well i'll have to give the native notifications a try then. My battery seems to be very inconsistent, sometimes i'll be at 50% by afternoon, other times i'll be 80% till evening, and i know theres always some background app or process thats causing this buggery. So i've been loathe to overtax my battery and run out of…

So im curious how is it that youre implying this uses less battery than the native app? Wouldnt this be less reliable if somehow it was running intermittetntly and pollijg your location at intervals rather than constantly on. Are you guys guessing or is it something thats specifcally a a feature of this app somehow?…

woz you're the best (if you're the real woz).

well a few reasons really...disclaimer: one perceived, two real'ish. I've always heard e-ink is just easier on the eyes than reading on a normal led/lcd ipad screen, and being the only person in the family still not wearing glasses i intend to maintain my decent eyesight as long as i can. So that is the perceived…

I can't see the exapnded pic, but I carry around an iphone an ipad an ipod classic and a kindle. But i'd find it redundant to carry around an ipod touch AND like 3 iphones. Not sure if ipod touch comes with 128 gb space but maybe thats a reason to have a dedicated touch. But then cut down on one iphone man.

Yeah looking at those multiple android devices and iphones i feel its not really as backups or multiple numbers. just something to play around with. But why carry them everywhere all the time?? I used to carry 3 phones...now i just have my iphone and an amazing sip client. I always put in a local sim where ever i am,…

Well an alien, or just trying too hard to maintain geek cred when he doesn't need to try anymore. Love the guy, but all this is a bit much, and infact very un-geeky (lots of ways to minimize on carrying around redundant cables adapters usb keys membership cards, etc). and the 7 bins thing, yeah thats a bit…

I get that the guy is a big techy and needs to maybe carry around a whole lot stuff for whatever reason (presentations, etc...not sure if he's active business-wise though)...I can even understand him wanting to carry around 5 phones (They're not as backups i'd imagine, or multiple numbers...they're probably just to…

I personally love the 10.1 inch screen on my ipad. Love thats its 4:3 ratio instead of widescreen. Tried using a playbook and while its portable The smaller screen didn't do it for me. I need more horizontal space. I'd rather use my iphone retina display for any browsing searching etc I might do. The only time i carry…

Another $100 cheaper and id buy one just to play around with. Happy with ios but been wanting to have a wp7 on the side for kicks and to see what all the fuss is about.

Shouldmt you say 499 or 49$ on two year contract. Yes we all knownthe impossibility of a 49$ smartphone offcontract but istill had to check. As much as you can get cheap contract phones i always like to know the full price on offer aswell.

installed ML yesterday and looked at the feature list. The only interesting thing was notes reminders and then stumbled across this. Tried this out and it works surprisingly well! And i've got a mixed american british southeast asian accent which even thought is impeccably clear voice dictation always has issues with.…

This headphones vs earbuds qeustion is actually one i've been struggling with for the past month. I've always been an earbuds kind of guy (just like a good camera is one you have with you all the time, i applied the same to 'phones - the best ones are ones you have with you all the time) so i've used earphones from…

part of it i think has to be the fact that every year only 1 iphone is made. and samsung makes dozens and dozens of phones on an ongoing basis. Any new retooling of a manufacturing plant, a new design introduction at the factory, new sourcing of parts, etc related to a phone sized apple device will lead to the obvious…

So i guess instead of a programmer writing his or her own popup boxes and notification system can just push it to growl service with a few lines of good? hmmm//that would make sense.

I don't think apple plans to "kill off" anything immediately. I think they're smarter than that. Yeah techies like you and me and countless other giz readers won't switch immediately. In fact a lot of us might never switch. But with time some of us might get tempted by the seamless integration between ios devices,…

can someone explain to me why growl is so loved by programmers and users alike? I mean didn't we have notifications on windows before growl? And as far as I can remember os x also had notifications before i installed growl. Is growl "cool" because it shows a very standard form of notification? Or is there something…

the last time i used a computer to chat was years ago. I think with the ease of push notifications, sms, beejive, whatsapp, and other cross platform ways to communicate, i'm pretty much covered for mobile communication. Maybe its just that i've grown beyond my online chatting years, or maybe its how common iphones and…

Ive done more than my fair share of rim and playbook bashing, bit credit where credit is due guys. I pre ordered a playbook and paid full price for it, but ive never been angry at rim for selling it cheaper than i bought it for. After all i bought it as an extra toy in addition to my ipad, and ive wasted money on far…

but its that human or technological intervention which makes it seem a bit artificial. But yes i do realize most of these things are optional. Anyway, maybe this feature will lead to other funny hijinx so i shouldnt be too sad about the loss of photobombs.