I'm always astounded at how bad the fees are on some accounts. My personal opinion, is if you pay more than $0 in fees, you should find a new bank. I fall in the "young and high tech" category and I've never paid a single cent in fees on my checking account (Ally Bank, who wasn't included in this study). Monthly…

Is IPv6 in some way less secure? Why would they want to disable it?

Haha true, it does allow for backwards compatibility with old micro usb cables.

One of my favorite features of the Google Camera app that finally got added to the play store a few months ago, if you have it vertical while in video mode this icon appears in the middle of the screen with moving arrows, telling you to turn the phone horizontal. And the best part, is that as far as I know, there is…

Oh, that's actually a good point! The article mostly talks about existing data wipe features, but the bill says it has to render the "essential features of the device inoperable" which, as you said, would be bricking it.

The real issue, in my opinion, is just making us download a second app. I think they're shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm not a fan of the fact that it has to be reversible. If it's possible for me to undo it, then it's possible for the thief to undo it. The "hackers" are almost always one step ahead of the security (just look at video game DRM), so I would rather it be an irreversible wipe, so there's no way that the thief could…

Haha some do, but sadly not enough. It's convenient for me because I have an Android phone, so it's merged with SMS (sort of like iMessages) and then I can access my chats on the computer too. I mostly just use it for text chatting though, I don't video chat very often.

Looking at it by device, it looks bad. Looking at it by OS, it's not all that bad (that pie chart shows well over three quarters are at least 4.0). What confuses me though, is why is fragmentation such an issue? Windows is FAR more fragmented, always has been, and yet that's never stopped people from developing…

Interesting. Just earlier today I was home on my lunch break, and had a hangouts conversation going on my phone with a friend. As soon as I started talking on my computer, my phone stopped notifying me. I know sometimes Google slowly rolls out new features, but I know it's been doing this for at least a couple months,…

I'm not sure what you mean by "how". There is no setting to turn on or anything, it just does it. When I'm chatting on my computer, my tablet and phone don't get notifications.

Bought one of these after you mentioned it in another Lifehacker post, I think it was something like a list of best tablet accessories. It is BY FAR the best stylus I've ever used for a capacitive screen. I hate the soft, rubber tipped stylii, they do not slide smoothly across the screen. This one has a solid tip, so…

People talk about the fact that the growth in a Roth account is tax free as one of the benefits... but that's not exactly true. The difference is paying taxes now instead of when you withdraw later. If you're in a lower tax bracket now, then Roth is obviously better. But that "tax free" growth is sort of irrelevent,…

I'm not sure exactly when they added that feature, but at least a couple months. I first noticed it because it actually used to create problems, I'd be chatting on my tablet and then leave the tablet, but then get another notification that only showed up on my tablet and not see it on my phone until much later when I…

Google Hangouts already does this.

You just can't beat 2% across the board. It's also nice because it can put the rewards right into your Fidelity investment account, so those rewards actually add to your savings. If it's normal cashback, it's tempting to go spend it on something you don't need, so I think long-term it's very beneficial to have it…

I think the general rule of thumb of 3-6 months of expenses is good. I lean towards the small side for me personally, I have about 3 months worth in my emergency fund. I'm comfortable with this because my real savings are in an investment account which I can get money out of pretty easily, so if I need more than the 3…

I am incredibly excited for this new standard. More excited than anyone has any right to be about a cable.

Yes, this I love. That's the USB we need. It sounds like the new type-c plug, which is comparable in size to the micro from 2.0, will replace both full size and micro, and we'll just use that one type-c on both ends, on all devices from phones up to desktops? I like that. That's truly universal. They list "future…

I don't know much about skylanders, but I like this for two reasons.