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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
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Why Can’t a Flagship Phone that Costs Over $700 Stay Fast?
When a great, fast phone starts to lose its zip after a few months:
Roughly three months into using my
Leaning into the Apple Lock In
Depending on your computing preferences, this article is either going to make you cheer Apple’s brilliance or jeer their
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The BirchTree Podcast #53: HomePod, HomePod, HomePod
HomePod is here and I've been using mine for a couple days now. It's a very
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The Smart Speaker Market IS the Speaker Market (or why no one buys iPods anymore)
One of the defenses I’ve seen for the HomePod’s lack of certain voice features that Alexa and Google
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Searching for that AirPods Feeling
One year ago I got AirPods, and they blew me away. Right from the first time I opened the packaging