Chrome has the ability to run in the background after it is launched, which is what it's doing there.

I was excited for a minute there.

I think the title is a little misleading - it seems to imply that 10 is a very specifically positive number, when what you're really advocating is long vacations (greater than a week).

Agree with the comment about keyed interior locks being a bad idea. If they're willing to break glass to get in, they'll just break more glass like a whole window. In any event, at that point they're a lot more committed and it's not likely discovering you have an inside-locking deadbolt is going to stop them. It's…

One thing we started doing when we were burglarized is to keep track of expensive things we own, serial numbers if applicable, and how much they're worth. You can accrue a surprisingly large dollar value in items even if you don't live extravagantly.

Yeah, applying a little thought to the reason for the backup (if you know it) helps. If you're in a 4 lane road and the reason for the backup is a wreck in one lane, the furthest lane from the wreck will generally be smoother and faster - same thing with merges in high traffic areas (there are a couple places here…

This is why I try to identify "marker cars" to help adjust my own perception of how fast traffic is moving in comparison to my car. If you can identify a few cars around you, it can let you calibrate whether you're actually losing a lot of ground (one lane really moving faster) or if you're just leapfrogging each…

That'd be an 8gb model for $200

Yes, my understanding is that it actually only happens when the tablet is sleeping/idle.

Gotcha. No, trim is basically an immediate function - it can take a little while to run, which is why Android has set certain bounds on when it will execute, but once it completes, the performance improvement will either be there or not.

Well, I mean, it doesn't give you new hardware or anything.

I don't know what kind of apps you're running but I have several dozen of varying types, including a few "service-type" apps like weatherbug which regularly updates temperatures, tasker which monitors the state of a lot of things, Cloud SMS which syncs my SMS messages with my phone, and a number of others... and I get…

So, to users of this... I really want a solid, system-wide notification sync. So when I dismiss something on my tablet or phone, it will dismiss on both of them. Not "pushover" notifications - my normal phone notifications like Gmail, Gvoice, eBay, weather, etc.

Really, though, they're already exposing a force stop option which can cause applications to behave unpredictably. If this were any more user facing, you know there would be tons of people who would use it believing this to be a battery saver, when in fact they're killing their email service, or notifications for…

If your irreplaceable data is not backed up off-site, then it's not really backed up.

I'm loving this trend towards apps that sync everything between devices. Even simple things like alarms - it just makes so much sense.

I have no left over SD cards since we moved to a virtual machine infrastructure at work. They're great for installing hypervisors on - since the hypervisor runs almost exclusively out of memory, the R/W speeds don't matter, and it means you can separate out the OS from the local storage of the box (or have no local…

Credit Karma does not give you your credit score. They give you some muddled credit indicator of their own devising.

They may be rolling it out over a period of time. Go into your apps and select the green Google Settings application - do you see "Android Device Manager" at the bottom? If not, it may not be enabled on your phone yet.

You don't need an app; it's available within a web browser. You'd need to be able to log into whatever Google account is associated with the phone.