I've got this doubt about VPN tools - is there one (besides Hotspot Shield) that allows you to browse anonymously and securely? I mean all these OpenVPN and Hamachi allow you to do stuff like connect remotely to other computers. Instead, can I set them up and just browse the web securely? One such tool that I know is…

@Ashutosh: Oh boy, my most important password will take only 12,000 years to crack. Must change ASAP! :D

I @lway$ Try t0 use p@$sword$ l1ke th!s. Not this long of course, but usually over 10 letters about stuff I remember. I also tend to forget a lot of those so I store them safely in Firefox with a master password and keep their backed up with Firefox Sync.

uTorrent for Windows has web UI and speed limit mode, so hopefully they'll be available in the Mac version soon. I've never had issues with Transmission in Ubuntu, although Deluge does seem to have more features.

Does it start faster than Firefox 3.6? That's my biggest, and possibly only problem with Firefox — if they fix it, I'm going back. I love having all those tiny configuration options, something which Chrome doesn't provide.

@Xeno: IE has that InPrivate filtering thing which blocks some stuff, but I don't think you'll find a full-fledged ad blocker. IE7Pro had ad blocking for IE 7 and 8, but it's probably a dead project now.

@Xeno: It's pretty horrible. IE 9 will be tons better, and actually challenge the other browsers out there.

This is pretty much what you'd expect, although I'd rather have various JS tests conducted and the aggregated taken into account. All browsers perform differently in different tests, like SunSpider and V8. I think Opera could win a few of those. I'm a Chrome user, but Opera is quite some match. :)

@Darusame: I've heard tons about RTM, but the prospect of yet-another-online-account freaks me out. Plus I'm quite weak minded and dodge my to do list more often than not. :|

It's always been Google Tasks for me. Simple and ever present in Gmail.

@Seeräuber Jenny: Yes I'm slowly figuring that out slowly. It all looks a bit ugly, but the end results can be stunning, so it's all really worth learning. I'm actually planning to get back to w3 schools and see what I can learn. :)

@Styyl: Hope they fix it soon!

@Condalmo: It's hard not to swear by Live Writer. Even Mac and Linux users who've ever seen it, swear by it.

Writer has had support for Blogger, Spaces and WordPress since long, and according to labnol the new version actually makes some stuff harder to do. I'd love to try it out, but the damn suite won't install on my laptop for some reason.

@Nxqd3051990: You know, I was expecting about twenty thousand Linux fanhumans to jump all over you when you wrote that! I guess they're compassionate towards Mac users. Whenever I say something like Ubuntu is still behind Windows 7 in usability, everyone's like get-the-hell-out-of-here!

@x3geek: An iPad, maybe? Of course they're not officially available here in India, and won't be of much use anyway, given the condition of internet facilities. I think you should actually give him a surprise visit with tons of little Canadian stuff, if possible, that'd be a far more awesome gift than any gadget (most…

gotcha :)

@nocturnal99: Don't these things change like way too fast for books to keep up pace?

@AD: It's like everything is designed using CSS in there! Awesome :)

This looks interesting, though it's more like a blog than a tutorial. Thanks a lot anyway!