If you are one of those that plugs his iPhone or iPod Touch to the Ubuntu box and experiencing an overall slow down, try disabling the gvfs-afc-volume-monitor volume monitor. It will not affect the charging but definitely help keeping your nerve 
sudo chmod -x /lib/udev/iphone-set-info /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
This is my personal project which is meant to let people have a community where they can ask questions and get useful answers.
It is the result of an idea I had a few months ago after struggling to find a way to ask all my friends about something that I was planning to buy. But in the end I have given up because there was no medium that I can easily ask and get answers fast that has most basic privacy options and notification abilities. Although that cost me many sleepless nights, I believe that this will be useful to people having the same problems.
Here is the very first version, which may include some obscure bugs. In a few weeks I’ll be pushing a more robust release. It can be downloaded from AppStore, just search for “Viewbeat”. Enjoy!
Viewbeat – Simple way to ask questions and get useful answers
