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 crosses your desktop. So here's our weekly round up of our favorite TUAW stories that might have slipped by you this week as you recovered from the celebrations and began working on your new resolutions. Enjoy!

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

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

Saving Quicktime Trailers from Apple
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 Apple Clover Symbol
Check out some great names in the user comments for the Apple Command key, not the least of which are "Pretzel" and "Squash".

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

Sleep Your Mac by email
How to trigger AppleScript 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 against data loss.

Annotation helps you get your ducks in sequence
Organize your digital media by using time-based annotation.

Why a Mac tablet from Apple doesn't make sense
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 Apple.

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