@hengehog: Wasn't able to get Synergy to work for me whereas Teleport was prettymuch a fire-and-forget sorta app.

@GoodBytes: MacOS has this: Teleport ([abyssoft.com]). It works perfectly (I have 3 different computers arrayed about and it works among them all with a quick spin of the trackball) as long as you have the correct OS combo (Tiger Leopard is fine, SL SL is fine, Tiger SL). Uses Bonjour, passes clipboard data.. it's…

@phoenix: good question. Few, I think, use it to its capacity; I know I don't. But I luff it.

@danielkza: I read a description of firefox that began, "... that virtual memory stress test application known as Firefox.."

@roseyeagle: I know noone wants to hear "Get a Mac!" as the answer, but, really, getting my grandfather and mom off PCs and onto Macs significantly reduced the techsupport calls to me.

@moe52: For mac users, TeamViewer works very well and even the most inept can doubleclick an icon and read over the phone the two sets of #s needed for me to connect to their computer.

Get Foxit off this list: now that they're actively pushing toolbar and other crap on install, it's more of a pain than its worth.

@jupiterthunder: But IF there was a guy named "nicubuntu", you'd totally expect him to look like that guy.

@infmom: And it's just rude! #iphone

@TheFu: Foldershare (now Windows Live Mesh) creates a P2P link 'tween your computers; the data doesn't actually exist anywhere else. So it's more like a diffused RAID system than an online backup plan.

@Intelext: I dislike it rather intensely — it's too "Windows-y," esp now as KDE4.3 and Win7/Aero appear to be long-lost twins. #opensuse

@bachya: I use a widget called Application Update. Unfortunately, although it scans your whole catalog of installed apps and alerts you to updates (via MacUpdate or VersionTracker or both), you have to manually click to download and then initiate the actual installation, making it less of a complete deal than any…

@lawt: Man, putting a flash drive in your machine that's been elsewhere is like dipping your wick in the college "welcoming committee." You're just ASKING for trouble. #security

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: You make several valid points, but one underlying theme of the Geek's article is that such protection — valid or not — comes at a CPU cost.

@FrancesTheMute: I like MSE's smaller footprint, but worry that their updates won't be as constant or consistent (or thorough) as those of a company dedicated to finding/fighting viruses. How can it be? #security

@ersistepings: oh.. I just install Launchy on my XP VMs and Gnome Do on my linux ones... though I sure miss the other features of QS when not Mac'ing. #quicksilver

@dvsboy: Sure, if I only wanted to search for stuff. But that's a bare minimum of what I ask QS to do on a daily (hourly? half-hourly? not-quite-minutely?) basis. #quicksilver

@Phoshi: ClamAV may be great, but every time I've had to run it (that is, initiate a scan), it's been DOG slow. Something that makes me fearful of using it isn't going to have me use it often. #antivirus

@gpzbc: nice.. Troll much? #antivirus

@ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD: I had such a freaking awful time trying to uninstall Malwarebytes that I've permanently relegated it to "malware" category, just for that. #antivirus