Well, thanks for calling me a fool. ;) But whether it's Windows itself or Windows applications, it doesn't make much difference to the end user. Installing fonts slows things down, and this is a way to mitigate that problem.

Windows is notorious for getting sluggish when there are too many fonts installed. So I keep only my basic and frequently-used fonts in the Windows font folder. The rest, I keep in NexusFont.

If my employee can do the work that's expected of him, I say let him work however he wants. If he can't, I'm not going to micromanage his behavior - I'm going to give his desk to someone else. (Ain't no shortage of applicants these days, after all.)

I'm excited about this. As much as I try to avoid paying for software, this may justify the $5 cost of Trillian for Android.

Oh, I know. I'm not unsympathetic to that. I just wouldn't want us to forsake a better way of doing things in favor of the traditional way, at least in the absence of a compelling reason to keep it.

IMAP keeps your online email and local email synchronized. Anything that you move or delete on one system will be reflected on the other. POP, on the other hand, works more like forwarding: it downloads a one-time copy of each of your messages, and those copies will be preserved no matter what happens to the…

I don't think it's about a loss of confidence. It's just about acknowledging that disaster can befall even the most reliable systems, and there's no reason not to be prepared for it. Especially in this case. Stocking canned goods is one thing, but the methods described in this article are not only cheap (if not free),…

Some people prefer POP to IMAP for backup purposes. IMAP is a synchronizing service, so if messages disappear from the source, they'll be deleted from the client as well. POP, on the other hand, is a one-time forwarding action which poses no risk to existing copies.

I do this - not because of the recession or anything, I've just always been that way. I hate spending money, I hate accumulating crap that I don't know how to get rid of, and I hate retiring a tool before I've gotten all the value out of it.

Excellent. Thanks!

Fair enough. If I were them, I'd actually do exactly that (not to punish the user, but just to minimize and streamline the collective Gmail database). Fits with what they were going for with Wave.

I'd love to know where that wallpaper came from. :)

Well, not personal, just baffled. I see people complaining about a service they use that is not working as advertised, which seems pretty reasonable to me. The "purpose" of Gmail is not bound by iron laws, nor, again, does it seem relevant to the expectations of Gmail users in this case. I don't see business-oriented…

I've read them all.

Technically, nothing. I don't like to have anything in my taskbar except what's actually running. I launch most apps with either Launchy (like Spotlight or Quicksilver on OS X) or a global hotkey.

I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. The article is about ways to ensure access to your email in the event of a system error like the one that just happened. It is offering free and legal tools for people to take responsibility for their own data instead of placing their faith in an online service. I don't…

As long as you back up the IMAP database - backup the backup, in other words - it's fine.

Strange. I thought showing URLs in the address bar made an awful lot of sense. I was using the Fission extension in FF 3.x to do exactly that.

Everyone is imperfect. Everyone makes mistakes. And even if Google were perfect, and never made mistakes, the probability of a catastrophic accident is never zero. Remember, too, that it's not just about the source, but also the medium: if I'm in a scenario where I can't access the Internet, Google's quintuple backups…

In Tools > Account Settings, find your IMAP account and go to the tab "Synchronization and Storage." Make sure the following options are selected: