Make your Mac play nice on a Windows Network

If you use a Mac on a network with a Windows machine and browse any of its shared folders you've probably noticed that it likes to leave extra files and folders behind that are visible to the Windows machine and might annoy or confuse its user. (".DS_Store" and ".Trashes" ring a bell?) Well now there are two ways to get your Mac to clean up after itself. You have your choice of either free and geeky or cheap and easy. Sounds like a win/win situation to me.

Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections (terminal hack via Apple Knowlegebase Article)

BlueHarvest ($10 shareware w/ 30 day trial - via the excellent Lifehacker's Gina Trapani)