"Bills - once you've paid them and verified that the checks have been cashed."

"This is shady at best and plain abuse of another's kindness at worst.

@Bobly: Keep in mind, running trial software will not give you access to Windows updates.

"Without a valid serial number?"

For me, there are 2-3 places around my work I can go that are <$6 meal. I've calculated how much I spend on groceries (bread/deli meat/chips/cans of soda/bags/ziplocs/etc.) and it roughly costs me $4 to make my lunch... Take into account the 20 minutes it takes to make my lunch each day and quite frankly I'd rather…

FYI, it's "Premier" not premium, and it's now just "Google Apps" not google apps for your domain, or GAfYD...

Or how about reusing those glass jars that the candles come in. Just melt your scraps and pour them into a glass jar and replace the wick. Use it as an emergency candle or be creative and make it a piece of art.

I strongly third the motion for nLite. I've used it numerous times, and don't know why anything else would be necessary. It's simple, flexible, and very effective.

All good questions, but it really should start with this:

Quote from the website I found interesting (and why people SHOULD NOT use these recipes:

Congrats, want a cookie?

"Those big candles? With the little tea candles inside? Are ugly."

really... i mean if you were to post an article on every new feature for Vista you'd have a year or more's worth of "tips" to talk about.

"Where's the "I'm switching to Vista because I'm excited about it and I want to" option? I'm not being forced, but I'll be upgrading anyway."

I'm going to buy Vista for the mere sake of security and usability enhancements, drivers and application compatibility will come in time, but not a significant enough reason for me not to upgrade, especially with the Vista coupons being given away with recent XP purchases, in essence getting two licenses for the price…

@JpMaxMan - great point, i have 15-20...

This is great for after a re-install, but if you know you'll need the patches in advance it's best to just slipstream them into the install CD with nLite (you can incorporate updates, service packs, powertoys, setup your services, add/remove components and lots of other features as well)

Very cool tip indeed.

SketchUp 6 is also out in conjunction with this release...

I don't see how this is any faster than the del.icio.us firefox extension?