when Spotify goes worldwide it will change the way people listen to music forever. Seriously. Especially when it gets on settop boxes and Squeezeboxes.

@blash: iTunes isn't bad. It's just the fact that it has to load Quicktime as well that slows it down. (So to play a tune, its going iTunes Quicktime Direct X out). Totally un-necessary.

@Windcape: agreed. Infact, they should have baked it into Windows7, like the Ubuntu cloud drive is.

@doronb2: then you click the "play on Spotify" link, which is free ;)

I'm fond of a LastFM Spotify combo personally.

@aj_robins: why? Something like 20% of all smartphones in the UK are iPhones. 20%. Apple's market-share in phones is similar to its market-share in computers.

@robbiekhan: my thoughts exactly. Apple is going to have to pull something pretty spectacular out of the hat to beat the Desire/Legend and other up-and-coming Android phones. And I'm sure I'm not the only person with Android envy...

vote: friends

I always update everything. The only time I would delay it is if a major revision version came out, like Adobe CS3 - CS4. If it's a simple update I usually do it instantly/automatically.

@Richard E. Martin:

why not just put a keypass db on a penstick, and use the random generated passwords it provides?

@Phoshi: for the same reason people get expensive Macbooks then put Windows on them. They want it all. They want it all. And they want it now. wait... isn't that a song?

hehe... even the iPhone is moving to Android #applefail #adobewin

@pvcrisp: I was ripping music in 1998, and aside from them being slightly dodgy quality they are perfectly tagged.

@ohbejoyful: heheh... Yeah, iTunes doesn't find half the coverart or tracknames for cds I own either. But it's not hard to type them in is it? I personally use Album Art Downloader (free, sourceforge) to grab album art. Works great as a Foobar plugin too (or it did)

funny, I pop a cd into my drive, iTunes gets the track titles, rips it, then downloads the album art. Why does it need cleaning up?

@OptionalJoystick: "time since last sync" sounds great. Alternatively, a method for automatically running sync on shutdown maybe?

re: system restore - I've had to switch this off because it was filling up what's left of my hard-drive. Still tries to, but luckily a Disk Cleanup/delete all but newest restore point gets my drivespace back. PITA though.

@Bill Clark: yeah, it works, but it's been beta since Vista was released. Still my fave, but no harm in checking out the competition

vote for Ultramon, which I've used 24/7 for years.