I had been wondering for quite some time what the actual size difference was between the Office 2007 Ribbon and the Office 2003 toolbars. There is no better way to do the comparison than to put the two side-by-side.

Virtual desktops seem to be a must for any operating system because they allow you to reduce the clutter that you see on the screen. I have never even seen a distribution of Linux that doesn't come with virtual desktops built-in.

If you are a frequent reader of the New York Times online then you may enjoy reading the news using the Times Reader. It formats the article similar to a newspaper with the ability to scale the font and images to the size of the window.

Folder Guide is a great little freeware application that will let you customize a list of folders to place in your right-click context menu that is displayed in Windows Explorer. If you are constantly navigating around Windows Explorer then I am sure you'll find this extension useful.

I think by now we are all used to the Windows startup sound and you could probably pinpoint it no matter how crappy the speakers were that it was playing out of. Microsoft might be changing things up a little bit by providing a new more "spiritual" startup sound in Windows Vista.

If you thought you were staying on top of technology with your 5-8 Megapixel camera, take a look at the camera the Swiss company Seitz has developed.  The Seitz 6X17 Digital scanning camera creates pictures at a whopping 160 megapixels.