I would recommend Virgin Mobile https://www.virginmobileusa.com/ . I switched to them from ATT (I was also paying about $70 a month) and I now pay $35 a month for 200 anytime, 500 evenings and weekend (starting at 7) minutes, 1000 text messages, and 20 MB of data.

I've had very positive experiences with the customer service and I they were able to port my ATT number in about 30 minutes.

Virgin runs on the Sprint network, and I get good use out of my 3g Shuttle. It's sufficient phone, but not amazing - and that seems to be the consensus for all of their phones. I keep looking for a better deal, but have been unable to find anything that is even close to competitive with this. I've been happy with them for the past 8 months, but I don't have a contract with them so I could drop them at anytime.

app103 thanks for your reply! Unfortunately, I am referring to the sound my mouse physically makes when it is clicked (even if it were unplugged from the computer) and not the built in (and admittedly ridiculous) navigation click sound.

And in terms of existing gesture solutions that I have been able to find, they were all dependent a gesture button being held for them to work. That will not really suit my purposes as the person on the other end of the call would hear me pressing keys on the keyboard.

The evoluent mouse manager "auto click" feature would work to an extent, but my mouse does not support it so far as I can tell.

-the3seashells

Sounds like a good idea, but what when you need to install something that can not be portable (ex: games that integrate directly with the filesystem/registry)? That would bug the heck out of me

-wreckedcarzz (August 29, 2008, 11:57 PM)

Hey wreckedcarzz: I'm glad to find a fellow sandboxie user, it's what I use at work. Regarding the games, my setup still works with games that use the registry and filesystem, you just need to do a bit of legwork with InstallRite and AutoHotKey (AHK). To install a game, I install all of the files to my excluded directory and then, using InstallRite, I can make a very small .exe file that adds the needed information to the registry and updates any system files that the game needs.

I then use an AHK script. When it runs, it first checks to see if the registry has the information it needs to run the game. If it doesn't, it runs the above .exe to initialize the settings. The script then loads the game. While I playing the game, the AHK waits until I exit (and the process stops) then it copies the save game information from wherever it is saved in the system and back to my excluded folder.

It probably takes about 5 or 10 minutes for to setup each bit of software, but I think it is worth it.

Silly question but....to make ThinApp packages don't you need the ThinApp Packager ?

If so, isn't it a little excessive at US$5000 ?

-4wd (August 30, 2008, 07:45 AM)

4wd: You are right, $5000 is excessive just to make portable applications and I wouldn't use it if I didn't already have a license through my office for other professional use. I have only needed to use it once though, all of my other applications I have setup using the InstallRite and AHK method outlined above. The only piece of software I couldn't get this method to work with is MS Office.