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HomePod as an Accessibility Device
First Impressions of HomePod — Steven's Blog
Accessibility. Like everything else Apple makes, HomePod is an accessible product. Apple
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One Really Good Reason to Get an iPhone 8 Over the X
8 & X | Riccardo Mori
In choosing the iPhone 8, what I’d miss most of the X are probably
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The BirchTree Podcast #55: They Annoy the Hell Out of Me, but I'm Keeping Them
I reviewed the Google Pixel Buds for BirchTree and took to the microphone to rant a little about them. There&
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An AirPods Lover’s Review of the Google Pixel Buds
Be warned before proceeding, this is a review written by someone who has AirPods, loves them, and will be viewing
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I was Wrong
Less than 24 hours after getting the latest Apple Watch, I wrote this post:
Personally, I think the sport loop
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Reuniting with the First iPod I Ever Bought
https://youtu.be/YwwVNu68tz4
Traditionally, I sell my old tech to help pay for the new stuff. I like to
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Picking the Better of Two Bad Things
Joe Cieplinski on why he doesn’t care if Siri is behind Alexa:
We reached the “good” threshold for speakers
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Pixel 2’s New “A.I. Powered Zoom” Still Can’t Beat the iPhone
View this post on the largest screen you can to really see the differences in quality.
I’ll keep this
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Grime in Your AirPod Case
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/966301987259277312
Yesterday I asked Twitter to give me something I never thought I'd
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Cinema Time Review: Tracking Movies in Style
I’ve long used Television Time as my TV tracking app, and I jumped for joy when I heard that
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Being Forced into the iPad Only Lifestyle
Life on an iPad | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
That was, as I
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The BirchTree Podcast #54: Desks, how do they work?
Does anyone know what they're doing with their desk? I feel like I'm always just winging
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Swype Keyboard is Dead
Swype keyboards for Android & iOS discontinued as company focuses on business market | 9to5Google
Nuance will no longer be updating
Inoreader: My New Favorite RSS Service
The demise of Google Reader in 2013 was a scary time for RSS fiends like myself. How will I subscribe
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Some Stupid Personal Twitter Analytics
On a lark, I downloaded my complete Twitter history and ran some searches on my tweets to see what things
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HomePod: The BirchTree Review
Introduction
The HomePod is an interesting product from Apple. It’s a smart speaker that Apple is going out of
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My Perspective on Tech
While BirchTree is not my day job1, it did play a central role in me getting my current job. I
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BeatsX (Mini) Review
Don’t ask me why, but I picked up a pair of BeatsX headphones last week and have been using