Wahoo! Good news, Maria!

I just got a new firmware flash on my tablet, and an update to Honeycomb.2. All I've noticed so far is a Swype update, but it's one long in the coming--the ability to edit the custom dictionary. What the fuck took them so long? I entered some random stuff in there by mistake, and it itches to see it suggested. Gone now! I cleaned that sucker up.

I need to poke around and see what else they changed/fixed/added.

Anyone have a comparison between Springpad and Evernote?

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I use both, but I definitely use Evernote more. I use Springpad for shopping/buying/product kinds of things.

Ooh, that's perfect, thanks. Just what I needed.

Man, this is a solution in search of a problem. Or, as the page notes, a joke. But, because geeks are geeks, it's a working implementation of a joke.

And, going for the triple...

If I want to root a device, obviously I backup first. But when I go to the Cyanogen Mod page on rooting the G2 (since that's what I'm considering installing), its first recommendation for a backup application is Titanium. Which only runs on rooted devices.

Then it suggests Astro. Which I have, and I've used to backup my phone, but I'm leery of thinking it's a sufficient backup, just because I don't trust that bit of the entry anymore because of the Titanium mislead. Is Astro able to do a sufficient backup?

Gris, what do you use for backup before you root? Anyone? Bueller?

I didn't - I rooted my phone about 3 days after I got it, so I didn't have much to back up. Getting access to Titanium was one of the main reasons I rooted, actually. There is no easy way to back up without root - app developers don't want you to be able to easily back up, I think, since many of them provide "exporting" as one of the premium features in the non-free versions! The fact that this couldn't be easily done astonished me - I hate iTunes, but at least syncing an iPhone with it backs up everything.

This page has good info: [link] Unfortunately, the main takeaway is "you can back up a lot of things, but not app data unless the program has it built in."

Oh, great. I was right not to trust the Cyanogen mod page, apparently. Astro is *not* the simple solution it appears to be. Automatic updating from the Market is important to me.

What's confusing is that some stuff is in the cloud, and I just can't work out precisely what. But, then again, if I'm doing an OS replacement, it is a lot to ask the apps to just magically reappear in the same state as before--I don't ask it of a PC, so why am I getting irritable about not doing it on a phone? Oh, right, because I have a gazillion more apps I'm growing dependent on on my phone than applications I feel I need on my Mac by this point. Hmmph.

Basically, the only stuff in the Google cloud is some stuff like WiFi passwords and all of your normal Google stuff. You'll have to go app-by-app to figure out how to save app data - concentrate on the ones that require a lot of setup to get the way you want, obviously.

Once you get root, Titanium really is amazing. It will easily backup and restore all your apps and their data, including launchers. I'm using MIUI now, with its default launcher, so I have to re-organize my homescreen on the occasions I do a full-wipe update, but I kind of enjoy that. And there's probably a way to back that up too, that I just haven't bothered to find.

Basically, the only stuff in the Google cloud is some stuff like WiFi passwords and all of your normal Google stuff

Well, that's the magic of 2011--multiple clouds. Many of my apps I'm sharing data across platforms, or could be but I'm not exploiting that. So more than just Google is backed up, but there's just so much there...insert sound of tiny violins in poignant harmony.

I can already see that Locale will be a mighty pain, but I'm still considering redoing the automation with Tasker.

What is the attraction of MIUI for you? I've been reading up on it, and I don't see why it's so mad popular. Is it function or form or both that appeals to you?