Here's what I looked at last week: Google Docs Offline Access, coconutBattery, OpenDNS vs. T-Mobile Hotspots, and Adobe Media Player.

I started wondering how well my MacBook's battery was holding up after two years of use. After using coconutBattery to find that answer, I began wondering about other freeware and Open Source utilities to learn about temperature, motion, and UPS levels in a Mac. Here's what I found...

You don't have to spend a lot of money to build a useful Mac software library. Here's a list of some of my favorite freeware and Open Source software for the Mac.

Crucial Mac RAM Scanner, Google Presentations saves to PowerPoint files, Valleywag condenses Time magazine's top 25 blogs (and makes it easier for us to quickly click to see for ourselves).

Want to try the Evernote beta release yourself? Click on the link for O'Reilly readers and get a beta invitation. The limit is 200 invitations. So, get 'em while they're hot!

CBS's Numb3rs pays homage to the PC vs. Mac commercials in this promo for the show.

Evernote blurs the line between client-side software and web service. It makes mulit-media note taking simple and lets you access your notes anywhere and anytime. You are no longer tied to a specific Mac with a single-user license. It frees you and your data to be productive no matter where you are and what you are using (including a phone).

Here's what I looked at last week: The Microsoft Mac Remote Desktop Client beta hasn't really expired, received my Arduino Diecimila microcontroller, Google Apps Email Uploader: Import Messages and Contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird, and Google Docs Offline with Google Gears?

The HD videos of the Sanctuary webisodes I bought aren't playable on my iPod touch. I have a 5 hour flight to a conference coming up and wanted to watch those videos on my iPod. Fortunately, I remembered reading about the freeware iSquint video converter a while back. Here's what it did for me...

Here's the F/FOSS-Web Stuff I looked at last week: iSquint 1.5.2 video file converter, Adobe PhotoShop Express, Tasko Web Outline and Task Manager (thumbs up for all of them).