I use Adobe Photoshop Elements to tag all of my photos - including Event, faces found in the photo, and other helpful tags. It is insanely helpful if I am doing a project where I need photos with certain people in it and has help out tremendously. Read more

It is no longer invite only, you can download the beta directly from their site. Read more

People still use FTP? Map a drive using SFTP Drive: Read more

Nice article. I worked in web hosting for years and when I moved out of the business I couldn't part with a remote server with a fat pipe in a datacenter. Read more

I second the "Tag from Amazon" feature of MediaMonkey. I works especially well on full albums you've ripped and will fill out ID3 info as well as cover art. It writes the Cover art to the ID3 tag so that it should stick with it even if your directory structure change. Read more

Last.fm is one of the best music services out there. The "My Recommendations" station to great to put on and it allows you to find music that is a lot like your own. Read more

To-do list: Text document on Google Desktop - always open in sidebar Read more

I've also used monit for about 2 years now - works great. Configuration files are a bit tricky to get used to, but once you get them you can do a lot of things with Monit. I use a combination of monit and zabbix to monitor my servers. Read more

Does anyone know of a product like this for Windows? Read more

speedtest.net is much more accurate for me as well. Read more

Orb is great. I watched the NCAA March Madness games at a wedding. Read more

Handbrake has worked great for me! I have compressed several movies down into H.264 for my ppc phone. Read more

I sent ones to: Read more

I prefer IMAP with IDLE command support for push mails - no ads, and no giving your private information to an untested company. I hope it works out well for this company though :) Read more

An "easy" way to do this, that runs off of a USB Flash drive, is TorPark. Read more

Like Google did with the millions of web pages out there, the key is really how to sort through all of that information and bring you what you need. Read more

I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 to organize my 15,000 photos. Read more

I would recommend The Ultimate Boot CD Read more

Caveat emptor on software deals which seem too good to be true. Read more

Hamachi is great... been using it for about 2 years now and it is a life saver. VNC over Hamachi, File sharing, gaming, any application (secure or insecure) over Hamachi is wonderful. Read more