Budgeting software like Mint works so much better when you pay with a credit card for everything.

You'd just end up spending roughly 5x as much money :)

Yeah, this was a great story — especially coupled with the one over at Lifehacker about getting free rewards points / miles for buying dollar coins [lifehacker.com]

Neat idea! I'd like to add that you shouldn't store your tomatoes in the refrigerator unless you like them with that mushy-mealy texture :)

I'm no programmer, but I suspect that over-use of client-side storage (cookies? localStorage?) coupled with very long expiration dates are to blame. Guys? What's the word?

Seriously, managing the notifications associated with the badge in the upper right hand corner is really frustrating. Notifications I've marked at work don't sync with what I've read at home, and if I browse over to Gizmodo or another Gawker site logged in on the same account, they're not in sync there either. I know…

I just speak from experience, I went through three different brands that sold $3-5 chargers. Each crapped out after a few weeks, or would make my iPhone make the "connected to power" noise every few sounds, as if the power was cycling up or down.

No, I was already signed into my Google account, I think. In any case, I was able to register with Plus and have what I believe is a fully functional account (access to create Circles, create Hangouts, etc).

They could just as easily fire up an electric saw and cut through the metal :)

Check the home page (plus.google.com) periodically, that's what I did and on Saturday morning, I was able to just create an account.

Is there an equivalent way to publicly wish someone happy birthday on Google+? The "wall" concept doesn't seem to exist over there.

These 'evil' posts contain increasingly horrible advice.

By whom? The LA Times?

THE ZUCK IS NOT AMUSED.

I'd be wary of linking to an $0.45 USB car charger unless I'd tried it — in my experience, the cheapo car charging accessories tend to be very inconsistent in their ability to deliver enough power to charge a portable device. Spend a little more and get a brand-name usb charger.

Neither AirDrop nor iCloud compete entirely with Dropbox.

Non-geek masses don't care about these T&C changes, it's the geeks that are all up in arms.

Dropbox = rsync + cron

Yep, I had some money over at Sallie Mae for a while, but have since spent it

Shift-option-command-V is the system-wide "paste as text" keystroke, save your money on expensive software.