If I could get the iPad version of Gawker sites on my desktop browsers I'd be a happy man.

Lossless BluRay images are quite massive, no? It's more likely your network will be a bottleneck then anything. Unless every device has at least Dual Band 802.11N WiFi, it's best everything is wired. Even then, it's best to have Gigabit ethernet connections all around.

You have a few free choices. I've used Evom in the past with great success. About the simplest UI in the world. Drag a video on the window, click AppleTV in the popup, and it'll convert it and add it to iTunes under the playlist "Evom". I've also heard great things about Smart Converter on the Mac App Store. Looks to…

From what I seen from SSD-toting netbooks and MacBook Airs, it'll be awake before you finish opening the lid.

It's quite possible it was an older model of Optimus. They've had them for quite a while. I do know they bitch and moan about them all the time and it has turned me off anything bearing the name "Optimus", or any LG smartphone.

In that case, look for an unlocked CDMA-based phone, then call Virgin and ask them if thy'll support it. Virgin's selection is terrible. Get a good mainstream phone that you can add to Virgin. The Nexus S has CDMA, but appears incompatible with Virgin.

I have two friends with an LG Optimus. Suffice to say, the phone is complete shit. The screen is smaller than an iPhone, the UI is beyond laggy, and you're lucky to get to happy hour with charge left. Most of them just turn it off when they're at work/class. One of them can't take still pictures because the entire…

iStudiez is indeed a great app. It's also Universal and is equally fantastic on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Not really answering your question, but playing around with a friend's stylus-based Windows 7 laptop was a blast. The handwriting recognition was particularly impressive. That said, after 15 minutes i was ready to swivel the screen back and pick up the keyboard and mouse.

I'm usually at about 100MB/month. Although I have spotty 3G where I live and never do things like upload images and video or download apps. You have to ask yourself if what you're doing really can't wait until you're at home or any other WiFi hotspot.

Installing an SSD will alleviate all those sluggish problems. Keep in mind they still cost $1.50-2/GB, although the performance is definitely worth it.

You've obviously never used Mac OS 9.

Put the Snow Leopard disc in, press down and select "Boot Verbose", and post a picture of the screen that it freezes on. That should tell you what's causing it to freak out.

VOTE: iBooks Store

It should be noted that Bowtie is not a skin or modification of the standard iTunes.app Mini Player, but rather a seperate application that receives data from iTunes and mimics the functionalities of the it. As such, it can do many things the iTunes Mini Player cannot, like locking it to the Desktop, floating above…

I know they're talking about beating humans, but a drunk 4 year old child could beat Civilizations' shitty AI, while negotiating a research agreement with it at the same time.

Thinking about setting up a projector-based home theater in the basement. A few questions though:

Apple's official stance on hackintosh's is known. According to the Software License Agreement (here, PDF): […]you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software…

The idea being, feature-wise, Android has compariable apps to iOS, but their iOS counterparts tend to have much better UI design and polish, and are arguably more pleasurable to use. This, however, is a qualitive argument and is therefore ignored or denied by many people who see the world in black & white.

Fair enough.