It's really hard to be happy when you're swamped with debt, struggling to pay bills, to feed yourself. That's the point of the graph. It shows the point at which money stops bringing happiness from filling basic needs. Or rather, when your lack of money is no longer stressing you out and making you unhappy.

Have they considered working from home with Google?

I ported my mobile number to GV years ago, and I always have the app installed on my phone, so when I call people that is the number they see. No one is confused about what my phone number is. For MMS, no one I know uses MMS enough (as opposed to some other service) to warrant a change. Even the biggest MMS offenders…

(Full disclosure: I have worked for big Pharma before and currently work in small Pharma/Biotech)

The problem with patent reform is that it really is rock and a hard place time. Big pharma (an industry that I've worked in for around 10 years in the technology arena) spends BILLIONS on developing and seeking approval for medications - even the recent cut in terms of patent length makes it INCREDIBLY difficult for…

I don't actually use Scrivener (because, you know, none of my publishers does so I'd have to use Word for the editing anyway and because Word+OneNote=everything people praise Scrivener for) but I'm pretty sure it's got a full-screen, distraction free mode. You could start there and take advantage of the other features…

It's easy to comparison shop using private mode browsers. I did it for a while to see if I was paying more than I should have had to pay for certain things. Nope. Same price on everything.

They need to get the Google Music Player to work off-line like it does on my Android phone. I was really amazed that I had to be connected to the internet on my Chromebook for this to work when I was used to listening anywhere on my phone.

Linked and embedded :) Thanks for reminding me. I just started at Gizmodo and I'm in spaz mode today.

VirusTotal gives it a clean chit, Peter. Sophos might be over-enthusiastic there :)

1. This is meant to replace a key, not the wireless garage door opener in your car

This is what got me to switch:

The heartbleed check is based on when you changed your password, if you just imported everything it won't help you since the passwords will have been "changed" today. I would guess that sites that aren't fixed yet but do fix themselves should start showing up, but I don't actually know.

Our friends at Gizmodo also did a post, and theirs is more of an explainer on what the bug does. I recommend checking it out if you're interested (I added a link to our post as well). Our goal was to provide practical information on how it actually affects the average user, as is always our goal—without overloading…

OCR is really good, even with bad inking. Although it doesn't have a "related" search like Evernote does, it searches very well. Here's a screenshot (note how it found the "New" in the map):

I'll start the discussion by saying I'm partial to both apps. I switched to Evernote when Google Notebook bit the dust (and Google Notebook was mainly a web clipping app, if you recall). Long before Evernote, though, I learned OneNote was the best kept secret in information organizing software (at least for Windows…

so, can we have a recount here:

Not all earbuds have noise isolation. I can hear the radio in my car on low volume while listening to my earbuds. I occasionally put them in when I'm driving long distances with my family and the wife and kids are asleep. If one of my kids asks me a question I can still here them.

If wearing headphones prevents you from hearing traffic, then anything that prevents you from hearing traffic is also bad. If we take this to it's logical conclusion, we should ban car stereos or limit the volume, and remove all sound blocking materials from cars too. Why fixate on headphones when a stock car stereo…