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If you’re not using Google Keep, you’re missing out 25 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Notably absent When Android was first launched in 2007, it was criticized for not coming with a lot of apps. Unlike Apple’s iPhone, the HTC G1 didn’t come with a full set of vendor-supplied (“stock”)...
Google Chromecast first impressions 21 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
Chromecast is the first media player I know of that has no remote control and no hardware buttons (except for a reset button, but that doesn’t really count. It’s – literally – a plugin for your TV tha...
Ten things you should know about the iPazzPort Pearl 14 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
Recently, iPazzPort – known for their wireless media remotes – launched the Pearl. This little plastic ball (seen on the right side of my TV in the image above) and its accompanying remote are designe...
Note 2 update: Sudden Death Syndrome 4 Jun 2013 | 04:05 pm
In October of last year, Samsung sent me a Galaxy Note 2 phone to try. I blogged about it a couple of time, and have been using it as my primary device since. I like it a lot, and was getting used to ...
Rando: Send pictures to strangers, get pictures from other strangers 24 Apr 2013 | 02:21 pm
Recently, I discovered Rando, a photo sharing app for Android and iOS that’s pretty much the opposite of every other app in that category. With Rando, you don’t build a social network of fellow photog...
HTC One vs. Galaxy S4, which is your favorite? 17 Mar 2013 | 10:03 pm
Now that Samsung has unveiled their Galaxy S4, all candidates for “Top Android Handset” are now out in the open. It’s up to us consumers to decide which, if any, we’re going to get. I’m going to be re...
HTC One: Could this be the One? 20 Feb 2013 | 01:49 pm
Yesterday, HTC announced their new flagship phone, simply called the “One”. Not to be confused with last year’s One X(+), One S and One V models. In what looks like an Apple-like move, HTC now has one...
Unity’s fixed launcher position is terrible for multi-monitor setups 11 Feb 2013 | 09:11 pm
When Ubuntu moved from the Gnome desktop environment to Unity with version 11.04, I wasn’t one of the many people who thought it was a bad move. Gnome was starting to feel old, and I like many of Unit...
I really hope Blackberry and WP8 succeed, and here’s why 1 Feb 2013 | 02:44 am
A while ago, I read an article on Mac360 about how Apple is supposedly destroying Android “from the inside out“. It’s a “fairly biased” piece, and it somehow seems to argue that Apple’s ability to mak...
You can now fork Cumulus 2.0 on Github 22 Jan 2013 | 11:10 pm
When I decided to no longer maintain my WP-Cumulus plugin a while ago, one of the reasons was that the project was in disarray. I wanted to improve so many things at once, that I ended up finishing no...
