I love it. Bold, which is what Microsoft needs to be if they have any chance of success.

It was for me — 99 cents as of about 2:15 PM Pacific, Monday.

Yeah. What they mean is leave the lid off the rectangular tank above the toilet bowl and let your cat drink from that, which is clean water uncontaminated by whatever we do into the bowl.

1. Costco. As with most things there, they don't offer a vast range, but what they do have will be well priced and good, if not great, choices.

Probably makes no major difference. If the car starts more easily with a little touch of the gas pedal, go ahead, it won't harm anything, might even help by reducing starter and battery load. On older cars it was often necessary. On newer cars, the computer handles everything. What I would not recommend is pumping the…

+1 with regard to Fry's returns. Danger.

Nice app!! Looks like it's just what I have been wanting for use in the car.

All the suggested alternatives are fine but really, I find it hard to pass up any chance to use power tools in the kitchen.

I keep a blade-type coffee grinder just for spices. At about $15, it's a good investment.

Mostly curiosity for me. I used it to see how much energy a coffeepot uses when in warming mode (very little). I use the Belkin on my Mac because its fans were kicking on and I wanted to see how much power it was using. It gave me an instantaneous reading of the power to help diagnose what processes were sucking up…

I have one of these and it works really well.

Blue painter's tape is great for freezer labels. Sticks to anything, stays stuck at freezer temperature, and comes off easily.

A month ago, I set the outside temperature display on my car to read in degrees C. Over time, I am gaining an intuitive sense of the Celsius scale.

My dogs do such a good job, I don't need the dishwasher.

Consumer Reports disagrees with your repair folks. No need to pre-wash. Scrape away the major solids, so you're not depending on the dishwasher's waste grinder.

Well then, you won'y need the Velcro.

Hard to tell. By the time others' behavior would indicate it (if you even can notice it), it would be too late. So be conservative — if you think you might be, that's the perfect time to ask the other folks a question about themselves.

I wasn't sure this would be worth the time (somewhat ironically) but it was. Great compendium of productivity and life focus ideas. Definite +1.

That's a pretty doubtable fact, considering the literally millions of power switches that are designed and manufactured and in constant use. Balance the longshot possibility that the physical switch could fail against the very real cost of electricity.

No. The drive is in its own sufficiently rigid enclosure that it won't get warped if you use your laptop on your lap. Angle also doesn't matter.