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Brent Rose is a freelance writer, producer, photographer, and actor, and has been contributing to Gizmodo since 2011. You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter, and learn more at brentrose.com

I wish there was, too. I got a lot of very funny looks at the beach. Read more

Think of it as an easter egg. (Congrats, you found it!) Read more

I set up an account and am going to be checking it out as it progresses, but I'm certainly not just going to switch over immediately. I want to see how well it works. So far it's already been marking messages Junk that weren't (and were even sent from another Outlook account). Plus, as someone who uses Android as Read more

Was eager to try it. Looks good, but it seems to be flagging emails as Junk for no reason. (An email sent directly from another Outlook account, no less.) Still some gremlins, but looking forward to seeing how this shakes out. Read more

Nice to have a succinct list for this. If you combine it with the proxy tips from our How To Watch post you might just find yourself a decent stream. http://gizmodo.com/5928992/how-to-watch-every-second-of-the-olympics Read more

Let me clarify. I actually kind of like water polo and volleyball, so this was an exaggeration, yes, but the point remains. Why are they showing an entire, early-round game now, instead of showing a quick, medal-round swim while it actually happens (when postponing it for five hours is going to ruin the outcome for a Read more

I do the same thing with movies. Closed my eyes for Dark Knight trailers because I knew I was going to see it and didn't want to know anything else about it. Read more

I'm divided on that kind of thing. On the one hand, some of them are just insanely manipulative. On the other hand, sometimes they actually provide some nice context. For example, the Equatoguinean swimmer Eric Moussambani who swam at the 2000 Sydney games. Without context I would have wondered who the hell this awful Read more

Sometimes the commentary is annoying, but for some of the games, it's really hard to know what's going on without it. For example, almost every gymnastics routine looks flawless to me. Without some commentary there are tons of nuances i miss. Or I don't know how one score affects the team as a whole. Read more

Thanks for adding this info! Updating the story with a link to this comment thread. Cheers. Read more

Awesome, Brian. I can confirm that this works from 3,000 miles away. Updating the article with both of these tips. Thanks for contributing! Read more

Try these: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.proxydroid&hl=en or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gaeproxy&hl=en Read more

Nope. Tried that. They're just streaming BBC News, BBC World News, and BBC Parliament. Read more