A smart phone for the cheapskate: LG Optimus V

Is it an iPhone? No.  If it's not an iPhone, why would I want it?

Having to pay your own cell phone bill is a double-edged sword.  Finally I can get whichever phone I want on any network I choose.  Oh darn, all the good phones are on the Big 4 carriers with plans starting at an organ donation per month.  So what did I do?  I chose option three.  Virgin Mobile.  For only $25 dollars a month, yes that says $25 a month,  I get unlimited text and data along with 300 minutes.  Did I mention that it's only 25 dollars per month?

"Surely a prepaid carrier can only have the bottom bin of crap phones" was something I used to think all the time.  I was wrong.  Finally catching up into the 21st century, VM is offering two Android phones on their network.  I selected the LG Optimus V to be my new phone for two reasons: Price and usability.  Firstly, the Optimus V was cheaper than the alternate Samsung phone offered on VM by at least 50 dollars.  Second, the LG Optimus received much better reviews for usablility than the Samsung phone. 

User Account Control In Windows 7 and Vista

Question:  What is User Account Control and why does it keep popping up?

Answer:  Simply stated, User Account Control, or UAC for short, is a "security" feature built into Windows Vista and Windows 7.  I use the word security lightly, because I have yet to see it actually protect against anything. The idea behind UAC was to make users verify that they were the ones which initiated a program capable of modifying computer settings and data, and that it was not some rouge process or malicious software trying to install itself.