Sorry - issue with the commenting system. This was supposed to be a reply to someone suggesting that people just buy a local SIM for the country in which they're travelling.

The other issue is that the one-off costs can be high. For example, in some countries the initial SIM purchase might be $10, and then a reasonable charge for calls/data. If you're travelling to multiple countries, the total of the initial costs could outweigh the cost of a single SIM with more expensive data/calls…

The missus loves microbes on her phone. She will spend, literally, hours trying to feed just one colour, and see which other colour becomes extinct first!

The best way to get shots like these with a point and shoot is to use the Macro mode. This will normally default to a wide aperture, and hence a shallow depth of field.

I'll agree with that. It's about the thickness of 3 or four credit cards together and having the knife edge running down one side, I've been too worried about stretching/cutting my wallet to put it in there.

You're definitely not the only one, Donald. The fact that so much of the movie was just them bickering with each other really bored me. And when we did get a climactic fight scene, it just felt like 'Transformers 3' had downloaded the 'Avengers' skin pack.

I'm assuming that with this it's referring to how long the wine remains fresh prior to opening. Once a bottle is open, you've got at most a couple of days due to the air being in direct contact with the wine, while with the boxed version, the fact that it's vacuum sealed will mean that it'll hold its freshness for…

That might be a slightly hasty decision if they come out and say that this was a misunderstanding with the phrasing of their T&Cs and then clarify it back to the original rules.

"The conventional one dimensional barcodes used on virtually every consumer product are mechanically scanned. ... QR codes, on the other hand, ... can also be digitally scanned."

Actually, the Prime Minister of Australia just released a video confirming that the world is actually going to end on Friday 7th December!

Wait, what happened in San Dieg............ Ooooh!

Neat idea, but if you're running Tasker, you shouldn't need another app to do this. It's not too tricky to set up rough location (using GSM data so you don't draw too much battery power) to toggle WiFi when you enter/leave the area.

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When I'm travelling I always take my netboot, so the "gadget" that works best for me is a monitor cable and a 3.5mm stereo audio cable (with RCA adapter). Most of the hotels I stay in have relatively modern TVs that'll accept a VGA monitor input and stereo audio. So it's basically a portable media centre. And even…

For people not too comfortable with the terminal, you can just open all the images in Preview, Select All, then select "Adjust Size..." in the Tools menu. This'll give you plenty of simple options for resizing (resize to size/pixels/percent/etc).

I've only been using Sparrow for the last few months, but I quite like it. It's nice and simple, and I'm so used to gmail that the fact that it acts in a very similar matter is a real plus for me.

That's a really good question. I love the idea of having a filter that automatically clears coupon emails.

I'm the same. I used to love the smell of coffee, but hated the taste. That was, until I drank a black coffee and realised that it tasted like coffee smelled! It then took a little longer to stop having that teaspoon of sugar with it, but now that I don't I realise how much of the real coffee flavour I'd been…

If you want to confirm that the website is just going to show your IMEI number rather than actually do the reset, you could do what I did. Browse to the page on your computer and view the source. Find the code that it'll make your phone run after "tel:". Confirm that it's the code for displaying your IMEI. Now…

Yeah, Chrome on Galaxy SII with TouchWiz is vulnerable, too.