Geez, no Blackberry love? There are more Blackberries than Windows 7 phones.

Using a Bulk Renaming Utility is handy too for renaming a big batch of photos from events.

Not entirely a scientific survey because you cannot select more than one. I use Windows Media Center for live TV, as a DVR, and an interface to Boxee and Hulu. I also have a Roku player on another TV. Lastly, I also hook up a laptop to the TV to play back stuff from iTunes.

Kind of neat, but if I was only doing a few people, I would just create a form on Google Docs with a menu checkbox or something. That way it could be re-used when you want to go to that restaurant again. Always more than one way to do something.

Once in awhile there is stuff that is only on iTunes and not at Amazon, but not often. While AAC better, MP3 is still king and works with everything (including non-portable players).

Another way to kill chat is to login using HTTPS. After I installed the HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox, I noticed chat now comes up with an exclamation point saying chat has been disabled on this page. If you want to chat, then disable HTTPS Everywhere or use a third party chat program. Of course this kills it…

Another use: Since you can see your own location online (google.com/latitude) you can track the thief that stole your phone and clobber them!

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.4: I could be wrong, but my understanding is some things, like creating documents, does work offline until you can connect again.

If the laptop dies, then I steal the wife's! Just kidding.....find another computer to use and pat myself on the back for using web apps like Google Docs and tools like Dropbox!

Great article. As a Linux noob I selected the defaults for Ubuntu on a desptop and it installed at ext4. I shared out all the home folders and can see them from my Win7 machine (my primary) just fine and use SyncBack to keep music/photos/videos synced on both machines. Am I missing something here since you said ext4…

@Whitson Gordon: Till your house burns down...Doh! So much for that backup.

I use the Firefox Sync add-on now to sync things, but it doesn't do add-ons. Looking forward to that in Ver. 4!

Yes, but to be fair I carry a Blackberry.

Wow, where to start? On the PCs...

@andrew11: Hey I use a Blackberry too, so there are two of us. BBM is great, but closed to only Blackberry users - a non-plus to me.

Google Talk:

Go for a walk...a 10 billion year old method still works today! Just don't forget to leave the phone behind!

I'm a Skype and GChat user (using both about equally) and I actually prefer GChat for different reasons not noted here. Skype is closed non-standards based and GChat is standards based meaning it's possibble to connect to other video clients that use XMPP. GChat also has the potential to be on more platforms and the…

Eh....pass.

Heck no!