Most third party cell carriers (Ting, Virgin, Republic) lease their towers from Sprint, which uses the CDMA cell standard. The iPhone is compatible with CDMA networks, but it's impossible to either buy an unlocked CDMA phone or to unlock one and connect it to a CDMA network.

If 1Password has a sale that day I might finally pull the (~$65) trigger.

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Keep coming back to this. ZARIA, by ~wasimagined [wasimagined.deviantart.com]

Get yourself a good pen.

Being nitpickey, but FAT32 can have files up to 4 GB, not 4 Gb.

Ima go ape-shit on the person who says defrag Windows 7 or repair permissions regularly on OS X.

Honest answer: nothing.

Much like Twitter, Google is the string, and wishes to become the cup.

Just a few things.

Boot Camp.app is an official Apple application designed to make dual booting simple and fool-proof. If it somehow does screw up your hard drive, take it into an Apple Store and they will fix it. Here's the Apple guide (PDF): [manuals.info.apple.com]

Not sure if troll, but BoTD.

If you want to organize your journal entries into a file system or as a single text file by all means use iA Writer.

My Sennheiser HD 448's have less bass than the Dead Sea.

Best reliable proxy/method to access iPlayer? Paid/free, doesn't matter. I'm mostly looking for quality and reliability over shady and free.

I can only imagine the thriving community of underground proxy services this would create if passed. Much like those in Iran or China, ironically.

They likely won't be as affected as much as Reddit or Wikipedia, whose very existence more or less depends on linking to copyrighted materials and would likely become blacklisted quite quickly.

StreamToMe is great if you just want to browse your media through a straight file browser (useful if you know exactly what you want to watch), but if you have a large library of movies and television, just want to browse, or appreciate well designed software, Plex offers a far superior experience.

Anyone have a preferred video card manufacturer?

I love it. Less bullshit products. They focused less on an avalanche of laptops and more on making one or two quality ultrabooks, for example. Another: Sony reduced the amount of flagship TVs from six to three, and they're all high quality and non-gimmicky.