Its like the Gattica of used cellphones. In response to Craigslist ad for used smartphone:

I see a whole new form of trolling here. Its called "MAC address trolling". It works like this: I'm ghetto poor, but I buy a 2 year iPhone 4S from some affluent schmuck who just got his new iPhone5. Now the next time I walk into Macy's (a store I can't afford to shop at), I get 40% coupons popping up on my phone so…

Also, if I'm not mistaken, you might want to turn BT off as well. I believe these stores can also query devices that have BT open and the BT address on your phone is as unique as the MAC address (on my iPhone only the last octet is different between my wifi MAC and the BT MAC). Granted the range is less (10-30 feet…

I wonder how long it'll be before many of these retailers use this tracking and video information and realize we're just using their stores to window shop, grab barcodes or ISBN's, etc only to go shop for the same item for less online. I have two daughters, so I do my share of walking around the mall. They buy plenty…

Funny… I'm at about the same place. I'm an IT guy and sit on my butt most of the day. About two years ago I was 65lbs over weight, living on sweetened coffee drinks instead of meals and finally had had enough. I spent a year paying attention to calories, then to food quality, and added in some walking. I spent a year…

@HazeDG13 …but a litter of 4 to 6 puppies pooping twice a day (as most puppies do) would be $4800 to $7200 a month not including the mother herself. Add in your $600 a month mother and you're making a cool $5400 to $7800 a month.

One of the nice features of Bootcamp is that tools like VMWare Fusion and Parallels allow you to fire up the Windows partition as a VM. So while you can reboot into either OS natively, you can also boot into OS X and for a small price (under $40 and sometimes as low as $20 on sale) for some software, you can fire up…

Honestly, I think the best part of this is what's not mentioned: namely that its portable. Most every car these days has an audio in and a usb port. And if not, this would even work with a ⅛'' stereo to cassette adaptor and a 12volt cig lighter to USB adaptor. But that said, its the perfect portable road trip setup. I…

This has got to be the stupidest thing called a "dock" I've ever seen. The point of a dock is usually to reduce cable clutter and connection points. This does neither, nor is it elegant. All this does is take 5 cables and enable you to jackassedly plug them sort of at once while causing short circuits and uneven port…

FYI: I have an AT&T iPhone 5, but I also have LTE in most areas with good reception to boot (odd, right). I applied this and can say the following: 1) it doesn't make anything slower at least 2) where I used to only have 1-2 bars of LTE at home I now have 2-3 bars and 3) where I only get 4G (in between work and home)…

Really? No one there or over at Giz has an AT&T iPhone 5 with LTE? WTF… you all sell out and buy Lumia's and S4's?

Of course… you can just do this with a simple Automator script that includes "pauses"...

vpngate is free forever (not just for a year) and doesn't require you get blasted with spam to use it and works on almost every device out there… even allows you to tunnel all traffic through it for use when downloading, etc.

LOL… thanks for the compliment (calling me a prick that is). :)

Two other things to consider: 1) many of get into routines that end up with workouts not being as effective as they used to be. A few business trips resulting in changed up workouts can help push through plateaus and reinvigorate the body by using it differently. 2) if my business trip means that a portion of my…

Exercise bands can help here as well if you like to exercise with resistance as opposed to just cardio. Get the kind with the door attachment. Make sure you try them at home first. Many come with a travel bag and door clips that slide in under and over the door… you close it and its your new gym. Granted, your bench…

If you only like to enjoy "a beer" but wake up disoriented I suggest you seek medical help. :P I doubt most 5 year olds would wake up disoriented after "a beer" (not that I advocate giving beer to anyone that's under legal age; much less to a 5 year old). Something tells me you might drink more than "a beer". Maybe…

"like … your current location… " I can only hope you don't normally wake up not knowing where you are or where you were when you went to sleep. Maybe it could add some Siri-like smartass-ness: "Its 6:30am. Its 50 degrees outside. You are currently in the bed of some guy you had a few too many drinks with last night.…

@forumware Unfortunately I cannot… it has too many "inside items" including IP's for RDP and VNC sessions and network mounts, etc that make it confidential. However, I'll elaborate a bit and explain more of what I do. I actually have 2 Automator scripts called "Daily Apps" and "Quit All Apps". Both are saved to either…

I've been doing this w/o an app for months. Basically, I have a simple Automator script that has all my startup items in it… from cloud drive apps to network shares to setting my brightness and audio levels to RDP/VNC sessions, etc. My boot time is only as long as it takes to load the OS. I then have the Automator…