Ahh, got it - the flood in Thailand is to blame. Thanks all.

How about Hard Drives? I bought 2TB last March and the same precise drive is considerably expensive right now - maybe I just lucked out last March?

Is switching to the Timeline mandatory? If I don't enable it now, is Facebook going to surprise me with it when I login sometime in the future?

VOTE: FINAL CUT PRO

I use Dropbox for two things: my KeePass databases and as a way of transferring all of my photos from my phone to my desktop quickly and wirelessly.

I agree - I had to do a complete reinstall of 11.10 (Unity) after playing too much with CompizConfig. It was somewhat my own fault as there were plenty of warnings out there, and if I'd done enough digging I probably could have found a way to solve my problems without reinstalling. But regardless, my 11.10 system is…

Yes, I've used this technique since back when Google Voice was still Grand Central. I just remember that my super had difficulty programming in a number from a different area code and had to dig out his instruction manual.

Nice to hear that it works under WINE, but I've been using Linux for sometime and haven't had the need to install WINE yet for anything else. I'm not going to install it just run Spotify. I look forward to a legitimate Linux release, that works for free.

"As we haven’t found a reliable way to display ads yet, this version is only available to Spotify Premium and Unlimited subscribers." - that's not free enough for me.

-1 for Spotify because you can't run their free service on Linux (yet).

I haven't ditched iTunes completely, but I think I have managed to avoid it as much as possible.

VOTE: AMAZON KINDLE STORE

VOTE: Amazon Kindle Store

@Red_Flag Thanks so much for seeing this through. For what it's worth, I did have ABP installed on my Chromium browser (SRWare iron) and didn't notice a problem. I don't have Ghostery installed at all. But that certainly doesn't mean that it wasn't an issue and I'm glad you brought it to the attention of their…

Wow - rightfully so. Thank you.

I too was offended by Dropbox's security and privacy concerns so last week I installed SpiderOak and Wuala on my Ubuntu system (And a big hint: anyone considering either should search for promo codes on both when signing up).

Very nice article and well stated about the Graphics Driver Updates.

Can you use Google Talk with InstantBird securely? The FAQ didn't say, and the Add-ons page is "Over capacity!"

Something else you may want to add to the mix is "Envaulted." For simply using my normal card as I always do, I get 1% back on everything.

Just wondering, using this method, in general, which codec do people generally use and why? h.264 (x264)? MPEG-4 (FFmpeg)?