It's great that it's got all those ports, but it's a damned shame when vendors can't work out how to minimise cables. I get the Apple explanation for how much more functionality they're pumping over their custom connectors.

I don't know what's up with Samsung, though. Or what Toshiba's reason is. It's so nice, at least, to be able to minimise my travel stuff by getting the higher powered Tab compatible car charger and USB plug, and then only fiddle with cables. But it's still too much. I need three cables to support my habit.

My sister doesn't know from shit, so she won't be bothered, I don't think. Except maybe for car charging.

Android File Transfer works on the Thrive! I am so jealous.

When the fuck is the MTP shit going to get resolved for newer devices, dammit? Samsung's restrictions are ridiculous. I can only transfer media files from my Mac, but anything from my PC?

MY PC IS IN THE OTHER ROOM. Don't fuck with me.

triple threat:

Have any of you guys used Dragon Go! I've only played around with it, but looks very nifty. I asked to "Give me a car" and it rapidly did a range of things. The main return is google results, flanked by WIki results, Twitter results, pictures, music videos, youtube, map of businesses with car in the name...

Let me try something else.

"Nearby French restaurants" give me Yelp results in my neighbourhood, flanked with OpenTable results, maps, google, wikipedia, and bing phone numbers.

"Movies with Tom Hardy": Fandango listings, flanked with IMDB, google, wikipedia, and a Pandora and Last.fm channel.

Definitely interesting...I love what the siri challenges have brought forth.

"Movies with Tom Hardy": Fandango listings, flanked with IMDB, google, wikipedia, and a Pandora and Last.fm channel.

I love living in the future. It makes objectifying Tom Hardy so much easier.

I'm trying to configure VOIP on my sister's tablet (using GrooveIP), and noticed something on mine--I don't see where Honeycomb lets you set individual ring tones. Am I missing something? I dig that they're not looking at this as a phone, but there must be a way around it.

My sister now has a Florida phone number. I hope she's happy. And now she can make free calls to and from the US that have no cost, as long as she's on a Wi Fi network.

And we can text each other for free again!

I wonder if she'll get over her Google evil issues and just use the damned software and services.

yes, I love Dragon Go and Dragon Dictation.

I knew Dragon was the ne plus ultra of PC dictation solutions for a while there, but I hadn't been tracking them on remote devices. I'm pretty impressed. Still don't think I'll make it to dictation, but intelligent voice recognition searching is cool.

Huh. I somehow didn't make the connection that Dragon Go was *that* dragon. It was amazing even back in the day; we set it up for our quadriplegic friend on the Navajo rez and it was great even for her with her accent because of the customization it took.

I suppose you'll be telling me that Dragon, Fly, the addictive child's game with no threats or anything negative happening ever (seriously, like the game over point is when your mom dragon happily catches up with you and you have to go home) is also the same Dragon.

Ok, my Lexmark x4650 just shot craps, and i would cost more to fix than to replace. It prints, uses Wi-fo for networking, copies and scans, all of which I need.

I'd like to replace at an actual store, since I need ti connected today.

Any recommendations, or hot deals anyone knows about.

Dunno of its a deal, but I got one of these for the office, and it works great

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My boss also got one. Just be aware, starter toner is small.

Caveat. I don't do graphics or high quality printing. I scan receipts and print credit card forms mostly. And some labels. That's 95% what I print.