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Tyler writes:

I’ve been collecting some of my favorite flash videos from the internet. It’s kind of a pain to fire up Adobe Flash each time I want to play these, but they don’t seem to work in Quicktime. Is there another option I can use?

Tyler, thanks for the question. Oddly, just a few days after you wrote in, we were contacted by a developer that asked us to check out their free flash player for Macs. I’ve tried it out and it works good. I posted it on FreeMacWare today. Go check out SWF & FLV Player.

When you open Activity Monitor you can see a graph of how much memory your computer is using. But why are there 4 types of memory, represented by various colors on the graph?

Alex has an explanation of what all these types of memory mean — wired, active, inactive, and free — and also how memory usage affects system performance. To summarize, wired memory is used by the system; active memory is used by currently running applications; inactive memory was used by recently closed applications, which allows them to reopen quickly, and free memory is unused. For a better explanation see Alex’s Is my Mac using too much memory?

From the same site that first mentioned the Apple car in the Piston Circuit, here is another Apple sighting in the most recent Disney movie, Wild Hogs.

My wife and I went to see the movie this last weekend and it was really good. John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy work nice together. Plus, I think every warm blooded male wants to get on a motorcycle and cruise cross country with three good buddies. As a rider myself, it spoke to my soul.

Toward the beginning of the movie when they decide to go on the trip, they meet up and talk about how crazy they’re going to be on the ride. One by one, they all take aout their cell phones and destroy them so they have no responsibility. But, the best part is when the computer programming Dudley (played by Macy) shows up and talks about his new tattoo. The tattoo is awesome, but even better is what he says about it. He takes a nice little stab at the sue-happy company.

(Audio Clip here.)

Dudley- “I’m a biker, dude! I got a tat!”
Doug- “It’s an Apple…”
Dudley- “I know. Trademarked. But what are they gonna say? It’s in my skin b**ch!”

Now that’s classy.

We already showed you how to host multiple web sites on one Mac, but that tutorial assumes you want them all to have the same ip address. Sometimes, you’ll need multiple IP addresses for instances like installing a SSL Certificate. This video shows you how to have two ip addresses on one connection.

Watch It Here: Configure Two IP Addresses on One Mac

Show Notes:

• Hosting Multiple Websites On One Mac
• Macminicolo.net - Host Your Mac Mini in a data center. Starting at $34.99
• Tabstop - You may have noticed that when I tried to close my Safari window with multiple tabs, I was given a warning. That was thanks to Tabstop.

One of the most popular reasons to have a server these days is to run a blog on it. Using an install of Wordpress is one of the easiest ways to do this.

This video tutorial shows you how to install wordpress by using MAMP. It’s very simple.

Movie Link: Install Wordpress On Your Mac Using MAMP

Shownotes:
- MAMP- Our post on FreeMacWare explaining MAMP
- Wordpress.org- the free wordpress install
-Macminicolo.net- turn your Mac mini into a server and share your blog with the world

Usually our Server Video Series has a video involved, but there are a few tips that I thought were useful enough to throw out there.

• Over on FreeMacWare today, I wrote about a program called Lithium. It’s an incredibly app that I saw at Macworld. It monitors remote computers and servers so you can keep tab on them. If you are running a Mac mini as a server, this will be a good way to monitor it. And lucky for us, they offer a free “Lite Version” that will only limit the amount of machines you can monitor.
• The most requested video tutorial is how to set up a mail server on your Mac mini. We’ve been working on it, but it’s much more in depth than you’d think. But, we don’t blame you for hesitating to spend the $500 on Mac OS X Server just to get a mail server. Over on MacSoftwareReviews.com, I’ve posted about an app called Postfix Enabler. It’s a very well done app that will set up a very capable mail server in about 60 seconds and it’s under $10. That is a very good way to go.
• My company just finished the week at Macworld. We had a booth there and were able to meet a ton of great people. (including some of you) As part of our Macworld week, we offered Macworld attendees a discounted price to get their Mac mini in our data center. We took our most popular package, waived the sign-up fee and discounted it by $10 per month. I thought I’d extend that same offer to the FreeMacBlog readers. If you were waiting for the right time to get your Mac mini into the data center, now would be a good time. You can take advantage of that discount here. It should be good for another week or so.

Alright, that’s what I have for you right now. There will be more videos coming soon. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed so you’ll be notified when then come.