Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 2 November 2009

Calendar for Mac — Readers find iCal insufficient for group calendars, and offer alternatives. (6 messages)

Drive Mechanism Reliability — Are laptop drives reliable enough to use for backups, or are the 2.5-inch mechanisms not well suited for such tasks? (3 messages)

CNN gets it wrong with new Flash splashpage — Readers wonder and debate whether Flash is useful at all, or if it’s just an annoyance. (33 messages)

Setting default email window height — Eudora’s vast array of settings include the option of specifying window heights (and much, much more). (6 messages)

Opening many Photoshop files — A reader tries to figure out why Photoshop refuses to open multiple selected files at once. (6 messages)

Why Email Remains the King of Internet Communications — Adam’s article provokes discussion of other communication methods and archiving data, such as Twitter. (4 messages)

Droid – Verizon v. iPhone – AT&T — Is the new Droid smartphone a worthwhile competitor to the iPhone? (16 messages)

New Hard Drive for Old G4 — Can a Power Mac G4 from 2000 access more than 160 GB on a larger replacement hard disk? (No, and the limit is actually 128 GB.) (14 messages)

Mail reloads old emails into inbox — Is the reappearance of old email messages a problem with Mail (or other email clients), or is the problem rooted at the mail server? (10 messages)