I think we're on the same page. One of the issues with Android phones in general has been the quality of handsets available. We're finally starting to see some quality with the HTC One, while the Nexus line has had decent quality and a pure Android experience right out of the box. Personally, I wouldn't purchase a…

Thanks for the link! I'll read it more fully tomorrow. Still, no matter the attribution, the market numbers are favoring Android. While it's possible that what you see on that link is a snapshot, as they said, there's no doubt iOS is starting to fall behind. Here's a link from Engadget regarding worldwide sales. …

The market is clearly beginning to vote for Android, if for no other reason than Android offers more choices. In the end, it's not always about which OS is better. People made this argument in the early days regarding Apple and Windows that Apple was clearly the better computer and operating system. The market…

I have numerous iPod Touch devices and an iPad 2. I also play guitar, and love using my iRig adapter to hook my guitar to my iOS devices. I would agree that iOS is a better platform for music and musicians, at this point. I'm not sure if Google will ever fix what seems to be an inherent lag with Android and…

I figured there would be certified GPS out there, but I didn't want to purchase another BT GPS unit when the one I have works with everything else I have, whether windows or Android. It just seems to me like it's another case of Apple not playing well with others.

Android is obviously better, unless you're a toddler. By all means, purchase an Apple product for your toddlers and other smaller children. You can't go wrong. If you have older children, get them a decent Android device, unless they just need style points for a particular social group.

I found something Apple doesn't allow, for some reason. I wanted to use an external bluetooth GPS with an iPod touch 4g for navigation. I can do this with an Android tablet, but not the iPod Touch. Why would Apple hamstring a device by not allowing it to connect to a bluetooth GPS? I have no idea, and I haven't…

How many choices of form and function do you have on an iPhone?

Not at all! If it works for you, that's perfect. That's the beauty of Android, in a nutshell. You don't have to conform to some cookie cutter standard.

What is this Android you speak of?

Oh come on! I can't seem to get this to work on my iPhone!!!

Here's what I've found, so far. Apparently, there's only one species in Missouri, and it's the striped scorpion, Centruroides vittatus. One site listed their color as... golden yellow or tan, some specimens may be almost white. They're nocturnal hunters, which would explain why I used to find them in the shower in…

I'm in the KC area now, but I grew up on the Lake of the Ozarks. I still have a little weekend place down on the lake and I've been told to definitely keep an eye out for those little scorpions, although I haven't seen one in many years. I'm being told they're making a comeback with the warmer weather over the last…

I grew up in central Missouri, and while most people probably don't think of Missouri and scorpions in the same sentence, they were actually an issue we had to deal with quite often when I was a kid. Not only did you need to shake our your shoes and boots in the morning, but you had to clear the shower before…

The universe continues to expand, and the rate of expansion continues to increase. While nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, the fabric of spacetime itself is not constrained by this particular shackle. Eventually, the speed of expansion outraces light itself, leaving us in a particularly dark…

Yup, it's pretty good stuff. I've used them for light sabers for my boys, too. They have a blast with the stuff. I like them better than pool noodles.

Buy this from the hardware store. You can get the pipe insulation with or without tape on the already split seams. Cut it in half and put the taped side on top. No screws needed. It also worked on the steel pole I have between both lanes of my garage. The nice thing is that the dark gray color doesn't look so…

Both of my young boys have a metal bunk bed in their rooms. The top bunk has the requisite metal rail, so I was thinking of using the noodles to pad the rails. The problem is that I think it would actually look very unsightly to have them on the rails. So, instead of using pool noodles, I think I'll use pipe…

It might sound strange, but I have no idea who this Parker person is, and frankly, I don't care. I assume he's some sort of movie celebrity, or someone like that. I have nothing against any celebrity, but I couldn't care less what they do in their spare time any more than I care about the doings of some random…

I have an old TP-Link router with repeater functionality baked right in. It works great as a repeater.