Moisturiser on your hands before you start works a treat (although this has to be well rubbed in, otherwise you'll be dodging flying spanners as you work).

Just today I was browsing through the late great Sheldon Brown's site and saw one of his old bikes that he'd unprettified for precisely this purpose.

I discovered the beauty of this the other day in relation to Launchy - simply save your bookmark as per Jason above, and then the wonderful new shiny Launchy 2.0 will index it, and you simply have to Alt+Space your way into Launchy, type 'gm' press tab, then enter your search term.

Nearly psychic, Gina - I've just needed to switch hosts, and as I'm seasonally cash-short looked at 'free' hosting options. [110mb.com] seems pretty good - 5Gb space, domain hosting, all ad free, etc. I've only just started using it, but all seems good so far - don't know if anyone else can attest to longer term…

Re RSS - me too, although I filter with Yahoo pipes, so if they've changed the formatting, it might not be fitting through the pipes for me.

My favourite AHK script is the simplest:

Looking on the bright side, here's my 'How To Enable Unannoying MS Word Features' tip, using a macro to give you a keyboard shortcut to paste unformatted text, which avoids the multiple mouseclick mayhem the buggersome routine otherwise involves. Also more productive than yelling 'I don't want your stinking…

@Pensador: Lower = Better!

@lonesome.goat: You could try separating all of your different tasks into different calendars, which would allow you to colour-code them.

I have to aggree with Mr Oggsync above; Oggsync's really good for us Windows Mobile phone users to sync to GCal. The free version isn't limited to 7 days +/- like the free Goosync, it seems to handle the dreaded recurrent events properly, and it will sync over your phone's internet connection and via connection to a…

I'm going to create a new Google account and import my feeds before testing this one. Not too sure I want to hand over my entire life-in-Gmail-form to strangers.

@neha:

I use Opera Mobile on my Windows Mobile 5 phone, but it's got zilch RSS functionality, so might download mini too and see if it's any use. However, I'd much prefer to use Google Reader, but it's just too damn scripty a page for Op Mob to manage. Anyone know of any web-based RSS readers (so all my feeds are synched…

Well, I'm buggered if I'm typing that out again. I would warn anyone against taking any of the ones from the UK too seriously, however... There's some none-too-subtle mickey-taking going on there. Were I a gallant Wikepedier, I'd correct them.

Er, the ones from the

Dear US Cousins,

I only use itunes to get my music to my ipod, so none of this is make or break for me, but the cover-browser is a nice idea. However, the album art downloading is very poorly implented.

yes, Quickfile is a very useful extension for TB. Even more useful, as if such a thing could be possible, is Nostalgy which not only allows you to file via an autocomplete list, it also allows you to navigate the same way. Even better, it allows you to undo it when your giant clumsy fingers make you file something…