Mac OS X only: Midnight Inbox is swanky beta personal organizational software that implements the popular Getting Things Done personal productivity method.

Collect, process and organize your projects, tasks and life goals David Allen-style all in one interface. This is the first public beta release, and the developers warn against entering mission-critical data into it in this state. Even so, Midnight Inbox looks like a fabulous option full of potential for folks who don't want to mod Outlook/Entourage or their PDA to GTD; the system's already baked in. (Oh, if only there were a Windows version...) The beta Midnight Inbox is currently a free download, Mac OS X only. — Gina Trapani

The Mac mini enthusiasts at ModMini have posted a great tutorial for turning your Mac mini into a DVD Jukebox.

The tutorial details several different options for getting your DVDs onto your mini's hard drive, from a direct, full-size rip to several different space-saving encoding options. Ever since I built my DVR, I've been very curious about what similar home entertainment possibilities exist for the Mac mini (it seems like such a perfect candidate). Luckily, the folks at ModMini seem to be covering that turf pretty well. — Adam Pash

You need an image for that brochure you're designing, and you need it now. Put your hands in the air and step away from the cheesy clipart, mister. Thanks to organizations like Creative Commons, licenses like the GNU Free Documentation License, and the public domain, there are tons of photos, songs, movies and documents freely available for you to download and republish without fear of the copyright police.

Before you start the new school year or try to impress the boss with a kickass multimedia presentation, check out 6 ways you can find legally-republishable content on the web.

1. Creative Commons search interface

Video, music, images and documents
Creative Commons' recently released tabbed search interface looks up CC-licensed photos from Flickr, any file type on Yahoo! and Google, and videos on Blip.TV. Very convenient. (Before you go publishing, be sure to check exactly which CC license that perfect photo carries - whether or not it can be modified, used for commercial purposes, or should include attribution.)

2. Wikimedia

Video, music, images, documents
User-edited Wikimedia Commons contains over 700,000 pieces of freely available, modifiable (even for commercial purposes) media that's categorized and tagged by users. Need a photo of the moon for your blog? Type Category:Moon into the Wikimedia search box.

3. CCHits and CCMixter

Music
Find podcastable, remixable, put-your-iMovie-to-it music at the CCHits and CCMixter listings of Creative Commons-licensed songs. (For more on free - but not necessarily republishable - music, see previous Lifehacker post, Find free music on the web.)

4. EveryStockPhoto

Images
There are tons of stock photo sites, but the one I use over and over again for adding a little eye candy to Lifehacker posts is EveryStockPhoto. ESP aggregates photos licensed for reuse from several free stock photo sources, and rarely am I disappointed with search results there.

5. Google

Images, documents
While Google has an advanced search option to find reusable content (as does Yahoo!), some regular ol' Googlefu works, too. For instance, to find Creative-Commons licensed Excel documents with the words 'time map' in them, try:

filetype:xls time map "this work is licensed under a Creative Commons"

(By the way, to CC-license your own Office documents, use the Creative Commons Microsoft Office Add-in.)

Similarly, to find PDF's licensed under the GNU FDL, try:

filetype:pdf "published under the GNU Free Documentation License"

6. Public domain torrents

Video
This collection of public domain A and B movies is available for download via BitTorrent. Use it to spice up your indie film with a clip of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or Tom and Jerry.

Where do you find media to add to your film, blog, or PowerPoint presentation? Let us know in the comments or to tips at lifehacker.com.

Gina Trapani, the editor of Lifehacker, thinks open licenses are the best thing since the internet. Her semi-weekly feature, Geek to Live, appears every Wednesday and Friday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Geek to Live feed to get new installments in your newsreader.

Yesterday, Sprint unveiled their first revision A. EVDO high speed cellular data card. That card came in the aging PCMCIA form factor, so we couldn't use it in our Macbook Pros. Here's a cludgy fix to that problem: EVDO and HSPDA cards that work over a USB cable. EVDO, is the broadband-like speed that Verizon and Sprint are peddling, while HSPDA is the Cingular flavor. The hardware looks nice, as you can see from the photos. The Aircards even have docks. But dangling a USB peripheral from your laptop isn't just inelegant, it's the digital equivalent to toilet paper on your shoe...Something I'd consider dragging around all day long if the average speeds in the 400-800Kbps range are to be believed.

I'll make a prediction: Within 5 years, all high end laptops will be sold with integrated broadband. What do you think?– Brian Lam

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Sierra Wireless EVDO/HSPDA Aircards [Macworld]

Mac productivity guru Merlin Mann has posted a great roundup of iCal tips over at the 43 Folders weblog.

I do still spend a lot of my day shaking my hammy fist in impotent rage at iCal's numerous shortcomings, but I've reached a kind of détente with Apple's stock calendaring app, and along the way I've discovered some modest ways to squeeze more drops of Cupertino-y goodness from its moist Jolly Rancher-like pages.

Mann's love-hate relationship with iCal is always a fun read, but his iCal posts are also jam-packed with several clever roads to productivity. The emphasis, of course, is on using iCal with GTD (specifically kGTD), but even if you haven't jumped on the Getting Things Done bandwagon, you might still learn something. — Adam Pash