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That confused me to no end.

about 16 hours ago on Trading bacon for beans: a mobile app helps users barter unwanted items

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How many more of these articles are needed to result in a 6 for ecosystem?

11 days ago on BBC iPlayer finally arrives on Windows Phone 8 2 replies 10 recommends

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Just everything I’m told here about power sockets and safety is to turn off the switch before connecting anything or when there’s nothing plugged in – I find it strange that sockets without switches would be the norm elsewhere, even considering the voltage difference.

15 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain 2 replies

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Speaking of Australian power points compared to the US ones – I’ve seen pictures of the US power points without on/off switches on them – that’s the bit I really can’t understand.

Hopefully we’re not too far off there being a $500 solar panel to put on the roof to charge your electric car.

15 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain 2 replies

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I had thought that the plan would have been to fork off and cut down WP7 further as their low end smartphone OS – or at least try and follow through the design trends from WP into the Asha line into the software. I don’t think these are a ‘hedge’, but they could have tried harder to make them the introduction to their higher end – like the older phones were to Symbian ones.

The tile interface should scale down just fine to the feature phones.

15 days ago on Nokia hedges its commitment to Windows Phone with new Asha platform and $99 phone 1 reply

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I tape batteries on them just in case.

22 days ago on What's in your bag, Russell Brandom? 4 recommends

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I thought Madden 25 was a joke on them releasing their 14 games so early in 2013 until I looked it up.

24 days ago on EA Sports' 'Madden NFL' franchise to skip Wii U this year

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Probably about twice a day – but I wouldn’t want to boot to Desktop (I don’t mind it as an option though) – the first thing I’d do on the desktop would be to start an app, which you can do just as easily with the tiles on the start screen.

One advantage of pinned apps over the tiles however is Jump Lists – the live tiles aren’t document centric in a way that the jump lists made Windows 7. Ideally that would be the long press function in 8.1 once moving tiles around becomes a toggle option.

28 days ago on Genuinely curious: How often do you reboot your PC that you need a boot to desktop option?

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It’s interesting when considering the responsive design that Polygon has and the different response that IE10 on the desktop has when resized vs the snapped view of the modern IE10 – image here – clearly Microsoft is doing something odd with their snapped view in terms of how websites can target it.

Even Microsoft’s websites don’t do that well. Bing isn’t responsive at all (even in the desktop IE10).

28 days ago on IE10(metro) snap 1 reply 1 recommend

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I’ve never seen a Facebook ad that doesn’t have some way to hide it, though they often need you to hover over to see it. Screenshot?

29 days ago on Facebook suggests "Gay Social Network" app on my timeline 1 reply

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The Wild Paul used Roar…

29 days ago on The Vergecast 075 - April 25th, 2013 1 reply 1 recommend