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zwon Facebook buys Parse

And that's a people-getting-the-hell-out-of-dodge problem. Google's services are the best in many arenas, but they aren't without competitors.

zwon The next generation of Instapaper

And I'm often reading those articles in Pocket, which means I never see them at all. Very frustrating.

zwon “Right click and save as” needs to go away

Have no fear, the Chrome PDF plugin has brought all that slowness back. Joy.

zwon Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC

Like people mention above, the hardware isn't the only impediment; Apple's control is what helps them a lot with this. Desktop Windows' support for DPI scaling is anemic at best, and this is only partially fixed in Windows 8 by having ad-hoc dimensions per-device, or on PCs just "big" vs. "really big" mode.

zwon Ask HN: Replacement for Google Apps Email (free edition)

FYI, Outlook still doesn't have IMAP support [1]. It does POP3, SMTP (of course), and full Exchange ActiveSync. For now, this is a dealbreaker for me; I'm thinking about trying out Outlook for my basic data/web/cloud, but really only because of Gmail's shitty push experience with my devices.

[1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/microsoft-says-outlook...