VOTE: FileHippo Update Checker #hivefive

VOTE: Process Hacker

What about the official system tray app? [toolbar.google.com]

My flash drives are the gadgets I'm toughest on. Only two flash drives out of the many I owned ever went bad, one was a no-brand, the other was a MicroVault Tiny, which eventually snapped. Usually I outgrow the capacity or find a faster one. My current flash drive BOUNCES! It's a keeper.

@Qwertinsky: My HDD is blazing fast, but i can tell the difference with even just 10% fragmentation. Fragmentation gets more debilitating the more full the drive gets, and I'm a data packrat. A good defrag on my disk may not make things noticably speedier, by it stops HD video files and disk-intensive games from…

I do agree, Opera seems a bit better than Firefox in a few respects. However, old habits die hard and no matter how I try, I can't get used to Opera. I also like Chrome, but I still stick with Firefox as my default, because it has spoiled me :P

This ticks me off. When I hear a song on the radio but can't figure out the name of it or who it's by, I google the lyrics. And looking at these comments, plenty of other people probably do to. So guess what? We lose our lyrics lookup ability, we can't find songs we want. We cant find the songs, we can't pay for…

Or do what I do, sleep without a top sheet and blanket in my underwear.

First try, it got my location down to a couple blocks away. Every subsequent try put me in the wrong state.

@Barbas: The Lifehacker effect

@DeadPlayerWalking: Perfect name for a cairn terrier? Danforth Quentin Dog!

VOTE: Clonezilla

I would definitely use it as a centralized backup server. Probably the simplest solution is to set up Samba, since all of the data my family needs to back up is on Windows systems. Hook it up to a hub with a couple of external disks, and voila! Keep the full backups perhaps on the larger disk, if I can find a way to…

I've been trying out the 32-bit version in a VM and like it a lot. I am backing up all of my data so I can install the 64-bit version natively this week or next. I think I'll also make a full disk image just before I install, just to be safe.

@UdolfChamois: Google has an official Gmail Notifier. [toolbar.google.com]

I used to have a "%UserProfile%\MyShortcuts" folder in my PATH variable, and put .CMD files in there.

I say "Other", because for me, it depends on the developer. I've beta tested more than a couple of apps for Microsoft (including one private beta for OneCare). In most of those cases, the betas seemed much faster and more stable than the retail releases. For example, when I beta tested OneCare, I was pleasantly…

VOTE: Access

I just plug into my speaker dock whenever I'm not syncing.

The only reason I can think of why it won't work on the first-generation touch (only the iPhone and supposedly the second-generation iPod Touch) is if the app needs to record sounds. Why would a news reader need voice recognition in order to do anything at all. I'm ok with a voice-recognition function that would be…