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whaevron Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

Go to page 4 of the thread, I posted on it recently with my spiel and Ive included a screenshot of my whatpulse client showing network usage

http://i45.tinypic.com/2vc8f0j.jpg%5B/IMG%5D

Thats from this morning

whaevron Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users

Perhaps so. But what if said user is interested in tweaking things to bend entirely to their own way of (loose use of word) computing. So much to the point that they are willing to (develop and or/change the entirety of) some of the main points of the functioning operating system (window management).

Now the difference between that person and the guy thats fine with changing the windows theme to a different color....theres a distinction there the size of the grand canyon.

whaevron Google Now's smartphone is the real deal

I apologize ahead of time for my childish humor but...I appreciate the time the screenshot was taken for the Google Now widget on the phone

whaevron Google Could Pay Apple $1B Next Year To Remain Default Search Engine On iOS

Doesnt seem like it? The miss-use of "To" in the HN title and in the article url is also hugely misleading when the actual title of the article is Google COULD pay Apple etc,etc