The rules are there because not following them impacts the business. As a sysadmin, I've found that someone who doesn't follow the rules usually ends up handing me their system for a major cleanup due to viruses, spyware, or just plain blind misconfiguration. That's a complete waste of my time and their own,…

Remember to keep the power cables away from the data/signal cables!

And if we cut our sleep in half, we can get yet another million dollars! Chasing the money is what life is totally about!

JUSTCURIOUS has a very serious point there. We often trust programs to autoupdate and just allow the updates. This tool is good for finding out which codecs are missing, but since it touches so many different pieces of software, I would not allow it to autoupdate. It's not that much harder to do it yourself for the…

I tried Google Reader, but its erratic update schedule, slowness, and little things like the "100+" left me cold. I use my own system - MonkeyChow from http://wwww.monkeychow.org - on my own LAMP server. It updates when I want it to. It's fast. It's customizable.

You guys will want to check out GCalDaemon and the Thunderbird PalmSync extension.

Gina,

Ugh. Now I'll have to put up with people pointing to this as evidence that I should be working harder than the death march pace we currently do. Thanks.

Whether in Opera or Firefox, I think it's a terrible idea. An RSS reader is a better way to keep up with your favorite site, and almost all sites support RSS these days.

This came in really handy on my 650 when the MP3s for Crackdown in-game sounds were released. They turn out to be audible, yet not jarringly blaring, so they made good ringtones. Also good for putting an MP3 of the Mosquito Noise ([socialiq.blogspot.com]) on your phone, which I can hear at 37, BTW. =)

@Eaglesearcher,

For a quick post I can use Plogit from my Treo.

There is a middle ground where you grab everything in the inbox and throw it all into an "old" folder. Then, when you see that your inbox is empty, jump into the old folder and deal with 3 or 4 of the latest things. Eventually you can whittle that old folder away given enough free time from the inbox.

Any don't forget to back that up like any other important folder on your system. You never know when the company will fold and then you may not be able to dig up that esoteric manual again. Mozy ([mozy.com]) is a nice free service that gives you 2GB free from the start. There are a few others, but they seem to be…

Has anyone gotten Google Screensaver to work with any feeds? Any RSS photo feed I add from Flickr or http://feeds.feedburner.com/flickr_interes… results in an error of "this feed does not appear to have any images."

Thunderbird 2 has finally allowed for this with GCalDaemon. Since you can combine things like Remember the Milk and Stikkit through IMified, Google's suite becomes a tool that can be updated from anywhere in almost any way and still show the same view of all your Tasks, Mail, and Appointments. Combine this with the…

Yes, the address book works with Search For, but it would be nice if one could replicate for those offline times.

So given the Thunderbird PalmSync, can we now sync Google with our Palm Treo?

Google Desktop already does this and indexes it with everything else. Nothing like having all your indexed searchable text in one place, rather than looking for Research Doc 1 in PDFs and then Docs and then yet something else. Once it's searchable, you don't really care anymore where it actually is.

This is available in most PDA ToDo lists. Just turn off "hide completed tasks" and you can see your accomplishments. It just becomes unwieldy to see so many actions once you've used it long enough and it you are fine enough in your Task planning.