I used to run iTunes on my dual-Xeon and yes it was slow and a resource hog. I got in the habit of closing it every night or when it had gotten up to 2GB of memory, whichever came first. Now I run WinAmp. I've been running WinAmp for weeks now and it currently has 20MB of memory.

This discussion isn't complete without the Foxit PDF preview plug-in for Outlook. Can't live without it.
http://lifehacker.com/5153608/foxitp…

In Oregon, it's legal to turn left on red from a two-way street as long as the road you are turning on to is a one-way steet.
http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/inde…

Just throwing this out there, but Widgetzoid has a 'Volume Control' toggle that does much of the same. It doesn't have Bluetooth volume nor the 'pro' features but it does have all sorts of other options that extend waaaay beyond just sound settings.

I'm a big fan of WeatherBug but I gave this one a shot. Pretty impressive. It has a better selection of widgets that all look nicer than the WeatherBug widgets (that's not saying much but trust me, they look good). The interface is much cleaner and it has cute little effects here and there (the windmills move…

Be careful with that. '.nomedia' doesn't just block Gallery, it blocks the OS media scan. So if Eric thought he was having problems with his album art before, wait until he reboots and his music app can't find the accompanying music.

I'm in this line.

I'm worried how that swipe up gesture cooperates with Google Now on Android 4 devices.

If the sender is on Sprint, MMS kind'a works - the attachment gets sent to Gmail and you get a notification in Voice.

I like it when somebody does something really unique... and this is one of them.

VOTE: Backblaze

That Feedly/RSS tip for Firefox is amazing.

I'm in this line.

This and FF tab groups.

No Evernote?!?

I tried the start screen... it's a good idea on paper (why limit the start menu to a tiny portion of the screen?) but I didn't like it. I went with Classic Start mainly because it's on Ninite. I haven't used the start screen since. Well other than to start the desktop after rebooting. :-)

I ended up writing myself a Greasemonkey/Stylish script to get rid of them. Here's the code for the in-article "related" posts:

Index cards higher than paper clips?!? Oh the outrage!

VOTE: Nexus 4

The link to Google Tasks is broken. Officially it's http://mail.google.com/mail/help/task… but all that does is give you info about Google Tasks, not Tasks itself. Fortunately, there are a handful of Google-supported URLs that will get you Tasks in a browser window: