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And we're back to comparing a built-to-be-low-cost, first generation device to expensive and presumably refined over time hardware, too. The Fire has a slow-ish CPU by current standards (It's "only" a dual core 1GHz system) and probably the most customized, eye candy intensive front end of...

I'm thinking that it shouldn't much matter. DLNA magically supports control protocols across devices, brands and capabilities. How hard is it to implement a device interface that understands "pause" and "next track?" Apparently I can get something better than what I have via Bluetooth, but IIRC...

They're both acceptable. Swiftkey probably is too. I'm used to Swype on my phone and that's what I prefer work with. The biggest annoyance I have between on screen keyboards is the mild lack of standardization about which non-QWERTY keys go on the primary screen. The default keyboard the Xoom...

Is it really so hard to type out the name of a company rather than its ticker symbol?

There's obviously enough divergence of opinion in what makes a good on screen keyboard that ithing people could probably stand to see some choice in the matter as well.

Even being able to control music playback on the head unit instead of the screen would be nice. I mounted an Evo in my car on a little arm to basically be a full-time music player but the only control I have without endangering everyone else on the road once I start it playing is volume.

Why can't we get car stereo integration with Android devices? I've looked. It doesn't seem to exist. Boo.

Mildly amusing tidbit relating the Megaupload saga: The morbidly obese multimillionaire who owned the site had a bunch of hip hop stars record a song in support of his service. Apparently those people are actually celebrities for some value of that term. Also, he was apparently ranked as the #1...

I'd have to see one since I'm not terribly confident about the quality of the panel. They do claim it's IPS at least.

The nice thing is, at least Android people get a choice.

Actually, yeah. There are several different virtual keyboards to choose from. I prefer Swype. One of my frustrations with the Fire is the fact that Amazon doesn't have any other keyboards for it in its app store.

You're talking about a $600 phone from a tier 1 OEM vs. a deliberately inexpensive lowest common denominator 1st generation device.

What about adding a repeater or just locating another AP broadcasting the same SSID?

I can't say I've ever had good luck with desktop internal WLAN hardware. Your best bet probably is to upgrade antennas, but everything 802.11 has an element of crapshoot to it, just because of all the environmental issues. Can you replace the antennas on the AP side as well?

Good idea, but what would most likely happen is that if any of the all-powerful meta-editors noticed, we'd wind up fighting over wikipedia's notability requirement.

Contacts are either in the PST or in the Windows Address book. If they're in the PST they can be copied just like anything else. You can choose which PST's contacts you want to look at in the category view thingy. Since Gmail is in the mix, you can also make a nice .csv or something and import...

Yes it will. You're not going to Import the PST. You're going to add it to a mail account. You're right that the account parameters (username/password, server settings) aren't stored in the .pst. They're in the profile. You can just as easily attach somebody else's pst to your outlook profile if...

I can tell you that law enforcement computer forensics guys are trained to look for hidden partitions and alternate data streams in files as a matter of course. They're also taught how to deal with non-Windows file structures. They're aware of what steganography is and roughly how large files...

Yes they sent me emails about that. Dreamhost is actually very good about customer communication. Dotster had a day-long DNS outage last week and didn't say anything to anybody unless they called to complain.

I upgraded my Xoom to ICS. It was uneventful. I legitimately like the 8.9" Samsung Galaxy, which has very similar measurement, but it's also a limited device in that it has 16GB of fixed storage and no way to add more. I'd like to see a 7" tablet with a 1280x800 IPS screen and at least an SD...

Do the files still exist on the PC? Did you kill the profile or the data? The stuff that's on Gmail is still on Gmail, but it might not be immediately visible, because it might not be tagged with a "label", which is what other IMAP clients understand as a folder. You can usually find that stuff...

I'd just like to say that while browsing torrents the other night I found a Duke Nukem porn parody. I suspect it's more interesting than the game you guys are are talking about, but I couldn't be bothered to download it and find out.

1. We can more or less count on the current court to be wrong on every issue of importance. We can already reliably predict how the court will decide every case set before it; the only real doubt in any decision they hand down is how broadly or narrowly they choose to write their decisions...

I actually asked the hand full of ipad owners I know what's so awesome about ipads. What I can say from that is that to a one, they consume streaming content that's available regardless of platform but they also participate in Apple's ecosystem for music and video, which of course is something...

It was pointed out to me not long ago that the local price for a Primary rate ISDN setup was quite a bit lower than a full T1. Like 10%. There isn't much functional difference between the two things so I have no idea why there's a price difference.

