I'm with Fabrictramp. I use cloud services but I back up my data locally. It's annoying when Gmail goes down, but even if they evaporated tomorrow I'd still have my important data.

Pretty nice. I did have it crash on me though (on an [espn.com] link)

As others have said, this baby has had a very long gestation period. Now that I see 1.0, I'm intrigued but puzzled. I suspect that there's something to the way they've integrated notes and events, but this version is far from being a usable day-to-day tool. There's effectively no email integration, for one thing. You…

Looks have almost nothing to do with it for me. Work out of the box (or at least with minimal driver downloading) with wireless networking, multiple monitors, bluetooth, and printers and you're on your way.

Netflix is great. Not only is it convenient, the selection is fantastic. I think the article fails to recognize that many of us do weigh the cost of factors like selection and convenience and decide to pay for them. If I compare the number of Netflix DVDs I've watched to the total cost I've sunk into the subscription,…

I turn the light on when it's dark.

Vote: Find and run robot.

I'll second the comment about trip planning. Google Earth is very useful for checking out an unknown area and quickly seeing where the hotels are relative to each other and to interesting sites. Add in the photos that people have posted and you get a nice overview of an area.

99% of my interaction with GMail is through IMAP. While I do "delete" messages from Thunderbird, that just marks them as IMAP/Trash in GMail. So nothing ever really goes away.

99% of my Gmail interaction is via IMAP. While I delete stuff from Thunderbird, it just ends up marked as IMAP/Trash in GMail, so it never really goes away.

I'd suggest C. The question isn't "What's the best programming language?" but rather "What's the best programming language to learn first?" If you work in C you'll be closer to the machine, which helps you understand why certain programming practices are better than others. Even if you wind up doing 95% of your…