@johnsmith1234: yup and yup. With every increment, iTunes gets slower and slower. Saying that, my PC is getting older and older, so I guess you wouldn't notice on a quad-core with 16gig.

@glaeven: yeah. Now it has 128, iTunesPlus, Custom. iTunesplus is just 256kps optimised AAC, like you would usually set in custom settings.

I'd rather let my 7 year old have full-run of the machine (within her user-limited account). If she deletes all her photos and pics, then that's a life-lesson. I made sure she had to type a password to log in too, another important life-lesson (although it'll be dna fingerprints or something by the time she hits the…

Vote: Adobe Premiere

the only thing that would make me switch from Ultramon is if the app in question used less resources.

@Jarnim: that's fair enough. They could still give you the menu app, then a list of what to install, where to get it, and how to install it.

@Asian Angel: I'm running Win7 on a P4 from from 2002. You don't need the latest and greatest hardware, just buy the latest and greatest OS.

trouble is with these sites is that they spam your feed with every track you listen to. I had to remove a couple of friends because every 3 minutes they'd post another "listening to" twit. Gets annoying after a while.

@BlancheKisser: cheers BK

is there anyway of keeping such a usb-stick up-to-date, by running Filehippo or such on it?

@tim d: it's a menu thing, so you can add your own tools to it.

I dunno, I can understand having a catalog system for cds, as I have just over 1000 that I have collected over the years. I think I've got... 30 dvds? Not much point me using one for that.

they should offer a free upgrade for ALL Vista customers. Jeezuz.....

@Tor Hunemark: you have to :

meh... contacts/calendar on iPhone/Win, contacts only on Symbian. Dammit, looks like the old Google Cal > Outlook > Nokia PC Suite > Phone malarky is still on the menu.

@OulaMan: it takes my Firefox almost a minute to start - but I wouldn't change it for the world. Once it's loaded, it stays loaded.

@Ralph Hardy: best way to go. You don't NEED wireless in a house, unless you are a family of laptop users. If your games machines/media boxes/PCs/Macs are all stationary then wired is better, in terms of speed, reliability and security.

@Al Iguana: also, you can buy a media-playing hard-drive enclosure cheap (£30+) stick a tetra in there and you have a huge selection of movies (DivX/Xvid usually) that you can put in whatever room you want, or take on vacation. Not a wireless streaming solution, but definately portable

this works well for getting your music to your Wii, best I've tried:

this is my favourite: