just be careful where you download stuff from. Always try to download from the author's site, and not some shareware site in Russia or something. If the program is from a trusted vendor, Microsoft, Adobe etc, then you can be sure it's not a virus, however much your virus-checker complains. For third-party software,…

It has to be said that I've never had the radio-crackle problem since I've been using 3G phones (what, 3 years now?). It's non-existant, at least with Nokia phones (can't say I've noticed any of my friends phones doing it either). It used to happen constantly around 1999, but that was almost 10 years ago, and several…

@rsmoker: it's simple to share music on multiple computers with iTunes, go to options and select the share tab. Then on the other computers select "look for shared libraries". Pretty painless. Although if you're having problems with DRM music, well, that's not the players fault per-se, you shouldn't really buy DRM…

a few years ago I decided, after using almost every media ripper and media player, to stick to a standard. As I have an iPod, I decided that standard was m4a/aac, with iTunes tagging. And I've stuck to that standard ever since. Although I use iTunes as a catalog program, it's too resource-heavy to have running all the…

would this work with Proboards, or is it only for phpBB derivatives?

I wondered what those LH posts were that started appearing in Googlereader. I clicked on one, and it gave me an "unavailable" page. So I can't even see them anyhow...

I've been using Evernote, and found it ok to save notes that I need on various machines (mostly fixing tips etc). However, now it's gone final and there is a pricing structure, well... I still prefer OneNote (best Windows application ever), and I have Google Notebook for my cross-machine stuff. The OCR is a good idea,…

VOTE: iTunes

@avneron: cool, I wasn't criticising so much as thinking aloud. All the best with it, I look forward to trying a Ubuntu/Vista version when it hits beta :)

I use Album Art Downloader, which searches EVERYWHERE. Even iTunes, until Jobs blocked it. If there is a site it doesn't search, you can add it. Standalone, or integrated with Foobar. (Windows .net only though, I'm afraid)

A lightbulb just went on... thanks Jeremy and Gina

any particular reason why a "free and open-source" fork of a free and open-source media-center needs an invitation to get it?

My favourite app for hiding desktop clutter is the recycle bin ;) Although I do like Dropcloth, a "blackout all but your current window" app should have been built into Vista (under Accessability, I guess) but it wasn't.

Better than Bridge (and better than Picasa), my favourite is Adobe Lightroom. Sure it's not freeware, but the whole thing is based on a rating/flagging/catalog system, and once you get the hang of the keyboard shortcuts it is VERY fast and easy.

very timely, I was just sketching a redesign of my home/office/geekspace this morning. Anyone else feel that urge in summer to rip stuff out and reorganise? It's kind of spring-cleaning, I suppose, but more extreme: the primal urge to get the nest all cosy and ready for winter. Wow.. deep lol.

This has both a good side and a bad side. The good side is that you can see photos according to their ICC profile, so as intended. The bad side is that photographers (the main user of this, I guess) will stop converting their photos to sRGB for web use, thus making them look bland to the 50% of the world that still…

@jpx72x: I think Universal means PPC/Intel, not cross-platform.

this might be offtopic, but has anyone noticed there is a limit to the number of sites you can stay logged in to? I visit say 10 sites a day. I'm automatically logged into them. If I sign up to another site, and have that one log in, then I'm logged out of one of my 10 sites, I have to log in again. If I sign up to…

does it work well with Ultramon and/or double monitors?

I was pondering what is the difference between giving your password to these guys and giving it to... say Plaxo, or Facebook, or MySpace etc. I think it's in the retention: the other sites log on using your PW, download and display your email list, then delete both the list and password. For Xoopit to work correctly…