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What’s better to go with your magnetic USB hub than a magnetic power strip that can be controlled via PC? The power strip plugs into your PC using USB and has an extra USB connector so it doesn’t eat up a port. Now, you can shut off lights, monitors, heaters and iPod speakers from your PC. No more reacharounds! – Jason Chen USB Power Bar that Turns Peripherals On & Off [Everything USB]

Wireless on/off switch from Tobias Wong
Have you ever wished that light switch in your flat was, say, over by the door, instead of in the back of the closet? Struggle no more! Get the wireless on/off switch by Tobias Wong and you can put it wherever you like, up to 100 feet away from the light fixture of your choice once you "simply attach the remote component." Comes in a sleek little Lucite box with a magnetic lid. $120 from uncommongoods.com.

Wong has a variety of snarky recreations of common objects - glass chairs, rubber chandeliers, and concrete doorstops. He also has protect me from what I want tattooed on his forearm, and designed one of the most subversive pieces of bling I've ever seen. [GT]

Grow a Chi Pet in your Dashboard

Ah, the little plant/potter geegaw known as the Chia Pet. I don't know what meteor the plant came from, but aren't those planters cute? Relive the cuteness with Chi Pet (not affiliated with the Chia Pets of Joseph Enterprises) in your Dashboard. This little widget provides a couple of days of fun as you click the droplet to "grow" your pet's fur. Neglect the pet, and the plant dies. Nobody said life was easy, even for a bunch of pixels. To be honest, the growth cycle isn't that great. [From CoolOSXapps]

Use a webpage as your desktop with WebDesktop

Here's a handy bit of freeware. WebDesktop lets you use any web page as your desktop picture. Simply enter the URL of a terrific website (like, say, this one), set the transparency and reload rate and you're all set! When in the background, the page you're monitoring acts as your desktop picture, but when in front, you can scroll, click and otherwise interact with that site as if you were using a typical browser. MacDesktop requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher, is free, and universal. [Via FreeMacWare]

Flip Wireless KVM from Belkin

The Flip Wireless is a wireless KVM switch (that's keyboard, video, and mouse) that connects to two machines (Mac or Windows). The wireless part comes into play when you want to switch to from one machine to the other. Simply click the remote (with 10 feet of the KVM) and it switches, as if by magic. The Flip Wireless will be shipping in June and cost $79.99.

Bricksmith

Bricksmith is a cool app that let's you tinker with a set of virtual Legos on your Mac. How cool is that? Plus, it is now a Universal Binary so Intel and PowerPC Macs can join in the fun, natively. Check out the tutorial to see all the cool stuff you can do with Bricksmith. Bricksmith is donationware, so if you find yourself heavily using it kick in a few bucks to support the project.

Validate HTML with Safari Tidy

A few months ago, I mentioned Web Inspector, a WebKit alternative to the Firefox Web Developer extension. Now there's another Web Developer-esque tool available for Safari: the Safari Tidy plug-in.

Clean CSS - optimize your stylesheets

Remember CSS Tweak? It's cool, and it excites me, but not in a "I'd feel guilty if my mother knew" kind of way. That's where Clean CSS comes in.