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The BEKANT is definitely hit-or-miss when it comes to reliability. The motors on mine died just over a month after purchasing it, and some searching at the time revealed it to be a…

This article doesn't come across to me as angry, not at all. I would say Marco is more disappointed than anything, especially knowing how good some of Apple's other cloud services …

Whatever made you think that was the case? Probably because public companies frequently use this as an excuse for their immoral business practices. Examples? Basically any health i…

The new date picker certainly looks better than before, but I think the plus and minus buttons are a little confusing. Not sure what will happen when I click plus above November. I…

I went from HSPA+ on a Galaxy Nexus (AT&T) to LTE on an iPhone 5 (Verizon), and the difference is very noticeable, at least in my area of the US. HSPA+ was alright but still felt l…

The iPhone 5 has LTE and an aluminum back. Edit: Not being snarky. Just a minor correction.

Those are good arguments, but are those benefits worth the millions of dollars we spend on these obviously flawed machines? It seems like overkill. Print some ballots with larger p…

What's wrong with paper ballots again? Serious question. In my area (northern MA), voters are given a ballot with a bubble next to each of the candidates' names. You use a marker t…

64GB iPhone 5 here: 57.3GB usable storage (89.5% of advertised).

Sounds like you did have experience: stuff you had done independently. More and more that's becoming a requirement to get a good job out of college, at least in certain fields. Com…

First, this looks like a nicely done app. Serious question though: Who is doing serious development work on their iPad? Is this for the PHP developer on the go who needs to make a …

No BBEdit option?

You can force quit the app, and it will relaunch to your list of games.

Counter-Strike was what really got me into programming too, in the form of several small programs that added some neat functionality to CS and other HL mods. As a high school stude…

Devil's advocate here. What about all the content producers and services that rely on advertisements for the bulk of their income? I'm afraid the result of this law will be a drop …

This just doesn't seem like the sort of presentation you should use Prezi for, that's all. The zooming and swooshing and panning and spinning and turning and ... distracts from wha…

Is this a blog post about Java GC or an excuse to use Prezi? I can't tell.