I can't resist the opportunity for a plug for a program I wrote: Flickr AutoDownloadr. It does the same job, and has the capability to run slideshows too. It was featured on LH a while ago, and to be honest it probably isn't as good as FlickrDown. But at least it doesn't require .NET.

The new permalinks are great. I was using Basic HTML for a while because it was quicker to load and easier to script and write bookmark searches for. But now I've switched back. There's also a Greasemonkey API for the new version, which will make it a hell of a lot easier to script.

I guess we see that lots of people have different work cultures and requirements. I have a spectrum of meetings from "I barely need to be there - information only" to "front-centre" role. My laptop goes with me to all of them, so that I can get work done in the former, and produce crucial information at the touch of a…

Good article. I like the Moffsoft calculator. (I'm an oldskool Win2k diehard, so I can't use the Powertoys calculator, and I don't need graphing.) I've been looking for a decent basic calculator that has a 'command history' feature.

Bindweed! It's not as bad as the Japanese knotweed already mentioned, but it creeps around everything, eventually strangling it, and it's really hard to get rid of. Also there's a big sycamore tree in our neighbourhood, and every so often I have to go round the garden and pull up loads of tiny sycamores. You have to…

I use Ditto to share clipboards between computers - it's really handy. It's got a load of other features as well, but I never use any of that since I just want the clipboard to be as simple as possible.

I leave Gmail open all the time (it handles all my mail, including work), and trust it to refresh itself as often as needed. I have bookmark folders in Firefox marked 'Daily', 'Monday' and 'Monthly', which contain stuff I check on the web. This stops me from obsessively checking them for updates through the day. (LH…

I'd second the 'have a baby' comment above. I never need to set my alarm any more. On the downside, you do need to get up and be quite awake when it (er, I mean she) goes off.

5 extensions? You can't live with 5 extensions! They're not enormous bits of code; just install as many as you need.

Flickr Slideshow is the best one if you want proper fullscreenness. Try here to pick your own slideshow. (disclaimer: I wrote it, and therefore it does need some work...)

Brings a new meaning to the phrase "sync to paper"... :)

Another vote for about:blank. The stuff I check daily is in a bookmarks folder marked 'Daily' - I just 'Open in Tabs' this every morning. Yup, LH's in there :)

Baby powder? Is that really made from babies?

Hmm. Surely the point of add-ons is that they're not 'must-have'. I never use FTP, for instance. Good collections, though I'd add All-in-One Gestures, All-in-One Sidebar and IE Tab.

I knew about the Ctrl-PgUp/Dn thing, but thanks. It is occasionally handy; I know it seems awkward, being a definite double-hander when Ctrl-Tab is that much easier.

Slightly off-topic, but I crafted a bookmarklet for a 'search this site' function for websites that don't have a decent one built in. The address is:

@Brad Beyenhof: Yes, but this makes it a little more flexible. Also, it saves the searches you make, so you can have an 'adaptive labelling' system that changes depending on how you actually use it, as opposed to some fixed idea of 'categories'.

argh! I meant to say a bit of scripting, with a link to www.autoitscript.com. Not sure what happened there - my html was definitely valid.

This seems like a great idea - yesterday I was just leaving work straight from a meeting and I realised I had forgotten to switch my workstation off. Now I can do it from my phone! (after pulling over to a safe place, of course, folks)

Hurrah! for Gmail, once again. This is just one more reason why I love it so. The others being: (1) the best spam filter EVER, (2) intelligent threading, (3) labels, (4) no banner ads (and actually sometimes quite amusing text ads) and (5) effectively infinite space.