How to setup your own video streaming on your network using VLC (more useful than it sounds 
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If you’ve got a whole bunch of movies on one machine, which you’d like to watch on another, then you’ve got 2 options. If the movies play in iTunes, then you can share them that way quite quickly & easily. If they don’t (i.e. they are DivX or whatever, or you’re not using iTunes/Mac), but they do play in VLC, then you can use VLC to stream them from the host computer to the computer where you want to watch them. This how-to from MacDevCenter is aimed at transmitting a live HDTV stream from one machine to another, but it works with anything VLC can open.
stream-live-hdtv-from-your-mac (MacDevCenter)
This is better than sharing the network drive and opening the files that way, since there is a *lot* less overhead - i.e. a more stable video stream. Using the HTTP remote control, you can control the video stream arriving at your viewing machine.
Flying Google maps - a little ‘game’ which allows you to fly around Google Maps
http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html
Extra Big Desktops
More desktop space is the best productivity boost you can have - being able to have multiple windows open without having them overlap makes life a lot easier. Matrox have (and are releasing a new DVI enabled) box, which presents a single large screen to the OS, and deals with the splitting itself. It looks like a really neat piece of kit.. I could run 2 * 1920×1200 screens from a single MBP… There are dual head, and triple head options..
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/support/th2go/compatibility.php#mac
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Speedy, I use VirtueDesktops on my MBP. Emulates having 4 monitors on my computer and saves a lot of time… making life quite easy. Mail on one, browser on another, code on another and everything else on the last. Oh, and the tranisitions are pretty too… Ooooh and it’s freee - always good!
I have to admit - I did use Virtue and whatever was the PPC version before Virtue came along (which didn’t work very well/at all with intel), but, since I’ve started using Quicksilver, I’ve kind of stopped using Virtue.. perhaps I should start again :s
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