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Eeeeh, I really wouldn't recommend all these ideas.
Formatting and defragging is largely necessary and has been for some time. Defrag is pretty much pointless on 7, and formatting should only be done as a last resort not as regular maintenance.

If you just need to keep performance up looking into a cpu upgrade may be a better option than a new video card. New video cards are great, but often expensive, and if your computer is so out of date that it can't handle multiple monitors then no amount of upgrades would be worth it, you need a new computer.

I don't see any reason for me to cancel, I think it's a silly knee jerk reaction honestly. I will go down to streaming only because I rarely get dvds.
Then again, I don't have cable tv, and $10/month to watch everything on demand is still better than any cable offer around.

I'd love one. Sitting in a room full of people working on 3d models is a non stop click-fest.

XBMC has turned into kinda a monster over the years. The last versions of it released for the xbox didn't run that smooth either.

This is a great example of one of my biggest mac gripes. Tons of programs that have free equivalents (though not as slick) are paid software, or shareware with lots of nag screens. It's maddening just how little freeware there is for macs.

Even if you keep a fake tree for a long time, it's still made with petroleum products, won't deteriorate naturally, and will be thrown away some day. Being 'carbon neutral' isn't the entire issue.

Sadly the in wall style of fireplaces generally do a really poor job of heating a house. If you want to use a fireplace as a main heat source a free standing model is much better.

Not a bad idea. I hardly ever have had to deal with chucks that big though. My advice would be to set logs on top of that huge one and them split them instead of killing your back by leaning so far over all the time.

There's always some new bit of tech that I want. But I try to make sure that the things I buy are well suited to my needs and reasonably future proof so that I can run them into the ground before buying a new one.

I'm curious about their new blue light mice, I haven't heard much about them at all. Every MS mouse I've had has been pretty good though, pretty much universally better than Apple mice.