In 20 years of using #Windows, #Apple #iTunes wins as the program that has required the most force-closes. I despise the program.

I am skeptical:

I recently sold my smartphone registered on Verizon and not only did it take me about 6 hours to do so because of a bug in their list/stolen database, but I was subject to being called a liar by one of the 10 or so Verizon reps I had to go through and I was completely embarrassed because I looked like a degenerate to the buyer  i coincidentally also had at least 3 'dropped' calls with the Verizon reps. which doesn't happen when I am speaking to anyone other than Verizon reps. 

When I sold the phone, I had already registered a new phone on the account and for whatever reason Verizon had accidentally marked the phone I was selling as lost or stolen AND 5 out of 6 reps at the first level of support couldn't even see that the phone I was selling had ever been on my account. I had used it for over 4 months. 

In the end, the lost and stolen group at Verizon said they had made a mistake and took the phone off the list.  Could you imagine if there was a multi-carrier database?  Ugh!  I can't. Seems to me that it is just another layer of bureaucracy that will allow the carriers to point blame outside of themselves and maintain this artificially bloated pricing on smartphones and service. 

Major U.S. Carriers Agree to Develop Centralized Database to Track Stolen Mobile Phones - MacRumors.com
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/10/major-u-s-carriers-agree-to-develop-centralized-database-to-track-stolen-mobile-phones/

Unsung Hero of iPad 3 is 1GB of RAM - Safari doesn't refresh as often and Garage Band no longer 'Optimizes' - Nice!

I can drain an iPad 3 battery in around 3-4 hours. A USB cable longer than 4' is warranted now the the iPad is for more than consumption.

Used Opera Browser today and was pleasantly surprised.

I am not sure why, but Google's Chrome browser has been crashing on me lately. I tried using Firefox for a while, but there is just something about it I don't like. I can put my finger on it. For lack of other options I decided to try Opera, which I haven't really done singed they used to charge for it. I must say. It moves smoothly and has some decent extensions. Many of the extensions seem Euro-Focused, however. I still haven't found a weather extension where I can locate the option to show degrees in Fahrenheit. Other than that, it's been a very positive experience and I will continue to use it until I get mad at it or bored. Basically one day next week is likely.

I gave up my iOS jailbreak today.

I kept running into so many small but significant bugs in iOS 5.01
that I grew the dice and upgraded to 5.1 hoping that they were fixed.
So far I can report that Siri and speech to text via Bluetooth in my
car have been dramatically improved. While still not perfect, they are
at least usable now.

Interestingly, one of my jailbreaks that attached HTML signatures to
my email still works. How cool is that?

This blog post was created entirely by voice on my iPhone via
Bluetooth while driving. Please don't call the police on me.

This is a little embarrassing for Google, but does anyone else notice how much more smooth Google Reader works in IE 9 than Chrome?