Trying my Motorola charger won't make my phone explode, right? I mean, either it will start charging or it won't? Or should I compare voltages or whatever on the Motorola charger and the Samsung charger they gave me to make sure they're identical?

Cover whatever you want to protect, of course. Probably best not to cover the speaker.

Ah, point.

IME, a notch is easier to cut than a hole.

Also, point.

Oh, and I should attempt to clean my screen of fingerprints before I apply a screen protector. Can I use the same cleaning stuff I use to clean my glasses with? And the microfiber cloth? Everyone loves a microfiber cloth.

For cleaning, yep, that works fine.

Check the label on the charger to be sure of what you have, but if it the output is 5 Volts and a max. of 1 Amp., it should be fine.

Man, smartphones are so HIGH-MAINTENANCE.

But last night, I turned my phone into a compass. A compass!

But last night, I turned my phone into a compass. A compass!

Oh, cool! I haven't tried that yet. I do like the Flashlight app, for when I have to step carefully into the yard at night (for avoiding dog poop and snails).

Which one do you use? I got Brightest Flashlight, which uses the camera flash and is, indeed, bright, and I also got Color Flashlight, which I actually want for the different settings like Candle and Strobe and other flashy things that may be useful for, like, holding up the phone in a crowd and saying, "Look for the flashing red and blue!"

The compass app is just called Compass, and it's pretty cool and simple. It has a compass, and it even tells you what street you're on, along with latitude and longitude. And there are several different compass styles.

Check the label on the charger to be sure of what you have, but if it the output is 5 Volts and a max. of 1 Amp., it should be fine.

Well, the Motorola charger is a mini USB, not a micro USB, so that's a no-go. Plus, even if I get a converter, it only goes to 0.55 A, as opposed to the Samsung, which goes to 0.7 A. Not sure what the deal is. Alas.

I also deeply love the Planets app; it's provided us with lot of neat evenings of fun with the kiddo.

And if you are in the least interested in dinosaurs, the American Museum of Natural History Dinosaur app is a total timesuck.

ION, I am SO not a visual person...and I just spent 6 hours working with my friend on my header image for my website. And we're still not done, but we've worked out a color palette, fonts and basic images, and she's gonna mock up 5 or 6 designs based on graphics I like. Damn, I'm so freakin' glad she's my friend and I'm working out stuff in trade for her; I scoffed at people who were all "I spent $1500 on my website images" and now? Dude. Yeah. 6 hours is NOTHING. SO many colors, graphics and fonts, not to mention little...things I don't even know how to describe.

Anyway, tech question:

My header is for a Wordpress.org page, and the image size is 940x200 pixels, and she emailed a rough draft placeholder in that size to me, I uploaded it, and it looks good to me. But I am...not the most visually expert person on the planet.

I'm wondering how concerned I need to be about resolution or it looking weird on non-Firefox broswers? It's a .jpg.

A .jpg or .gif will render the same on any browser. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer won't render transparency on .png files without additional contortions. For the web, you only need a 72 pixels/inch resolution.

I can take a look at it, if you want.

eta: Typo, have you checked WalMart's site? They have a Viore for $119 and a Phillips for $149. I've had very good luck with Phillips.

Ginger, that would be lovely.

I won't have it all done til tomorrow night, but I would be happy to send it to you. J is a v. good designer, but she worked with mainly printed images, and just sent digi files to clients, who did with them what they wanted.

And I have no freakin' clue about it all, except to know the haziest, most general basics.

Any recommendations for online button generators? The place we've used for years is no longer working. We need to be able to specify the exact dimensions of buttons, as well as colors, shading variation, font, corner rounding, etc.