Not more Open stuff...oH yes

Domain Name System: A system of servers located throughout the Internet that handle Internet connections and the routing of email.

Its the back bone of the internet , its what translates a number like 169.195.17.53 into a domain that begins www.

If your dns servers are slow as I find many ISPs are then Open DNS is the one for you.

Firstly its free, its easy to set up on your mac or mac system...

A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in some larger network (e.g., the Internet) instead of by physical wires.

You can link offices by it, or it could link you to your Grandma and help her fix her mac remotely

Some broadband routers have vpn built in but you can use software on your mac with a braodband connection to be safer and securer behind a firewall for instance Open VPN is....

Proof reading is a difficult business some people pay others to proof read their documents, save your money and get your mac to do it. Yes your Mac can talk to you; and you can harness this power to get your mac to read documents to you, essentially proof reading them.
To get past our own inbuilt desire to see a document the way we think it sounds rather than actually what we have written you get your Mac to read your document to you. I suggest using Alex the system voice as this is the most advanced...certainly in Leopard mac 10.5
Now how to do this... set up text-to-speech in System Preferences. Click on Speech, then the Text to Speech tab.
Heres where you can select the supplied voices. When you've decided which voice to use, check the box marked "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" and click the Set Key… button. Then set the key sequence you want to use to start the mac reading your text.
Then simply select the text you want read, then press the key command, and your mac starts speaking. Press the key command again to stop.
TextEdit, has some of this already built in and I would say is an underused tool in the mac applications folder.

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So you were looking for the new google chrome browser, well there isn't any for us mac users. Doh!

I am informed after the press conference to announce Google's new Web browser, Chrome, Google cofounder Sergey Brin asked BoomTown's Kara Swisher if she'd try it out. She is reported to have responded "But you don't have a Mac version, baby, so no," "I know, I know, it's embarrassing," says Brin. "When is that coming out?" Swisher asks. Brin, then appeared to look over his shoulder to be rescued and He says: "Um, I don't have a date for you. I'm going to have to get back to you. I'm asking every day. I hope it'll be a matter of months."

I really hope we have not gone backwards, in things not being made for macs or could it be that in order to protect safari and with the Google guy on apples board they have deliberately not brought out Chrome for Macs.

In the corporate world of computing there's no such thing as a free lunch.