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What I was thinking was that, say, Amazon for example would have a "push music to device" feature. But it doesn't. The ideal would be something that talks to an internet service and allows an administrator somewhere to queue files to download onto a device while it has an internet connection. I...

First of all, I do have a preference for personal music players, the Sandisk Clip+, which supports .flac, has a simple UI, long battery life and a microSD slot. BUT: I want to manage music players for other people. Remotely. Over the weekend one of my customers paid me in part to put a bunch...

You pay for the domain name. $10 a year or whatever. Apps is free for 10 users or less. Your calendar view is managed from calendar.google.com. The stuff you see on your mobile calendar should be the same stuff you have selected there.

For what it's worth, I'm at -12.5 and -16 diopters, respectively. My right eye actually can't be corrected to 20/20 with just lenses. I'm almost to the point that I'd have to wear contacts with glasses to have fully correctable vision.

The way I handle Google Calendars is to create an Apps domain, share and give edit permission to everybody's calendar that needs to see one, and then add all the members to the default view for them. It takes a while to set up since I don't know a way to automate it, but once it's done people...

I'm fairly certain they'll be that cheap again soon.

Gaming video cards are kind of like Italian sports cars, I think. They're awesome when they work, but it's just as likely that they'll suck and die.

Amazon had those Seagate drives down to $110 earlier in the week.

It's a little bit over 6lbs, actually.

There are bunches of online glasses outfits. I go to WalMart for my eye exams and tell the people working there that I plan to order my glasses on the internet. They give me all the relevant measurements and then I go shopping. The most recent pair I purchased from a company called...

You can also get an ultrabay battery. They only add two cells though.

That does sound like video card in this case, but you might want to investigate a different display as well. My 27" Dell crapped out in a similar fashion.

The extra battery adds about one pound to the weight of the unit. Making it six + a few ounces instead of five + a few ounces, or about the same as what most 15" laptops weigh in the first place. Anyway, I've only needed it a couple times. The slice battery is installed in place of a docking...

Every year when I go vote I have to deal with hassle from the local pollworkers who keep insisting that I need to go to the OTHER nearby polling place. For reasons I cannot fathom my apartment complex is divided up between two polling locations. I actually think this is done to make it difficult...

The extended pack is another 9 cells that is connected via the docking port. That's in addition to whatever standard battery is present.

What does the app situation like? Do you have any other mobile platform experience to compare to it? Is Office support the thing that justifies it, or is there something more going on?

I think it's safe to say that he probably has bigger things to worry about if he hasn't checked in by now.

I can tell you that with a nine cell battery and a fairly normal work pattern that involves moderate network activity, I can manage an entire working day without plugging in on a T520. I'd rather not do that, but I can get away with it. I have the extended battery pack as well, which pushes the...

When did Apple have a dominant platform prior to iOS?

You don't buy either those things from Lenovo in any case. Anyway yeah, the 1600x900 screen and i5 CPU are perfectly good options for most people. There's not much subjective difference between the mobile i5 and the mobile i7, so you're probably better off.

At some point, RIM is going to be appealing to someone or other if only because of BES. They need to either accept the inevitable and port it. Can anyone think of a situation in the tech world where a platform has come BACK after a catastrophic loss in user base?

A couple times a year, Lenovo does half off on warranties. Since the quality of service is a big part of the reason I'm willing to buy Lenovo in the first place, that's what I wait for. You're never going to get to do HUGE coupon stacking like you can with Dell sometimes, but the last couple...

I stopped selling on Ebay years ago. It's not worth the hassle. Craigslist isn't worth it either, to be honest. I have a bunch of electronics I know have real value, but I'm not giving them away to strangers, particularly not if they want me to drive to the north side of Chicago to deliver them.

The fastest I've ever seen over USB3 is 110MB/sec (Lexar USB3 flash drive) and it's usually more like 75MB/sec for a mechanical drive, so that's probably about right.

You should also register directly with Lenovo to see its discounts, and if you own at least one share of stock you can get its Shareholder/Employee discounts as well. They change pricing rapidly, sometimes several times a week. It's about shopping for the discount that you want. My particular...

