@jsmorley: Heh, perfect. I also discovered that enabling the Menu toolbar replaces the new button with the traditional menus.

Is the new menu button part of the Firefox chrome? I'm hoping it is, 'cause it'll make it easier for extensions like Personal Menu to upgrade. And frankly I just hate the button. Not in principle, but the bright orange of the current implementation is terrifically distracting.

I've had Unlocker for about a year now, and I've gotten a lot of use out of it. It's particularly useful when an external hard drive is refusing to eject because it's "still in use."

I've done this (entirely by accident) since the 7th grade. There are only two downsides with mine: 1) Nobody, including me, knows how to pronounce it. 2) By sheer coincidence, it was also used by a teenage girl in Chicago. So if you stumble upon a forum thread where I appear to be giving breathless relationship…

@Matt: Excellent. Thanks again.

@Matt: Thanks for this. I didn't know about Notepad++'s auto-upload ability. That's gonna make my life a lot easier.

@Ajh: In 1995, I was graduating from kindergarten. ;) And I started learning HTML on a copy of FrontPage in my high school library. So it's not habit. I genuinely prefer to code first and visualize later. 'Cause when I write the code, I know how it's going to be rendered. If I'm only using a visual editor, I have no…

As a dedicated hand-coder, I wasn't expecting to be terribly interested in this list. But Kompozer looks like it has some uses. And I certainly can't complain about the price tag. Thanks. :)

Any suggestions for reviving a dead laptop battery?

@nate8nate: It's just strange that it makes you drag it, I think, instead of a standard "install" button.

@icecreamman: I'd echo @GrabbinPeelz. If you're in a place where you can plug your laptop into an outlet overnight, I would use Sleep mode exclusively. (This will also let you free up a bunch of hard drive space that's probably being reserved for hibernation.)

@cobi1: Well, the rendering is derived exclusively from the code, not counting minor differences in browser behavior. So a WYSIWYG editor fundamentally works by acting on the HTML.

My thinking is that Opera is the Mac of browsers. It seems to appeal to a specific kind of user, and for that user, it provides a comprehensive, outstanding experience. But it just doesn't quite fit the rest of us, and I can't put my finger on why that is.

@m4nm4n: Damn Lifehacker, giving me ten thousand spoons when all I need is a knife.

Are Lifehacker and its peers able to track readership statistics through feed readers? I ask because a lot of the sites I visit spend a lot of time advertising their email newsletters, Facebook and YouTube subscriptions as a way for readers to show their support, but nobody talks about feeds. As a result, I…

@sfyire: Oh, cool. I continue to believe that YouTube's codec of choice will ultimately determine the global standard. I suppose if Apple can be convinced, it may have the best shot of any of them.

@sfyire: True. Though since they've already put a huge amount of time and effort into standardizing YouTube's library in H.264, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I suppose Firefox is the next target. Once this HTML 5 video codec issue comes to a head, I think Chrome may actually have a shot, depending on how long Mozilla resists acquiring the H.264 license.

VOTE: Notepad + Dropbox

@theotherwhiteboy: Oh, cool! I've been thinking about getting an Android, so this news certainly nudges me a little closer.