I'm confused... civil liberties and domestic security are indistinguishable? IMHO, they don't belong on the same line, as it seems many liberties have been removed in the name of security in the last 7 years.

Anyone have an opinion on JungleDisk workgroup edition? It's encrypted, uses Amazon's S3 to provide the storage backend, and runs $2/user/month. Seems like a good comparison to Wrench.

any insight in what makes this better than Mowser?

The arbitrary and capricious nature of the App Store is disconcerting, as is Apple's arguably paternalistic approach. I certainly do appreciate Apple's overall design ethos (good design, like art, often requires tight control), but I agree with some of Zittrain's points about the dangers of the iPhone.

"lightening fast" shouldn't have an "e"

Vote: Password Maker (generates password hashes on the fly. See their website.)

@tmanAg08: and it was profiled on Lifehacker in 2006.

I've been quite satisfied with Yahoo! Pipes to scrape pages and generate feeds. It may not be as easy as some of the above methods, but the degree of control is pretty great. For example, all grade-school jobs in Maine seem to be posted to a site that has no feeds, but with a little elbow grease, it can be done.

In general, I think the changes are for the better, and the underlying CSS looks cleaner too-nice work!

I love my shut off valve. Without it, water flows through the head as fast as it can. With it, I have more control over the rate. Rarely do I shut it off, but I always slow it down.

So no one is using this yet? I'm a little surprised, but maybe there are too many privacy issues around this and not enough obvious utility (yet).

I've used contact paper that I found at home depot to "make private" our bathroom windows. It is plastic-y, with an adhesive backing, and it had a very subtle pattern that is effective in scattering the light.

I have no problem leaving System Restore running on my boot partition, but why wouldn't you want to disable it on all your other partitions???

How does this compare to Blinksale.com (profiled at least twice on Lifehacker)?

I'm confused by the title of this post-doesn't "Google Apps" refer to the suite of products that was at one time called "Google Apps for Your Domain"?

@Sanja: in Gmail you could use the new filter option to Never Send It to Spam.

@Boter: I think they still need "probable cause"? I mean they can't just stop John Q. Public and seize his belongings without a reason.

@jonny6pak: agreed. Zittrain makes a good point about how gadgets like the iPhone may be killing the internet.

This was a great tool, but it looks like it's become a pay service... bummer!

Wouldn't SyncToy be a good choice for this too? It looks like it gives a bit more control over the modes of syncing (echo, subscribe, etc).