Another clock: [link]....

Ooh, those are what I want - thanks!

Anyone know of a good group calendar that will work across many versions of windows? I tried to some simply outlook sharing with some folder synching software - but one of the computers on the Network is a really old one with NT 4.0. And Outlook 2000 keeps locking up on that one once the sharing program is enabled. It is a three computer network. I started with Outlook sharing cause they already know and love Outlook, but decided an exchange server would be a little too much for them - over kill for a three computer network in any case, and a pain for people who are not computer literate to maintain.

There are some simple programs out there that will keep multiple versions of outlook synched, but the clients for them don't seem to work well on NT. I thought of steering them to web based, but none of the major firewalls out there let you keep current on NT 4.0 - not zone alarm, MacAfee or Norton. But we are able to do simple printer and file sharing between the two XP computers and the NT one - so there ought to be something that will work.

Ok. I think my hard drive on my laptop is about to blow. I'm backing up as much as I can before it dies, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to back up iTunes. Will I be able to sync my iPod with iTunes on another computer and not lose everything?

vw, I've been able to sync my iPod with iTunes on a couple of computers. But try to save your library if you can, because iPods have been known to "erase" songs wholesale (it's happened to me once in 3 years, and I've heard of one other time it's happened). If that happens, you have to reset the iPod completely, which causes you to lose everything on the iPod.

vw, while your iPod is plugged in, go to the preferences in iTunes, find the iPod tab, and set it to "manage playlists manually" (or whatever the exact wording is that isn't syncing things automatically. You'll have to drag songs to the iPod rather than having it done as if by magic, but the new machine won't erase your whole library that way.

(If you decide to live dangerously and not do it manually, you'll still get an alert when you plug in that says "do you want to replace the whole damn library?", but not that clear. I've watched untold dozens of people blow right throw that message and then realize it too late. It's human nature to click on warnings without reading them, and it's not like it's clearly worded.)

Yo -- a guy I know (and his company) are rolling out a service for sharing photos AND video. Check it out: [link]

Opera 9 has been released: [link]

It has some nifty features. It makes me want a new threadsuck that just shows names and messages so Opera can read it to me.

Also, GeeXBox 1.0 [link] has been released. This is a nifty OS for turning an old computer into a media player. I have a GeeXBox/Debian dual boot so I can boot into Debian to run Samba for copying video to the computer, and GeeXBox to play them. Has replaced my treadmill TV. The old computer doesn't like running a Mythfrontend to connect to my MythBox, but has no problem with GeeXBox.

I installed Opera 9 on my work machine and it failed utterly to authenticate or play nice with our proxy server. So off it went, once I got out of the cascade of username/password prompts.

This makes me less interested in installing it at home.

So, what's a good AIM-and-MSN-chat-in-one thing for Mac? I know y'all have recommended some in the past.

Adium.