@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Apple is known for making shoddy products. People gripe about that all the time, and they never get any awards for product quality either. Why can't they get their simple products right? After all, companies like Google, Microsoft, Motorola and Dell make more-sophisticated products,…

@dcmidnight: It's about "outsmarting the system." There are times I blow wads on things because I don't have time to check the alternatives, and I don't look back. But like most people whenever I can I get the best deal possible, if for no other reason than the sheer satisfaction that comes from getting a good deal. A…

@TheOtherHalf: It most certainly is not your mount. His mount isn't as visible as yours, meaning we see more of the good stuff and less of the distracting stuff. Setup looks better, costs less = win-win.

@MaxellDVD1: "Highest-paid, highest-performing executives probably have personal assistants"—well, yeah...and give me a good assistant over a gadget any day. The fact that they can afford 'em says it all!

Completely independent of Lifehacker, but only slightly ahead of its articles, I implemented my own versions of todo.txt (with Dropbox) and Autofocus. Having tried literally dozens of GTD systems, databases, syncing strategies, and so on over the years, I can vouch for the effectiveness of this approach and the…

This mush doesn't begin to compare with real, grilled onions.

@EyeForget: Save this script to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder/ :

@MissPork: Who asked you for your opinion?

@bruintoo: You don't make much of a case by using iOS as Android's reference standard. All that does is reveal your immaturity and insecurity.

The more popular the page, the less likely I have a need to search for it—ergo, the less I have a need for Instant Preview and yet another icon cluttering my page. A good idea, though. Barring unforeseen problems, I'll leave it on.

The only way I'd consider switching to Google services is if I was also in a position to consider switching to Android. Unless there were some compelling reason to do so, it arrived too late for my organization to do that now. Google services isn't that reason. You're inviting iOS users like me to a nightmare of…

That penultimate paragraph is a whopper. Yes, most people "refine and distort information" in order to construct a simplified worldview. But while acknowledging this impulse to engage in lazy thinking, I cannot agree with the conclusion that everyone would otherwise be defeated by "paralysis of analysis," or that…

Like most people, I rarely need to use faxes, but there are times (construction companies, medical providers) when anyone who's alive does. I've been using eFax to receive for maybe 15 years now, and couldn't be happier.

"If you run out of something and want to add it to your shopping list, just fire up the app and scan it (worked like a charm in my tests)."

Complaining about sluggishness under these circumstances is like complaining about performance of Windows 7 on an older PC. The argument "get another brand" doesn't cut it, and is only being advanced by people who would use any excuse to offer the suggestion. If you were happy with iOS 3 before, be happy with it now.…

There's an iPhone app, probably available for Android as well, called Blacklist that makes over 10,000 known scamming/telemarketing/etc.phone numbers available for download, to which a silent ring tone (etc.) can be assigned. To these numbers additional user-specified numbers can be added.

It's interesting that the article claims a voice-only SIM will work, something AT&T and Apple have told me repeatedly is not the case. I haven't regretted not having a data plan for my iPad, certainly not enough to justify its cost. If the standard structure didn't require a data plan, I could probably get by with an…

@icntdrv: OK, fair enough. But you're asking us to believe that a car that wasn't likely to break down broke down...a truck that wasn't likely to break down broke down...a relatively new tire went flat...and now, that a relatively new spare was flat too. Considering that cumulative probability is the (multiplicative)…

@Patrick Van: I wouldn't quite put it as male-dominated or techie...though it is. More like "Star Trekky," which of course is male dominated.

@icntdrv: This is a good example of why "being optimistic" isn't enough. You have to be responsible as well, anticipating and taking care of contingencies in advance.