Not only is ghostwriter not showing as FREE, it's showing at higher than your quoted initial price.

No no, Adam, don't go pissing logic on his SuperiorityWhine.

I use this method — upside down cutting — largely to reduce the amount of crumb that shoots out from a good crusty bread.

You're. At least twice. I'm fairly certain you don't hire at firms _I_ wish to work for.

I eat most of my meals with chopsticks — just find them very convenient and comfortable. And, as an added bonus, eating with chopsticks tends to slow your pace of eating, reducing the likelihood of overeating.

And the Secrets control panel (blacktree.com) allows you to turn this on/off as well, as part of a much larger array of hidden feature/tweaks.

iStatPro has a "show processes" option that will reveal the top 5-6, surely enough to get a sense of what's hogging CPU cycles.

BIG fan of the tiny Maintidget: it monitors whether daily, weekly, monthly maintenance scripts have been run and allows with push of a button for them to be run. When the Mac starts to run a little odd, a quick glance might reveal that, say, daily and monthly scripts have run on schedule, but weekly's not been run…

I learned a good knot variation for preventing knots from untying that still allows you to untie with a single pull: instead of going around the thumb ONCE and then tucking the loop through, go around the thumb TWICE. At first, it's annoying to consider, but once you're in the habit, twice will become automatic and…

Concur.

Blacktree — the maker of Quicksilver — puts out a System Preferences plugin called Secrets that does a lot of these for you.

I only accept friend requests from people I don't know.

Nice list. Gonna add a +1 on the socks — apparently GIs in Viet Nam used to write home clamoring for them more than just about anything else: once your feet start to suffer, you were HOSED (but not in a "get sent home" sorta WOO-HOO way...).

Should avoid keeping your wallet in your back pocket, anyway: it makes you sit unevenly (bad for posture, hips, back) and is far far easier for pickpockets to access.

Absolutely. I infinitely prefer IM to just about any other form of written communication.

love me that XFCE

It depends upon the Netbook (and its internals), really. My Lenovo S10-3 will run any bloody thing (including MacOS) on its Atom processor. Its bigger brother, the S205, will ONLY run Fedora (but it runs it beautifully) — nothing else would go on that bloody Fusion processor. And this is AFTER the live USB tests…

I saw him as seriously sated after having sampled so many distros...

I've read that efficiency is best at one 27" monitor or dual 22"ers. Larger/more sees a decrease in overall efficiency.

What's funny is that any QS v Alfred search/discussion ends up tossing LaunchBar into the fray, as well, yet each seems subtly different in scope. I love me my QS, but I'm willing to try new things (it says so.. there, on that bathroom wall..) but dislike Alfred's PowerPack-to-achieve-functionality so I'll start with…