I can't get this to work. It just hides Safari's address bar and seems to do nothing else in other apps- what am I missing here? For accented characters, though, you can just hold down a letter for a few seconds.

Surprise, surprise: markets with far more competition produce prices that are far more competitive.

If you're using software buttons, I think there are several ROMs that let you completely change which buttons show up at all- as in, you could actually add a menu button instead of using the Recent Apps button for that. Cyanongenmod 10, if I'm not mistaken, is one of them.

It's about visual cues. The on-screen "overflow button" approach gives users a consistent visual symbol that says "there are extra options here". The menu button provided no such cues. Some apps used it, others did not, and many users simply never knew when apps contained those extra options. A tech-savvy person's…

Has anybody ever surreptitiously enabled read receipts on a non-techie's phone to see if they're ducking your messages? Because, yeah... guilty. I didn't find out much, though. This person doesn't respond to messages, but also doesn't read them for several days. Not sure if they're seeing them come in and they're just…

Wow. I have done... all of these things. The last step is always the real death knell- when you just give up.

"This is Texas, after all."

You don't need a lawyer to sue someone, especially in small claims court, and such cases don't always take enormous amounts of time or money like a large civil case with a jury might. You just have to pay fairly modest court costs and provide the right documentation that proves your case. In most states, the person…

This wasn't made by Apple, dude. Calm down.

It helps a lot if there's a guide, especially one from iFixit. They also often provide the tools you need for servicing. Unfortunately, many of my tech support customers buy horrible, cheap $300 laptops from Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Those fall off the radar so quickly that they usually never get repair guides. I've…

It's a problem if you want to upgrade things like RAM and the SSD later, but as someone who works on desktop computers frequently in the IT field, I can say that laptop repairs are a BITCH regardless of manufacturer. Occasionally in my freelancing I get a customer who spilled something on their laptop and wants to…

Too bad I'm the only one that called him out and he still refused to listen to anything I said

"Real world testing"? What does that mean to you, exactly? It sounds like what you'd actually like is to base your arguments on stuff that no one here can verify. My rMBP is fast as hell, subjectively, but my opinion of how it feels doesn't matter, which is why I provided you with rigorously-sourced objective…

You don't know what you're talking about at all here, dude. Forgive me, because this post is going to be a little long. The original 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro's base model (which I also own) has a Core i7 3615QM- 4 cores, 8 threads, and it's not an Ultra-Low Voltage or ULV part, which would be the class you seem to…

This has nothing to do with PCs and everything to do with Electronic Arts. None of the dozens of great PC games I own has anything approaching this onerous level of DRM- except StarCraft 2, but at least you can play single player on that without a constant Internet connection.

You can turn off 3G/4G on an iPhone, too. Which iPhone does he have? It really depends on your circumstances, because my iPhone 5 can last all day with LTE on, but my old Galaxy Nexus would get absolutely roasted and expire within 4 hours on LTE.

I was an Android user for more than two years. I had the Atrix 1 and Atrix 2, and then I switched to Verizon and got a Galaxy Nexus. I switched to an iPhone 5 at launch, and couldn't be happier. In short: better app selection, battery life, smoothness, and ease of use (less steps to perform common tasks). I have found…

The reason is price. As Sam Biddle stated so poorly in the headline of this article http://gizmodo.com/5977625/android-is-popular-because-its-cheap-not-because-its-good, Android is popular because it's cheap, not because it's good. This does not mean Android is not good- it means that it's high popularity is due to…

The E430 has a Sandy Bridge i5 in it. Newer generations of Intel chips support hardware acceleration for AES. If you're using AES, it's not affecting your performance in any significant way. You can use the "Benchmark" function in TrueCrypt's "Tools" menu to see what I'm talking about. AES benchmarks at 1.5 GB/s…

I know, right? It's been updated like 2 dozen times, too. Every time it makes me restart to update, I think that maybe, just maybe, it will be retina when it re-opens. Every time, I'm disappointed.