great overview. i wouldn't have expected to ever use Yahoo mail again, but in the last 2 weeks i've found myself leaving a gmail AND a yahoo tab open.

well, this will probably get me flamed to death, but I'm going to say it anyway....

Nepkarel's BTW is an important one. It's common sense once you know it, but you can scramble your library the first time, if you don't!

AcidReign: Me too. Except why put shortcuts to feq. used apps on the desktop AND the quicklaunch? I use the quicklaunch bar for apps and the desktop for drive icons. Not sure if there's a rational reason for that but it seems right. To me.

Looking at several of these caused me to spontaneously blurt out the word "buttons" in the nasty sarcastic way Randall says it in Clerks.

Shadowhamlet said it first and best. For the average person, anonymity is power. Gina can say it's required, to be googleable... but Gina's writing and pimping a website for her weekly packet — her name is part of her marketing; it's a required weekly performance objective.

This may fly in the face of a few decades of pop culture's insistence that you must always "Fight the Power" and that "Authority is Always Wrong," but when I was in high school a friend of mine's dad introduced us to a local cop. The cop immediately (and accurately) sized us up as the kind of kids who boost 12-packs…

I ditto Andamom's point. I logged in to say, "Moms and single gals, please don't do this," and was glad to see the very first post.

There's something in Kool-Ade that's related to an actual citrus fruit? C'maaahn.

}golf clap{ for hometoast.

Now it smells like fish AND roses.

Sharpies make global warming.

The guy at the pawn shop where I bought my new Apple said to leave the '80/40' and 'keyboard' buttons alone... is that good advice?

Jen P - Same song banged into my head and all I can think is, "Did Keidis hear this garbage beofre he laid down his rap?" Because Oh, My, Lord.

Jen P - seriously, THESE are the guys that RHCP was praising? Yeesh.