I've only rooted androids and the root process was easy. There are a lot of different phones, but there's still one way to root each individual phone. It still takes one Google search to find the process, the same number you'd need to search for "how to jailbreak an iPhone."

They found 9 lines out of millions were copied. The 9 lines were in an incredibly simple function that would take a first time programmer just a few minutes to create. 9 out of millions of lines of code is well under the limit for "de minimis" copying [en.wikipedia.org] Which means it's too small and insignificant to…

An RSS reader is like a DVR for websites. I never just go to a site and "browse" whatever they decided to put on the front page. I use an RSS reader to make sure I didn't miss anything important/interesting.

If ISPs allowed you to use a wireless internet plan the same way you use a wired plan, wireless could overtake wired quickly. If you were allowed to use a router or hotspot in your home and share the connection without crazy low usage caps and huge overage fees it would be feasible. The only thing holding wireless…

You should also add printers to the list along with copiers and fax machines. Anything that uses paper will be replaced by some technology.

I've scanned QRs on a lot of different products just to see where they would lead to. Usually they go to pointless marketing sites trying to convince me to buy what I just bought. There are a few creative beer companies that have made QR codes look cool on their bottles. Magic Hat was the most recent I tried and that…

My friends and I all switched to Google chat from a mix of SMS and various IM accounts. No point paying crazy text messaging rates when Gchat is free and we all have Google accounts and most of us have android phones.

Motorola's lawsuit is different because Motorola is suing over patents required to implement industry standards (h.264). Essential patents used for standards are required to be licensed under FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms. Suing two of your competitors is not fair, reasonable, or…

This worked great for me. I'm lucky enough to have FIOS available in my area so I called Time Warner and told them FIOS is significantly less expensive and asked what they could do to match it. They offered $5 off, I said no that's not enough, they offered $20 off, I said no that's not enough, we went back and forth a…

Please read the article, there are 2,300 patents over h.264 alone. Motorola owns 50 of them which is just over 2%. Microsoft currently pays a license for all 2,300 patents for 2 cents. If they paid your made up $5 for 50 patents (10 cents each) out of 2,300, all of the other patent owners will want their 10 cents per…

The Keurig K-Cups are a middle ground between traditional drip brewing and going out to Starbucks. You can buy K-cups for 50-60 cents each which is less than going to Starbucks/Dunkin/McDonalds.

You were right, the road trip and groomer links both come right back to this page.

That suction cup would never stick to my horse. Then again this paper clip attached to his ear pisses him off too...

The claim that malware is up 472% is disturbing to me because I can't find the hard numbers that they used (The actual report requires registration). What if instances of malware began at 1 offending app. An increase of 4 malware apps creates a 400% increase.

Crunches can hurt your lower back. If anyone has problems with them try doing planks instead. Each 'set' of planks should be one rep where you hold yourself still for as long as you can, record your progress try to beat the time you held each workout.

Crates work well, our dog has been crate trained since she was a puppy. She's 4 now and only goes in her crate at night. As a puppy she was in the crate while we were out of the house. Dogs descend from wolves and are somewhat 'den' animals. Some will be more comfortable and feel safer in a smaller den (crate) than in…

I've tried MCEBuddy; version 2 works much better than version 1. The commercial skip doesn't work well in the 20+ episodes I've used it to convert. CPU conversions are pretty slow on such large HD files so I was hoping to find something that used GPU acceleration.

I use Windows Media Center in Windows 7 to record TV shows. Each 30 minute show is 1.5GB-2GB and I'd like to convert and compress them to an h.264 format. Any good suggestions for programs to compress these shows? I'd really like to use a program that has AMD (ATI) GPU acceleration so that conversion/compression…

If you can find a school playground I'd suggest trying the monkey bars, go back and forth on them a bunch of times. It's a lot harder as an adult. It's pretty embarrassing when little kids have no problems on them and many adults struggle to make it half way across. At the playground near my house there are plenty of…

Here's a good list of alternatives to crunches that will not damage your lower back [www.ttfatloss.com]