I’d heard of the free application WineBottler, but never got around to taking a look at it. Over at appstorm.net, Joshua Johnson has a fast explanation/tutorial on how to use WineBottler to run single Windows applications on your Mac (Internet Explorer would come to to mind if you are a web developer) without having to install Parallels or Bootcamp, etc. It can be sluggish but using it looks a lot more straightforward than I would have thought.

MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X’s file handling capabilities. It’s basically an interface that lets the OS see almost anything as a filesystem, and it has a lot of potential uses. The variety is such that I thought a post on how to use Macfuse by way of some existing examples would have some value. On a related note, Digital Media Minute did a post on MacFusion for MacFUSE a while back that you might find interesting.

**Amit Singh’s was the initial developer of MacFUSE. Here’s a 12 minute video of his Macworld 2007 talk “Taming Mac OS X File Systems”, on some of the things you can do with it.

**Go check out iTunesFS, by mulle-kybernetik.com, a way to make your iTunes™ playlists available as folders in Finder, which some people might find useful…

**Mbleigh.com has a how-to on how he used MacFUSE & sshfs to mount a torrent dropbox to save torrents right to his dropbox, without having to SCP them manually over to Apple TV.

**If you have both a PC and Mac you might be interested in a guide over at Ehow on using MacFuse to share an external drive between both of them. (Mac OS X 10.5)

**Macosxhints.com has a quick tutorial on using MacFuse to read and write to NTFS volumes, for OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

**Wonderhowto has a video on using MacFuse to browse an SSH server through the Mac File System.

Adium, my favorite IM client on the Mac has just gone gold with version 1.0. This update features over 600 new features/bug fixes. Most notable though is the great new look and better contact status notifications.

ISP on a Mac is a great series of articles that will show you how to compile all the software required to turn your Mac into a full fledged web host. Instructions are easy to follow and cover installing Apache 2, PHP 5.x, MySQL 5, Postfix for mail and spam filtering. What make this series great is you learn how to compile your servers and how to specify many different features and configuration options.

The Notbook Review has a very thourough review of both Boot Camp or Parallels. The article will surely give you enough information to determing which way is the best way for you to run Windows on an Intel Apple.

From my perspective, I removed BootCamp from my MacBook Pro about a month ago. Parallels is a very impressive piece of virtualizaion software.

Do you have an older model Mac and want to check out the new Front Row media application? You’re In Luck! A torrent can be found that will help you check out this new offering from Apple.

Here is a good hack article… Building a $200 OSx86 Mac shows in great detail how to build a very cheap “Mac”! Never thought I would ever write that, but it appears to be true!