smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

".. if WGA identifies your system as suspect, it also disables many features of Vista, including the souped up Aero interface, leaving you with little more than Internet Explorer.." — illustrates (beautifully?) why using WGA to control Vista functionality is just plain wrong.

"Aside from being incredibly cool and an all around great guy, Brent Simmons is also the mastermind behind the sensational news reader for Mac, NetNewsWire." — fast becoming a valued read, Shaun’s interviews are well constructed - this is no exception.

"The fix means that we’ve tuned Skype’s P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and core size changes similar to those that occurred on August 16." — clarification? .. they should be able to handle the next patch cycle. Probably.

"I’m talking about little known or little-discussed applications, widgets or utilities without which your productivity just plummets." — Khoi Vinh gives a great run down on the top underated OS X ninja tools that seldom get center stage..

"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system." — look past the un-inspiring web design and you’ll find a capable, stylish and open-source RSS reader.

"BitRocket is a Native(Open Source) BitTorrent client for Mac OS X." — the next best thing to uTorrent, for the mac.

"Last Friday Joyent made Connector free + open. Free in that anyone can sign up for a complimentary 2 User/ 2 GB plan." — Luke gives us the low down on what’s on offer.

"If you ever wanted to view and control your Pocket PC on your Desktop Screen - an excellent application that will do this job for you." — manage your windows mobile from the desktop.. extremely useful.

"But now there’s a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it’s being cast by Microsoft." — this all sounds very familiar.. it’s real easy to *claim* this Steve, but when the hell are you going to prove it?