The ability to have multiple accounts on an Android phone, each only used when set as default by an app can be turned to ones advantage. I posted on this before a couple of months ago in reply to a reader who wanted to share his Google music with his wife but didn't want her to know the password. Not for any reasons…

Create a new account - contacts.bkphil@gmail.com for example and add it to your phone. Import only your current contacts into this account and tell your contacts app to use only this account. Once you have two or more accounts on an android device anything that accesses an account gives you a choice which account you…

You need an extendr.

You need an extendr.

You need an extendr.

I guess if there's ever a Lifehacker app it'll be called Lifehackr.

Somehow that's reminding me of the factory that makes luminous sundials so miners can tell the time at work.

"text is one of the first things to become illegible"
What else becomes unable to be read?

Before you dig yourself in further did you read the article I linked to? You can search and read many similar articles. No one was questioning who wrote ABP or what it is similar to our how it works. I was commenting on what it is now.

Everyone is self-righteous on the internet. I'm not a hypocrite otherwise I'd be chastising you for using ABP while using it myself. You said you didn't care about ABP's business model and that is a rather sloppy position to take. The only reason people who don't care have anything at all is because of people who do…

I'm using internet explorer which doesn't need adblockers to remove ads. Exactly where did you get the idea I like to see ads?

Do you need a reminder to play with someone else's balls?

You're right there* but then... I'm no sheep - I don't follow blindly what others tell me I should do.

Single pixel is nothing. Facebook and Google track you around the internet even if you don't have an account and never go to their pages or click a Like button.

No, just based it on comments whenever a paid for app is featured here.

Then you're the only commenter on this site who wants to pay for something.

That's okay, you don't need to care while there are others around you who do care. It's the advertisers, love them or hate them, that keep sites like this free of charge. Newspapers are developing more and more successful subscription models and in the future these will be available off the peg for others to use. And…

Don't forget to whitelist companies whose ads don't burn your retinas - they keep your favorite sites free.

AB+ is a greedy corporation, comparable ethically if not in their methods with your local spammer. AB is a project written and hosted and maintained by one guy, his wife, and a couple of hired hands.