I recently purchased a 4s. The salesman tried to upsell the cases quite a bit, telling me that the first time I drop my phone, it will be game over. I have owned a 3G for a year and a half, and have never dropped it. You just have to be aware of where your phone is at all times, a relatively easy enough task when…

And I'm used to that as well. However, I've used up 350 MB before, and that was because I watched an hour and a half of netflix over 3G. 285 MB is a huge amount, especially when the only time I'm on 3G is when I'm traveling from work to home. Plus, my previous usage for the past 6 months tops out at 50 MB.

I want to know if anyone else has experienced weird data usage on their phones. I got an email from AT&T last week, saying I was over my data limit. I had previously checked my usage two days before, and I was at 15 MB. So, I look up my data again, and I suddenly have 294 MB on there. The culprit? A 285 MB…

I've read into these machines, and the backscatter x-ray machines have never been fully tested for radiation effects on a human's body. There have been a number of studies, but the studies have ignored the fact that the radiation only penetrates the skin. No animal studies or other biological examinations have been…

Cayenne Pepper is also a good deterrent. We had one squirrel in particular attack our large-bulb Christmas lights on our house when I was growing up. When the lights weren't lit up, this squirrel would gnaw on them and break the bulbs. A ladder was then required to replace the bulb, so that the rest of the lights…

For the first three years of our marriage, my wife never drove my car, because it was a manual, and she didn't really know how.

I saw Something wicked this way comes on the Disney channel when I was 8, and I still remember the carousel, and the mirrors breaking. Freaked me out. That, and Return to Oz, another crazy Disney movie.

When Germany had their inflation issues in the 30's, they switched to a gold standard. However, they didn't actually have any gold in their banks. They just started printing money that was based on the same value as gold, and the people and the banks both accepted them. So, it's entirely possible to be on a gold…

One of the books that changed my life that I've read, was "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. In it, he had twelve suggestions on how to win people to your way of thinking:

Love it, especially the way the grille wings pierce the headlights. I also loved the first gen Mazda 6's, and hate the 2nd Gen. I really want a first gen, but even the 2003's have maintained their value, and are still above $5-6k. Plus, no one wants to sell theirs. I always buy private party, and I can find tons…

Which they're not. Buildings in China are only rated for 15 years, after which they are either torn down to make way for more construction, or gutted and rebuilt. My parents live in China, and they are constantly amazed at how even nice houses are poorly made. Chinese workers have good work ethic, but they cut…

I loved the Worst Witch. It was a movie my grandmother had, and every summer when we visited, that movie would be played at least once. "Has anybody seen my tambourine?" became an oft-quoted line in my house. What a great movie to mock.

It's not the mentality that all Americans have, thankfully. I for one did not agree with our involvement in Libya, and wish the US government will just stop dabbling in other country's politics. If the CIA hadn't given aid to Qaddafi in the first place, Libya wouldn't have been in that mess. If the US hadn't given…

I completely agree. We have no way of knowing if the solar system operates on a cycle, as every planet in the solar system does. We can't know, because we haven't been measuring long enough. We do know that Earth has gone through two ice ages, and both times, have warmed up again. No man-made global warming there.…

I'm a total lucid dreamer, and it's awesome. It's like, every night, i'm the star of my own movie. If stuff starts going a way I don't like, I change it. Like, last night, I dreamt I had to go through this haunted house, and it was getting pretty freaky, with a werewolf chasing me. And then I thought, this sucks,…

Yeah, I guess people had different experiences. For me, the slow-down was hardly noticeable. But I have heard others beside yourself that had their phones become unresponsive. I wonder what the difference in 3G's was. Maybe different batches? I bought mine about 3 months before the 4 came out.

I had the same non-issue with my 3G. Yes, it made the phone run a little more slowly, but the 4.2.1 update fixed everything. True, it runs about 60x (purely an arbitrary number I just made up) slower than the iPhone 4, but it still functions as well as when it was running 3.x. I have to wait a minute for a game to…

I have a 3G that I'm dying to upgrade, and a full discount upgrade date of 11/13. I went to a AT&T store the day after the announcement, and was told that while they used to be able to give out upgrades a full month in advance of the upgrade date, a few bad apples ruined it for everyone. Now they can only upgrade…

I agree. SBSettings is the best jailbreak app there is. I used to do the themes and other winterboard tweaks, but after waiting 30 seconds for my phone app to load, I dropped all that and just went to minimal tweaks. Different battery charging screen and different unlock swipe are all the changes my 3G can handle…

Jailbreaking your phone and installing SBSettings would do that. That's the prime reason I jailbreak. It's a drop down from the status bar, available even from the lock screen, and toggles data, airplane, 3G, Bluetooth, Wifi, SMS alerts, brightness, and a whole lot of other things that you can download from Cydia. …