I was chatting with my pal Shaun the other day and the topic of horrifyingly intrusive web advertising was flabbergasted to find out that he had never heard of ClickToFlash. I was more than happy to clue him in – it was akin to a duty. Flash has morphed from its original purpose as an interesting and efficient way to deliver content and is now a despicable scourge of the same sort as H1N1 or The View.

Fortunatelty, Flash is easier to deal with than either of those other two abominations. Just download ClickToFlash, restart, and off you go. You only get the flash you want, when you want. Wanna watch the latest episode of Homestar Runner? No problem. Wanna see bumper-face guy? No problem. Don’t wanna see yet another full-page take-over-your-screen ad aimed at morons? Once again, no problem.

ClickToFlash. It’s simple, it works, and it is free. Save your sanity – just get it.

Long-time browsers will know that I swear by SuperDuper for quick, easy, and reliable backups. This week SuperDuper just got a whole lot better with the release of version 2.6.2 – it is optimized for Leopard and Snow Leopard and it does everything the previous version did at about twice the speed. Actually, some of my cronies have reported over three times the speed. Either way, it is entirely awesome. And, as always, basic backup functions are completely free – you only need to upgrade to the paid version if you want specific incremental functionality.

And no, it isn’t nagware.

If you are already a SuperDuper user, upgrade now. And if you are still on the fence. this is the time to get off of those pickets and give it a test drive. You will be glad you did.