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What Happens When You Accidentally Create a "-gate"
Stephen Hackett on his recent run in with a viral video:
By Saturday night and into Sunday, I felt completely
Matt Birchler
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Criticizing the Things You Love
Timothy Huneycutt on what it means to love something:
Contrary to popular belief, you can enjoy something and be critical
How Does the W1 Chip Work with Sharing Wireless Speakers and Headphones?
One of Apple's smaller announcements from this month's Apple event was the W1 chip inside the
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On Charging Your iPhone and Listening to Music Simultaneously
The Verge is really not happy about this whole headphone jack removal from the latest iPhones. I know they have
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The iPhone 7 Plus Gets Shots I've Never Seen from a Smartphone
Yesterday I wrote about breaking the iPhone 7's portrait mode, but I actually really love the camera and
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Purposely Breaking the iPhone 7 Plus's Portrait Mode
Apple shipped the iOS 10.1 beta this week with it's much anticipated "portrait mode" on
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Josh Ginter on the Apple Watch Series 2
Josh Ginter is a great writer, and I always enjoy reading his thoughts on Apple's mobile devices (see
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Initial Impressions of the iPhone 7 Plus
I just got my iPhone 7 Plus delivered last night so I'm a week late to the party,
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MotionMark: The New Browser Benchmark in Town
Well there's a new tool out there for pitting our browsers against each other, and this one comes
Critic vs. Fanboy
I was listening to one podcast today where a host mentioned the hiss sound coming from their iPhone. He wrote
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Why an Expensive Nexus (Pixel) Phone Could Work
There are some pretty credible rumors out today indicating that the new phone from Google will start at $650, just
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Apple Watch Series 1 Review
Last year I wrote this extensive review of the first Apple Watch, where I talked about hardware and software. It
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Take 2 Minutes and Set Up Apple Pay on Your iPhone
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/733839243697491969
Every so often I'll tweet something about how amazingly fast I was
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Performance on the iPhone 7 is Insane
Mark Spoonauer ran some tests and it looks like the iPhone 7 destroys the top of the line Android phones
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watchOS 3: The BirchTree Review
Contents
* Introduction
* The Little Things
* Performance
* The Dock
* Messages
* Activity and Workout Enhancements
* Learn to Breathe
* Conclusion
Introduction
Apple has
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Quick Take on the new Apple Watches
My buddy Michael Rockwell wrote up a great recap of yesterday's Apple event:
Apple doesn’t need to
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Grading My Apple Watch 2 Predictions
People always make predictions for what they think will be coming at these Apple events, and they rarely go back
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I Love That Game Developers Even Think to Do This
Polygon reporting on NBA 2K17:
Visual Concepts traveled to every NBA team’s arena to "record and analyze the