Reporter for iOS
https://youtu.be/GJJlkZYqzdU
I got a lot of questions about Reporter, which I used to track a lot of my numbers this year. This video should be helpful to those wondering what the heck it does. This should help.
You can download Reporter on the App Store.
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2016, the quantified life
Most people think they know how they spend their time. They think they know how much of their lives they devote to certain things and what is important to them. But as many behavioral scientists will tell you, people are not a good judge of themselves.
When you ask someone how often they work out,
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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 for each other, and I start using Android again. Last year it was the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge1 and before that was the HTC One M8 and Moto X, and before that it was the
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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's a mighty number indeed, and speaks well to Nintendo's powerful position in smartphone gaming if they want to claim it.
Big debuts are important, as anyone who has released something will
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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 will be a full year in the making, and the conclusion of a year long experiment I began in late 2015 to track my life in a few key areas to see how I'
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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 in 2016. There were no shortage of people prepared to give their take on the state of digital assistants, and Amazon's Alexa, who is built into the Echo, seemed to impress people the
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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 convince you to buy a smartwatch based on the unrealistic things that abnormal people are — not really — using them for in their lives. And then people buy smartwatches, realize that they’re almost useless, and
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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 on a surprisingly regular basis. So when Snowmen announced they were working on a sequel this week, I got excited. Alto's Odyssey is coming soon, and I had to make a wallpaper for
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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’s a difficult choice. For now, I’m keeping a watchful eye on the Updates pane of the App Store to see what happens with Scriv, but it’s Ulysses that’s on my iPad’
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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] to remove outdated and unnecessary regulations... We need to fire up the weed whacker and remove those rules that are holding back investment, innovation, and job creation,"
Oh, fuck you.
This doesn't
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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 were a few films that were marked down to less than $10 on Blu Ray that I really wanted to add to my collection, and figured enduring the mass of people shopping that day was
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 stores just yet. Still, if this works, it's going to be big.
I love when tech and retail collide. I've spent my entire professional career in both, and find them both
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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 game ever, and now we have word that Final Fantasy 15 moved 5 million units (physical and digital) in it's first day on the market. As you may have already guessed, that'
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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 and Pokémon Moon for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems sold a combined total of 3.7 million units. That’s an 85 percent increase over Pokémon X and Pokémon Y – the previous record holders
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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 back again with a new game coming soon called Distant. The visuals are as beautiful as we'd expect from the makers of Alto's Adventure, so of course there had to be
Living That Dongle Life
As we all know, the new MacBook Pros are eliciting quite a bit of frustration from the professional crowd. There are a few reasons for this, but the biggest thing I see sticking after almost a month of letting these machines ruminate in our collective conscience, is anger over the ports. In other words, #donglelife.