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Android keeps apps in memory on purpose. Clearing them means loading them again, which is the expensive part.

Before booking a repair, find out whether it is the hardware, one app, or the network doing it.

Half the apps called Solitaire are a currency system with a card game printed on top.

A fighting game on a touchscreen is a different genre wearing the same name, and some of them are excellent at it.

The room is the same room. What differs is the fee, the cancellation date and who answers when it goes wrong.

A coverage map is a prediction. The number your own phone reports is a measurement.

The pass is the easy part. The reservations are what catch people out, and they sell out quietly.

A tracker that demands a weight for every ingredient gets abandoned by Thursday.

The plan matters more than the app, and the plan is nine weeks of walking less and running more.

Most people who want to get better at chess play more games. That is the one thing that does the least.

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.