late to the comments because I've been traveling for the past 2 weeks, but it seems that the software is vastly different for Windows vs Mac computers. My Windows (work) computer installs the software and behaves like a server for pogoplug (incredibly awesome potential if 2 way sync can be worked out and there is a…

From what I can tell, the "intentional-or-not webapp shortcut slowdown" only effects full-screen webapps. Even if you have a webapp on your homescreen, if the developers haven't enabled the tag, then the homescreen button just launches Mobile Safari and loads the webpage (and thus has the takes up one of the 8 tabs…

I use Grooveshark (need jailbreak) for my music, DropPhox for photos, Notesy for notes and Downloads for my PodCasts and YouTube videos. Grooveshark is 100% streaming with offline capabilities and Downloads allows you to download a podcast, listen to it, then delete it. DropPhox and Notesy however sync with your…

I condone piracy when the big corporations that manage the content make it impossible to get/test the content. For example, I'm currently in Japan, but none of the major networks allow me to watch tv (via Hulu with commercials) or movies (via Netflix with a subscription), so I get all my shows and movies from…

Just to remind all the readers, Aardvark was bought by Google, so the technology that sorts who answers what questions is now Google's, so it will be very interesting to see how they incorporate that into their machine automation searches.

vote: wolfram alpha

I would also throw Mobile Mouse (from what I can tell, someone stole the source code for Mobile Mouse, which I downloaded almost 18 months ago) and VLC remote (if you get the pro version, you can navigate to any folder on your computer right from the app)

Horribly written VBA code running in the background. There is no error checking for the external data connections, so when you get one error, you have to quit excel to stop the pop-up messages. Not even worth the download. I'm surprised lifehacker put something this poor on their website as a featured article.

Vote: Meebo

Handbrake will rip from a VIDEO_TS source directly into a H.264 iPhone friendly (or any other common format). As you mentioned with MacX, handbrake will not rip an ISO so you lose menus. Basically, if VLC can play it, handbrake can rip it in one set-it-and-forget-it action (also does GREAT converting .flv to H.264…

Wow, did a quick research. This campaign was in 1977, but the 5100 actually came out in 1975 for around $15,000 (I like how the commercial said it was reasonably priced, but never mentioned the price...not so reasonable, huh?). With inflation over the past 35 years (4.05%), that comes out to a little over $60,000…

For the "Getting in on Beta", if you have a friend that has a developer license, an easier way to give them your UDID is via an UDID app (just search UDID in the App store, I prefer UDID Pro). It emails your friend with all the required information.

@desrtfx001: actually, google, as well as other websites, realize that for developing countries, both internet and mobile phone technology is limited, but communication companies are making more of a push for cell phone access first (lower bandwidth, longer coverage distance, way cheaper), so, for a vast majority of…

Vote: Google Docs

vote: amazon

There are some good points in this article, but I have to disagree on the basic principle. When a graduate enters the workforce, 99% of companies will ONLY use office products (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook for everyone; Access, Project, and Visio for some specific cases) and if the new graduate is proficient…

the author should add #101...a computer. Then he wouldn't need to blog about something no one cares about

@Pronoun: the "applications" folder is actually just a shortcut to "/private/var/stash/applications". Depending on your SSH client (WinSCP), this shortcut will automatically take you to the desired folder

hmm, does anyone remember mosio.com back in the day? it was this exact same thing about 3 years ago where you text in a question and whoever was online would answer the question (also like KBG). Haven't been to mosio.com in about 2 years, but when I went there today, it seems at some point in the past, they changed…

Just use Google Voice and turn on DND. Then, when you get back into a Wi-Fi area, you can check on calls you missed and reply via text (over the internet)/email. Good thinking though.