You must not be a junior high student. Almost all of my students use Spotify here in Sweden.

I agree. I absolutely HATE Outlook. It's the most unintuitive program I've ever used. Unfortunately last year I substituted at a school that ran virtualized Windows from Sun Rays. I wasn't allowed to install Thunderbird. I tried the portable version, but it was blocked by the Nazi-like proxy. Ugh, which did I hate more--teaching junior high kids there or using Outlook? Tough call.

Good for you. Personally, I'd rather have an eInk device. Like iLiliad or Kindle (not available here in Europe).

I've been hunting for a latex-to-mobi (or other e-book formats) util out there, but haven't found anything. I have tons of code that I would love to make ebooks for Stanza and my Touch.

Mac Pros are workstation not gaming machine. Go figure.

I don't think I've every searched for "freeware". It never occurred to me that someone would do that instead of "open source."

My experience is just the opposite. On windows everything is shareware, but Macs get lots of Linux/Unix goodies as open source freeware. Maybe my tastes in (usage of) software are different than yours.

Too bad this wasn't ready last year when I had to pay â to get a program to mount my SSH drive. Good work!

For most cases, no. Look at the firs page of most books and you'll see that the copyright is listed beside the author's name.

If you buy a used out-of-print book, the author and publisher don't receive any money. What's the difference if you download an e-text of an out-of-print book? None that I can think of. As long as you are distributing it for profit, they shouldn't have a grip.

I've done the reverse. I've stopped buying digital downloads (except the odd case of iTunes Plus content every blue moon). Now I try to only buy SACDs.

You seem to assume that Dickens is better than PKD. That's blasphemy in these parts. ;-)

Utilities (considered one-shot programs) close the program when closing a window. Other apps do not. It's in Apple's programming guidelines.