Boot Camp.app is an official Apple application designed to make dual booting simple and fool-proof. If it somehow does screw up your hard drive, take it into an Apple Store and they will fix it. Here's the Apple guide (PDF): [manuals.info.apple.com]

Not sure if troll, but BoTD.

If you want to organize your journal entries into a file system or as a single text file by all means use iA Writer.

My Sennheiser HD 448's have less bass than the Dead Sea.

Best reliable proxy/method to access iPlayer? Paid/free, doesn't matter. I'm mostly looking for quality and reliability over shady and free.

I can only imagine the thriving community of underground proxy services this would create if passed. Much like those in Iran or China, ironically.

They likely won't be as affected as much as Reddit or Wikipedia, whose very existence more or less depends on linking to copyrighted materials and would likely become blacklisted quite quickly.

StreamToMe is great if you just want to browse your media through a straight file browser (useful if you know exactly what you want to watch), but if you have a large library of movies and television, just want to browse, or appreciate well designed software, Plex offers a far superior experience.

Anyone have a preferred video card manufacturer?

I love it. Less bullshit products. They focused less on an avalanche of laptops and more on making one or two quality ultrabooks, for example. Another: Sony reduced the amount of flagship TVs from six to three, and they're all high quality and non-gimmicky.

Digital documents are permissible in court. Scan and shred with Paperless (for Windows and OS X).

My advice: leave it at home for one week, and see how many times you really desperately needed something in it. Restrict yourself to your laptop and phone only. Report next week with your findings.

Maxing out AT&T DSL — 6Mbps/1.5 up/down for $45.

I bought this Bluetooth FM transmitter for myself for precisely that reason. [thewirecutter.com]

They only compared the top 40 busiest airports in the US.

Lifehacker recommends XBMC as a media center. Maybe I don't know how to navigate it properly, but I find it user-unfriendly and very file system oriented.

Seriously though, who's still rockin' the G5 iMac in the back

Top Gear push-starting cars at 17200 ft.

You can use Parallels.app to virtualize Windows (better performance than Wine), or just boot into straight up Windows using the built in Boot Camp.

Fun to do it at BestBuy, where employees have no idea how to fix it (unlike the Apple Store).