I strongly suggested that. She said no.

Okay! Then I vote any cheapest laptop (I think most suck about equally in the sub kilobucks range) and a Galaxy note tablet; the stylus is awesome sauce and when reading pdfs at least you can use the pen to make notes via exPdfReader. Haven't looked for other ebook readers with virtual margins though If a stylus is a no interest point then I'd go with a nexus, probably. But not for any explainable reason - she should look at screens and decide for herself.

Is there a way to run a report on the contents of a folder in OSX? I'm trying to get a count of how many assets we have in a particular folder tree (84 folders each with 2 levels of subfolders) without manually counting each one...

If you right click or command click and "get info" it will tell you how many items are in the overall folder and subfolders.

ETA: It counts each subfolder as one item as well.

Okay, about to start an epic battle --

Need a new laptop. I have an iPad, so it will primarily be used at home, but would like a portability option.

Use is 80% web surfing (watching the occasional video, but might watch more if it were faster), 15% word processing, and 5% other.

The question -- Mac or PC? And why?

I like Macs, but if you're used to PC, then there's not a strong reason to change for what you're doing. iPads play real nice with the Mac OS.

Yeah, I'd say depends on how much you need/want it to interact with the iPad.

Jessica,

do you know terminal/unix language? You can run file/folder commands from the terminal, which is what I do with big time nested folders.

Use is 80% web surfing (watching the occasional video, but might watch more if it were faster), 15% word processing, and 5% other.

I recently picked up a Chromebook (partly to play around with it, and partly to have a semi-throwaway machine to take to conferences or whatever instead of my much heavier laptop), and I'm really digging it for this kind of use. (I'm typing on it now, AIFG!)

It's not super fast. And your options for apps are limited -- if you need the word processing to be in for-real Word and not Google Docs, you're basically SOL.

But on the plus side, it's very light, the battery life is way up there in tablet range, it can handle anything web based, it never gets hot or noisy, and it cost, like, 250 bux. (Hence the "semi-throwaway" part. If it gets broken or lost in my luggage... I kinda don't care.) I wouldn't want it for my main computer, but as a secondary for typing on the internets while I hang out on the couch, I kinda love it.

Verizon support rep admits anti-Netflix throttling - Boing Boing

Robbo sez, "Dave Raphael of Dave's Blog has an interesting post about a conversation he recently had with Verizon support and discovered some uncomfortable - yet wholly unsurprising - truths about how Verizon is selectively limiting bandwidth to AWS services and adversely affecting the quality of Netflix. The open admission of this by Verizon support was unexpected - but the fact it is happening should be of no surprise to anyone but the ignorant and naive."