LCD monitor guide

This article is a truly magic thing, explaining all the marketing numbers for LCD monitors, and explaining the actual technology, too. If you want to know about the madness behind fast response times, expanding contrast ratios and viewing angles, well it's not always technology improvements per se. Read on...

7-zip/LZMA

You should know about http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html, if you don't already.
We're using it in the new installers for Picasa and Hello, and it saves lots of space.