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Merry Christmas from BirchTree!
If you celebrate, Christmas is a time for spending time with family and friends. I'm spending the weekend
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24 hours with Android
It seems like I do this every year like clockwork. The weather starts to get colder, we start buying presents
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Super Mario Run did well, but how does it compare to high end game launches?
It's being reported that Super Mario Run was downloaded almost 10 million times in its first day. That&
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Quantifying my life the easy way
I will be posting a piece soon where I break down my life in 2016 by the numbers. That piece
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Amazon Echo Dot review
The Amazon Echo is one of those products that the nerd community took to with quite a bit of excitement
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Thinking out loud about the blog
Some people think that New Year's resolutions are stupid, but I really like them. It's good
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Smart Watches Have No Actual Purpose
An interesting piece on 9to5Google from someone who is more than a little disenchanted with smart watches:
Google wants to
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Alto's Odyssey iPhone Wallpaper
Alto's Adventure was released almost 2 full years ago, and it's a game I still play
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Matt Gemmell on Ulysses vs Scrivener
Matt Gemmell is a professional writer, and has an interesting take on Ulysses as a long time Scrivener user.
It’
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Don't Get Too Used to Net Neutrality
The FCC’s Ajit Pai on net neutrality's place in the Trump administration:
The commission "need[s]
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Oh Great, I Have an UltraViolet Code
I walked into Best Buy this Black Friday and I wanted to pick up some movies on deep discount. There
Amazon Go Could Decimate the Retail Job Market, and it Could Happen Fast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc
UPDATE: Amazon says they don't plan on rolloing out 2,000
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Final Fantasy 15 is Fastest Selling Title in Series' History
Just this morning I reported that Pokémon Sun and Moon had the best first week of sales for any Pokémon
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Pokémon Sun and Moon are the Fastest Selling Games in the Series' History
Nintendo reports Pokémon Sun and Moon are the fastest selling Pokémon games yet.
In less than two weeks, Pokémon Sun
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Distant: iPhone Wallpapers for Snowman's Upcoming Game
Snowman impressed us all last year when they released the beautiful (and fun) Alto's Adventure. They're
Living That Dongle Life
As we all know, the new MacBook Pros are eliciting quite a bit of frustration from the professional crowd. There
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PS4 has it's Biggest Sales Week Since Launch Over Thanksgiving
Black Friday was the biggest sales week for the PS4 since launch in the UK
Meanwhile, the PS4 sold more
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The Difference Between iOS and macOS
Matt Gemmell has been using the iPad as his only computer for a month.
Most of all, the iPad feels