TUAW Best of the Week

Time keeps on slipping (slipping, slipping) into the future. If you didn't get a chance to spend enough quality time here at TUAW during the week, you might have missed a few great posts here or there. So, to make it easier for you, catch up with our favorite posts of the week.

DocumentWallet & ReceiptWallet: PDF Managers
If you've got a scanner or just work with PDFs on a regular basis, you may be able to use a PDF library manager to step up your work. Mat looks at two recent offerings.

iPhone to cost only $300-400 with contract?
The iPhone may not be as financially out-of-reach as you first feared.

Estimating a Mac's lifespan
Should you buy it or wait? Dave tracked down a tool to help you decide if you're buying a tool for the future or an anchor that's about to get replaced by a newer model.

Flickr Find: Toddler+PowerBook+Sharpie+Rubbing Alcohol = No problem
Our favorite picture of the week. What happens when you leave small children unattended near expensive equipment.

Jobs Blasts Teachers Unions
Are good principals crippled by their inability to fire bad teachers? Join the controversy-du-jour. Our most talked-about post of the week.

Beta Beat: Joost 0.8 for Mac
From the people who brought you Skype, the Joost streaming video player hits Mac beta.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 now available
Adobe's competitor to Aperture ships.

Macrovision responds to Steve
DRM? No DRM? We'll happily steal your DRM? The debate rages on.

Apple TV startup movie
Get your hot fresh sneak peak at how AppleTV will start up.

Access Streaming Music in Front Row
A great trick for playing Internet Radio by using playlists.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0 Beta – Newly Built and Universal
A great backup tool, now universal.

iTunes and Gracenote help expose classical plagiarism
Mike reveals the story behind this amazing music heist.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free. Grab 'em while you can.

Stream Live HDTV with VLC
Mat points out Erica's latetst how-to.

Ask TUAW: Editing PDFs, Selecting Text, Medical Terms and More
Lots of great information answering reader questions.

No Visual Basic in Office 2008? No thanks.
Dave explains why a little something called "cross-platform support" should have occurred to the great minds at Microsoft.

Apple and Cisco Settle over iPhone
It's over. Finally.

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