"Although the old adage about not buying a redesigned model in the first year generally no longer applies..."

I recently read in a photo magazine about an outfit called Shoe Box Reprints. You send them a box full of prints and they send you a CD of digitized files. Pricing is $49.99 per 1,000 photos. That's not too bad.

Whoops — when I said "Cryptonite," I meant "Carbonite". I'm getting my pop culture lexicon all jumbled.

What happens if you already have an application (let's say Cryptonite) that's putting icons on your folders? Do they play nice or do they clobber each other?

Consider this a "me three" for CustomizeGoogle.

Also, "at this moment in time" is silly because it's five words, and English has an ample supply of words to express points in time.

I believe "utilize" fell into "MBA speak" — a small catalog of words repeated excessively and applied liberally without regard for their intended meaning. Eventually these words saturate everything said or written by MBA types until you wish you had never heard them. Examples, besides "utilize" include "paradigm"…

I think the best tip I've ever been given to strengthen my writing is to prefer strong verbs over weaker verb-preposition combinations. This sounds lofty, but it's actually quite simple. Here are some example substitutions.

I don't have an organization scheme for projects. I keep meaning to check out GTD but I haven't been able to get that done.

"with that the USB 2.0 ports on my computer are seen as 1.0"

I started using Carbonite recently to back up my data. I gave it a spin on my laptop (which doesn't have much real data on it) then installed it on my desktop, which has about 30gigs of real data. It's been a few days and the initial backup is still running.

An alternate approach (which also happens to be the approach that I use) is Portable FireFox + ScrapBook ( = Crazy Delicious). The ScrapBook extension mirrors a page (and, optionally, linked pages) to your local drive. It can also capture snippets, style and all. You can prune back captured pages using the DOM…

1) According to my pops (a former auto mechanic), one of the reasons to change the oil when the engine is warm is so that the oil has been sloshing around the block, picking up any sediment and holding it in suspension.

I'd recommend a AAA membership. Even if you only use it once every couple of years it recoups the membership fee.

My experiences with Vonage have been mixed. My complaints about

There is a script for the GreaseMonkey FireFox extension that adds links to Toolhaus feedback directly to eBay pages via two additional tabs in the feedback page. It's called "Show only negative feedback".