Hah! Your setup is almost identical to mine, well played sir! The only real difference is that my work docs and files/etc are on an OSX server, and that filesystem is then AFP mounted on the various OSXen and CIFS mounted on the sole Windows box laying around. Love Xmarks also, but publish to my own DAV'd Apache on an external ISP box that I run. rsync on OSX server does nightly syncs with [monthly] backup folders on the external ISP box. The only other "p.s." is a script within my $HOME on the OSX server called "setupabox" that basically takes an IP as $ARGV1 and pushes out $HOME/.bash_profile, $HOME/lib/bash/* $HOME/.ssh/*{pub,au*keys} and a few other things. So basically I have a single .bash_profile that works on any machine, knows where it is and is smart enough to set the right stuff up. Also have "syncabox" which similarly makes sure that box $ARGV1 is "fresh". $DEITY, I love UNIX. P.S. (real one this time) Just got turned onto Evernote. Wow. I mean, WOW.

While I understand your well made point of how easy and non-scary it is for we techies to download and install the necessary codecs, we can't possibly expect John Q. Public-type endusers to open up xterms and start entering 'scary' commands (yes they are scary to regular people). I think scary EULA dialogs are far more acceptable than scary shell interactions to most non-techie computer users. Besides, there are always "ways and means" that knowledgable users can download and install things like codecs, even if there isn't a "legitimate" way of doing so. Alas, for the regular users out there, they are doomed to keep clicking through the EULAs because our super duper corporate overlords, the ones who decide which "standards" our devices will use for the next decade CANNOT DECIDE ON A FRICKIN STANDARD!!! Ogg Vorbis is dead! Long live Ogg Vorbis!