Google Reader - I've tried to explain it, but my friends just don't get it.

Yeah, I use bitpim to get my contact lists off old phones and onto the new phones whenever I switch, and to a lesser degree to get games and stuff, depending on the phone and what's supported.

Larger button surface = less missing the back button = more productivity.

This would have been great a month ago.

My girlfriend's EEEPC just got smarter than me

I actually hadn't seen any yet, I wonder if it had to do with adblockplus?

@downstairs:

@ross.m:

Icon Effects; another world first for Windows!

Linux running gnome

Now you too can be a bulk email magnate!

Oh, I got excited for a second and though I could block all application invites.

Alternatively;

Deluge (torrent client) has a plugin that does the same thing. Also works in the windows version.

Ubuntu as my primary desktop for over a year, the only OS installed since last month.

Is it pretty? (On Linux)

@Confuzius:

Every once in a while I go the full monty.

I have a vertical toolbar on the left side, about 1" wide with shortcuts to all of my various excel and word template for customer quotes and follow-ups. And a folder with just the "arrows" showing that I click and it brings up a list of all of my price lists.

My girlfriend used it to map coordinates of Paleolithic Gravesites for an archeology paper... Other than that *shrug*