@iDon't even: I better get checked out :)

[cut and pasted from my comment on Engadget about this issue with some spelling and grammar changes]

Although they made a mistake, I'd say this is more a fault of the design of bit.ly.

@das7002: According to av-test.org, Avast isn't as good as MSE.

@conrad.martin: Which is great, but MSE beat Avast in the most recent tests by av-test.org in protection (4.0 vs 3.5), repair (4.5 vs 4.0) and useability (5.5 vs 5.0).

@JuryDuty: I'm not sure how possible it is, but it would be perfect if, after running, it could execute any other screensaver.

Are there any good plain-English guides to installing a cIOS? I've got the homebrew channel and would like to play from the HD but I'm also concious that the Lifehacker article came out before Nintendo starting doing BCA checks (eg on New Super Mario Bros) - so does a cIOS get around them?

@geekjello: Not quite. If you mark them as "free" then they will not be shown in the free/busy schedule. This is the thing that people use to identify whether or not you are free when booking a meeting.

@tonyennis: That is about as perfect as you are going to get. The reason phones are cheaper on contracts is because the operator is subsidising your phone and in return you need to commit to them for a period of time to pay the money back. If you don't like that, then there is only one other choice which is buy it…

As a side note, it is interesting to note that as soon as their house was burning down they could find the $75 but they couldn't at any previous time in the last 10 months.

@darkstar516: The UK would be easy. Go find the phone you want and then either buy it outright (and put it onto any network) or find the operators that offer the phone, pick the best deal and then port your number across to them.

If you added a DVR to your XBox then you'd have to put up with significantly reduced hard-drive access time as a DVR uses it pretty heavily. In addition, it would add unnecessary cost to an already expensive product and the target audience of people who want both would be extremely small.

Battery decay is not consistent over the life of the charge. It actually starts to decay quickly and then tails off. If you have a scale like you asked for then your battery meter would go crashing from 5 to 2 in a very short amount of time and then take a very long time to drop to 1.

@Nick Denton: Good point but I'm led to believe that syncing your notes with Gmail is actually only one way.

Whilst everything said about a gift card is valid, the problem with giving cash for a present is that you have absolutely no idea if they go and spend it on something rather than just dumping it into their bank account.

Whilst using BCC is an alternative, it means that people have no idea who you've sent the email to.

I'm a fan of PasteFire which has a bookmarklet that does exactly the same thing and works on most modern browsers.

The "best" thing about Android 1.5 is most of the interesting applications (latitude, navigation, voice search) don't work because they need 1.6 or later!

I had to purchase some in-ear headphones for a mobile phone I was launching some years ago. The cost of a standard pair of in-ear ones was about $1.50 each for a minimum order of 1,000.

@roboutik: You're kidding right? Tell that to all the HTC Tattoo owners who are stuck on 1.6. HTC teased them with rumours of an update and then promptly retracted it.