MyTube: A YouTube dashboard widget for the Mac

YouTube makes a first class appearance in Dashboard, and it looks better than ever. MyTube puts all of YouTube’s video content at your fingertips in an elegantly small yet surprisingly powerful widget. Browse all of YouTube’s features, recents, favorites, top rated, most viewed, most discussed, and most linked videos. Filter by date, by category, and by language, and search by subject or by channel. View your favorites, playlists, subscriptions, and even your own video collection – it’s all here.

Also, export videos from YouTube to iPod, and view in different sized windows – even from the Dashboard.

Download then unload…

In a surprising combination of product features, Atech Flash Technology is selling its iCarta product.  The picture paints a thousand words…

List of best Linux blogs

Long list of Linux forums.

It’s legitimate to “sleep-work”

Finally, the scientists have confirmed what I have known for a long time:  it’s good for you to have a sleep at work.  Clearly not whilst operating a bacon slicer or driving a truck, but at a convenient “finger-space” within the work day.  We are, by evolution, creatures of habit; and one of those habits is catching some Z’s when the body-battery needs topping up.  This article from the Boston Globe describes the principles of tactical napping to improve your well-being.