@Barts: Not free, but Vegas Movie Studio HD looks great for $40.

Mystery meat. I'll be surprised if this tests well with users.

I've used TightVNC quite a lot, but found I prefer plain old RDC over SSH (on a custom port).

An audio feed would be better than 100s of broken video feeds.

I wish o wish Opera's search box had auto-suggest. I love using the FF Google search as an instant calculator.

Since the From: header is easily forged, spammers will eventually start using this service to queue messages to be "re"sent to legit addresses. It's a nice idea, though.

This looks like FolderShare with a backup server. "Unlimited storage"? We'll see how long that lasts.

This seems like the first really meaty Vista feature that wouldn't be easily duplicated in XP by a 3rd party.

WinSCP allows SFTP upload via Windows' Send To menu (and multiple files/folders at a time). Free and very stable. The URL/link generator looks like a smart timesaver.

I see a lot of complaints of failed Mozy restores of large data, but I think Mozy is trying its best to automatically "do what's right", please everyone, and keep operation simple. Initial setup and backup couldn't be easier.

Partimage cannot browse inside a backup image, nor run on a schedule (the second being the main reason I'm using Acronis now).

Is iTunes only required on the client?

Within a few minutes of trying Visual Subst I found a few apps that just wouldn't handle the abstraction (either Eclipse or Dreamweaver, either way this was a dealbreaker). I imagine you'd run into the same with subst.exe, just be prepared to stick with the full path in some apps.

It's probably less gradual FF bloat than Javascript bloat on the web. It's getting hard to find sites now that *don't* rely on huge JS libraries, which make it trivial to create memory-gulping UIs. FF is set to get a new JS engine (Tamarin) in not too long, maybe this will ease the pain.

Within one day of training, Thunderbird was already miles better at recognizing junk than The Bat!, at least over IMAP. Now I can't live without the Addressbook Synchronizer add-on. Has anyone tested this under 2.0?

Does this install a service or have to run in the background? Looks cute but I'm avoiding giving up more RAM/cycles. This would be a good point to note in future download-of-the-day's.

I've used ALZip for about a year.

@Assaf: IIRC, Opera can open a SWF data: URI, but the Flash engine will thinks it's running on the filesystem, so use is limited.

A good reason NOT to self-host a public-facing webserver: You're greatly widening the attack vector on your home PC.

@arul_v: Just FYI, thanks to cryptographic hashing algorithms, password protection doesn't imply the original password is stored in/can be derived from the source.