Wow! Sync received some heated comments on yesterday’s blog post: “Would you work on the way to work?” Click here if you missed it — and tell us what you think of it.

According to the results of a new survey, converting “idle time” into “productive time” on daily work commutes could help shrink Canada’s productivity gap with the United States.

Question: I’m buying a new laptop computer and want to connect to the Internet on the road. Is it easy to set this up?

Wrestling with mutliple video formats can be a drag. This new tool takes the headache out of format conversion and you can use it from any computer that has a net connection.

Coincidentally, while reading my colleague Simon Cohen’s interesting blog post on being mindful about how much power our gadgets consume, I received an email from a reader asking which monitor type is the more energy efficient.

Question: I selected to print something by mistake and I didn’t know how to stop it once it started. It was 10 pages long so I was worried about using up ink. I didn’t know what to do so I just turned off my printer. When I turned it back on later, it continued to print. Please help.

- R. Singh from Toronto

A Markham, Ont.-based company is urging Canadians to “shred” – not simply delete – data on their computer’s hard drive before donating it or ditching it.

Question: Marc, I know this is so basic, but I don’t know where to turn: I sometimes have trouble seeing text when I’m on the Web. Is there a way to enlarge the font in Internet Explorer?

As I sit on this 5-hour flight from Toronto to San Francisco, trying to decide what I want to write about today for this Sync blog, I figured it would be a good time to quickly go over some things you can do to extend the life of your laptop battery.

Q: Marc, I want to buy my husband a cool Father’s Day present. He read somewhere there are headphones that have a built-in subwoofer. Do you know what he’s talking about?