Cool project but it assumes that you can run wire from your mailbox to your home. If that's easy to do, then checking your mail is probably easy to do as well, so what's the point? My mailbox is up a hill about 100 yards from my front door. So it'd be cool to be notified when the mail's delivered, but running a cable…

@RickS: I just flew with one and had no trouble. Of course TSA can be a bit random, but this is so small that I don't think it'll ever be an issue.

Love me the AutoHotkey. The alt-click to drag script here is very nice. And the idea to map special characters to little AHK scripts is simple but very useful.

I envision the paint below the switch plate becoming scratched from keys constantly being banged against it. I think this would look pretty shoddy after a bit of use. #memory

Most of the benefits of desktop email have already been mentioned: offline access, the ability to deal with lots of messages at one time rather than by 50 message pagefuls, etc. The other nice thing is working in a UI that is specific to email. It's not an interface within an interface (your browser).

jarmod nails it. I'd like to see some performance analysis of a system before and after "cleaning" the registry.

These lists crack me up. It's pretty simple to tell what's healthy and what's not. If it's fried, full of sugar, or doused in heavy dairy products, then it's probably not real healthy. Many of the items on this list fit in more than one of those categories. If you're unsure, just look at the label and check the…

I had a similar experience to Gener4l_Ts0. The monitor was chewing up CPU like crazy. Unacceptable.

Time is more valuable than money

When layoffs are looming the #1 priority becomes hanging onto your job. This does not promote bold decision-making. What it does is cause everyone to effectively do nothing and try to blend into the wallpaper.

A few have already said it, but walk like you know where you are going even when you don't. Get out of the way to look at the map — duck into store or even a doorway. Don't just stand there in the middle of the sidewalk gawking.

So far I'm a bit underwhelmed. I know it's a beta and perhaps there is more coming in the final release, but there aren't huge improvements over TBird2 with Lightning 0.9 here that I can see. Still a good client, though.

I tried it out. I like the layout and the idea, but it's far from complete. Thunderbird extensions, upon which I depend heavily, tend to not work as they are not compatible with Spicebird. The calendar layout is pretty bad. And the "today" screen seems to have some problems — email widgets did not update, for example.

@maex: Agree 100%. Good system explorer, but why does it feel it needs to be an app launcher too? I already have an app launcher.

I would absolutely miss newspapers. I read through my local paper (the Los Angeles Times) every morning. And I do learn things from it. The form factor of newspapers makes it much easier to browse for content that you didn't even know you were looking for. I can scan through a 24-page front section much faster than I…

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I've experienced a number of GMail outages, probably 10-12. They never last long, but they are annoying when they do occur. Not so much because I absolutely need to see email right this second, but because Thunderbird tends to deal poorly with IMAP connections that go away. Not a GMail problem, obviously, but it turns…

You can be sure that nobody is going with Windows because of brain damaged bundled apps like Outlook Express. People go with Windows for two reasons: 1. Everybody already knows it; 2. There are tons of applications written for it.

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