Yes. Yes I did.

You don't. The hosts file isn't set up to deal with variable addresses. What you want to do is make an address reservation on a DNS server someplace.

I believe I have one I never used for anything. If I can find the stupid thing.

Unfortunately, "bring your own" is an IT support nightmare as well. Because one person will be able to do something that other people can't, or one person won't be able to see something everyone else does. Like, hey, two calendars at once. :)

I think dd is shooting for energy independence. ;)

Under 10 seconds from the last of the EFI messages to a login prompt on my Server 2012 machine. It has an SSD, but so would anything you'd be using. ;) Resumes from hibernate are also really fast, but I haven't really tried to time one.

Conversation view is actually a deal-breaker for some people. I really hate it and some of the aspects of Gmail's labeling system, e.g. "Whoops, I just trashed 600 messages with the same subject line because I miskeyed something on my phone." I'm willing to put up with it on Android because...

One of my iphone people moved to a Galaxy last month. He gets along OK with it, but he hated conversation view in Gmail, which can't be turned off in the app version. I told him to try K9 and sent him a link with the proper settings to make it go. I probably got 150 emails over the next three...

Why not a windmill? Probably less expensive and viable for longer than solar cells.

Have you used it yet? It's really not bloated. The hardware requirements are pretty much identical to Vista except they farm more work to the GPU. I hate to sound like an apologist for a new Microsoft OS here but there's nothing about Windows 8 to get deeply worked up about. Honest.

I was seven or eight years old the last time I did anything for Halloween. I stopped going when my brother got too old for it. A couple weeks ago, I had a short conversation with one of my friend Brittany's co-workers (while I was waiting for my friend to put her civilian clothes back on) that...

Somehow I doubt that will stop them from making more OSes or maps.

It doesn't matter. I know it and she knows it. I hate calendars.

When I get Steam gift codes, usually from a video card purchase, I go on the web and give them to somebody, actually. I want to give my stripper friend a copy of Swords and Sworcery. She doesn't have a credit card she can associate with her itunes account so the ipad I gave her is basically...

It is possible to buy Android apps from the web, even from iOS. It is NOT possible to buy an iOS app except from with iOS or within itunes. I want to gift an app and Apple completely does not support that. The only thing I can do is buy an itunes gift card, apparently.

TAL in particular has taught me that sometimes, even if I'm not terribly interested in a subject, the producers offer enough of a hook that I usually can't stop listening once I start. The Moth, Radiolab and the Third Coast Audio Festival are all very good examples of the sort of long-format...

I've been looking for more stuff to put on my phone since I finished listening to This American Life in sequential order. Not every TED talk is available in audio-only. I could probably strip the audio from Youtube copies but I don't know if I'm that motivated. I have been enjoying Marc Maron's...

I'm probably better off talking to a traditional distributor. I may even be ordering enough to make talking directly to Silverstone worthwhile.

Amazon was perfectly happy to sell me 80 180GB Intel 330 SSDs and 86 DH61BE motherboards, but Silverstone ML03Bs? Screw you. Limit 1. Guess I'll have to go see if I can work something out with Ingram or something.

That's a bit of a sore subject 'round these parts.

I don't know that Intel is more reliable. Intel DOES have really fast RMA turnaround. For someone like Lunar the fact is that a drive failure would just be a reason to go buy another drive anyway so it probably doesn't matter as much for him.

I have a friend in Brooklyn (south and closer to the Atlantic) who tells me she doesn't have power but somehow she's keeping her smartphone charged because we kept up an email conversation all day.

Disney Corp acquires Lucasfilm. Mickey Mouse now owns Kermit the Frog, Spider-Man and Darth Vader.

There's no way to do complete backups without rooting to access app protected storage. Hopefully that will change as the OS matures and we have a real backup semaphore of some kind. I suspect it just isn't a priority yet.

The whole area is like this, really. I suspect a campus town or some kind of gentrifying urban area would be more appropriate, but Northwest Indiana is doing the opposite of gentrifying.