hmm.

drop.io might be good, but you would have to open multiple free sites to get to 150 MB or pay for an upgrade.

You might try dropsend.com

This isn't exactly tech-related, but does anyone know of a good alternative to babysitterexchange.com? They keep raising their rates and dropping features, and my coop is sick of them.

Genius Bar verdict: yup, the display is screwy. They can send it out for replacement (of the display and/or LVDS cable, whichever one is the actual problem) AND will replace the fan (which appears to have not been working for a few weeks [shut up] because after I use the laptop for a few hours, it shuts down entirely, and the underside is scorching hot) for a flat fee of $280.

I'm thinking I'll do that for now, because it's 75% less than a new Macbook.

But it'll be gone for a week, and I may perish from withdrawal.

Are any DC-istas looking for IT work? My company is hiring. For all my bitching about the website redesign process (yes, I know the current version sucks—we're working on it), I quite like the place. Feel free to contact me if you'd like more info. Profile address is fine.

Brenda, dropbox.com has a 2GB free account -- I mostly use it for the syncing-stuff-between-my-many-computers thing, but it's quite serviceable for sharing things too.

(eta: actually, 2.25 GB if you use my referral link thingie here: [link] , as well as a bonus bit of storage for me. That offer is good for at least several more people, btw.)

I'm trying to decide between Macbook Pros. I've been told the processor difference between 2.53Ghz and 2.66GHz isn't worth writing home about, but that the "+ 9600M GT with 256MB" difference on the video card is more marked. Does anyone know what that nets out to, visually? I never hooked my Powerbook up to an external monitor and wasn't even sure if I was going to bother getting, at least initially, the Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter.

I'll get the 320MB HD no matter which model I get.

If you don't need 3D performance I doubt it'll make much difference. Pretty much anything can drive a high resolution monitor these days.

I have the dual mode video system in a few of my machines. It makes a difference in some video playback and rendering duties.

The fanciest I get is watching downloaded HD video. Is it worth considering the upgrade?

I'd take the video upgrade over the processor upgrade. I'm not sure that you'll see a huge difference in current downloaded HD video, but who knows what new video codecs are around the corner that may be helped.