Neat, but it kills my battery (LG P500). Baleeted.

No, password managers exist to make life easier for people. Facebook Connect is there to make life easier for website managers, and to make it easier for Facebook to track you around the internets.

Photoshop is better, but GIMP is pretty good and it's free. It's usually a matter of PS doing the same things somewhat more easily (e.g. adjustment layers), and while PS has capabilities Gimp doesn't, most non-professionals will never need them. For drawing for fun I don't think PS would be worth it.

For one or a few files, NcFTP is fastest (much better than the standard command line FTP). I use it in cygwin on windows, too.

Doesn't work on my Optimus One. I don't understand how something as simple as a weather app can even have minimum system requirements.

Yep! I just came back to this article from the future because VLC is broken and getting worse. The last version crashed on random .flvs that used to play fine, and 2.0 won't play the .mov files from my Canon digicam properly (I was scared that I'd fried my camera by taking it to the beach in a storm).

"how is this the most popular phone OS?"

Ubuntu's fast on its way to being the next Mandrake, anyway. Get Mint 12 KDE.

5 years ago I'd have agreed, but I like W7 much better than Unity or Gnome Shell.

ZeDestructor has a point though. If you dual boot (I know most don't, but some people do), rebooting to Linux offers much better file utilities than Windows does. I do it too.

You said yourself, in your list of downsides, why I find FIrefox is still the best browser on all platforms. Except my discount Android phone, which can't run FF mobile.

"Better of two evils?"

So does Aldiko, in advanced settings (or swipe the screen to dim it like FBReader). Not as precisely though, it seems.

It may be easier to use, but it's not "miles better", and I think it's still expensive considering how good the free options are. GIMP is much more powerful and while it's different from PS I don't think it's any harder to learn from scratch (I actually prefer the "right click on image for menu" thing, and I'd use it…

GIMPshop has been dead for years, and based on an ancient version of GIMP. I don't know why people are still recommending it (not that GIMP's seen a lot of development lately either - I'm still waiting for adjustment layers).

Compact size (and better image quality than small sensor compacts) is a very big advantage in some situations.

Guise, It's a viewer, not an editor. It not supposed to have any edit functions, it's supposed to be fast and light and load images quickly so you can look at them.

That was my first thought... get up early and grab my skis!

This is the obligatory "I fixed Unity's annoyances by installing Mint" comment.

Oh Gizmodo! You always used to crack me up with your wacky pronouncements. I see you haven't changed a bit since the last time I stumbled over here.