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What about a Mac with Windows (bootcamp or VM), the BSD subsystem, XCode with the iOS emulator and Android studio with an Android emulator?

I'd love a citation on that. Not to prove you right/wrong, I'd just love to see the definitive etymology of "Application" to describe software. I'm trying to remember what 'softwar…

Nice - I signed up for it and I'm seeing images of mail being sent to my previous address (that's actually addressed to the current occupants, not my mail being mis-delivered).

Unfortunately, I don't _think_ this propagates to other Apple devices that are set to alert you to incoming calls. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this).

There are other blocklists you can use besides the default. Some quick googling turned up half a dozen that folks like. Some more restrictive, some less.

I don't know if the barrier to entry was all that low... You needed a computer and modem (until the C64 & ZX-81 came along, you were talking ~$2k including modem, floppy drive, and…

I wonder if the pilot got any compensation for the fuel savings? I could see that being a dangerous incentive though, forcing pilots to opt for more risky conditions for the fuel s…

Back in the early 1980's, there was a weekly PBS series called The Computer Chronicles. It was a rundown of tech at the time. Being an older geek, I remember watching them first-ru…

Is there an effective mnemonic for the model designations? I've heard the lineup several times and it's just not sticking. Because of this, I tend to forcibly _not_ think about the…

Earlier poster is correct about not being intuitive. Now that I know about it, that's awesome. Sadly, it's not supported by the Google keyboard (long press kicks off voice search).…

Figure out where the toxic shitstorms are coming from and cut those items out of your life. In my case, the main FB news stream and TV news were the primary antagonizers. I stopped…

No, but a growing number of utilities can inform customers that it is a 'peak usage' time and customer devices can adapt accordingly. Nest (and I assume other internet-connected) t…

Is it me, or does their blog not support RSS/Atom? Trying to add it to feedly and it's not recognizing any feeds.

Just because there might be bloggers out there reading this looking to improve things - SHOW ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATES! This is especially critical for tech blogs.

So much this - It's hard to get invested in a product when it's a nebulous cloud rather than a bright point. This is so much like the Performa SKU sprawl that almost killed Apple i…

Our company has several LifeSpan treadmill desks (~$1200) scattered throughout campus. For a while, I was using one daily. My experience: 1. You're bouncing up and down while you'r…

/me gets tinfoil hat 1. Verizon buys some content producers that flop - Content will not be a profit center for Verizon. 2. Other media companies buy content producers that don't f…

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - It's a BBC Radio Play, but was my first exposure to the story, and a …

My typical web pattern is to open a page, read it's content, open any interesting links in background tabs, then deal with them either immediately after reading the current page, o…

I've used Device42[0] in the past and found it pretty good for asset tracking. It can map software to hardware and manage software relationships. It's a datacenter manager first th…

TBH - Do you even need 1TB of storage on your desktop? If your image/music library is that large, you'd have it on a NAS. Maybe if you've got a big batch of VMs for some reason...

It seems like half (all) of those could be solved with a VM. On paper, the iPad has the storage (1TB!) and horsepower now. I wonder how difficult it would be to implement a hypervi…

OTOH - DOS probably has a pretty low vulnerability profile and it's _very_ well known. Most modern POS terminals run Windows 7. Which is more secure?

Depends on what you want out of it. My biggest loss with G+ sunsetting is that there were some decent technical groups. I've not yet managed to get addicted to Reddit, but I'm gues…

Synchronizing with desktops - particularly non-OSX desktops.