Ex-marine Brad Collum has written down eight ways to kill someone with an iPod Nano. They include some original ways, so check 'em out. Anyone willing to try these out?

1. Break it in half with your hands (very easy to do) and use the glass viewing screen's broken edge as a razor blade to slice the jugular when they are looking the other way.

2. Take off one sock (a dress or tube sock; pantyhose will work in a pinch), place the Nano in the sock, swing it around as fast as you can (being careful to not hit yourself), and whack the intended target right on the temple.

3. Take the reflective shiny part and catch the sun's ray and shine it in a vehicle driver's eyes, or if you are at a rock concert and the lead singer is prancing around on a center stage that protrudes into the audience like a phallus, you can use the same technique.

4. The cord on the earbud headphones can be used to strangle someone. A knee in the back can give extra leverage.

5. Dig a pit about 5 feet deep, then take about 15 3-foot-long stakes 2 inches in diameter and sharpen one end to a fine point, like a very sharp pencil. Jam the sticks at least a foot into the ground, with the sharp ends pointing up. Cover the hole with pine boughs, grass, and leaves. Treat the Nano like a slice of cheese pizza in a deep, hot oven and place it gently in the middle.

6. Carefully unstaple a tea bag and pour the contents on a plate. Break into the lithium-ion battery pack and saturate the tea with the battery's poison, then dry the tea in the sun (or with a hair dryer if you are in a hurry). Put tea back in tea bag and bend the staple back to its original position. Put the tea bag back where you got it.

7. Download to the Nano "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters. Tell someone you will give him or her your Nano if they listen to that song a hundred times in a row.

8. Hide the Nano in a bowl of lutefisk, then take it to the annual Norsefest Lutefisk Eating Competition in Madison, Minnesota.

The Mac maybe handy - it could fit easily into your backpack, you can tag it along anywhere and all that. But sometimes you wish it has more screen resolution or that it has a bigger screen. Of course, there are just things that you can control and some that you can. So with that, let's focus on the things that you can control -- here are some free and simple ways to maximize your Mac's screen space.

The first thing you could do is lessen the size of your desktop icons. Many users love stuffing up their desktops with files, documents and other what-have-yous that gives the screen a small appearance.

To do this go to the Finder, choose Â?ViewÂ? in the menu bar and select Â?Show View Options.Â? In the pop up, slide the icon size slider to 16 x 16. Next, set your Â?Label positionÂ? to Â?Right.Â? Finally, go to Â?ViewÂ? and select the Â?Arrange ByÂ? option that you like.

Another thing you can do is take advantage of the Exposé feature of the Mac OS X. It allows a user to quickly see open windows by two different sets of criteria, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target.

Another tip is to hide the dock or if you can't work without it, position it to the right or left side of the screen. Using programs that support tabbed windows is also a good idea, and lastly you can use a free program called Quicksilver. If you aren't familiar with this one, it's a free utility that can be called from anywhere within the operating system to launch applications find files, search websites, scale images, and much more. With all these mentioned, it is almost an assured thing that screen space won't be an issue in your book anymore.