I know battery life benefits, because SSDs do not use as much power as hard disk drives — no moving parts, and they spend less time actually working. But I don't know how much of a benefit that is. Anyone?

Oh, I was comparing SwiftKey 3 (Beta or release) to the previous Play Store version. The beta was awesome for me the entire time; you're absolutely right.

Oh, this is awesome. The beta hadn't updated for a while, so I was really hoping they'd be close to a release date. Version 3 just makes SwiftKey so much more usable, thanks to the bigger spacebar, better punctuation keys, and more sensible number-pad/symbols/settings navigation.

Yes! Now that is a noble reason to want ad blocking - the only good reason for it, in my mind. And data monitoring is crucial nowadays, because it just costs so much to go over.

Yep. Android is a comfortable place to be when you get used to all the stuff you have to wade through. And depending on, again, how nerdy you are, you might have more fun because you're doing more work to get your fix.

I love your analogy at the end; it's absolutely perfect. But your points above don't really negate Whitson's — even when you compare the iPhone to just a single Android phone, I can't imagine the Android ever being easier to tweak.

Ha ha ha! Boy, why haven't I watched Seinfeld lately? Thanks, I needed that.

Wunderkit doesn't have to be social. I plan on using it for a few programming projects, and it seems like it'll do fine.

Each is best suited for a different task. I personally use them both.

I also use Evernote, and I see a clear distinction between the two: Evernote is best suited for stuff, while Wunderkit is best suited for actions. Most of the stuff you have in Evertnote is probably stuff you just want to remember, so I doubt it really belongs in Wunderkit.

I realize that if you're lugging a 17-incher, you're probably not concerned with battery life much, but using one Seagate Momentus XT gives a lot of storage and a lot of speed for not a lot of money. 500 GB for only $100 is pretty good for near-SSD speeds.

I've only bought one off-brand mouse, and I wish I hadn't. It's a nameless near-copy of Microsoft's Arc Mouse, and I was really happy that it was only $12. It's just as portable as I'd hoped it would be, but the build quality is just too cheap for it to feel like a good purchase.

My netbook doesn't have an LED for any of the "Lock" keys, so Acer installed a utility that alerts me with an OSD whenever any of them change (it looks a lot like Mac OSDs, actually).

Neither does my netbook. Windows actually came with a similar utility that showed an alert (just like changing volume on a Mac) whenever I pressed Caps Lock.

Nirvana is a very good service, and I loved it when I used it (most of the past year). However, they're going to make it a freemium service as soon as they publish Nirvana 2 — the beta version that they've been testing for a while.

That's true; it is Belvedere's fault that it can't access its own settings in Windows 7. I only wanted to excuse Belvedere from some of the blame because that problem didn't exist until Windows 7 changed how the `Program Files` folder works. A fix is in the works, I believe.

And Belvedere needs a wiki or FAQ now, I think. There are too many common questions that need answering.

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Okay, I was just going to reply to each comment about not being able to save rules/add folders, but there are too many of them. So, here it is, for everyone to see.

You could add another criteria to the rule that makes it only apply to files with a "date modified" that is older than 10 seconds. I think that would make it so that the rule wouldn't apply to anything being downloaded.