@MarsianMan: +2. Bought AppleCare for both my iMac and my MacBook Pro through eBay (using "but it now" pricing rather than the auction mode), and everything was just fine. Never thought of using Amazon, in fact, but will add that to my list when I get my new iPod Touch.

@ihityouinthenose: Updated a few days ago as well; not seeing the problem you describe on either my iMac or MBP.

@g-naut: Turn off audio notification? That will at least get rid of the vocal part.

#1 (can't remember home IP address) is a perfect candidate for an Evernote entry!

Vote: USAA.com

Haven't seen dual-pronged airline headphones in at least 10 years. What airlines are we talking about? Not United, American, Delta, US Airways, Alitalia, KLM, at least.

And how does one do this on a Mac?

@DoYouLikeToastToo?: If they lower the price of MobileMe to free, I will resub in September. Otherwise...I'll stick with DropBox.

@senshikaze: iTunes is lousy on a Mac, and horrible on Windows.

Strange that there's an iPhone app, but no Mac desktop client. And no Android app makes this a double "Pass."

@Skyjumper: Umm...too lazy to do two or three mouseclicks? That's all it took for me to go from IE to FF, and from FF to Chrome. And just for grins, I imported my Chrome settings into Safari, because I could. Two, maybe three clicks...done.

@Wuddel: Hear hear!

Just a note: Landon Donovan is a midfielder, not a striker. That's kinda like calling Derek Jeter a centerfielder.

@Seeräuber Jenny: I wouldn't be quite so unfair to Lifehacker

@lgw41:

@senshikaze: OpenOffice is "fine," but that doesn't make it very good, and it's not even in the same conversation with Microsoft Office (even Office for Mac). When I moved to the Mac, I tried very hard to like OpenOffice. It wasn't long before I begged my son (a Microsoft engineer) for a copy of Office for Mac.

@RickyF: You've said a mouthful. Finder is...weak, elementary, and not really very useful. Explorer is almost perfect.

@gyffes: I concur. One of the things I missed when I switched was NPP, but since I discovered TextWrangler, it has fit the bill perfectly.

Trillian for Mac seems to me to be a tighter package than Adium; perhaps I need to give Adium another look.

@Paul40: Concur 100 percent. Sadly, one of the best features of Scrivener is that it is the best blogging platform for the Mac, after Windows Live Writer in a VM.