Although no one's probably reading these any more, I thought I'd leave this here, for posterity.

It's like the difference between buying clothes and making your own. Sure, buying clothes can be a cheaper and easier option, but many people get satisfaction out of making their own.

For door locks, I went with the medium-tech approach: electronic keypad locks. Schlage, for example, makes a line of electronic keypad locks that can generally fit into existing door lock holes. For me, it was a simple matter of unscrew/remove old lock, screw in/install new lock, and program new lock.

If people like this, they should check out the freemium service, ActiveInbox, which adds a GTD UI layer on top of web gmail. It requires the use of an addon, which works in firefox and chrome only.

Note that IM+ has a free, ad-supported version (with shorter push timeouts). You might want to check that out.

For chat with push, I happen to like IM+ Pro, but others like BeejiveIM. Note that neither are cheap, both being $9.99. However, IM+ Pro is a universal app, whereas you have to buy separate iPhone and iPad versions with BeejiveIM (at $9.99 each!).

I've got a case by Pad and Quill, and I'm happy with it.

1. And how is evernote a better cloud solution?

Gmail users might want to check out ActiveInbox. This is a GTD solution that works in the gmail web interface (chrome and firefox only), and so is available everywhere (there's no synchronization needed).

(Sorry, I meant "millisecond" sync, not "microsecond".)

Eh? Linux and OSX both automatically synchronize with a time server, and versions of windows newer than XP should, by default, do the same, too (I think XP might do it, too, but I can't remember). Now, your windows clock might be off by a second or so, but that's because Microsoft's time synchronization service is…

"Ugly" case? I suppose a lot are, but there are some that aren't.

It is certainly aimed at the pro market (and having a high-res monitor that isn't the cruddy "HD resolution" is very nice), but is that market big enough to justify this product? That specially-hinged case likely adds a significant price increase, and I'm really surprised that they did that. Sure, it looks pretty,…

Looks nice, but the price (tentative pricing is, "Starting at $1899") is going to kill it.

You could just do the Tim Ferris "add baking soda" part, and skip the blowing. :)

Yup, TJ's mozzarella balls are a great deal compared to most places (anyone tired of caprese salad, yet? :-).

This is interesting. Even after filtering out the major trackers, the links to the major sites are still there. My graph is still pretty small, and youtube is the most referenced site (due to video tutorials and the like). [Google.com] only has two links pointing to it. :)

Well, after a while, I'm finally getting a few hits, and they're not something that is easily filtered out: lifehacker refers to [gawker.com] and microsoft.com, gizmodo refers to [gawker.com] (not surprisingly) and youtube.com, and macrumors refers to [google.com] which refers to youtube.com. (And, yes, "google.com"…

Between ghostery, adblock plus, and noscript, Collusion shows nothing on my system.

Between business, and the fact that virtually all web account sign-ups require an email address, there's no way.