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How does one mention people like that?

I bet you 5 $ that this sentence looks odd.

CCleaner is correct. There should be no space between a value and a unit of measurement.

You don't need to disable sync and cloud print. Just make sure "background apps" are disabled in the advanced settings. (scroll to the bottom of the Settings page and click "show advanced")

I would have made a passive aggressive phone call to my internet service provider by now.

I'm sure if you used IE for 30 seconds to test your connection, the death toll would be pretty minimal.

I mean full capitalisation, eg. 'MAC' instead of 'Mac'

Actually, Windows allows an .exe to write to its own directory within Program Files - even without a UAC approval.

In fairness, a minor display bug that takes half a page to describe is never going to be considered a critical issue for any software project.

Parallels is very solid software. They have a product called 'Desktop' that lets you run Windows software (almost) natively on the Mac, without having to switch to the Windows UI. (sidenote: why do many old-time Windows users insist on capitalising the word 'Mac?' Is it a habit from a historical Apple naming convention?)

-1 I'd prefer to have all CCleaner's stuff located in a single, easy to manage folder. Spreading it out over the hard drive serves no obvious purpose.

I've never heard the term "Cobber." Tasmania is an odd place.

It's where Flash cookies and media cache is stored for Pepper Flash, which is the version of Flash that is built into Google Chrome. Seems reasonably safe to remove.

I hate the word 'mate,' and generally refuse to talk to people who use it excessively.

I'd just like to have it on the record that I'm Australian and understand virtually none of these colloquialisms.

I've added a trimming function to Voldemort, but it's not a standalone program. Trim.exe isn't one of my babies.

I don't see Glass ever becoming mainstream. I still feel incredibly pretentious when I pull my iPad out in public, imagine being that one guy with a computer strapped to his head. Bleh!

As much as I hate to say it, building Android's application layer on the Java runtime was a brilliant idea. The apk file literally contains Java byte code, which can be executed on any Java Virtual Machine implementation. And Java has been implemented on a LOT of platforms... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines

Think of it like a US power adapter for a UK device. Same stuff goes in, same stuff comes. It just changes it in the middle.

The wait is already over. My 60" LG television runs Android 2.2, with a full flash/javascript compatible web browser and support for 3rd party apps.

I quite like the new interface. I always thought the beloved old look was horrid.

Sidebar gadgets weren't vulnerable to DLL injections. They had cross site scripting issues that are a whole different beast. The only thing Microsoft have achieved here is isolating processes in the modern UI, so that additional code can't be loaded into them and forced to run. A program attempting to do so will not crash, but rather be sent a passive aggressive "you can't do that!" message. Of course, only an executable can inject code into another program. For this situation to occur the system is likely already compromised.

Life of Pi was beautiful. Although; having read the book at least a dozen times between us, my moviegoing friend and I were dying of laughter during the final scene. The "twist" was horribly executed.

The forum automagically adds no follow markers to hyperlink, so posting the links is harmless.

Unfortunately it's only included in the server edition of Windows 8 and isn't available to consumers.