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Take it to one of their retail stores, if you/they live close to one. They should be able to help.

The only problem with that is the follow-up statement(1) from Google indicating that the re-direct was not something that was recently added and that it has always been in place wh…

Are you still looking by any chance?

To all those that are doing/have done startups on .NET, do you guys mind doing a few blog posts on the subject? What was working with .NET like? What worked for you? What didn't? W…

Yes, C# is definitely the way to go. VB is still supported but C# is now the primary language if you are doing .NET development. What functionality do the current ASP pages provide…

I think Orange offers the Nokia Lumia 800. It might be worth a try.

This is unfortunately my main issue with FF. I am type of person that has multiple tabs open in multiple windows for days at a time and FF tends to choke in that scenario after a f…

Given that carriers are only limited to 5 apps and can't make any changes to the Windows Phone OS, I would doubt that there are any Windows Phone devices with Carrier IQ.

Did you switch your GV number to AT&T? Or did you use a new number? I have been considering switching my GV number back to a cell carrier for a while, but I have heard/read that th…

Yes, you can have multiple copy operating running in parallel but the way Windows works, the files themselves are copied in serial order (within an individual copy operation). Wher…

While I like the improvements, I am a little disappointed that they are not implementing parallel/multi-threaded copying. It might not be something that a majority of users would n…

RichCopy is always one of the first tools I install on any of my machines. It's an amazingly powerful tool. About the only thing missing with RichCopy is integration with Explorer …

Perhaps I am reading too much into it but why did they not mention that they took down the previous blog post ( http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/the-reddit-incide... )? T…

According to this report: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-interested-in-m... , Microsoft was not interested in buying Motorola. Instead, they were (supposedly) close t…

IIRC the new version of Chrome Frame does not require Admin access any more. I think it runs a secondary process that injects Chrome Frame into any new instances of IE starting up.…

I don't think you need to be in the US to develop for WP7. It does support other countries. Look at Yalla Apps ( http://www.yallaapps.com/ ) if you are in a country that is not sup…

Given recent news like this, http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie, I have been thinking about ways to secure my browsing. what do other HNers do? Any suggestio…

In addition to what polyfractal mentioned, I would also look at these: - Adobe Reader - Netflix - GoVoice (Google Voice client) - Speed Searcher - ShopSavvy - Tasks (by Telerik) - …

Would Mono [Touch/Droid] be of any help in this scenario?

There is an existing discussion regarding this topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2688270

I believe Parent is making fun of the overreaction to the Silverlight and Windows 8 news.

> You can find fixes of open-source projects as soon as they are committed. That might be relevant if it wasn't for the fact that Silverlight is not open source. They are under no …