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Kind of old but there is one, http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/

I know for myself at least, upgrading to newer hardware is mostly a big distraction from work or whatever it is I probably should be spending time on. That said, I had a mini9 for a few weeks and typing on that tiny keyboard was pretty painful, so props to Joey for sticking with it.

If Joey is reading this... It sounds like you are living in a remote place. It'd be cool to see a more detailed blog post with pictures. Also as someone who has lived with a flaky dialup connection for a long time recently, I can highly recommend mosh. Setup irssi+bitlbee on a server running under tmux. Then connect with mosh and attach to tmux. This way you get reliable chat and irssi should set the important flag for the window, giving you notifications of new messages too. You can also configure irssi to mark you as away when you disconnect.

Is it just me or does the Nexus Q look like the Empire's probe droid from the Empire Strikes Back?

In-N-Out is usually soggy and nasty so seems like a good thing to delivery. If you want something better in SF, Super Duper is pretty good.

Was interested until I got to: "glossy anti-glare coating". I think I'd have just said it was glossy.

Does anyone really care?

My recollection is that Apple has not compared very favorable with their competitors in this respect for a while now. And now that their products are becoming increasingly difficult to repair/disassemble, perhaps the strategy is to bail now rather than face even poorer ratings in the future?

I did on my older MacbookPro5,1. It didn't even seem like I dislodged much dust, but it made a huge difference. Now the fans don't go above 3-4000 rpm even with the cpu pegged, which is quiet. Before it would consistently spin the fan at max speed even with modest cpu use. This old beast is far quieter under load than the new MacBook Air 13" I had for a week and returned.

I had a good experience with StartCom.

Ok you're right about it not deleting by default. But there is an option to delete mail after its been accessed with POP. And in any case Gmail hides the message after you've read it, but you could still have an error writing the message to disk and thus miss backing that message up.

Actually do. Since he's using getmail, its making a copy to his local system. It just happens to be able to do that over IMAP. You are better off doing this than doing the same with POP because Gmail's POP deletes mails as you read them, which is non-standard. You could lose emails if there are network, disk, or other errors.

Wait, twitter has billing info on its users?

Hmm I'm skeptical. I tried a similar setup with a number of free Voip services, Google Voice, and a Nexus One. The voice quality was very unpredictable, often unusable. That on Wifi no less. I can't imagine trying to do the same on 3G. Maybe I should have paid for a Voip service? ... What would be nice is if Google opened up direct sip access to GVoice.

Finally an answer and seems like a reasonable one. For a time I had both a Nexus One and iPhone 3GS. The Nexus One was faster in just about about everything, but using it just felt like work. The iPhone comparatively was a pleasure to use.

Wow these are getting pretty boring...

Some of my favorites:

  * twicca, a twitter client
  * Tasker, program your phone
  * AnkiDroid, flashcards
  * Aix Weather Widget
  * FlickFolio, sync your flickr photos while you charge

Yeah agreed. Pretty skeptical of this list. Everywhere in the world I've been there is Coca Cola. And Nokia. I don't think Apple is known in Africa for instance, I could be wrong though.

There's a lot more detail here... Pretty interesting http://www.phonestory.org/

Cute, but flipping the cover back and forth is kind of low-tech right? I think this is a better product: http://ankisrs.net/docs/AnkiMobile.html

+1 for Portland

By FAR the best of the disrupt videos. Thanks Paul for giving us a glimpse behind closed doors.

Am I the only one that wishes Nokia had bought Palm instead of HP?

I really hope its Android and not Microsoft. WP7 seems more like a side or backward step compared to Symbian. Taking advantage of all the good things about Android would seem a smart move to get Nokia back in the game. Look how far Apple has come by building OSX on top of Unix/BSD...

"I'll often get a better cell phone connection out in the middle of [East Africa] than in San Francisco" My experience too.

Wait people don't have offices in Africa?

Awesome, more people need to stand up for their rights like this.

Wow. Really interesting to see Steve spin the smaller music collection of iTunes as a positive. I think this is going to make me consider his words more closely in the future.

Hope it has a notification light and a flash!

I live in SF currently, and used to live in Portland. It's a lot easier to find work in the bay area, but I think if you can find a good job in Portland or make your own, it's the nicer place. If I had to put down roots somewhere it'd be there.

just imagine what kind of access you'd get if you plugged it into a mac? and PS. does this mean you can sync music to an iphone in linux? if so, cool!