This just feels dirty to me. After all, they'd be nothing without the open source software that they're based off of. Are they just taking other people's hard work and running with it? That's my impression.

I like Box and my own rsync set up personally. But Dropbox has the ecosystem. Flickr's the same thing. Better stuff may be out there, but they're of limited utility if other services don't talk to them.

I try to get my social networking to come to me, rather than going to it. Most of my interaction with FB, Twitter is through Summify ([summify.com]) and Nutshellmail ([nutshellmail.com]).

I've been using a Listary ([byportmanteau.com]) on my my iPhone, updated with Simplenote, and edited on my Mac with NValt ([brettterpstra.com]). Sounds complicated, but it really isn't. Lists are simple Markdown lists, easily edited by hand. Every project gets its own text file, and I keep an "inbox" list for things I…

VOTE: Simple Comic for Mac.

Ah, can't believe you didn't mention their Nyan Cat version.

Depending on what attracts you to Meteoric, I'd encourage you to take a look at iCab with its built-in download manager that offers the ability to post to Dropbox, as well as route to other applications on your device. It's a great browser; I use it now instead of Safari.

Me-HI Chick-SENT-Me-hi, I think.

You guys rock, I have five drives I need to do this two next week. Your timing is spot on.

The tendency of developers to hitch their wagon to a rising star, and start pumping out half-baked companion apps. Then, when the third party service changes something, they moan like they've been unfairly jailed. Twitter client developers, I'm looking at you.

Skip it for now. I've tried five surveys. I was able to complete one, was disqualified from two and three, was warned for suspicious behaviour for number four, and was told my post code doesn't exist for number five. They responded to my tweet moaning about this with the acknowledgement that they haven't really got…

Does anyone know of a similar, self-hosted system, preferably written in PHP?

I think you're being a bit too trusting if you think a company that slaps twenty lines of legal boilerplate at the end of every email is therefore doing everything they can to protect you. I bet you Gawker Media and Epsilon both have legal disclaimers at the end of their corporate messages.

That would be much cheaper, I would imagine.

Better yet, add as little extraneous mark up as possible, and just use block elements you've already got in your page add styles!

Check your public library to see if they have access to O'Reilly's Safari Books. The Toronto Public Library system offers literally tens of thousands of recent tech books through Safari, your library might offer the same.

Z-Type is pretty similar: [www.phoboslab.org]

It's worth mentioning Duck Duck Go's zero-click highlight box. I don't often go to Wolfram Alpha anymore, as the zero-click box is usually smart enough to figure out that my search is an Alpha-type search, and give me the results.

What I thought a lot of these stories about our terrible password choices are missed was one key fact: I reuse several moderately complex, but easy-to-remember passwords on my low-value accounts. I know I'm not the only one.

1. Depends on your BIOS. There are systems that can do this.