And you proceeded to click on the wrong result. :) You need discipline to see it through!

I love my Artifact - best keychain blade I've spent money on.

Glad you don't need them. My personal ratio of twist / pop is much different, so we are fortunate that there are tools besides bottle openers that you can buy, yes?

Hmm.. Direction following fail? The point of the scavenger hunt is the processes, not the result.

Is a waldo really a robot?

"would YOU pay $180 for this ... "

Why does your internet need to be that fast, to justify those wireless speeds? I move as much data in my network as I do with the outside world. Video & music streaming, backups to NAS, LAN gaming. Plenty of use for higher network speeds.

Exactly. No single app will use up all your CPU time, unless they were written specifically for it. But you sure can run a lot more of those little apps to use it all. :)

Because I always feel compelled to speak up in defense of the frequently overlooked Barcode Scanner — Barcode Scanner does all of that, and you often need to install it anyway, if another app chooses to "outsource" barcode scanning, since it's become the defacto scanning library for Android.

Its a matter of preference, so there isn't exactly a lot of correcting to do. Goggles is much faster than it was before, but I think Barcode Scanner is still the lighter and faster of the two apps. If you don't need all the Goggles extras, why install it all? Plus, Barcode Scanner is the defacto scanning library for…

Yeah, I'm one of those weird splits of loving heavy duty hardware and cloud software. Big tri-monitor setup at home, duals at work, scads of local storage and horsepower. But I like getting to all my files wherever I am, so lots of cloud use too. The firesafe drive for pics just seemed like a sound investment, and…

I can't verify yet how well it works, but its my hunch that it'll be good - I've been considering that already, myself. I keep my pics on a NAS & one way sync to a firesafe drive currently, but I've considered using Picasa / PicasaWeb for an additional offsite backup. I tested it to the limits of the free storage…

Yeah. I look at complete backup solutions and it just seems like un neccesary hording to me. I have a firesafe drive that sync a copy of my pictures (family photos are entirely digital, so that's an absolute must) and Quicken backups to. Other than that, it's expendable and not worth the effort / expense to backup.

I'm using SyncBack to backup my picture collection from my NAS to a firesafe external on my desktop, and it sounds like it'll do the trick for what you're wanting. You can customize just about any aspect of the sync that I could think of, and the files are simply mirrored to your backup medium with directory structure…

Vista would have been a better candidate for the skip. There's still plenty of time for 7, move on up so you don't have to suffer any longer. Even if you're perfectly happy with Vista — that just means the UI changes won't be a hurdle and you'll only reap the benefits of a faster and more stable system.

Yes, to get Gigabit speeds you need gigabit connections end to end - from your home to the server at the far end. That's unlikely to happen, but presumably Google will provide something close to gigabit as far as one or more of the major backbones, so you'll get a definite speed boost. After a certain point, faster…

Only tried the Gmail one so far, but nice work!

"e" is Archive, yes. "y" removes it from the current view, which fits my usage a little better and accomplishes the same thing. Wherever this item is, take it out. So, Inbox > Archive. Trash > Inbox. Label > Unlabeled. Starred > Unstar.

Radiation hardening and reliability are absolutely critical when you put a microprocessor in a hostile environment like space. Especially moving closer to sun. And no one can go swap it out if it fails. So space missions tend towards hardware with very basic (more robust) designs that have proven themselves over…

Must see - The Impotence of Proofreading.