@normanm4- Your comment just made my day. Thanks.

Pipebytes [www.pipebytes.com] is free and claims to have no file size limit. I can't vouch for it because I've never used it, but I'm thinking I must've gotten it from.... here?

This is one of those rational mind vs. emotional mind contests. The unfortunate result in my particular tortured duality is that emotional mind wins this one. Believe me, I would have long ago scanned my crumpled, dirty beer-stained (and tear-stained) ticket to game 3 of the 1986 World Series if the tif file served…

Ah, jeez, I'm sorry. I was sure the first post didn't go through. So I re-posted. In the meantime, @thermopyle seemed to have swooped in and beaten me to the point. Every time I use "preview comment" I get nuthin' but trouble. Now I'm all verklempt...

A site that performs a similar function but approaches it differently and executes its mission well is [www.consumersearch.com] Their tagline is "Reviewing the reviews." For any given product, they review which publication or website does the best and most in-depth reviews, and how current that source's most recent…

A site that performs a similar function but approaches it differently and executes its mission nicely is [www.consumersearch.com] The tagline is "reviewing the reviews" and that's exactly what they do. For any given product, they review the most recent reviews from print publications and the web. They tell you…

It shouldn't even be used mathematically to represent a minus, as there's a dedicated character for that, too

@Neo, @Rhywun: Boy is my face red... Of course I've SEEN those checkboxes, but somehow never CHECKED them... Thank you... Note to self: investigate BEFORE ranting...

Not only does the mandatory default choice "web search" NEVER work for me, but even worse, EVERY time windows encounters the EXACT same file extension, you have to plod through the exact same tedious series of choices. I have lots of old WordPerfect files, and every time it hits a ".wpd" extension, I have to tell it:…

@Alaska Jack: Sorry, you are right, NH and Maine are not the ONLY two excluded states. I was so focused on the excluded upper right that I failed to notice the excluded lower left. We need a weird states consortium to address this.

I'd love to try it. As luck would have it, NH is one of only two states in which they seem to have no numbers available. My second choice, Maine (just a couple minutes away)is the only other. If it's going to be my new, universal number that I give out to everyone, it'd really be nice to have an area code in my home…

"Only a rich elite or a hipster would spend $500 for glasses... am I right?"

I HATE going to the wholesale club warehouse to load up on detergent and paper towels, so I'd love for this to work. But Holy Cow, the prices are ridiculously high! I just happen to have completed my dreaded quarterly run yesterday, so here's the comparison: Tide 64 Load (100 oz.) "HE" detergent: BJ's Wholesale Club…

I've been using SimpleGTD. [www.simplegtd.com]

I've tried several including Mozy, but Carbonite is so good, that it's worth the $50. I use FolderShare to sync my home and work computers (and a sort of backup in the form of redundency), and then Carbonite on each of them. Belt and suspenders. I don't ever want to experience that loss again.

Skippy Peanut Butter. I've been eating it for 40 years and nothing else tastes as good to me. All of my other irrational consumer brainwashing has mostly fallen away over the years. A few years ago I stopped buying Cascade dishwasher detergent (another longstanding expensive habit) when Consumer Reports found that…

I just want to check: I hear intro music and "extro" music (sounds like the theme music to a 70's anti-drug Public Service Message film they used to show us at lunch-time in school), but no actual sound or narration DURING the demonstration. Is that how it's 'spose to be?

I actually found it to be one of the best "summary" productivity posts I've read in a long time. Nothing really groundbreaking, but after reading so many detailed and sometimes complex GTD systems, it's nice to see one that distills a few essential principles. The other good thing is that they're mostly not web or…

@cronimi: After I type in text, I can right click on it and get a menu which includes cut, copy, paste & delete. But I just read your previous post and I think you're right: I can't seem to erase drawing/lines either; only text. I did not register so it has nothing to do with that.

You CAN erase. From their help page: