VOTE: Swype

I don't use it, but my News tab has always been right on the bar (not under the More tab, as the story states). Maybe you meant the Reader tab? In either case, this looks pretty useful.

Probably something he read about on the interwebs, that had little substance and even less actual fact-checking. (Yes, Steve Jobs was a colossal jerk; but that doesn't make the company he ran that bad.)

VOTE: Apple AirPort Extreme

Or you could have a pretty Apple router! Seriously, though, I like the comfort of being able to look over and actually see lights blinking sometimes. (Well, that's on my modem; the Apple's light doesn't blink.)

For which handset? They don't all work with all phones. Gingerbread? ICS?

VOTE: Arvixe.

I'd pay $1 for a Mac app that, as someone else mentioned, Win7 (and Win8) do by default. But $7.50/$14? Not in this day and age, not yet: I'm not obsessive compulsive.

If you're even seeing spam, you have a bigger problem. Using Gmail, I see spam only when I want to. I get *maybe* one false positive a week, and usually it's "bacn"—advertising I want to see, or even signed up to get, but Gmail misclassified it. I'm cool with that. But actual spam in the rest of my email? I got a…

What Patrick said. Now, if I could just keep from getting several links to the same LH/Ars articles, I'd be a happy camper. ;)

Well, I see zero change after converting to Google. Very welcome change, in my opinion. And for all those complaining about Facebook's security (or lack thereof), do you have a FB account? Why? And you don't HAVE to use Facebook.

VOTE: Sennheiser PC 150/151/360/361—as long as it has a USB connector. That way, you get the advantage of being able to use a headset AND speakers, at the same time, and you don't have music overriding your game or vice versa.

I don't pay for SMS (although I do have Google Voice if I need/want to text someone), and yes, I still use Skype chat, Google chat, and Trillian to converse with friends. If nothing else, it's still a LOT easier to use a real keyboard for text chat instead of a phone.

I shrunk my OS X partition on my MBA to 40GB, and expanded my Boot Camp partition to 80. My iMac is my OS X machine; my MBA is my Windows machine. Couldn't be happier.

Here's the beauty of it: You don't have to be confronted with Metro "all the time." In fact, it's pretty easy not to see Metro at all, once you get past login. Simply pin "Computer" to the taskbar. Ditto anything else you use a lot—or create a bunch of shortcuts on the desktop, and put 'em in a folder if you like.

Or the Windows key (Command on a Mac), or the Enter key. I'm not sure, but may be the Any key would work—I'll have to check that out!

I'm not at all surprised the Galaxy Nexus placed so high: It's the best (only?) 4G phone on the biggest network (Verizon). Those who have it, love it; those who don't, want it.

Can't wait to see the results of this one. I put, simply, "Droid X," but it's not that simple: I'm on Verizon, which has only updated the DX to 2.2, but I'm running 2.3 via Liberty 3.0. It'll be a lot easier in a month: I'll have the Galaxy Nexus.

Whit, how do you use Windows on your MBA? In a VM via Boot Camp or Parallels/VMWare, or have you figured out how to install it natively? (How much RAM in your Air?)

I'm afraid you've nailed it. :( Naturally, I use two monitors, and it really irks me when even notification popups can't be defaulted to Monitor 2. Uhh...see my comment above re: power users. I guess we should be thankful dual-monitor capability is still in the operating system.