File List is another Mac app that I couldn’t live without. When I put together music and sound effects collections I receive huge amounts of data from composers all of the world. They send their files with all kinds of bizarre naming conventions and I used to go through file by file and change every single title by hand.
It finally got so out of hand that I did a quick search and found File List (Name Mangler now?) and have been using almost everyday since I downloaded it.
File List batch renames files on your Mac according to criteria you set up. Rename files using sequential numbers, prefixes, or suffixes, or change to upper or lower case. File List supports advanced file naming specs that let you use conditional statements too.
You can download it here
http://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/
and start renaming files.

This tip I got from the book Upgrade Your Life really helped me out on a recent trip to Mallorca. I took my beat up old macbook just to minimally keep up with customers questions and orders while visiting the Spanish island for 9 days.

Just before we left for the airport I was rebooting and my Macbook completely crashed and needed its system reinstalled. I took the install discs with me and when we got to our chateau on the coastal mountainside I reinstalled OS X and then was left with nothing but the default installed software.

I remembered that I had just signed up for and synched with Xmarks just before I left and gave it a go with a new download of Firefox on my laptop. It worked beautifully and my laptop had everything I needed to get to all my bookmarks and also remembered passwords which would have taken me forever to figure out.
Needless to say I’m a total Xmarks fan now.
http://www.xmarks.com/

(this is good for PCs as well of course)

Street Fight Simulator: Punch ‘n’ Stab New Sound Effect iPhone App
Sound design your fake street fights with Punch ‘n’ Stab Have fun with your friends and frighten complete strangers with these powerful sounding punches and super-gory sounding knife wounds. The sounds are triggered by throwing ‘air punches’ and ‘air stabs’. Simply hold your iPhone sideways with the screen up and thrust forward to trigger the power punch sound effect. Then hold your iPhone forward, like a knife, with the screen up and thrust forward to hear the steal-y slash of metal connecting with a gory flesh wound. The punch and stab sounds alone are pretty cool but what is a good street fight without some great action music? The Punch ‘n’ Stab app also comes with a music soundtrack menu to choose from a list of real action movie soundtracks. You get: ’70’s Cop Show’ for that Starsky and Hutch type TV drama ‘Mission Incredible’ for that super-spy action movie vibe ‘Heavy Rock Action’ soundtrack for all you metal-heads out there. We’ll be adding more functionality and music choices in future upgrades.

GUNS! new sound effect iphone app GUNS! is a collection of 24 different gun sounds including shotguns, machine guns, pistols and rifles from Partners In Rhyme and Lynne Publishing. The sounds are available via buttons on four separate panels and includes loading and racking weapon sounds giving you the ability to play a variety of sounds at the same time without having to scroll through a long list just to change sounds. Info about each gun is available by pressing on the name of the gun in the button. These sounds were professionally recorded and are being made available from the Partners In Rhyme sound effects catalog (http://www.sound-effect.com/). The sounds available in the Guns Sounds application are listed below. Machine Guns Thompson Machine Gun AK 47 Heckler and Koch MP540 Uzi MP40 Insert Magazine Shotguns Remington 870 1 Remington 870 2 Mossburg 500 Load Round Rack & Load fast Rack & Load slow Rifles Remington 7mm Howa Model 1500 Winchester 30-30 Marlin 30-30 Rifle Bolt Action Load Round Pistols Liberty 22 Target Pistol Rhuger Magnum 44 Smith & Wesson P99 Remington GP 38 Revolver Dry Fire Revolver Chamber Opened