Apple is recalling and exchanging batteries in many of the Mac Book Pro’s that were sold between February and May. To find out if your battery is on the list (like mine was) you can visit Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program page.

Mozy Remote Backup give you 2GB of free online and secure backup. When you sign up for the service, you then download a client that automatically backups folder you specify. There is currently only a Windows client, but Mozy promises a Mac client is on the way. What happens when you exceed 2GB? Well you can upgrade your account to a paid account that gives you a whopping 30GB of storage for only $4.95 per month!

UPDATE: The service is advertised as free, but they do send you a weekly email with links to relevant sponsors.

Microsoft has just made the MSDN Library a free download! If you do any Windows development, MSDN library is a very useful tool to have. But wait - you say the MSDN library is already available online? Yes it is, but the search isn’t always very useful, and the web based UI is cumbersome and doesn’t always load properly. This version that is available for download is a native Windows interface and is quicker and better than it’s web counterpart.

Justin Palmer has created a wonderful JavaScript snippet named CSS event:Selectors that allows you to allow you access to Javascript events using a CSS style syntax. Here is a quick example:

 var Rules = {
   '#icons a:mouseover': function(element) {
     element.style.display = "none";
   },

   '#icons a:mouseout': function(element) {
     element.style.display = "block";
   }
 }

Pretty sweet!

The Ajaxian blog has a great online tutorial on using the Dojo Toolkit. In the lesson you will learn all about that Dojo thing, setting up Dojo, DOM and HTML effects, AJAX remote calls via dojo.io.bind(), and drag and drop operations.

Are you color challenged? If you’re wife puts out your clothes for you in the morning, you might want to check out Palette Grabber. It’s a simple extension that will convert the color palette of any web page into a palette file that you can import into Photoshop!

Robots.txt Generator is a handy tool that uses a web form to generate a Robots.txt file for your website. There are lots of options that make the file generation a snap! For those of you wondering, Robots.txt is a very simple text file that is placed on your root directory and tells search engines and other robots which parts of your site they are allowed to visit and index.

Garrett Dimon suggests that The Time is Now for Front-End Architects. In his post he discusses the skills that a front-end architect requires and some of the pitfalls to watch for when designing front-end for our web applications.

Aptana is an Eclipse based web IDE that offers support for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code hinting and completion. Even better, the code hinting and completion can be customized and extended for your own JavaScript libraries. There are already plugins for some of the more popular JS frameworks like Prototype, Dojo, MochiKit and YUI!

If you build cool hardware the community will build cool software. Apple and their community of developers are proving this with this Backlit Keyboard CPU Load Monitor. The MacBook Pro keyboard has the ability to glow in low light. This is a fantastic feature that helps you see the keys when you are in a dark room (I know, by now I should know where all the keys are). This little utility changes this behaviour by adjusting the brightness of the keyboard backlight to reflect the amount of CPU usage!

[Link via Eric D]