can browse a history of the webpages you visited, documents you viewed or mail messages you looked at. Take it a step further and share your Slife with an Slife account.

Plot

Data processing hasn’t been a traditional strong point of Macs, but with Plot you can chart impressive graphs (and save them as graphics or PDFs). Its a perfect, free compliment to last episode’s BG Spreadsheet.

More great Mac freeware. What more could you need?

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Save Gas and Work from Home, Part 2 the Mac Shop

In Part 1 we downloaded a suite of free apps to plug in remotely to a Microsoft run environment. Now that we’ve moved to the all-Mac workplace I think you’ll find the Mac has a lot of remote already there. OS X is a server at heart, and remote access is where its roots are.

Connect

Corporate networks span the globe thanks to proprietary VPN’s. However, the Open Source folks are never far behind. The OpenVPN protocol bridges networks securely. To set one up on a Mac, you’ll want to grab Viscosity (Leopard) or TunnelBlick (Tiger). These two client/server applications (and some elbow grease) will connect your home network with your work network, allowing services like file and printer sharing and Bonjour to connect Macs.

tunnelblick Save Gas and Work from Home, Part 2 the Mac Shop

If a few ports is all you need to connect, check out SSH. Free config tools like iSSH and Secure Shell Helper to ease the setup.

Seeing is Believing

coccinella Save Gas and Work from Home, Part 2 the Mac Shop

Coccinella is a free, Jabber-based IM solution that includes a shared whiteboard. Its cross-platform, so you can even share visuals with Windows losers, er, clients.

jollyfastvnc Save Gas and Work from Home, Part 2 the Mac Shop

VNC is a tried-and-true remote desktop solution. OS X uses VNC for Back-to-my-Mac and you’ll find a VNC server already installed with OS X. JollyFastVNC is a fast, Bonjour-aware, configurable VNC client that connects you quickly with a remote Mac. Use it together with one of the VPN or SSH solutions above for secure remote access to your Mac desktop and applications.

It didn’t take a gas crunch to get your Mac ready for remote access. Check out this week’s picks and leverage the power of your Mac – remotely.

Brian

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