Oh yeah, the the old "Apple make their money from hardware" arguement is bogus too. What is so different about a Mac Pro? Osx. What makes an iPod so good? OSX. Why is the iPhone the "Product of the year"? OSX. I would say, Apple make their money from putting their OS (which is ultimately what everyone wants) onto…

I experimented with x86 back in Tiger, worked like a charm. Until Apple released an update, then you had to hack out the kexts and kernel everytime, which was a major pita and didn't really make it worthwhile. Apple should just come out with a whilebox version of Leopard, with a "install at own risk" get-out clause.…

I just change the genre of all my Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hannukah/Winter-Solstice (cough) tracks to "Xmas", then make a smart updating playlist for that genre. When "the holiday formerly known as Christmas" is over, I remove the playlist, backup the tracks, and remove them from iTunes. Don't want two dozen winter-holiday…

brilliant

I just keep all the gubbins I need to see on monitor #2, so I can maximise on monitor #1 without covering stuff up.

looks useful, I'll try it out. Thanks

Not only that, but the white plastic thing that came with my classic is large enough to hold 2 classics, no way would my iPod stand up in it. Just lie it down flat, safer all around (especially with hard-drive iPods).

Filehippo update checker works, is tiny, and can be run from a stick (handy for keeping family machines updated). It finds everything I have installed (as most of it is from Filehippo in the first place). My commercial software updates itself (for the most part)

I use Miranda too... its the Foobar of the Messengerworld. Saying that, I would switch to Adium in a second, its the best Messenger client on ANY platform imo.

I grab super-high rez album art.. from the actual CD cover. Old skool :)

@morganlh85: Pandora is only available to people in the US. LastFM, being London based (and owned by CBS) is available worldwide.

awesome, thats one of my main reasons for using Ultramon (and the second taskbar, obviously). Vista multiple-monitor support was supposed to fix stuff like this, but obviously it was left out (again). And its so simple, when you think about it : a different wallpaper for each monitor? Should have been in Windows 95

@MeEducated: it WOULD bother me that a thief got away with my whole collection. It took me years to build, on vinyl and CD. Cost thousands of pounds, all in all. You can take my iPod, but you'll never take my music collection! (felt a Braveheart moment coming on there for a sec lol)

when I had a tiny memory card on my cellphone, I used to use Winamp-pro to re-encode my Lossless/320 files into 64k AAC+. Sounded fine, comparatively. Nowadays I have larger cards/media players, so I don't bother transcoding.

I use Notepad++ for making lists and notes. For long documents, however, Word2007 is soooo easy on the eyes, thats it's hard to resist (especially when you change the colour of the app to black to match the Vista scheme. That blue is icky)

@MJ: yeah, it come out of beta tomorrow apparently. At last lol

is this better than Dexpot?

I wouldn't consider myself a techno-phobic, but I've had a 50/50 success rate at flashing bios. Three mobos flashed, three mobos bricked. I'm not sure WHY they failed though. I wouldn't recommend flashing the bios for everyone, unless you have a specific reason to flash then don't, is my advise. And even then, ask…

agreed with all of these. My personal new-favourite-thing is a small freeware app called Switcher, which gives you an Expose-ish alt-tab replacement in Vista (works across multiple monitors too). Much nicer than that scrolling-screen thing.

I used to use this, until I found Rocketdock. Objectdock is great, but Rocketdock has (on Vista) real-time previews - if you minimise Windows Media Player to the dock, for example, it keeps playing, and you can watch it :) And it understands multiple monitors, I can't remember if Objectdock did that. Not knocking…