I've been testing out Insynch (https://www.insynchq.com/) which uses Google Docs as your data store. $5 will get you 20gb of storage from Google a year. It works pretty much like Dropbox, and can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. Linux client is supposed to be released soon, and as soon as it is I'll be recommending Insynch to people over Dropbox. There is also the rumored Google Drive, which if it ever comes to fruition will eat Dropbox's lunch.

What? Smartphone pioneer? How do they figure that?

I'm pretty sure the Palm Treo 650 was the first smartphone bought by a ton of people (released in 2004, the 600 was released the year before). Touchscreen interface, tons of apps. It was the first smartphone for the masses.

Apparently, the GPL being incompatible with Apple's App store is a murky issue at best. Currently, there are several apps that are licensed with the GPL, such as the iOS Wordpress App and Doom. So what is the final word on GPL apps in the App Store?

I'm surprised more people don't just type up their ebooks in any text format using Markdown. Easy to write in whatever editor your have (for example, storing the manuscript in Dropbox, allowing one to write on their computer, their phone, their tablet, etc.) and then use Calibre to convert into whatever format you want.

I just tried it with a Lion client bound to an OS X 10.6 server using OpenDirectory, and I couldn't replicate the problem.

So is Lion doing something non-standard when connecting to OpenLDAP servers? I noticed that in the main thread it was mentioned that they weren't using the full Apple LDAP schema.

I was laughing at the look of it driving down the highway, thinking to myself how out of place it looks with the farm houses and silos. If only he was a little farther north he could have passed some Amish buggies.

All due respect to the truecrypt guys and their work (cross-platform encrypted images are awesome), but the only reason Windows and OSX need truecrypt is because they don't have something like Linux's dm-crypt.

With OS X you can use Disk Utility to create encrypted sparse images, which are nicer than Truecrypt volumes for some things. Especially since sparse disk images only take up as much space as what is stored on them. Not cross platform though. :-(

As someone mentioned before, polleverywhere.com has been doing this since it's inception, allowing votes by web or SMS, and now you can even vote by Twitter.

Most of the student response systems that have been sold in the last couple of years allow you to use multiple devices to vote, this really isn't a new idea.

It's mentioned up above, but this point needs to be repeated. I work in a school system, and the iPod Touch is more prevalent than any of the other game systems. It's a no brainer for parents. $230, and then games are $3 or less. Versus $170 for a PSP or $150 for a DSi, plus $20-$30 a game. And then you have to worry about losing the carts. It's only 4 or 5 games until the iPod Touch is cheaper.

Numbers don't lie, there are more games produced for iOS than every game system released since 1986 COMBINED (quantity is not indicative of quality, I know). There are now more than120 million iOS devices, more than the DS and PSP combined.

I don't know what Nintendo has up their sleeves for portable gaming, but the 3DS isn't going to be competitive against the iPod Touch (especially if they're the same price).

My poor DS only gets played with Activision Anthology... :-(

I wonder how well that does against https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ...