@Unionhawk: What about specialty titles? You know that the limiting factor in book sales doesn't appear to be price, but attention. Many books (even spectacular ones) will never sale because they aren't able to compete for the attention of their audience. These books have to charge more than $7 to cover their costs.

@kjf: How do you make a living? And who will you charge for your time? The writing market is completely saturated. Being paid in attention, unfortunately, isn't a business model. Public memory is incredibly limited and it isn't always possible to convert fame to cash.

@paschott001: Interesting reply. Why do you feel that $10 - $20 (60 - 80% off the printed work) is the right price frame? (A sincere question, I'm really curious.)

@Sokoban: The work is being supported by a grant from the Carnegie foundation. The registration is probably so that they can acquire simple statistics about how the program is used and who is downloading it.

@joshuarstephens: You used serious, affordable and work in reference to the iPad. You now have no credibility. Well done.

Vote: Duplicity to Amazon S3

I thoroughly agree with all of these recommendations. But thought I would point out KdenLive, the KDE iMovie equivalent ([kdenlive.org]). I don't do much video editing, hardly any actually, but had to combine some experiment video footage with a voice over for a presentation a few months ago. A friend pointed me…

@Richard Cosgrove: I'm going to, as soon as i can find the time to do the reinstallation. As barry505 notes above, Snow Leopard changes your Time Machine backup so that it doesn't work quite work right with Leopard. As a result, just rolling back the change isn't possible.

I haven't actually gotten around to figuring out how much the total upgrade is going to cost me, yet. But if you throw in time, it's rather substantial. CS3 isn't working very well, which means that I will probably have to shell out for CS4.

@spittingangels: I think it's more accurate to say that he does so from first-hand, personal knowledge. These types of security experts are paid to produce exploits and demonstrate the weaknesses in the system. Thus, when he says that it's harder to hack a Windows box than a Mac box, it's because he's written…

@TheFu: That's a good question. After the initial backup, my guess is that it would probably be fairly efficient. The increments are stored at the file level (to the best of my knowledge, Time Drive uses duplicity for its back end.)

@lemur: I'm glad that you've got a system that works for you. That's wonderful. The problem is that I don't (at least not on Linux), which is why I decided to write Time Drive. I like rsync, rdiff-backup and the other mainstay unix tools, but writing custom scripts and automating the process was almost as much…

Vote: Robocopy, RSync

@rush0: I actually think it's relatively brilliant. Yes, they are walking up and spitting in the giant's eye. But it's going to land them all kinds of press coverage. Everyone in the tech sphere is talking about how little Palm is going to take on the iPhone Goliath. By launching their product two days before…

I think it's a case of anything but Microsoft. I've used them both too and I vastly prefer Live Mesh, but then I tend to spend most of my time on Windows Boxes. The ability to both sync data between Windows PCs is really cool (without having to also sync a copy to the cloud). I'm hoping that the same functionality…

This seems like a tremendous amount of work for a relatively small convenience. There are other utilities which can accomplish an extremely similar purpose (though they may not have Linux support). Subversion can be pretty handy for a cross-platform sync and backup. Windows Live Mesh is also pretty handy for sync…

@fakerjohn: I re-watched it twice. I pretty sure you may be right, the pupils are most definitely not the same size. I'm not sure about the ingestion of hallucinogens, he appears far too lucid. He delivers an incredibly cohesive narrative and the fact that he is recutting every three or four seconds for effect…

Besides being profound bizarre, that was strangely insightful. Even the song (disturbing imagery at about 2:00 aside) had a strange sort of logic. I know where ideas come from though. We make them up. Out of our heads.

Gina, I'd just like to add my thanks to the throng that is already forming. I've followed lifehacker since early 2006 and it's one of the first things that I read each morning. Most of the software that I use on a daily basis, I read about on Lifehacker first. I look forward to your weekly series and wish you the…

I found it really interesting that of the 10 announcements, the author included half from MacWorld and half from CES. By just following the media coverage, it appeared like CES was the MUCH more interesting conference this year. When Apple has anything REMOTELY interesting, they dominate the tech headlines for…