Diagnosis: You need something better than crummy 3G for two way video. Solution: Pay $30 a month for DSL and get a $50 wireless router. That'll be $100.

Dreamhost works just fine as a registrar. I do most of what I want from there, and their control panel will even start the GApps migration for you. Dotster made me pay $10/year just so I could set up a TXT record.

To be honest, the first thing I thought when I heard about that was how much those guys were paid not to fall on their swords over the outages last fall, which seemed to me to be the ideal time to make a hasty and well-timed exit anyway.

This week's episode of On the Media has some fairly interesting and balanced (in the actual, non-Fox News definition of "balance") coverage of SOPA and Megaupload. It's basically the first 20 minutes of an hourlong program.

You did that on purpose, didn't you? Nonetheless, I think the Samsung devices I've tried have had the best overall experience, even in spite of their goofy launcher and UI "enhancements."

Copyright infringement has only recently become a criminal matter. Until fairly recently, it was handled only in civil court. Unfortunately, certain industries have decided that it's more important to bribe our legislature into forcing the world to conform to its business models than to try to...

Perhaps the right answer is to find some tool that will generate previews of arbitrary size and run it against your source library in a script? The difficulty I see with that is linking the smaller preview to the larger source file, but it might make for a faster, better experience anyway.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that both Picasa and ACDsee will generate thumbnails, but Picasa doesn't seem to allow me to directly change thumbnail size and the version of ACDsee I have here (and still use!) is 16 years old. That said, 256x256 is absolutely enormous for something...

Does anyone else here even have a tablet? What are you using it for?

Most places that say they don't allow custom records really mean "We don't support custom records unless you pay us." There's probably some stupid $10/year add-on you need to buy from 1&1 to allow direct editing of your DNS records.

At the end of my weekend with iOS, I don't really have anything more to add. Apple's default ebook tool did most of what I wanted and I was annoyed enough with the App store that I didn't go back looking for anything that I was missing. Reading was just OK. I might be wrong but I think reading...

I already had one Evo. Now I just have some more.

I suspect this is an epic tale with which we are all familiar and so I share it with all of you. Last time I visited my aunt and uncle, I fixed their desktop, removed spyware and reset the screen resolution on their new, widescreen laptop to something other than 800x600, secured their wireless...

An electronics recycling program started in my area last year. I've met the guy who runs it a couple times. They employ homeless guys and parolees to strip everything they're given to components and then resell anything they possibly can before disposing of what they can't. Anyway, that guy...

There's a whole lot of "You've GOT to be kidding me." as I look for the things that make the ipad what I would consider minimally functional. The app store search doesn't seem to understand anything but name searches, meaning that I have to go and google to find the tools that I want, then...

... or the guy who ran TV Shack, a British citizen, being arrested and extradited to the US for violating no laws in Great Britain?

OK. I have this ipad2. Very first thing I'm going to say about it: The weight annoyance factor isn't as bad as it is on Android tablets. The ipad2 uses a 4:3 screen and it rally does balance better than 16:9 products.

I'm now the proud owner of two spare HTC Evos. One of them is going to be permanently installed in my car to act as a full-time media player. I guess I'll play around with third party Android builds on the other.

Just roll with it, man. Santilli wants to talk about the weather where he is and it's not preventing any other discussion. Some of us have pet threads. I keep resurrecting the "Media Players" thread and for that matter every once in a while someone will post an update to a five or six year old...

The simple fact is that I don't think these attempts to censor will amount of any serious degradation of my ability to access information online. We'll find ways around everything. Yes, the whole western world has taken a step away from free and open societies, but there's a larger issue than...

Contrast that with Prometric, whose testing software, the software needed to certify candidates on Microsoft software like Exchange and SQL Server, wouldn't run on 64-bit Windows, Vista, Windows 7 or Server 2008, and even required that administrators skip certain Windows updates on older...

In my area at least, all Freecycle has on it is people whining that they need free diapers.

Filesystems change in the *Nix world pretty readily.New features for Windows file systems are usually interesting and useful copies of tools other OSes have had for years. This is probably a good thing.

I had to stay up all night. I got to watch four inches of snow evaporate from the parking lot over about the last six hours. Now it's all foggy and crap.

Baen actually slightly overspecializes in military SF that frequently has a libertarian bent. But they're very progressive about giving away their fiction and they strongly dislike DRM, which is one of the reasons I've supported the company.