CIO Magazine's advice: think about beefing up your hardware, but not run out and convert everything to Vista, wait-and-see.

Auction house Bonhams in-sources their app development and uses a fair amount of open source and "cheap" IT instead of going comercial and mainframe. Sort like SI's using open source.

Desktop, open source aggregator for OS X. Matt Ray likes it. I shall try it.

"Instead of focusing on external factors that are adding 5 or 10% to your cost structure, how about looking inward to attack the 20 to 30% of internal waste?"

Auto-hides OS X menu, giving you some more screen room.

Hides and lets you toggle seeing icons on your OS X desktop. I'm not sure if I need this level of distraction free.

Removes transparent background from the dock.

"[A] hack specifically designed for use with the Mac OS X operating system. Haxies typically offer small interface and functionality tweaks to the system or existing applications by injecting code into programs as they load."

Now here's a data sheet/PDF that caters to my type of info-sucking. More screenshots than you can shake a stick at and bulleted features and feature-clusters.

One of The Frontsider's blogs. Yuh!

$1.80/month network backup. Looks good.

QA in open source.