Those on devices where the CM 7.0.3 port is still very much a (buggy) work in progress, such as the LG Optimus.

Interesting that Microsoft built the H.264 player on top of Media Player rather than Silverlight (given that Silverlight has H.264 support). Guess that's just more indication that Silverlight is not catching on.

How can it not be successful when it fights crime too?
http://windowsphonethoughts.com/news/show/101114/hawaii-five-o-windows-phone-7-bing-product-placement.html

Agreed - it doesn't autorotate photos based on EXIF info. It will auto rotate when you import, but not later.

Hopefully the next version (due this summer) will fix this.

I found this workaround in the support forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=0fc1904e15cc777c&hl=en

1. in the upper right search box, search for jpg. (Presumably this will find all your photos)
2. In the upper left, under Albums, you should see a an album called 'Search results for "jpg"
3. Click the album name to enter the album. You should then be able to press the 'save' button to save all changes to disk.

I do not believe there is a 'save all' feature within Picasa that will save ALL changes.
There is a 'save edited photos to disk' button within each folder that will save all changes made to that particular folder, but I don't know of any way to save change picasa-wide.

I guess the answer is tell your non-geek family members to press the 'save edited photos to disk' when they finish an editing session. (I forgot to mention earlier that when you press this button, picasa will back up the original photos to a subdirectory)

Don't forget that Picasa has lightning fast searching capabilities allowing you to search by filename, tag, caption, etc.

Not quite true; Picasa stores all regular tags & captions directly in the files exif data. Only the facial stuff is stored in a database.

I'm often surprised by how few people understand how Picasa really works, as this is not the case.

Any potentially 'destructive' changes to a photo are stored in a picasa.ini file in each folder. These changes include rotations, cropping, sharpen, etc. When you view a photo in picasa, it displays with all these changes applied. You can undo a change at any time. Changes are NOT applied to the file on disk until you press 'save'.
To be clear, there is no magic, hidden, or proprietary database; it's just a simple per-directory picasa.ini file. As for backups, if you've backed up the directory including the picasa.ini file, then any non-saved changes will be backed up.

Non-destructive changes, such as captions or tags, are applied immediately to the photo. Again, to be clear, these are applied directly to the photo and can be read by any other photo tool that can read exif data.

The one exception to this is the recently introduced face tagging feature. Unfortunately, Google really messed up with their implementation of this feature. Facial tags are stored in a combination of the picasa.ini file & a central database. I've found the implementation to be quite poor, and I would not recommend using this feature.

Um, no. Regular Picasa tags are stored in the file directly using the EXIF information. The exception is the facial tagging; that indeed is stored in the proprietary database.

After watching the episode, I'm not convinced it's not a joke or hoax.

For one thing, "beeping" offensive material is a pretty old way of removing offensive material (I think it comes from the old days of "beeping" out offensive material in live broadcasts). Today, you'd imagine the would have blanked the audio rather than beeping it. Using beeps just seems a little rigged.

Second, if you watch the closed captions, the beeped audio shows as "[BEEP]". This also seems planned to me.

Finally, if the show was so offensive that Comedy Central felt it had to beep nearly a minute of speeches at the end, I am surprised they just didn't pull the show.

Regarding the microusb connector, my experience is the opposite. The MiFi is the first device I've had using this connector. In comparison, my phone, my cameras, my GPS's, etc all use the miniusb connector. I must have two dozen of these cables lying around. Meanwhile, I now have to remember to pack the "special" microusb cable for the Mifi.

(And, size-wise, I don't see any reason why they couldn't have used miniusb instead of microusb)