whitsongordon
Whitson Gordon
whitsongordon
Whitson Gordon is a writer, gamer, and all-around tech nerd. He eats potato chips with chopsticks so he doesn't get grease on his mechanical keyboard.

Not to be a whiner, but it'd be really nice if they had a "download all" option. They could just have a button that says "I'm Feeling NSA-y." Read more

Oh come on Melanie, Buddhists have only been talking about it for a couple thousand years. Thats still fad territory. Read more

Questioning is good, but this isn't new by any stretch of the imagination. Read more

In other words, watch Star Wars and do everything Yoda tells Obi-wan, Anakin, and Luke. Read more

After playing around with lots of different ROMs on several phones, I have gone back to rooting and not ROMing. I get the extra functionality without the constant fiddling around with the ROM. ROMing can be fun, but it is more of a hobby and eye candy deal than anything else. I can get 90% of the extra Read more

And this is what happens when you like it on facebook. Thanks Timothy.

I've rooted every single android I've ever had immediately after purchase. It's literally the first thing I do, I won't invest a single moment in it until I've rooted and set everything up. The only time I've ever felt a desire to install a custom ROM was when I had a Motorola Atrix and that was because it was never Read more

I just wish the two screens were merged together and there wasn't that crack in the middle. Read more

I've stopped using a custom ROM since discovering Xposed and Gravity Box, they are excellent, and it means I get to stay on the latest version of Android (Nexus 5 owner) as I don't have to wait for the custom ROM to be updated, so far so good! Xposed could do with some categories etc but it's still early days. Read more

I don't know about files but it sure respects linked folders on NTFS drives. I use junction.exe from live.sysinternals.com to create linked folders in Dropbox. All files that are created and/or changed in the source folders will be uploaded to Dropbox. I've set up this kind of backup on multiple machines. It works, Read more

I've been using this method for any games that I've played for the last 12 months or so and I have not had that problem with any of them. Read more

What's the difference between engineering and fun? Documentation. Read more

While it should be soon moot, one thing to remember is that some services, such as Games for Windows Live, encrypt saves - sometimes the encryption is specific the computer. Read more

Whenever a friend or family member asks me to fix a computer I remind them (nicely) how much of my time it can take to fix a computer. I then use this as an opportunity to delegate some tasks of my own.

I.E. My Old roomate wants me to fix his computer (which I actually gave to him for free 6 months ago) I then told Read more