Nick

For an encrypted time machine drive I recommend PGP Whole Disk Encryption. Not only can you encrypt your laptop, but also the time machine drive with no custom anything. No relation to the company, but just happy with the product.

Hook me up!

HSV Already has a great independent mac store I shop at, MacResource.

Apple needs to make portable units without iSight if they really want to see inroads. The camera is killing their ability to replace Sun/HP UNIX workstations.

Your picture links are using http://http. Might want to run the ol' post through a link checker

Yeah for Linux! QTopia with linux kernel would be an excellent stable platform for this, not to mention lots of hacking the core OS. This looks similar to Trolltech's green phone developer model. May this be the first fruits?

Paltalk was a program created many many years ago. We are talking about the time frame when ICQ was just coming into beta. They were the first real big IM program. I remember running the software in Win 3.1 Allowed you to meet up and play games and do whiteboard stuff well before any other program.

All the talk about Europe being better or such, lets not forget that in Germany you were not allowed to purcahse wolfeinstein or to play games depecting nazis. In australia GTA was banned. The rest of the world is the same way. Get off your high horses and travel the world before opening your mouth. I say you should all move! SHEESH!

Skype is multiplatform in the sense of an IM program. Try running Skype with FreeBSD/Linux/MacOSX and feel like the red-headed step child. They haven't updated the clients in months and still have no support for video or ALSA. At least its SIP and the protocol is cross platform.