I've always used WD/HGST for internal storage, WD My Passport for portable storage, G-Drive for Mac, Samsung for SSD, Seagate for local backups, and LaCie for NAS.

Yep, I sat behind this for a good number of my days.

For gauges that don't exist, I use Torque Pro for Android with a $22 OBD-II adapter. Not that anything more than RPM, MPH, water temp, fuel level, oil pressure, and trans temp (those are already present) are important, but it's nice.

Maybe not, but ..if.. a manufacturer decided to add a brand-name (Boston, Bose, Alpine) premium audio option, it would be nice if they did something besides stamp BOSE on the back of each low-end speaker and switch out the amplifier and add a small subwoofer. Not that I know of this ever happening, but in theory.

I'm going to generalize and say Jeep owners are the most likely to take advantage of blank switch space. Some vehicles have actual 'blank switches' installed for intentional custom accessories.

What many may find interesting is that some products from brands like Great Value and Market Pantry are just containers for name-brand product. Let's use milk as an example. It isn't just distributed by the same company. It all comes from the same plant. However, it is very often times region-specific. Where I'm from,…

Wish I'd been informed a few years ago. I always keep colognes in a dark, cool cabinet. I had a decent bottle out for an occasion, and left it out on the bathroom counter.. under track lamps with a steamy shower. It was good for the first 2 years, then went bad in the bathroom after 3 days. Smelled like musky…

You're even overestimating it! See, VA=W. So if a smartphone charges at 5V 1A, you've a 5W circuit. That's 1A if the car supplied 5V. However, to achieve 5W on 12V you'll only use about 417mA (not accounting for transformer energy loss). So 8 dumb phones and 5 smart phones (45W) nets you 3.75A draw from the car.…

Ranger owners have been putting Mustang rims on their pickups for so long that it's become second thought when I see one in such a way. NP

Squad cars are driven rather conservatively in my neck of rural Illinois. Oh well.

I work at a cell phone company as a tech and the amount of complaints I receive because the $5 battery or "$10 64GB TF card" they bought on eBay didn't work as expected. Of course not. Those people need an iPhone.

Great read, Brian. Like many other readers, I skip over (and often scoff at) Apple articles. The defensive title didn't necessarily scream "unbiased," but you touched upon a very general principle - even comparing the obsolescence of a Samsung Fascinate (I hated that phone more than the iPhone 4).

I just hate daytime/driving lamps period. For maybe half a decade until 2003, Chevy used the high-beam bulbs at 10VDC (rather than 13+) as the DRL. They were just as annoying as full-power high-beams. Other

Came here for this comment. Agreed, brother.

It's common for Ford owners to perform this swap, and somewhere along the lines, 'Fummins' was coined. Has been that way for awhile.

Individually, I clean and organize regularly (probably OCD). However, I do work in cell phone repairs. Between a dozen technicians over a dozen years, we had ancient chargers and data cables, hubs, adapters, etc. We began with boxes and cabinets full of obselete or otherwise useless things, ended up with better…

Bingo. I travel across IL with mine all the time. However, they are prohibited in commercial vehicles in IL! Certain officers are equipped with radar detector detectors (they're real, trust me!), too. I think my radar detector can detect those - which throws it into a cloaking mode for 60 seconds to prevent detection.…

I guess going to the office for internet wouldn't be a good plan for you..

My local McDonalds will prepare breakfast burritos during all business hours. However, they don't carry oatmeal raisin cookies. Fuck society.

I like how Google doesn't even have accurate satellite imagery for this location. To Bing!