Since I commute to school every day, and my home iMac is by far my most powerful computer, I’ve been looking into ways to connect securely to my home network from anywhere. After several hours spent reading about how to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH, I stumbled across an awesome utility called Sharetool.

Sure, I could configure my network using my (more…)

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I’ve been doing this for a couple years, but if you haven’t heard of MacHeist, you should definitely sign up and start checking it out. Here’s the link: MacHeist Signup!

Basically how it works is you sign up (which, did I mention, is free), then you get to do some sick online missions that lead to registration info for free copies of premium Mac software. Last year, I finished about 2/3rd’s of the missions, and I got over $150 worth of free software! Plus, at the end, you have the option to buy the yearly software bundle, which is a $400+ value for around $50.

Overall, one of the coolest (if not the coolest) ways to get mac software for free online.

PS. Check my twitter (http://twitter.com/thinklime which should also be in my lifestream) if you want the coordinates for the first copy of free software (Daisy Disk, a sick hard drive space management tool).

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