A compilation of the week’s best posts for web workers, this web worker digest will help you boost your productivity, your business, and take care of yourself.

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The eyes, hands and brain are the web worker’s most important tools — but are you treating your eyes with the care they deserve? Samuel Dean explains how you can start.

Like the idea of freelancing? Freelancer extraordinaire Collis Ta’eed shares his seven tips for starting your freelance career today. I’ve recently published Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of my ‘Becoming a Freelance Web Worker’ series over at Freelance Switch, too.

To truly go mobile, eliminating externalities is essential. Snail mail is one thing that can keep us anchored to the home or the office. Ryan Irelan shares five ways to clean up your snail mail.

Cast aside bandwidth limits and transfer files of unlimited size to clients or co-workers with PipeBytes.

Elance is offering you the chance to win a virtual assistant for 2008. Answer this question: “How would you use a virtual assistant to grow your business or improve your personal life?” before January 25 to be in the running.

Mobile web workers will appreciate these four methods to store passwords securely on your computer. I’m not mobile yet, so they’re currently written on my calendar (for some reason).

Lifehacker suggests that we add a ‘thinking hour’ to our weekly schedule, where we reflect on where we’re headed and where we want to go.

Hack Your Day shares two very cool productivity addons for Thunderbird.

Ever wished you could become an email Ninja? Looking at my inbox, I think I need to put this post into practice. Leo Babauta shares ten tips to help you karate chop your inbox down to size.

Thinking about starting a blog? Why not use one of these 100 free Wordpress themes, provided by Smashing Magazine. I was impressed to see quite a few good ones that I’d never seen before.

On Sunday night I bought a used Macbook — the first Mac I’ve ever owned. If you’re like me, you’ll want to take a look at these twelve programs to put on your brand new Christmas Mac — though I guess they’ll work on used Macs, too.

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I’ll be sharing great links weekly, so I want to ask you guys which blogs I should be keeping tabs on. Know anyone producing content that web workers can use? Leave a link in the comments section of this post and I’ll add it to my ‘watch’ list.