@Commander Waffles: Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you value these features enough to ask for them here, is $1 per month too much to pay for them?

@Kamatari +: With Citibank at least you can't make a card with a zero balance, but let's say you set a $1 maximum. I would expect that Gamefly or Netflix will only send you discs if they have a "hold" on your credit card large enough to cover the discs if you keep them. That's why their "trial" still needs a credit…

@thinkerer: Makes sense. And of course for close-spaced shots, leaving everything on would be wise. I was thinking of much longer exposures — say every hour for a week kinds of things — the sort of duration that would be find in normal camera use (I can turn my camera on, take a pic and turn it off hundreds of times…

@Monolith: Strikes me that this would be tough to do programmatically. I assume that most people are using this to hide the location of 1 or 2 places (i.e. home and work). Not much reason you'd need to hide something public like a tourist attraction or shopping mall.

Steaming is a great way to reheat a lot of different things. And if you either don't have, or don't feel like cleaning, a bamboo steamer basket, a collander (metal of course) in a pan of water does the same thing and then goes right in the dishwasher.

@thinkerer: So does the camera stay "on" throughout the time lapse session? Or does the lens retract and it goes into something more like standby? I've always figured that a few lines of code would allow a camera to go into a low-power mode, wake up at the specified interval, meter, shoot and return to low-power…

I've never understood why this feature is not a staple of all digicams. It seems like it should be an easy/cheap thing to include — and incredibly cool — yet none of the point and shoot digicams I've owned have had it.

@ca_little: It is. But it's exclusively Chuck Norris' LAN Party PC. He carries it on his keychain.

@sktaka22381: It seems to only work with a select few 'new' HP wireless printers. I guess this is what Apple considers "hassle free".

@Hagame: That would explain why it doesn't see my wireless printer. hassle free FAIL!

Considering the iPhone is the only Apple product I own...there's a lot I don't know. If AirPrint is like AirPlay, can I print to any printer on my network? I don't see a way to set that up.

@improprietary: Gotcha! Good point. Never mind, everyone. No free round-the-world first class trips to see here. Not a one. ;-)

@tkuhl87: I assumed he was speaking in terms of what he would advise someone to do. He sounds like a pretty financially savvy guy, and while it might make sense for him to have a mortgage (low interest, tax deductible) it wouldn't make much sense for him to have high interest credit card debt.

@improprietary: Not sure I follow . . . nothing illegal or improper here, and I suspect it would be pretty hard for someone to mug me for them since I hardly ever carry my miles around with me in my wallet. :-) I may have just misunderstood what you meant, though. Did I?

Slightly OT but I switched to Chrome a couple of weeks ago after hearing about the standalone processes and the fact that individual tabs could crash without the overall browser crashing. But so far, every crash seems to crash every tab. Did I miss something?

@Jonathan Danna: You can even configure it with a saved password so he doesn't even need to send you numbers. He can call and you'll already have what you need to connect.

@improprietary: Generally, as long you stay minimally active in a program, your miles will remain active. Some programs such as Southwest and JetBlue points will expire after a year, but the more traditional programs they'll keep you around. It takes a bit of planning to get value out of it, so many people give up,…

Team Viewer is great, but their licensing is absurd. I use it mostly for personal use but occasionally to help clients. I'd happily support them, but the first step up from "free, non-commercial" is $719! I can understand a corporate license having a fee that size, but for small (tiny) businesses, and with a…

Hmm..no updated twitter app for me yet :(

@improprietary: I've earned more than 3,000,000 miles through travel and reward cards in the past 15 years or so. I've cashed in about 1/2 of those and hardly ever pay hotel or airfare on our vacations, so absolutely yes. :-)