@the_berg: Excellent! Thanks for that info.

@Civ2boss: There is, but even the online version doesn't support Linux. Plus the monthly cost of the online version is a lot more than the cost of the desktop version averaged over it's 3 year support life.

@Dave Quick:

@randomroyalty: Exactly my problem. The only reason I still have a Windows machine & haven't moved entirely over to Linux is the Adobe/Quickbooks issue. If there was a way to make CS4/CS5 Master Collection & Quickbooks run on Linux, I would never use Windows again.

If someone could point me to a Free/Open Citrix alternative that will let me host a Quickbooks instance from home, I'll get rid of Windows completely (as it is, I only have 1 Windows machine that I use for Quickbooks and the Adobe Master Collection. Adobe I can find alternatives for, but I haven't found a…

@dinkydarko: ChromeOS is still Linux.. you just have to root. Once that's done, install whatever desktop manager you want.

@James Dedon: Have you considered using PicasaWeb? [picasaweb.google.com]

@longooglite: +1

@YourSaltyPinkDeathNuts: There have been a few different articles on Lifehacker about the "+" option.

@Kalemic: If you transition your Apps account to the new full access type, it's just like a standard Google account (accessing all Google services).

@IamFuzzles: If all you want is the Google apps e-mail, just register the domain through Google ($10/year) at:

@stopNgoBeau: Maybe not, but even the free apps accounts allow 50 "users" (at over 7GB of storage per account, that's 350GB+ of e-mail... who has that much?), so when one account is full, just create a new user called "archive1" or something, and move all the stuff that's filling up your main user account over to that…

@Riff-Raff: If you just want apps, register through Google.

@TheMugs: You can register a domain name through the gApps setup wizard.

I believe you can actually register a domain through the Google Apps setup form, so if that's your only reason for registering the domain name, might as well just do it that way.

@I'm a PC: My thoughts exactly. If it's not able to base the "good speed" on the actual "posted speed limit", then it's not worth the time it takes to download/install.

@monkeybusiness: +1!! Wow.. That made me laugh. Good Job!

@Akesan: Link's too long.. run it through bit.ly, j.mp, or some other shortener. I don't use Chrome enough to care, but someone might.

@Robert Gormley: +5 because +1 just doesn't cover that level of win.

Has anyone figured out how to make the TweetDeck webapp use a custom bit.ly api? I just got my company bit.ly pro account and short domain set up last week, and it'd be a shame not to have it auto-shorten to the custom domain anymore.