@jim valentin: Yeah, when I see "cya", "laters", or anything with a "z" in place of an "s", I die a little inside. Does that make me a snob?

@Whitson Gordon: Mac thing maybe? I miss my MBP [sadly stolen] because OSX seems better with standardized hotkeys.

email type = sign off

@maltesh: For the chrome web store, have you been able to find a way to search on only packaged apps? It's been bothering me that there's no way to specifically filter out the hosted apps.

Great job putting all of these things together, Whitson. Combine these with a good ol' fashioned CTRL+T or CTRL+L (substitute with CMD for your OS X) in Chrome and you can say goodbye to the mouse most of the time.

Happy new years everyone! New home-brewer here (got a kit for Xmas) and I have questions.

@agent_fsh: You don't need to use the contextual search options for 'near' searches. I stripped that stuff out of the url and got it working using the global search like this...

Now that necessary step is finished...bring on Chrome OS!

@Webran61: Ummmm...awesome! Thanks so much.

@Whitson Gordon: Right you are. Thanks for the link.

@Whitson Gordon: Probably done already, but you got one of them; there's still one (bottom) that goes to wwwmint.com.

@ddmeightball: Have you tried OnTopReplica? It's great for handling pesky, non-resizeable flash video. [ontopreplica.codeplex.com]

@Chispea: We always enjoyed a good book on tape on our family road trips.

I first heard about Movember in New Zealand. I'm glad to see it making an appearance in the northern hemisphere. I'm especially glad to see that the original intent of prostate cancer awareness/research has remained intact on the journey.

Now's our chance...

Question about eReaders:

@Hasteur: Joined a NHL fantasy hockey league, though week one is going poorly.

@hewhoroams: Agreed. From what I've seen, WP7 brings no game changer to the table.

@Terry: Seconded

@robertpolson: Not by default, but you can still get it at: