I'm deeply saddened by the double standards and scapegoating that is being participated in with regards to Bradley Manning's court hearing. My super short summary of the story: A couple of years ago a soldier, however short sighted or careless, released classified information out of a strong conviction that US citizens need to know what exactly we are paying for in our wars in the middle east (with the assumption that we would not stand for it). As soon as the story hits mainstream media (for me this is everything from MSNBC to FoxNews) a long campaign of doing everything one could do but actually engage with the info he leaked goes on for weeks/months. They talk about the damage the leaked information could do. They talked about how careless the method he chose for releasing the information was. They talked about how unAmerican Manning was. They talked about similar things in regards to WikiLeaks and its founder. With regards to WikiLeaks a massive campaign regarding the possi...

Bottom line : hovernote is an app that has changed the way I used my android tablet, the Nexus 7, for the better. What does this app do? It is mostly a simple text editor that (and this is major) "floats" over any other android app that you have open. Why would that change the way that I use my tablet? Well, it solves one of the primary issues that I have with trying to use my Nexus 7 with a bluetooth keyboard as a laptop replacement. Tablets are typically a one-app-at-a-time experience. This is not much of a problem if you are only using it for consumption (music, videos, games, reading), but if you are trying to use it for content creation things get difficult. A good example of this is that I also use my Nexus 7 for reading ebooks. It's difficult to go back through a chapter I just read and take detailed notes when I constantly have to switch apps back and forth. If I only did this casually it may not be that big of a deal, but for in depth note taking it is difficult ...