The problem is that those who dislike what Facebook is doing aren't at the same time offering a compelling alternative. Yes, there are alternatives, but they all require too much technical knowledge, too many resources, and lots upon lots of time. So, non-technical people don't use them, and go to the easy solution.…

Awesome article! Thanks!

Too bad DOSBox *still* doesn't emulate the SoundBlaster AWE32 (or 64) sound board. Some of the more advanced DOS games of yesteryear provided an awesome sound experience with those, with a simplified soundtrack on lesser SoundBlasters (the ones DOSBox actually emulate). There's hope someday this will improve.

Well, the way I use Gmail, my 5 GB of actual e-mails becomes something like 20 GB of downloaded folders, which takes quite a long time to upload around, even if compressed.

Well, I'd like to know what, precisely, Gmail labels support means.

In a way it was thought about before.

I'd have to disagree with the browser toolbars conclusion for a single, isolate, but awesome exception: the Stumble Upon toolbar. Reduces to its three bare minimum buttons (Stumble, Like, Dislike) and thrown to the end of the navigation bar rather than taking space as its own full bar, it's an absolute must-have. It's…

Try doing that to a downloaded TXT file with Unix or Mac line endings. Result: wall of text. Also: lack of proper text enconding detection.

I use JungleDisk on Windows and Linux boxes, and also provides a Mac client and portable ones (for the three systems). It's quite reliable and, since they charge per GB per month, never deletes files from their side unless you tell it to. On the other hand, it isn't designed to backup whole drives or huge files such…

For command line copying I like xxcopy: [www.xxcopy.com] . The freeware version is extremely powerful, but it takes some patience to learn your way around it. There are, quite literally, hundreds of options. On the other extreme, I have to agree with everyone who's suggesting TeraCopy. For simpler tasks it's a must!

VOTE: Kindle

This isn't the optimal way to apply this technique, since it still makes things seem cheaper than they actually are. What you need to discover is how much *spare* money you have per hour worked. Taking the example provided, $10/hour, let's suppose $8 go to all the bills you cannot avoid paying. That'd leave you with…

J and K would make sense, as it's become a kind of unofficial standard the web around.

VOTE: Fictionwise.

Thanks! Now please provide an option for the left and right arrow keys to stop changing articles and I'll be happy!

What a coincidence! I've been reading a manga this morning (vol. 1 in this series) in which, among other things, the characters were deciding what name to give a puppy almost identical to your girlfriend's one. They settled for "Maru", which coupled to the Japanese honorific for babies, puppies etc. ("-chan") ends up…

Microsoft owned Sysinternal' "Contig" utility can do that. Download it from [technet.microsoft.com] , unzip somewhere, open a command prompt and type "contig -v $MFT". Notice that the MFT will always have at a minimum 2 fragments. This is by design, as one fragment is its main piece, it is always located at a fixed…

Linux can write to NTFS quite well nowadays. It's an option you can easily enable even if your distribution disable it by default. As for Mac OS, I don't know what it can do natively, as I don't use it, but I've seen 3rd party drivers that offer NTFS-write capability. The ones I saw are paid, and I don't know whether…

On the other hand, there are occasions when the sunk cost fallacy works on your behalf rather than against you. For example, say you purchase a $300 smartphone and after two weeks a new, much better model arrives. You might think: "Ugh, let me ebay this one, losing money on the deal, and purchase the new model,…

I'd say that three important traits are: