Well, I haven't made any progress, but I've learned that I could have repaired/replaced my iPhone charging port for $30 and successfully created a ringtone from a purchased AAC file in iTunes 10.

Skipping to the end to ask y'all if there's a good place online that lines up the various tablets that are available and compares them side-by-side?

I was just talking with Mom, and it sound like she's interested in getting one for herself this Christmas, and might be up for getting me one, too!

IIRC, B&N is going to be announcing their own tablet sometime this week, right?

Isn't the color Nook essentially a tablet?

If you just want reading tablets, a while back Smart Bitches did one--but it was long enough ago that you couldn't yet borrow from the library on a kindle, nor had the most recent kindles come out. So it's kind of out of date. But one of the things I've read basically says that for a lot of the book-type tablets, a lot of it comes down to personal preference on how you like it to feel/weigh, besides the obvious issues you might read about, so you should try to hold one.

That's what I thought, but I read somewhere that they're going to be introducting a competitor to the new Kindle Fire, which I think is more a competitor to the iPad, right?

My mom is apparently looking for one with all the bells and whistles on it--she actually thought that tablets also did phone stuff, which I corrected her on. I was thinking about buying one for myself after Xmas anyway, but Mom told me that her brother just gave all of his siblings a little financial present, so she's going to be spending more on Chrismtas this year and is willing to pay for mine--yay!

I told her I'd either find or put together a comparison chart for all the tablet options for both of us before we shop for ourselves.

ut I read somewhere that they're going to be introducting a competitor to the new Kindle Fire, which I think is more a competitor to the iPad, right?

Yeah, that's why I said if you want just reading tablets--but if you want one that is more iPad-ish, then there are tons of choices and options and whatnot.

I'm having trouble with an old-ish 4 gig flash drive that I use to transfer files from work to home and vice versa. I've never had any problems until I got my new 64-bit laptop at home, but now I frequently get messages saying there were problems found when I plug it in on the 32-bit system at work. Are there issues with using a flash drive between 64-bit and 32-bit, or is this just a sign I need a new flash drive?

I unzipped a dmg file on my mac and then tried to mount it. Mounting froze. Force quitting finder didn't work--it never quit. I tried to restart, but I'm just getting the spinny wheel. I'm unused to having to have to troubleshoot macs. Other than continuing trying to restart, what's on the menu?

Well, a couple more ons and offs took care of that, but I realise I don't know thing freaking one about troubleshooting OS X, and I'm rapidly getting out of touch with Windows as the version numbers increase and I use it less and less.

This is how we turn into our parents, isn't it?