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I’m using the free Comodo Mobile Security, which not only protects from malware but also enables you to password lock apps, along with various other useful features.

What is the relevance of this article to people living outside North America? Can we expect features on hardware or software that are specific to our own countries in future newsletters?

I’m always surprised that more isn’t made of the LinkExtend extension on Firefox, which incorporates not only Web Of Trust and SiteAdvisor ratings, but also ratings from a number of other services (Norton, Google etc). It also indicates the threat level of sites in the results when you do a search in Google, and allows you to check a link through the context menu before you open it.

Not only that, but the LinkExtend extension offers a lot more besides security checking…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10777/

Not for nothing does it have a five star rating!

(I don’t use the toolbar that the extension provides, I just drag the items that I want such as the security status to my existing toolbars, and then disable the LinkExtend Toolbar)

I really can’t understand Allen Morse’s rant either. Not once does he explain what specifically he doesn’t like about Gmail, it would be interesting to hear.

I too have (multiple) Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts, and there are pros and cons with each.

Probably the aspects of Gmail I like best are that it integrates well with other Google services (I use Google for web searching, the Google calendar, Google Reader etc), and the ability to automatically forward a copy of e-mails on to other addresses, something Yahoo charged for the last time I checked.

Thanks to Steve Tobin, I didn’t realise that Gmail had introduced a default text style option, I’ll be using this in future.

The feature I’d most like to see added is the ability to delay the time an e-mail is sent, as mentioned by ibeme above.

I use FastStone for most of my image editing, but often a photo can be transformed by adding lighting (spotlights etc), which doesn’t seem to be a feature of most free image editing software.

At the moment I use Photo! Editor (http://pho.to/editor/features.php) to add lighting, but I wondered if anybody had any alternative programs for me to try?

I couldn’t imagine computing without mouse gestures, and can never understand why anybody who spends any significant time on a computer each day doesn’t use them. I started off just using an extension in Firefox, but once I’d mastered that and discovered how useful mouse gestures were I progressed to StrokeIt.

The configuration of gestures in StrokeIt takes a few minutes to learn and understand, but will save you minutes every day, hours every week.

My suggestion would always be to start off by learning just a few gestures and gradually build up. For instance Up for a New Tab, Down to Close Tab, Left for Back and Right for Enter. In StrokeIt you can make gestures specific to a single program, or Global (for instance I use a right gesture to “enter” in all programs).

You can then progress to something like a backslash gesture to Copy and a forward slash to Paste, whatever suits you.

Very quickly you’ll be using dozens of gestures in all of your programs.