If you are lucky enough to have a digital camera that can produce a RAW file, made by Nikon or Cannon, Microsoft has a power toy that allows the built in Windows XP picture viewer to read RAW files. This will allow you to have your RAW files displayed as thumbnails in their folders or do any of the other normal things you could do with jpegs on Windows. I don't know when this was released, but it is a handy feature, and can be downloaded here. I know that Nikon at least charges for their RAW viewer.
If you haven't already heard about power toys, Microsoft releases small, functionality adding apps with most of their operating systems. Usually these "toys" do neat things, but aren't useful to most people (a couple of the XP ones are). TweakUI is the most famous power toy, and allows you to change the user interface of windows, but there are a whole bunch of them at this point. You can take a look for your self, and see what is available here. I particularly like the virtual desktop manager, because I am used to having virtual desktops on UNIX like operating systems, running XFree or Xorg, but go take a look for your self. A few of the downloads require that you are using a Validated, legal install of XP, but not all of them. If you search Microsoft, you should find power toys for all the other versions of windows too.
At the request of some of my friends, you can look forward to some comments on considerations in buying a new computer sometime this week, but I don't have time right now. For now, off to Biology.
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