http://hristopavlov.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/sptraceview-lightweight-tool-for-monitoring-the-sharepoint-diagnostic-logging-in-real-time/

Not without custom development. You will need a viewer that can read the PDF format and generate the thumbnail, and then a web part that shows the associated thumnail when a PDF is selected.

Here is how one developer implemented it, he used GNU Ghostscript, but perhaps the foxit PDF viewer could also be used:
http://tusharwithsharepoint.blogspot.com

This one is an addin for Outlook 2007 to preview PDFs, but the principle is similar:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/05/09/foxit-pdf-preview-handler.aspx

THe details are here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/archive/2007/04/11/customizing-moss-page-title.aspx

I think this is espacially a good idea for public facing websites, as you page title will help your search engine ranking and the title will look better in bookmarks.

Yes, I recently spoke to someone who's company did this so that they could provide SharePoint via narrow bandwidth (a satellite) for people who work in areas where the infrastructure has been destroyed and they need to share information quickly via laptops and satellite phones. Cool stuff.

Here is some more information on what is involved in the process of stripping down the UI:

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2007/05/skinning_ms_sharepoint_with_st/

SPD is great for making workflows, but it is good to be aware of the limitations:

http://blogs.threewill.com/implementingsharepoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3

Moving these workflows is possible within the site collection if you same the list or site as a template, but not beyond the site collection, unless you use Echo 2007: http://www.echotechnology.com

The answer is yes! Using STSADM you can increase the limit to 500MB. There are the instructons:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/15/you-learn-something-new-every-day-site-template-limit.aspx

Stephen

http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/archive/2005/11/17/430785.aspx

Mads found a method on the SPEncode static class that does this neatly for you.

http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2005/11/04/22659.aspx

Here are some more great ideas on this point

http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2005/11/26/25938.aspx
This dynamically configures and iframe in a web part with the user`s id and server already entered for them!