It's not really clear from the article if the budget breakdown is total household income or just personal income for the profiled individual. 'Jeanette' may make $60k, but her husband may make that too (full time at a law firm).

VOTE: SwiftKey

Same here. Le Pan TC970 is an excellent tablet for the money - was $169 on amazon.ca pre-Christmas. I find the build quality and hardware to be excellent for the money. Froyo sucks, but at least it's stable.

Also worthy of mention - never have children. They are sleep's kryptonite.

I'm not sure it's just Android specific - I had mucho GPS problems with my iPhone 3G, especially after upgrading to iOS4.

"the study bean", beloved of students everywhere. Or possibly there's a missing space. And yes, sorry, I'm a pedant.

"The Best Text Messaging Replacement for iPhone"... if you live in the United States. The rest of you can piss off, or use textPlus

Amen to that. Although I think we need a few more actual people in Nova Scotia before the blue and yellow party will come (back) to town. An additional 500,000 bodies in HRM should do it.

VOTE: WinDirStat

Thanks for the link - i heart science + whiskey.

...and another one here (mother-in-law at least)!

Indeed - $3.99 a month, plus the cost of a second iDevice equals too expensive

Another rebuttal - my wife has agreed to cutting the cable after getting hooked on the HTPC and netflix (Canada) combo. Same situation for our neighbours (w/kids of 2 & 4 years old) - Netflix + HTPC wins there too. Basically, it can be done.

+0.5... she's definitely a bit "me-me-me". She's created a blogging site with free user-generated content, published under her personal banner/name/brand... she's the Arianna Huffington of DIY furniture.

It's a good idea - easy to access camera without putting down the bag too...

Try [cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com] - both entertaining and delicious

Agreed! uTorrent + ezRSS seem to be a lot more reliable for me than TED or TVTrigger... much more lightweight too.

@kijoshua: Amen. Well said. Etc. I don't mind scrolling down. Gives my middle finger a workout.

Totally agree! The article singles out phrase matching results as particularly annoying - these seem almost guaranteed to not have anything relevant to your search.

@Criosphynx: "blow", "squander" or "fritter-away" would all work fairly well in the context of such fancy-pantery.