andrewgrohs
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Built-in to OS X, in case your curious. Search for DigitalColor Meter in Spotlight.

Before you invest time in this, you must ask yourself: is the convenience of using your phone as a mouse really worth the hassle of launching the app and connecting, poor accuracy, scratches, battery drain, and poor ergonomics?

Before you buy an FM transmitter, read and consider this one [thewirecutter.com] is the one I own. Wireless Bluetooth, Aux/USB connectivity (w/ charging), and hands-free calling via bluetooth (with Siri support) for your smartphone.

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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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.