Also, one of the best ways I've found to get news and info about WP8 is to install Weave newsreader (free) and select just Microsoft and Windows Phone for your feeds. There a lot of info updated daily and all in one place.

I absolutely agree. If the measure of a good OS is the quantity of apps rather than the quality then go with Android. Ten times the apps equals ten times the craps. Proof? Android.
WP8 is personal, fluid, and intuitive (by and large)

Thanks! I got a Lumia 1520 about four weeks ago when the 32gb was on special offer for $75 at ATT. I love it and I can't wait for 8.1 to arrive if everything I read is correct. I actually did kinda know about the squigglies in other apps but wasn't sure if it was every app. Some of the stuff in my post I discovered…

Reminds me of one of the sayings of the great prophet Dust E.
"live your days instead of counting your years"

I think Walter got his WP8 terminology wrong, you need to simultaneously press the lock button and the Home key - the Windows key in the middle at the bottom.

Windows Phone gets no Lifehacker love so here's some more things you can do which might not be obvious.
Long press the number shift key on the keyboard and slide to any number or punctuation key for a one-off character from that keyboard selection. Press the period key or the .com key for similar more specific…

This is really great. Thank you. I just yesterday uninstalled Avast because of all the nagging and then installed AVG Free which I'm not entirely pleased with. Because these programs are free I just resigned myself to this behavior. I think I'm going to go back to Avast now!!

http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-…

Lifehacker headline next week.

What is this "washing" everyone speaks of?

I also read somewhere but I can't find a relevant link, that researchers in the health field for example can use twitter to track the spread of viral infections and the like. I thought that was quite clever and not something that would ever have occurred to the developers who created twitter.

As in - what does it do that can't be done better elsewhere? Or - what can only be done on Twitter and nowhere else? I agree.

Or Maxthon for mobile which also has it built in and is better than Chrome.

There's a bit of a security issue with this method as it can be used to log in to a second account on the computer in the background without the primary user being aware. I saw a demo of this and I'm not clear how it was done - I think an extra extension was required. Suffice to say permission was granted to access…

I've been reading Amit's stuff for years; nice to know a bit more about him.