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Spotify is Worthless If You Own Music
Paul Thurrott1 wrote a piece yesterday about how woefully inadequate Spotify is for people like him who want to bring
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Bite Size Tech is Back! Ep. 44: Future Full of Screens
I did the unthinkable yesterday and finally recorded a new episode of Bite Size Tech. This week’s topic is
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Dropbox's Project Infinite's iOS-ification of the Desktop
There was a lot of excitement last week when Dropbox unveiled their latest addition, which they're calling Project
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Television Time: Keep up to date with your favorite shows and discover new ones (sponsor)
Television Time is a great television show tracker for iPhone, and I'm happy to have the app as
Sony's Q4 2015 Financial Results
Sony announced their Q4 2015 earnings this week and the company had a pretty decent year. Their revenue was down
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The Video Game Landscape in 2016
The Entertainment Software Association released its annual "Essential Facts" report about the demographics of the video game industry.
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Wallpaper Weekend: Quiet Night (smartphone)
This week's wallpaper is for those of you who want a simple, dark background for your phone. There
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Indian government exempts Apple from 30% local-sourcing (sponsor)
My thanks once again to NSShadowcat for sponsoring this month of BirchTree! Like I said last time, this site is
Any Writing is Better Than No Writing
Everyone knows the stress of staring down an empty page. That blinking cursor ready to fly across the screen, just
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Now Might Not be the Time to Buy and Apple Watch
Zac Hall wrote this piece for 9to5Mac today:
Agree or disagree, I believe the window on buying the first-gen Apple
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NSShadowcat: A New Apple Blog You Want on Your Radar (sponsor)
NSShadowcat is relatively new tech blog created by Mayur Dhaka and it's off to a strong start. At
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Is This What We Can Expect from 2016's iPhone?
An unbelievable streak ended yesterday as Apple announced their first quarterly drop in revenue since 2003. Now Apple is not
By Eliminating Bullshit, T-Mobile has Won Loyalty and $$$
T-Mobile added 2.2 million new customers in the first quarter of 2016 and increased revenue by over 10%. Not
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366 Days of Thinking Deeply About the Apple Watch
We just hit one full year of the Apple Watch's release and I realized I've written
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Video Game Console Sales Sure Look Bleak (if you don't care about real numbers)
Let's talk about video games for a second. As always, we have tech pundits talking about the end
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Wallpaper Saturday! Blue Rays
It's everybody's favorite day, new wallpaper day! I've been going a little crazy with
The Future of Payments is not QR Codes, it's Apple Pay
Yesterday Walmart rolled out their own payment system called Walmart Pay. Its aim is to get Walmart shoppers to start
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Apps For Earth iPhone Wallpapers
Apple has teamed up with the WWF for their Apps for Earth campaign this year, which has meant a whole