Awesome! And congrats!

Ok, this is an amazing piece of software. I've been throwing some pretty rare albums at the "Auto-tag from Amazon" function, and it's hardly missing a beat! (lame pun intended)

For those of you looking to sync your firefox extensions, themes, bookmarks, etc... Look to FEBE and CLEO. Both just released new versions that allow scheduled backups. Run that and Serv-U (If you need instructions try this link: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/home-… )

Maybe a nice guide to codecs... cover the basics like the differences between DivX and XVID. I don't know how many times I've been called up for video problems and found it was just a missing codec. Same goes for audio.

You can also use gMail Manager 0.5.3 for Firefox to keep track of your gMail accounts all at once. I use it for my single account but it supports multiple accounts really nicely.

Because pre-RC2 doesn't do it on it's own. :)

Not to take the readers away from the original topic of this post, but to answer Narsil's question, yes the disk offered by Ubuntu is a live CD. Actually, to be more accurate it's both. The live CD doubles as an installation disk. So if you like the Live version, you can use the same disk to install the standalone OS.

Not that I wish to lead the discussion away from the original post discussing the learning of Linux, but yes Narsil these are live CDs. Actually, to be more accurate, they are both live CDs and installation disks in one. The folks in charge of Ubuntu's development were aparently thinking ahead and decided to create a…

Burn it to CD...why? I went ahead and had them send me 10 free copies of Ubuntu so I can have one for me and get some friends hooked too! Visit here for details.

I never would have pictured myself using an app instead of Photoshop, but I'm constantly making some minor (and occasionally major) adjustments to my photos in Google's Picasa 2. It's really a great application with a wealth of features from your basic touch-ups to online publishing and quick e-mail attachments from…

Well, when it does get working, I'm sure I'll be impressed! And I look forward to seeing everyone's avatars. :D

Great! I was waiting for something like this to come along!

I love using MSN Messenger and have become quite fond of MSN's new Beta Messenger. However, with every Windows XP installation comes "Windows Messenger". This bad boy opens every time you want to use Outlook and usually starts when windows does even if you can't see it in the tray.