Posts by Handle M'Baughbags

Ex-Apple gurus' elusive Android phone coming to UK next month

Re: "it leveraged the economies of scale"

"Used" would mean that the economies of scale were present for anyone to take advantage of.

"Leveraged" means they jammed a big f*** off crowbar in there and ripped a hole in the manufacturers profit margin.

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

if they all do...

...then some of them can expect some prison time pretty soon.

Buy her a dildo too, that way if she doesn't like it she can go f**k herself.</Bernard Manning>

J/k. This applies equally well to guys. Just more of surprise ;)

ChaCha promises answers-by-SMS for free, sort of

More serious questions

1) What is your name?

2) What is your favourite colour?

3) What is the average laden flight speed of a sparrow?

Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft

Shell replacements

There are plenty good ones, or at least ones that once you've used you'll not want to go back :) I use DOpus 9 and hate having to use Explorer even if I don't make full use of all the features of DOpus.

Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8

File operations

Apart from the "duh" sounds everyone is making, surely the singularly most popular operation in Windows Explorer is launching applications? Most people I know don't use Windows Explorer to manage files. They either don't (and so everything goes into the location the application suggests, such as "My Documents" or "Downloads") or use something to manage it for them (like iTunes, a photo album or ebook organizer).

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The total IE share is for IE6, 7, 8 and 9, that's dropping, but the share for IE9 by itself is going up, albeit more slowly.

Spielberg flung Fox from Transformers 3

You've seen it...

You can't un-see it!