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The hard drive isn’t user-replaceable, hard drives fail. I don’t think the iMac is a realistic long-term choice without an ssd. I haven’t used an fusion drive though, so I can’t speak as to their performance.

about 18 hours ago on Advice on next purchase - iMac Fusion Drive/Pure SSD coming from a MacBook Air

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I think google should extend android’s custom keyboard support to include drawing tools, and then fiftythree could make revolutionary tools that could work in any app that supports it.

about 20 hours ago on Paper maker FiftyThree raises $15 million to build the Office suite of the future

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Headphone jack on the side? Ok…

1 day ago on The Ascend P6 is Huawei's latest attempt at a flagship Android smartphone 3 replies 1 recommend

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This would make sense at places where people are waiting anyway, e.g. train platforms, though lots of them don’t have sun.

I think people would only stop if charging their phone was an emergency. I think that kind of makes sense, they’d get crowded otherwise!

1 day ago on Battery charged: AT&T, Goal Zero, and a Brooklyn design firm bring solar recharge stations to NYC

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Haven’t used that either, I would probably get tired of being stuck at one focal length, it is quite wide.

2 days ago on Best camera for ~$500. Primarily for pictures, video not as important.

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Not having much time to commit to photography, I think the GF1 is a great choice, you can try to have it with you most of the time. I have a 5dmkii which admittedly is towards the heavy end of the scale, but I only ever take it with me when I’m planning to shoot something. My brother happens to have the GF1, it is a little old but it hasn’t stopped being a fantastic camera. The controls are tiny but the only real trouble I have with is is manual focusing, especially with the smaller lenses, it automatically zooms in and it’s not always helpful. I also found it would bloom when pointed towards bright lights, but that’s really just an observation. The video’s great, but without a tripod handheld footage with something so small usually looks pretty bad.

Were I shopping in your price range, I would probably go for the GH1 instead, though I haven’t used that camera so can’t speak of things like the evf. It’s still small enough to just chuck in a bag and forget about, but you can keep your finger on that dial around the front to quickly change aperture and shutter, and newer cameras have better low light performance, but if you can look through the evf, you’re a bit more stable and might be able to go for a longer shutter speed anyway.

Also, when you can’t commit a bunch of cash to your hobby, m4/3 easily adapts to a whole bunch of old lenses, though prices are going up as people are realising this. Since they can’t communicate with the camera, this also forces you to think about the iris and your focus.

3 days ago on Best camera for ~$500. Primarily for pictures, video not as important. 1 reply

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Eventually it would be nice to have something like this that stays in the home, and downloads the papers for you in the morning. Right now it’s expensive and the kind of content you’d want it for is patchy.

But even without the improved resolution and backlight, it has the page turn buttons that the paperwhite lost – I think that was a big mistake, so the DX does have something going for it.

14 days ago on Amazon brings back long dormant Kindle DX, says it's 'excited' to do so

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Apparently ‘these damn kids click on anything’ is not such a solid business plan. OMGPOP once had a really solid tetris clone. The penguin game was strange, but in general . But in general, a dedicated website for social games is a decent idea, I know most of my real-life friends don’t want to know how many gems I’ve collected.

I’ve gone back to the site for the day, link to the game I’m in;
Play me in Putt My Penguin: http://omgpop.com/i/puttputtpenguin/v3x4c_i4p

16 days ago on 'Draw Something' studio OMGPOP reportedly shuttered amid Zynga layoffs

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Well, I hope nobody buys this thinking it must be a cutting-edge phone because of the name.

It is probably the case that people think smaller phones should be cheaper, thus driving specs down on 4.3 inch phones. All these android manufacturers can’t be doing this for fun.

21 days ago on Samsung unveils Galaxy S4 mini with 4.3-inch display

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I thought the play instantly function was down to streaming, not segmenting out content that’s not needed initially to play. To bo honest, this makes more sense for now.

about 1 month ago on PS4's 'play while downloading' feature arrives on PS3 first with 'The Last of Us'