Depends on your work. I typically have to work with one document open for comparison, or perform calculations on a CAD drawing that get entered into a spreadsheet, so two monitors is a must.

This is a great tip, but it won't foil them all. There are also keypad overlay skimmers out there:

I know it's still in very preliminary phases yet, but I'd be curious what they plan to do about battery life for this... with how much location awareness, bluetooth and other technologies suck my smartphone's battery, I have a hard time seeing this project getting around those same issues.

I think I would have used a wood color and molding style that better matched the existing door frame.

There are free alternatives for Windows that are just as nice and have similar function. SpeQ is one. SpeedCrunch is another.

If you attached the panels to a eReader cover (especially a 'flip-open') cover, the panels could be exposed to sunlight while reading.

The Color Nook has adjustable brightness that can be set bright enough to read outside in daylight. And the size is much more comfortable for reading than an iPad. The Color Nook is about the size and weight of a standard hardcover book.

The Nook Color is backlit. It's screen is just like your computer screen. The brightness is very adjustable, so you can read in pitch dark or bright sunlight. If you are reading in the dark, you can change the text to white on black to make it easier on your eyes.

I do wish Thunderbird had better support for a centralized address book. I would love to put a centralized addressbook on my web site or main home computer and be able to sync it with my laptop.

This is becoming less of an issue as we buy more and more online.

Renting can definitely be a better deal at times. We were able to find cheap rent in a nice apartment soon after we got married. By living frugally, 7 years later we could pay cash for a house. (Note: we started renting with no debt)

I use OpenOffice extensively on my laptop, however, I have two complaints about it that make me reluctant to abandon MS Office on my desktop completely:

I had the outage as well, and like others who posted above, I had a similar uninformative error message.

VOTE: Corel PhotoPaint

Worth the wait. For how much I use my browser, it must be stable, so code quality is more important here.

Marry an accountant. That's what I did. And she's good looking too :-). She is careful with money, so I save more. She manages everything well in Quickbooks, so I know where my money is going. And she knows all the tax deductions I can reasonably take to achieve the most savings.

I'd like to see a comparison of this to Notepad++.

Firefox

@deleicht: Have you tried Greasemonkey? Especially for major news websites, you can often find prewritten scripts that will remove bloat as soon as the page bloat (without you clicking on anything).

@st3ph3n: