Finally! I've found the audio editor for the Mac to do all those little things like trimming, noise reduction, and more. Amadeus Pro, from Hairesoft, is just what they say, the swiss army knife of sound editing.

It loads fast, is intuitive to use, appears stable, the noise reduction works great, and has some nice features such as multitrack support, batch processing, markers, and more. Free demo, $40 to purchase.

I'm helping someone pick up CSS, and they asked for a book to help them out with it. So based on a few recommendations, I suggested CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. I decided to pickup a copy myself, and brush up on my CSS, and the 100 pages of hands on tutorials is what specifically appealed to me. I'm 40 pages in, and have to say this is the CSS to english translation I wish I had when I started getting into this stuff.