@JeffDrake: I love the feel of the keys on the Eclipse, but the paint on the keys on mine started to wear off after a while, making the letters unreadable and allowing the backlighting to bleed through.

@gawyn210: Yes, Gimp has supported layers for a long time.

VOTE: AutoMKV

For lefties: Razer Copperhead

@bbobjoe: For fixing the DVD library info in Vista Media Center, I use DVD Library Manager: [thegreenbutton.com]

Vote: SciTE

Virtual Dub is a popular program that will also do AVI splitting. There's a nice guide here:

The "catch" with MediaFire used to be paragraph 5 of their TOS, which granted them pretty much full rights to anything you uploaded there. They have since revised the paragraph to clarify that those rights are only so they can host your files. I would still be wary with uploading personally-created content, though.