GMail isn't a business tool for me, but when the server goes down at work, people use that time to organize and clean their offices. The server once crashed and took a full day to restore(one of those worst case scenarios that you don't think are possible), the next day the office was cleaner and more organized than…

@shallnot: My thoughts exactly. Mint was great competition for Intuit, and they need it. I work IT for an accounting firm and Quickbooks has had nothing but facelifts with no real improvements in at least 8 years, and the same goes with their tax software. Intuit is in some dire need of competition.

@1112: Because I don't want any plugin loading. I've already got a fully featured browser, and plugins just cause trouble.

Who wants to make an extension/greasemonkey script to replace the embedded adobe PDF viewer with Google's?

@Phoshi: When you see the scrolling text, you know you have finally broke into the matrix!

@OCEntertainment: I agree. The growl like notifications added to Ubuntu are fantastic. I hated tip balloons. They are incredibly annoying and have a bad habit of not going away when they are supposed to. They can also only show one at a time. Ubuntu notifications work great, and they have a method for programs to…

In the south Windy's used to have a burger called "The Carolina Classic"(at least it was called that in NC), which was chilly and slaw on a 1/4lb burger. Although it is no longer on the menu, if you ask for it they will make it. It's a nasty burger, but some people around the office still get it almost weekly.

@Toribor: I often get a chicken parm at Quizno's, but you wont find it on their menu. Basically you get a chicken sub(any type will do, they are all the same price now), and have them take the sauce from the meatballs instead of the, say, honey bourbon. Once ran through the toaster it is quite good.

@sardonicbastard: I do this as well, mostly. I use Google for my main domain's email, then my throw away domain I have cacheall autoforwarded to my Google domain. Then I can go back and blacklist the bad email addresses if they get over exposed. This also serves as double duty as I can have any email address at my…

Yes, very nice. My only issue is that bettergreader isn't doing a favicon count for some reason. I'll have to figure that out. This setup, however, is going right to my netbook. Especially with the fission tip that puts the link address in the address bar, it both makes since and efficient use of my screenspace.

Glad to see Pidgin moving. It seems like I haven't seen a notable improvement in years. It is still my top IM, but the lack of file transfer for gtalk was a major problem for me.

Vote: VLC

I'm currently an MX-Revolution user, but it replaced my real favorite mouse, the MX-1000. Besides dying on me, it was by a very large margin the best mouse I have used to date. My MX-Rev is great, but the tilting scroll wheel makes it hard to use as a "push to talk" button, as I tend to accidentally tilt it and in…

There is another, I'm not sure how it compares, but there is also GDial. I believe GDial came first, but I haven't yet ran either through its paces, so no clue as to quality. [forums.precentral.net]

As a lefty, my handwriting is horrible all the time, but in my experience, my print is legible, even if laughable. That said, I carry around my smart phone and use it to jot notes down, and I can even send someone an email if they need the info. I do have to write from time to time, and it is always in print.

@luzar: As for the syncing, it's pretty well known how the iPod syncs, as there are plenty of 3rd party tools that will sync an iPod without iTunes, Palm just took it in the other direction.

@y0urm0msname: I often have this issue. I had the money reserved for a HDTV for about a year and a half. I kept having to do research over and over again because I'd get overwhelmed with options, take a break from researching, then find that my information is out of date when I was interested again.

As many have said, this method is flawed, or at least the explanation of it is. By doing it this way you are essentially telling yourself that an item costs twice what it does. Now if it was laid out as "A stranger offers you $3 or a free coffee" that would fit a bit better. Me, not being a coffee guy would take the…

Pretty cool. It would be nice to have a poster(everything being 1:1 scale). I often run into hardware that I'm not sure of "Is this a DDR or DDR2 stick of RAM" "Is that a 939 or 754 socket CPU." These things look too much alike.

I normally grumble deeply in what seems to be cussing, but none of it is actual full words, they stop short or mutate mid word. It is basically cussing without actually cussing. It ends up much like a growl. This method works in all company and rarely nets me any trouble. I also sometimes fill my cheeks with air and…