Awful. The whole Metro UI works very poorly with just a mouse, especially on high res displays. The new start screen is accessed in a way that goes against how the rest of the taskbar works (you can't click the little window that pops up when you move your mouse in the corner, instead you have about a 20x20 pixel…

Maybe the problem has to do more with signing artists who don't have the skills to pull it off in the vocal booth or who are not competent enough on their instruments. There are most likely many flavor of the day artists who sound like that recording scene from Boogie Nights and then they chop and autotune the shit…

For PHP frameworks I'd add in CodeIgniter. It's easy to learn, fast, has fairly good documentation and lots of resources on the 'net. I highly recommend using a framework, even for simple sites. It's so much easier to add more complex functionality and maintain the site.

Personally I lump Dreamweaver in to the rest of Adobe's crapware. Bloated, poorly designed.

Get a pair or two of good leather shoes. Check out eBay for used ones, they are often as good as new as good leather shoes tend to last for decades. Also be on the lookout for shoes marked as seconds. They may have some totally inperceptible flaw that won't matter one bit but the price is cheaper.

I imagine the Metro Start menu will be as big a disaster as OSX's Launchpad when you have a very high res display. I have a 30" 2560x1600 res screen in front of me and in OSX using Launchpad is really awkward because a limited number of apps takes all the space on the screen so their spacing is really terrible and…

I'd gladly ditch email for another system. It's a crap protocol and system in every way really.

Somehow I feel I would not be impressed. Adobe has a track record of bad user interface design and sloppy attention to detail all across every one of their products.

How the watch is stored will also have a small effect on how it keeps time.

Yeah I looked into that but decided I didn't want to deal with the wireless thing and at the time there were no good reviews of it so I didn't know if it would work properly for gaming. Went with a fully mechanical QPAD MK50 keyboard and it's a joy to type on but sometimes I do wish it had more laptop like buttons.

I like how the current Apple keyboards feel. I'd love to have one for my PC too but the Apple ones don't work all that great without digging for Bootcamp drivers and they're not very good for gaming because they can't handle that many keys together.

To me a smart TV would be just something that has a great remote (not those "90% buttons are useless" deals) and can stream and decode pretty much any video format. At the moment I use my PS3 for this via PS3 Media Server but unfortunately its far from perfect thanks to PS3's lacking video format support.

This should become standard just to circumvent the shitty design that is the USB connector. Seriously, mini-USB is easy, but the standard one you have to always guess which way it should go in as the port can be vertical or horizontal or upside down or whatever.

There is nothing difficult about it. All they need is two versions of the software - a time or content limited trial version and the full one. This isn't any different from what developers do outside the app store. If the user buys the software, then it is simply replaced by the full version similar to an update.

Exactly. Would it really be that difficult to just add a "try it" option right next to the buy button?

Content can be scaled. In essense all you're going to see is sharper icons and text on the iPad 3. You won't have more screen space or smaller icons as the size of the icons is based on the size of a touch target, aka the recommended size for something that is activated by poking it with your finger.

They may give plenty of explanations for it. It doesn't take the fact that it takes pretty much no effort to design that logo. It's not memorable or unique. The flag, even if it was a strange metaphor, is already pretty iconic.

Most likely the only ones truly bothered by this are system admins who have to upgrade multiple machines. In those cases the USB stick would come in handy. But then again they should be competent enough to make their own anyway.

What I want to know is why don't TVs support better split screen options? This would allow you to use say, two PS3s and play online with a friend using only one TV. Likewise you could watch two TV channels in a more sensible way than those tiny picture in picture modes some TVs have.

It is. There are true 120Hz displays for computers, but not TVs. This is mostly because HDMI is limited to 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz. While HDMI 1.4 would be able to deliver at 120Hz, it isn't truly supported by most devices and takes a lot more bandwidth.