I'm afraid Apple doesn't really understand there are OS X power users: everyone's the same on OS X/iOS. I believe Cupertino's view is power users only use Windows. (I feel your pain, by the way, as a former Windows power user, and now just one of the "Apple faithful"—only not really.)

Well, DoubleTwist is free; iSyncr is $3. Since I already have DT, that's why I'm still using it (although, I tend to use my iPod for music, anyway).

Thanks for making my point a bit more eloquently, although I still think most missed the basic thrust, which was to point out the hypocrisy for calling out Lifehacker for not going black—by individuals who refused to "go black" themselves.

Then perhaps you should have mentioned that in the article, if for no other reason than DoubleTwist has a pretty sizable user base.

I have no problems whatsoever with 2.8, at least for computer-to-computer voice chat. I don't use Skype for telephony.

I have no problem with any entity that chooses to go black today, or any that choose not to. I DO have a problem, though, with self-righteous trolls who are taking sites (such as LH) to task for electing to remain available today. My question to those trolls is, "What the hell are YOU doing on the Internet today?…

But is it SMALLER? Until Skype reduces the desktop footprint, I'm really not at all interested. Anything larger than what is in Skype 2.8 is too big.

To my mind, a tech-friendly airport is one that has FREE Wifi in the boarding areas, such as Tampa (TPA) and Rapid City Regional (RAP).

So how, exactly, does this app communicate to the companies you boycott that you are, in fact, boycotting them? Because if it doesn't do that, it's pretty useless.

My search string was "16th Century Latin mining treatise". And of course got the same result as Red_Flag. To answer the Gold Medal question, I used "Lou Hoover gold medal" and came up with [www.nndb.com]

#4 wins every time.

Gift bags, indeed.

I currently use an iMac and a MacBook Air, but I was a Windows user—and Win-box builder—for years. I agree with Whit completely: There's a lot to like, and love, about Win7. His comment about the Taskbar is spot on: OS X's Dock is a royal pain in comparison.

We (my wife and I) rarely use ketchup, but we keep it in a cupboard after opening. In thirty-seven-plus years, we've never had ketchup go bad.

We use pure maple syrup, never refrigerate it, and it's never gone bad. Of course, we use it within a month or so of opening, so that may have an impact.

Can't seem to fly from Rapid City to anywhere, not even our direct destinations (DEN, SLC, MSP, DFW, ORD). Not very helpful.

I was wondering the same thing. Or the Hillsborough County Sherrif in Florida (just as an example of some place I might have my laptop other than inside my home). I *think* my local PD would be that helpful...but then, I'm not liable to lose my laptop at home, unless I suffer a home invasion.

Considering Doug was in Canada...

Transmit is *not* $34 better than Cyberduck or FileZilla.

We could only wish it were that simple. In fact, it takes a redemption of 25K to 35K miles (varies by airline) for a round-trip ticket, regardless of distance flown, within the continental US. Flights to Hawaii are more, and international flights require even more miles to be redeemed.