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A memory card is the cheapest storage you will ever buy and the least reliable place to keep anything.

Full bars and nothing loading is a different fault from no bars at all, and they have different causes.

The appeal is not winning. It is reversing a trailer into a loading bay at the second attempt.

The store size is the beginning. Several of these download as much again the first time you open them.

The platform app tells you where to go. It is usually the worst thing on the phone at telling you how to get there.

The phone is a poor place to study and an excellent place to review. Those are not the same activity.

Most household arguments about logistics are about information, not effort. One of you knew and the other did not.

The point of a reading tracker is not the statistics. It is never buying the same book twice.

A scanner is a shortcut to reading the label. It is not a substitute for reading the label.

Most of a camera roll is not photographs. It is receipts, screenshots and eleven versions of the same picture.

A phone that shows nothing at all is more often a cable problem than a dead phone, which is why the order of these checks matters.

Almost everything moves. The part that catches people is what happens to messages sent from the phones you left behind.

A good game for a four year old is one where every tap does something and no tap costs anything.

The question is not whether the game is good. It is whether the game wants fifty hours or wants you back every day forever.

Ten minutes at a desk is a different exercise from forty minutes at bedtime, and most apps are built for the second one.

The most valuable hour in genealogy is the one spent recording an eighty year old talking, and it costs nothing.

The wedding app is good at the checklist. Everything that actually goes wrong is a contract and a phone number.

Everybody chooses a recipe app for its recipes and then fights it for the twenty minutes that actually matter.

Knowing it is a high pollen day at nine in the morning is worth more than any antihistamine taken at four in the afternoon.

The phone is not storing anything. It is asking a machine in the other room, and that machine does most of the work.

A dot in the wrong city is not a broken receiver. It is a WiFi network that moved house.

There is no print button. There is a print service, and an entry in the share menu.

Aeroplane mode and a turn-based game will outlast any setting inside the game itself.

A game designed for a thumb beats a great game wearing a virtual D-pad.