Here are the Lifehacker top apps, nicely classified by operating system. There are lots of these sorts of summaries about but Lifehacker is a pretty good source. Here's their recommended (free) time tracker and here's their recommended (free) To Do list software. Piece of paper and a pen. Kidding.

My adult son bought a game, Magic the Gathering, and insisted I play it with him. 192 pages of rules and 804 sections. We received advice & help from people on Twitter but the girl who lives in the apartment opposite (a nodding acquaintance) saw a tweet and invited us over to play. Adult son walked over tonight and they cast spells at each other.

Hard to believe they'd make it so hard to insert a photo in the middle of an email but they do. You need to open the Settings and find the Labs tab, then enable the Insert Image icon. Why is it not there for everyone? Who says Google is smart??

It's the new Android operating system and it's been largely well received; faster, smoother, etc. A new Android tablet at least matches an iPad in performance and there are nearly as many apps now.

Don't buy a new Android device without checking it runs ICS.

Android tablets are still struggling big time to get a foothold. Within months though, they'll have the advantage over Apple of running Flash media, i.e. more web video.

The megauploads.com case is too bizarre not to read. Police arresting the guy had to cut through his safe room to arrest him. WHAT'S THE POINT OF A SAFE ROOM? 

He had 45 credit cards in his wallet (megawallet) and 3 passports (in case two get stolen). He spent $10M in a weekend and here's where it gets completely unbelievable: he moved to New Zealand in 2010.

Here's the Reuters article.

As shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES as we hugely savvy people like to call it. Here's Time's short write-up of eye-tracking software, which is actually built in to female human beings.

Just sayin'. We're not the sort of people who'd dress up in these and frighten children. No, sir.

... in the Russian Rocket Factory I broke into.

Quite an interesting article discussing Facebook's policy on photo take-down requests. "Bad hair day" is not a valid reason apparently.

Sounds so cool you don't even need to see the video. But here it is anyway.

We've written before about the woeful proposed legisltation in America designed to stop online piracy. The latest instalment is that GoDaddy, the largest Internet domain name registrar came out in favour of it and lit a big bonfire underneath themselves. Over 20,000 domains were transferred away from the company last Friday and their competitor is donating to the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, who oppose the legislation.

The Swedish governement has handed control of the @Sweden twitter account to its citizens, a week at a time for a year. Nice experiment in democracy. Here's a write-up but if you do the Twitter thing, just follow @Sweden.

Just a fabulous article about the folly of current aircraft security measures from Vanity Fair. Post 9-11, Americans were 200 times as likely to drown in their own bathtubs as be killed by Islamic terrorists.

OK, we wouldn't have guessed that the best Internet video we saw around Christmas was a '12 Days of Christmas' a capella number but, there you go, miracles happen. It's sensational. Enjoy.