@apl415: Skobbler does this...As long as you don't switch out of it once you leave the Wi-fi connection range.

Actually used this on an iPod touch on the way to work. Compared to the Where app (the only other offline-operating turn-by-turn directions app I've used) this worked pretty well for me...as long as I set my destination in an area where I could get a wi-fi connection.

@doctorrobert: It would be extremely nifty if research was something that went quickly enough that it was something you could afford to wait to do it until you needed it.

I have to say, as free turn-by-turn directions on the GPS-less iPod touch goes, Skobbler has been the best that I've tried. Wouldn't work on a highway, of course, but in my city, it works fairly well on the short jaunts, as long as I set destination in a wi-fi region. I've not yet wound up in grey-gridded wilderness.

@Sean Turvey: Indeed. A few months back, I threw together a Yahoo pipe to pull in the Google Doodles from a few dozen countries, so I didn't have to wait for the official Google Doodles page to show them several days afterwards.

According to the Ars Technica article, it only gets installed if you have the Bing toolbar installed.

@TheShepherd: Another alternative is to use the SSL (https) version, at "https://www.google.com"

@kavka: In most cases, it would be legal, even if it wasn't anonymous, assuming the person who owned the recording gave permission for it to be posted.

@kavka: In many states, it's legal to record calls as long as one person in the call knows it's being recorded, and second, almost every customer service hotline will tell you that the call is being recorded when you call.

In the actual interview he's more touting the convenience of using the machine many people already use to watch movies to get their streamed video.

Vectormagic was free in 2007.

Both. Dropbox for computers I trust, thumb drive for computers I don't.

@Pseudo_Hakim: There's a menu option to turn off the Samsung melody.

@zrag: I generally find that it takes up to 24 hours after the blog post for these things to show up in my account.

@Seeräuber Jenny: Can't remember the last time I used stars. Now I tag everything I want to revisit later. "toDo" for items I want to try later, "toView," for things I want to watch later, and so on.

What am I going to do with my twenty-four invites now?

@gonzorider: Indeed. I've seen programs that will do that so I don't have to worry about carefully timing the startup of the desktop slide show, but I hadn't seen any that were actually free, unfortunately.

@jazmatician: by a "wallpaper clock" I meant "Something that would change the desktop wallpaper at a specific time of day to a specific wallpaper of a set." While Windows 7 can change the wallpaper every hour, making sure that the "6PM" wallpaper appears at 6PM requires more fiddling than the Win & desktop…