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A slick and attractive lightweight laptop case with a lot of functional versatility, and an amazing number of cool and practical features

podguard today introduced a world-first, high-tech invisible film to protect the iPod against scratches, marks and fingerprints.

Application designed to keep your Mac running smoothly

iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility for scheduled backups of files, folders, applications and your system preferences like the dock, deskop picture, time settings, firewall, bluetooth and system applications like AddressBook, Mail, Stickies, iChat, iTunes and more. You can edit these preferences settings and add your own.

This is a Christmas Calendar Widget. It contains 24 Windows jokes - one behind every door - until Christmas Eve! In other words: 24 Reasons why you are glad you’ve got a Mac!

TheUselessWiki has a tutorial on how to make an ipod case out of Duct Tape

iKey is an automation utility, a program that creates shortcuts to accomplish repetitive tasks. In essence, an iKey shortcut is a little program in its own right, but you don't need to know the first thing about programming to create an iKey shortcut. You can read my review of iKey 2 here.

DeskBrowse is the new innovative web-browser from SGS Software. It utilizes the very latest in web technologies and presents the information you want quickly and in a clutter-less and handy environment.

Video2Pod makes for comfortable converting of your movies to the new iPod with video functionality