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My Tool List (Monday, October 26, 2009) - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add

Wrapping Arbitrary Executables in an .app in Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Wednesday, April 14, 2010) - Recently I've purchased a new Mac and went through the typical, long and involved process of installing all the software I wanted on it. One application in particular, Netbeans, gave me some trouble. The installer simply refused to work. No matter, I figured. I'll just grab the universal version (it's written in Java after all). Sure enough it ran just fine. One