fairly big Alfa rip too.

Hahhahah, it's called StrokeIt. Childish, yes, but hilarious nevertheless.

Yeap, Stellarium and Celestia. Celestia to zoom around in space (although it's bloody hard to get the hang of) and stellarium as your personal planetarium (including night mode, yuh!)

Fascinating and beautiful piece of kit.

I don't believe Yep is free anymore (~34 USD)

Mediamax has 25Gb free and dedicated photo sharing facilities. I think I got the link off of Lifehacker itself.

I use Apple's Mail to backup Gmail so I dont know about the Thunderbird specifics. Is it not possible to use rules to tag all incoming messages for a certain account as "read" and move them to an appropriate folder? This way you wont get the "unread" indicator. Another rule in Apple's Mail will let sort the sent…

DropCopy is quite amazing and works well. Plus, the litlte worm hole is just wicked cool non?

In this respect, Yahoo mail is excellent. While I'm not a Yahoo mail user I noticed a friends account had a neat feature where he could filter all emails containing attachmetns or pictures just by clicking one of two links. If pictures was clicked, he would be taken a to a page showing thumbnails of all attached…

Next thing you know, Google will be telling you what to write in response to an email a la George Orwell's 1984.