Happy 5th birthday, AJAX.

That's not OS X font rendering, unless they're using the CoreGraphics libraries from Apple, which are not open source.

Nice idea.

@lhmlco: I would classify the Nano as tiny, and perfectly suited for jogging, etc. It's really not much more expensive than the shuffle, yet it's 1000 times more functional.

Considering that 1. the only way someone would acquire an iPod shuffle is as a door prize or as a gift from a cheap relative, and 2. most people like iPod earbuds, I can't imagine who would be interested in this DIY tutorial.

GeekTool rules. I use it to display my host name and IP address(es) , uptime, and I have it run fortune to display quotes from The Simpsons.

Microsoft started using the old "tiny toolbar" user interface way back in the days of Windows 3.0, and like a virus it spread of most the their software through the 90s. I've never liked it, I can't stand it when other software copies it, and I think it took them way too long to come up with something better and more…

Looks like Microsoft Bob.

@HeffeD: "Trim on Minimize" is a standard feature of Windows memory management, enabled on all apps by default.

Terrible, terrible advice. Do *not* enable trim_on_minimize.

For now, the easiest way is to open a new window, navigate to the site you want, then drag the site to your Top Sites window.

How expected. But me-too efforts just aren't very interesting.

I'm shocked Mapquest is even still around. I guest it's for the Internet Explorer/Hotmail/AOL crowd.

$300 for what amounts to a bug-fixed release of Vista? No thanks.

I haven't used Vista extensively, but I find it amusing how so many people hate that OS when it actually fixes many of the things that suck about Windows:

Trivia: "System Tray" was Microsoft's original name for what we now call the task bar.

I like the mid-90s design esthetics of its user interface.

These aren't 3rd party web browsers, they're just shells around the iPhone's built-in WebKit engine. There are no security vulnerabilities in these apps that aren't in the built-in Safari browser, therefore there's no reason to block them.

What's the current version of Office called?

@Shai: