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This week's best posts include:

• Top 10 Network Utilities
  "Forget arcane command line tools. Today we've picked out 10 of our favorite, free, point and click software applications and webapps that help you make the most of the giant web of connected computers that is your network."
• Organize your digital photos with Picasa
  "What's a girl with literally thousands of pics to organize on her 'puter to do? Enter Google's free desktop software, Picasa, which is basically the Walker Texas Ranger of photo organization packages."
• Top 10 Apps That Should've Been in Leopard
  "Now that Apple's locked down the feature-complete version of the newest iteration of OS X, it's hard not to think about what could have been."
• Virtualize AND dual-boot the same Windows on your Mac
  "The problem with dual-booting Windows is the inconvenience of having to restart your Mac entirely. The problem with virtualizing Windows is that it can be unreasonably slow for a prolonged session. Now that Boot Camp and Parallels work together, you can choose."
• Get Safari's best features in Firefox
  "Here's a list of Safari's best features and the Firefox extensions that bring them to our favorite browser."
• Add scrolling iPhone-like contacts to your Windows Mobile phone
  "Get a good idea of how it works from the video, and after installing it on my phone I can say it works surprisingly well."
• Under-desk pegboard gadget mount redux
  "A while ago you mentioned using peg board to organize all your gadgets under your desk, so I went and bought some for my office."
• Expand Windows desktop with ShellEnhancer
  "ShellEnhancer offers several of visual enhancements like rolling up windows, making windows transparent, forcing windows to always stay on top, and forcing windows to keep focus."
• Keep tabs on where your money goes with Expensr
  "...a promising, stripped-down online alternative to wrestling with Quicken or Microsoft Money on your desktop."
• Give Windows an OS X-like dock with ObjectDock
  "With all the buzz surrounding Apple yesterday, this little application was too good to pass up."
• What's new in Leopard and how it will affect your life
  "Steve Jobs' 10-point Apple WWDC keynote highlighted the new and improved Finder, the desktop manager Spaces, the automatic back up utility Time Machine, some great collaboration tools built into iChat, among several other updates."
• Leopard Desktop heavy on eye candy, light on useful
  
  "Apple takes a page from Microsoft's playbook and touts Desktop as the lead feature in the new version of OS X, Leopard - and all told it amounts to a bunch of pretty graphics and some animation."
• Leopard to usher in much-needed Finder improvements
  "We've long been complaining about Finder's general stuck-in-the-mud suckiness as compared to the rest of OS X, and wishing it would act more like iTunes. Well, the Apple gods today are granting our wish."
• Safari 3 beta now available for Windows too
  "Steve Jobs said today that Safari is faster than Internet Explorer and Firefox..."

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