The most useful posts from Mobilize! in 2012

Chrome and Chromebooks

• The big list of Chromebook work-arounds and caveats - An attempt to answer the most common questions about what Chromebooks and Chrome OS can and can’t do, for most people, with and without web-based work-arounds.

• Clearing up a few myths about the newly renovated Chrome OS - See title.

iPhone and iOS and other Apple things

• 5 quirks about Google’s Maps app for iPhone you might not have noticed - Did you know you can swipe left and right on the directions list to bring up alternate routes? Or that biking directions are not included?

• Customize your iPhone’s vibrations styles for different notifications or contacts - If nothing else, you should know you can create a custom “Shave and a haircut, two bits” vibration pattern and assign it to your boss.

General interest

• More on transferring contacts from your BlackBerry to your new smartphone - Following up on a feature based on a fairly popular Google question, and an increasingly common need .

• Here’s how to grab a screenshot on nearly any smartphone - Now updated to included Windows Phone 8’s entry into the modern world.

• Where can I sell my phone that isn’t ebay? - The answers are surprisingly non-scary!

Personal quests and obsessions

• How to sync and edit plain text files anywhere, mobile or web - Because plain .txt has been here for a long time, and will be here when Microsoft, Apple, Google, and their kind are all gone.