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    @undefined: Thanks! I'll check 'em out. Glad it works with keyboard shortcuts. refuse to do anything not absolutely necessary if it requires a mouse click.

    @EzraTabasco: If I have mail that I don't want to be notified about...It's probably filtered straight to the trash. In the mean time, I stick to Firefox's Gmail notifier which does (and always has) give you the option of checking all mail instead of just the inbox. It's just lazy on Google's part not to even give…

    How do you get the red stars?

    @cbh: ditto. Plus the system tray notifier doesn't notify if you filter mail to labels. Inbox only! How dumb is that?!

    It is absolutely more productive for multitasking, coding, spreadsheets, making use of sidebar gadgets, etc. Not to mention watching videos (which are mostly widescreen these days). I really don't understand why there is any debate about this?! It's a non-starter.

    I frequently encounter an eBay seller named second-rotation. Are they the same outfit you mentioned here? I never buy from them because the ads are all the same—They describe the new item along with pristine pictures of said new item, but what they're selling is used and could be in any condition really. I won't buy…

    @apu95: Windows' DRM does not restrict viewing of content in any way. Only recording and transferring. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

    An engineer for a highly reputable company just had to shut down their aerospace division [dilbert.com] due to the admin faxing all their bids with the blank side face up. I'd say the technology is doomed.

    I've been using [siteuptime.com] for years but this looks quite interesting too. Now that I think of it. Why haven't I written this on my own yet?

    SD all the way. Many of the best deals on the others are just links to slickdeals! :)

    If you already ship eBay/other items with regularity, you might consider a book-swapping club. You list books you have, people request them and you ship them out. Then you have credit to request titles from other members. It's really a great idea. Some of the best ones are PaperBackSwap, TitleTrader, and BookMooch.

    RSS feeds are how I find the item I want at the price I want. Just do a search for the item you want. Narrow the price range, choose buy-it-now and click the RSS link at the bottom. Simple as that. Note: The (crappy) new interface on eBay search pages sometimes doesn't have the rss link. You may need to opt-out of the…

    Actually, I can't get it working at all on Vista now. I made myself wait for Vista SP1 before "upgrading" from XP. This is just one of a growing list of unstable apps that worked flawlessly in XP.

    Make sure you uninstall the old one first. I had to log out to kill the rogue process after being lazy and not following this common sense advice.

    I use it and highly recommend it. My OCD prevents me from fully enjoying it however since it doesn't conform to the width of the other gadgets or the sidebar itself. It bleeds over! The horror! (Did I mention I can't live without it?)

    @Phoshi: So that's why my computer was running so weird. I'll fix that right away!

    Cool. I'll just autodelete my c: drive and my whole computer will stay fresh and zippy. Thanks Lifehacker!

    Clever—and it might just catch on—but somehow I still think that [Slickdeals.net] will be more comprehensive and up to date. They are grandfathered in as the goto forum for this type of thing. (No I don't work there...just live there.)

    @huskie: You have a desktop with only 512MB RAM? For at least the last year or so, you could have gotten 2-Gigs free with 12 rolls of toilet paper. Seek [SlickDeals.net] my friend and search for more RAM. You won't regret it!