I frankly don't understand the mentality behind obsessively wiping such useful items as Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Recent Documents, autocompletes and on and on. It's like you're just looking for a way to make your computing experience slower and more frustrating in exchange for a few squeezings of…

@busbodger:

> BTW this comes from a 1 1/2 pack per day

@metalhaze:

@soul_grind:

do you enjoy having YOUR media locked down/up by crappy closed source marketing tools

This was a fun article - thanks! I agree with most of the picks, especially Adobe Reader and the #1 piece of crap to ever grace a PC—Real Media Player.

> Then I guess "It's kind of nutty ..."

I can't wait to investigate this some more! I've been looking for a decent front-pocket wallet for years. But I always wind up with a typical bulgy leather thing from Perry Ellis or whatever's on discount that day.

@Taco0

Are those words at the bottom supposed to be buttons? Good grief, that shop needs some UI help. And the less said about that horror at the top ("1 Commands", "2 Hotkeys", etc.), the better.

To all you people complaining that typographical conventions don't matter: I know nobody reads print any more but I dare say if you were forced to read a book that looked like it was typeset in Notepad you'd soon complain that is was not only ugly but difficult to read. The conventions, developed over hundreds of…

I love this stuff. Of course, it's only appropriate for word processing or typesetting. I don't think the author intended that we should be using em-dashes and interpuncts (?!) in blogs and emails. But for anything as "professional" as, say, a resume, or above, these kinds of details are great to know.

I think I am the only American fan of EmEditor ($$)... It's similar to UltraEdit but I find it more powerful and less confusing. Not to discount some of the fine programs mentioned above, but they all lack something or other and really, $40 is not too much to pay for more power and polish.

I didn't like this app on the Mac; not gonna try it now that I am on Windows. The reason is because you can't save the pictures. I would rather work with my own anyway.

Meh. I was a Mac user for two years; now on Vista. I find the Mac look (especially Leopard) a little too dark gray for my taste.

VOTE: Pidgin, for now

Does anyone have a *good* source with tips for simply speeding up an existing Vista installation? I've tried some things (such as turning off Aero) but they didn't make any difference that I could see.

I've been using 3.01 on Win2003 for awhile now - works OK, but not as well as the built-in version in Vista. Both work well enough to not bother updating now. As for Google Desktop, I tried it when it first came out and removed it the next day, it was so awful.

First try today: double-clicked on an '.ai' file, chose to use the web service, and it tells me the file type is "Adobe Illustrator Graphic File" and provides a link to Adobe. Seems to work here. But yeah, in the past it hasn't worked much.