Hey and welcome to this week's episode of the Ask Life Hacker podcast. It is April 25th, and this week we are talking about the best experimental features in Google Chrome, choosing the right internet service provider, and making your own battery-powered travel charger for all your gadgets.

We're also answering your questions about filtering out annoying Facebook posts, pursuing other employment without alerting your current company, and whether or not you can legally store movies on your hard drive.

And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week, so let's get

started.

Thank you. Hi and welcome to the show. I am Witson Gordon. I'm Adam Dachis. And with us we have Malani Pinola joining us via Google Hangouts. Hey Malani. And her audio is working. Sorry for those

you who are watching live. We're a little late this week because we had some really fun audio

issues. We had lots of issues. It was just like a pile of issues today. Yeah,

we're here and we're happy to be here. Yep. And we've got lots of fun news and stories to go through

today. So let's just jump right into it. First on the docket, the Galaxy S4 pre-orders started this

week, I think it was. And, you know, everyone was allowed to post their reviews. So we actually saw some cool, I don't, the only reason I bring this up, we don't talk about

hardware a lot, but we do talk about software.

And it seems like Samsung has really gone far this time in adding a bunch of new stuff

to Android.

What do they do?

They've kind of got these new gestures and stuff where you can like wave your hand over the screen without

actually touching it and control certain things and uh and stuff like that and so it's just a

i've heard that they're not perfect and i've heard that the phone is a good everyone basically said

it was a good upgrade not a great upgrade probably still not as good good as the HTC1, but there's some cool stuff.

I think I just describe Android as not perfect.

I think that's a really good descriptor.

It's great, but it's not perfect.

Yeah, you can hover your hand over the screen to see information without tapping.

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