And you think the standalone GPS doesn't have brightness control? It's really not the same thing at all - brightness covers you for the in-between lighting levels, but at night no LCD is going to go dark enough to not ruin your night vision. That's what the inverted color scheme is for - darker colors that lower the…

That's a common feature on AOKP / AOSP Android firmwares. Not sure if it can be added via an app.

My safety razer works just as well manscaping south of the equator. Same soap, brush, etc. Given the er, bumpier terrain I go a bit easy in spots, leaving some fuzz. I've nicked myself once or twice too, but never as painfully as a disposable or electric has done to me. Given the super low price, I always treat myself…

Am I the only one that totally can't get any use out of this type of app? I mean, I love Flux on my desktop — but my desktop is in a fixed location which predictable lighting changes. The only predictable environmental lighting changes for my phone is the possibility of bright sunlight at the daytime, and an increased…

It does happen. I worked as a customer service rep for Nextel - we had phones flagged as lost/stolen all the time. We were unable to activate them, no appeal process. But it wasn't anything we did in-house — Our insurance provider gave us the IMEI, SIM and/or SN of claimed phones to flag. I suspect it was in our…

Have you priced both? It's cheaper by a very long shot. If power density and uptime aren't critical - say, for instance, a huge government lab building a very large cluster - then desktops are going to be a massive savings. They would help you out on infrastructure too - the lower power density would decrease your…

This, 100%. I've dropped my SGS countless times, never done more than scuff the bezel. My girlfriend did manage to crack hers, but it was an unfortunate fall where the screen struck a sharp corner directly - many other drops before that did no damage.

Space isn't necessarily cold, though - there's just a lack of heat (or much of anything else). Getting rid of heat in a vacuum is hard because you don't have anything to send the heat into. I'm thinking a sort of geothermal setup would work - bury tubing in the regolith to dump heat.

Looks like a form-over-function version of my R.A.T. 7. I think the R.A.T. looks just as good, but with purpose.

That's also my pet peeve. I'd like the top level of replies to be linear, and then use the icons for replies to those top-level comments. As it is now I don't think I've read all the comments on a single Kinja-enabled post - Not to sound lazy, but it's a bit of a chore compared to just scrolling the page looking for…

Variety. Why doesn't Intel just make a PC? Because people want different options. The picture above is the reference design. It isn't for sale, it just goes to the 3rd parties to be the basis of this generation of cards. The card makers will add their own unique elements - cosmetic branding elements, improved coolers,…

And you realize that Tegra Android development has no real relationship with PC linux development, right? They get NDAs with the Android hardware makers when they license the Tegra SoC, supply code examples, technical documents, etc. There's no x86 Linux GeForce driver in that deal. And none of that motivates them to…

I'd argue that they've reversed engineered iPhones, Xboxes, PS3s, and GPUs to similar degrees. You can get some hacked and open source software that enables some functionality for any of them, but the real secrets to optimum functionality is locked away behind NDAs for all of those devices. Hell, the open source nv…

That's probably my biggest peeve with it. I like flexible desktops and apps in a separate place.

I also didn't know much about MIUI from screenshots (or think much of the shots I saw), but I did test drive a few MIUI ROMS on my phone - it is a ground-up revamp of Android, and fairly impressive. The launcher (what you see in the screens) is probably the weakest part of it all.

I have to admit, the launcher is my least favorite part of MIUI. I like the new menu themes, revamped settings screens and improved app / security / privacy management tools. Can't stand the launcher. And haven't found a really stable and functional MIUI for my Vibrant anyway, so I'm sticking with AOKP.

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply an amateur couldn't make some cool timelapses, just that this film used pretty fancy tech to make for some f'in incredible timelapses. If you haven't see anything of it, check the promo clips - they incorporate motion and lighting changes in really cool ways.

This particular movie has had a lot of behind the scenes videos posted here on Giz over the past year, and it is shot (exclusively?) on DSLR. But it's still not for the average joe with a decent camera — the shots use elaborate motion control rigs that pan or fly the camera over a precisely controlled path while…

Depends on the heat source more than anything else. Odds are good your boiler can handle this. If you can work a multimeter, pull the current thermostat off the wall and measure voltage between the wires. That should get you started towards figuring it out.

To everyone bitching about the tip / climb hazard - The problem is terminology. No way is that a crib. That's a bassinet. A kinda nifty one, though likely insanely overpriced for something that's only usable for about the first 2 months. This is for immobile infants.