When you click My Maps it takes you to the same Maps Engine Lite. Looks the same to me (including the old black Google navigation bar at the top). The mobile app added some features for adding points. The big change beside the name is that it's no longer buried deep in Google Maps. It's right there below the search…

It's been there all along (as Maps Engine Lite), most people didn't know where to look for it. It's nice that they renamed it My Maps. The name fits better. Make sure to get the Android app to go with it and use those custom maps on the go and even make corrections and add custom points. If you really want to know the…

As a daily carrier of a Samsung Note 3 I will never look back at a tiny phone since the 100's of advantages outweigh the few disadvantages. On thing I always surprise people with is they say "Man your phone is huge, it's practically a tablet" and then I have them place their phone on top and they can visually see it…

I sort of set my phone up to not be as distracting. Basically all notifications are turned off and the ones that do only notify me during certain hours (using the schedule function in Lightflow for Android for this). I have a few IFTTT.com recipes setup to notify me of specific emails that are important so I don't…

THIS! I'm learning Hindi and rely on it heavily. The advantage is you can send in corrections right from the website if there are errors or better ways of saying things. If you hover over the output it shows you where those words are in the original text so you can learn sentence structure easily. I love that it also…

So Google Voice in Android Hangouts, Amazon Prime Video on non-Fire devices and Apple has a big phone with NFC. I sense a disturbance in the force....

Swap out gFlash for Anki Droid and use the Anki flashcard system. It's free, syncs online and is super cross platform compatible. Chances are that someone has already built a deck for what you are studying (or at least you get the idea of how to format your own) so you can download ready made decks. The nice thing…

You could use the Google Now widget which is what I use. Of course the defaults will show you other things relevant in Google Now (not a bad thing), but you can turn those off as you train it what to show. The nice thing is pressing the weather takes you to more details with a slider for times/days.

Doesn't work with the Google Voice app. Works pretty good with the built-in messaging app.

At the moment, existing solutions probably don't meet the law's standards (both Apple and Google's remote wipe features are irreversible, and a simple remote lock may not be able to withstand a hard reset).

I would add taking photos and processing them. I would rather snap a photo of something I want to show someone and then mark it up quickly on my phone/tablet than attempt to do the same on my PC where it is mouse driven and I have to fire up something like GIMP which is overkill.

I do something similar for Google+. I've built two circles and anyone I follow will go into one or the other. One is for the interesting and engaging folks and the other is for the somewhat interesting, but possibly spammy folks and of course those realtor/sales friends. For the most part I only peruse through the…

I would add that if you are going to use social media, then be prepared to be "social" on it. I hate companies that cross post across Facebook, Google+, and Twitter and even maybe a blog and only respond to people on say Facebook, or not at all. There is a company I follow on all three and learned quickly they don't…

Hence the blanket "Northern Virginia" comment since that really is a large area south of DC.

Well...you can sort of see that on the Netfix site (http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa), but then the ISPs would point the finger and say that Netflix is the one that slows the connection down.

Yeah, Williamsburg is probably good since it's close to Va. Beach. In fact I think you would be safe along the crescent from I-64 up I-95 to DC. My mom lives in Matthews and can only get 1.5 Mb DSL. My boss lives in Prince George county (next to Richmond) and another brother lives just outside Lexington, VA and they…

A heatmap probably would have been more enlightening. I live in Virginia and I can pretty much tell you that you would only get these speeds if you live in the Northern Virginia, Richmond or Virginia beach areas and no where else in the state. Of course none of this makes any difference when companies like Comcast and…

I have to admit these are way cooler than what I grew up with: the old Radio Shack electronics kits (circa 70's-80's).

I'll get around the reading this....eventually ;-)

I'll throw Jamendo.com in there. It has radio stations or you can make your own playlists and bonus: you can download most of the music on there. It's a good source to find some new tracks you never heard of.