TUAW Best of the Week

Welcome to 2007 and our first "Best of the Week" of the year. We here at TUAW know that you all have busy lives and sometimes you just don't get the time you'd like to sit down and read through every TUAW post that cro es your desktop. So here's our weekly round up of our favorite TUAW stories that might have sli ed by you this week as you recovered from the celebratio and began working on your new resolutio . Enjoy!

Beta Beat: Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta3 (Build 3106)
Parallels ste ed up to a new improved beta, with all sorts of great coherence stuff.

TUAW Resolutio : Organize your life and get things done
The secret is all about pla ing. And you can use Mac software like iCal to help you handle that.

Saving Quicktime Trailers from A le
There's more than one way to skin a cat. And more than one way to grab your trailers, without having to pony up for QuickTime Pro.

Yahoo Music Video Player beta now Mac friendly
You can even create playlists that run unattended. That is, if you don't mind all the commercials.

Costco uses Zune stand to hold iPods
A great visual and a good belly laugh.

Blast from the Past: The Story of the A le Clover Symbol
Check out some great names in the user comments for the A le Command key, not the least of which are "Pretzel" and "Squash".

The Year in Mac Development - Scott Steve on
Cool retro ective from the viewpoint of Cocoa Dev Central, including the MacHeist scandal and moving to Intel.

Sleep Your Mac by email
How to trigger A leScript commands by sending e-mail. Very cool stuff.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
It's all still free. Grab your goodies while the getting is good.

S3 Browser
An open source way to backup your data to Amazon's S3 server. It's cheap, it's secure, it's reliable and it is a great way to prevent agai t data lo .

A otation hel you get your ducks in sequence
Organize your digital media by using time-based a otation.

Why a Mac tablet from A le doe 't make se e
I'd personally love a Mac tablet, but David lays out a case as to why there's just not enough of a market for these to be made by A le.

xPad developer says macZOT and Brian Ball ri ed him off.
Laurie's coverage of the xPad scandal and its follow-up.