@mumbojumbodaily: dunno, i tried to install the very software in the screenshot just now (Adobe Air), and couldn't for the life of me work out what I was doing wrong!

@dornquast: I know it was a crafty plug, but thanks for letting us know about it. Trying it out now.

@Steven_S: agreed. They would argue they're giving you hosting too I suppose.

Snipping tool was one of the best new features in Vista. Is it in Windows 7?

@ergasiophobiac: link please? (To Monitor, not your cam lol)

@my secret identity: me neither. I run betas and even alphas of everything else, and update them compulsively. But I dunno... I rely on the Fox so much I'm scared to mess it up. Same with the OS (although I am running Win7, it's on a different drive)

@Jeremy Miles: it does work. If your phone has GPS (N95, E71 etc). If not, it triangulates your position to the nearest mast, which could be a mile away. So - get a phone with GPS! :)

or use this, which is based on Adblock and NoScript:

fantastic, because the oss ODF plugin has stopped working since Windows Update insisted on installing the Office Live plugin. Hope it doesn't conflict with their previous "save for XPS or PDF" plugin, which I use all the time.

Using puppy, and it's awesome. One problem - Seamonkey says it's out of date, but doesn't autoupdate. I tried download the installer and installed it, but Seamonkey is still loading as the old one - so I did something wrong.

this feature was one of the only reasons (aside from newer Camera Raw etc) that I can't wait to upgrade to PhotoshopCS4. But hey, free is good too :)

there's a beer for anyone who can write this for Windows/Linux.

@Harry Burger: but that's why they're offering 200 Pro-versions for free. I would have thought that much was obvious.

@DesignHobo: cos we all want to play Minority Report - or was it Star Trek - or something anyhow... ;)

Hulu and Pandora? is there maybe a more UK-centric version, with iPlayer and Spotify?

@CIM: no, the majority of people on this site are working, that's why we're here: to learn how to work more efficiently. Our obsession with freeware is driven by that too: why add £1000 of software to your budget for one project when you can get a piece of freeware to cover it? Commercial sense.

@goodywitch: good question. I have both installed. Picasa is faster, integrates with Google Photos, Facebook, blogger, email, and I can order prints direct from Photobox. Windows live looks nice, but I dunno...

@lordabdul: agreed on both points.

@benjamen: I use and love Lightroom, and have Picasa constantly running. But they aren't "image editing" programs. They are "Photo editing" programs. Image editing is something quite different, and only Photoshop, Gimp and Paintdotnet fit into that category: and from those three, Photoshop is the best.

Photoshop is the best image editing tool - no competition, so this is quite a pointless hive-five.