For addressing public wifi issues, Gina Trapani's solution is good, too: [lifehacker.com]

On a slight tangent: there's a chrome extension, called "EXIF Viewer", that displays EXIF information on images within web pages when you hover the mouse over them (by default, only images larger than 200x200, but this is configurable).

On my phone, that's the "you have new mail" alert.

Unfortunately, the iPhone's airplane mode does nothing to silence alarms with audible alerts, even if the mute switch is enabled.

I've used a number of web- and iOS-based trackers, and they all have problems, ranging from minor (non-zoomable maps) to serious ("guessing" a plane's location).

@ryan1313: You can take comfort in the fact that you're being environmentally friendly, and using much less power than others. Laptops use a non-small amount of power, and desktops can use large amounts. (Yeah, there are ways around this, but they typically involve Rube Goldbergian methods like BIOS wakeups or WOL.…

@mmseng: Hehe, pen porn: Sarasa 0.5mm pen. Inexpensive, maybe $4, writes smoothly.

Older versions would ignore (not search) quoted text in email messages, which seems to make sense if you're storing entire email threads. However, this blows chunks if the all-important-text-that-you-need exists only within the quoted area (cloudmagic will never find it).

Some Costco stores sell a 3-pack of small (5"), aluminum-body LED flashlights for around $20. They're really bright, and take 3 AAA batteries. The downside is that the batteries only last 2-4 hours.

@Flukie Lukie: While RedLaser has worked poorly for me, I've found ShopSavvy to be decent.

@Ricorich196: Sadly, this is all too familiar: [jalopnik.com]

@PrairieMoon: While this does, technically, burn off calories, you're probably not burning much. Most of the muscles, that you're probably exercising, are in your forearm/wrist. I imagine that you probably burn off more calories by just walking around for that amount of time.

@comodidit: Unfortunately, that 30 minutes of cranking isn't going to get you much of a charge. In the case of the iPhone 4 (see this chart), a half-hour of cranking would probably only get you around 25% battery (and that assumes that the cranking can produce sufficient voltage/current).

@kdarty: +999

@A Piece of the Continent: Not necessarily.

@Spyrus21: I agree. Even if you could provide consistent power, you'd have to crank for, oh, maybe 15-30 minutes to get a decent charge on the cellphone (I'm thinking smartphone, here). Unless it's an emergency, who's going to do that?

lol, seriously?

@Yogi_D: Here's my $0.02:

@coren: Hehe, since that lock appears to be your run-of-the-mill key-operated lock, a "key" would be the backup.

A servo??? Really? The long-term reliability of that might be questionable. lol, good luck getting in after twittering the command, getting the "door is open" reply, but still seeing that the door is still locked.