Ruby is a programming language - you can build any applications that you want with it, within the capabilities of the language. Judging from the interest you've shown in your past comments, you can use Rails (a web app framework based in Ruby) to build your own (dynamic) sites.

I wouldn't say that you are not handing out your credentials, because your API keys are in fact just another form of them - a malicious user can take them and use them similarly to as they would if they had your username and password, assuming Twitter's API set of functionalities are similar to the GUI feature set.…

No - you're thinking of ones issued by credit card companies, e.g. American Express gift cards. Store cards seldom tack on fees when you purchase them.

Careful there - you may inadvertently run against the grocery limit prematurely if you do that too often. If gift cards are your thing, the Everyday cards that I mentioned earlier may be a better bet since the MR points ratio on those are generally $0.01 per point, which is among the better ways of spending the MR…

That's correct and should be corrected by the OP - Amazon (and many other online sites) are excluded. The other big one is warehouse types of store such as Costco. That said, their Blue Cashback (note: not simply Blue) cards are very good in terms of reward ratios if you are looking purely for cashback. I used the…

YMMV in that case. I had a second no rush order made last Wednesday with a delivery estimate of today through Friday and it arrived today. It was shipped Saturday. This is why Prime is still definitely worth it for me - I've never had a late shipment in the 7 years I've used them (outside of weather related delays).

video credit*

Yup that's the one caveat about it (and usually the reason I see others say as a negative about Prime's cost). I also have Hulu and Netflix subscriptions as well - Hulu is fantastic for current shows (Parks and Recreation being one of the recent ones), so I use that to justify the cost. I don't mind the ads at all -…

There's a selection of free videos. Hover over the "Your Account" tab when you're logged in and click on "Your Prime Instant Video".

I recall Amazon having this option several years ago - 2012 I believe. Back then the credit could be used towards MP3s as well as videos. I'm pretty curious as to why they decided to change it now.

FWIW - I placed an order with two items on a Friday night. One using Prime's 2-day shipping and the other using the no-rush option. Both were shipped the same day and arrived Monday - I received an e-mail about the MP3 credit along with the shipping notification.

GuardTower's equating themselves as part of a "cult following" of Nintendo. I doubt rationality and logic will help, since you might as well be responding to a troll. Or a wall.

I like that Reeder allows you to add additional feeds straight from the app; Unread requires you to do that externally. Beyond that, it seems that both readers handle feeds similarly - click individual feeds or an aggregated view and start reading.

I've mentioned this earlier on an Unread post on LH a month back. Unread is a better RSS reader than Reeder, and I highly recommend others to try it out and see the improvements for yourself.

Perhaps techy is the wrong word - patient, as you've said, might be more accurate. Still, that will be one of the major hurdles that they will have to jump through, and that in itself might be enough to dissuade them from using it.

Sounds like it's a case of YMMV then.

Unfortunately most of the general public are not techy enough - which was the OP's point. It'd be great if they were though, we wouldn't need to compare AVs as often. :)

This is what I've been doing on my OS X machine. My norton subscription expired and I decided to uninstall it instead. Been this way for a few months and expectedly, battery life improved too!

In what respect? The reason I used it before was because I had trouble upgrading from 2011 to 2012 on a Windows 7 machine. On OS X I've only ever used the bundled uninstaller. And FWIW, most reputable AV providers have them - especially if they have hooks into the OS.

I'm assuming you can't use the official one for whatever reason? Because that's the first link I see (and have used before) when I search for Norton Uninstaller.