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The Best Health, Better Apps, and Outstanding Communication: My watchOS 3 Pitch
Apple first pitched the Apple Watch in September 2014, and they had 3 pillars that the device stood on: timekeeping,
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Bring a Little Activity to Your Mac with These 4K Wallpapers
I love the design of the Activity rings on the Apple Watch, so I blew them up to 4K resolution and threw them on my Mac. There are two variants, so take your pick!
Partially filled rings
Full rings
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How to Download Your Entire Twitter History
Twitter has a surprisingly great data export feature built into the service and taking advantage of it is really easy. Below I have broken down the brief steps needed to get your tweets.
When you do your export, you'll get a ZIP file that contains an index.html file that you can open
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Modern Classic: Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team
The Go! Team made a bit of a splash in the indie music scene in the mid 2000s. They were a part of the mini British invasion of that decade, along with bands like Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, The Kooks, The Fratellis, and Franz Ferdinand, and their debut album, Thunder, Lighting, Strike is one of
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Not Even Kanye Can Save Tidal
You can't say Kanye doesn't try to help his friends. When his new album, The Life of Pablo was released 2 weeks ago...and you probably torrented it. And who could blame you? After a few fits and stops, the album was only available to stream on Tidal. Besides, you were
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Samsung Firing on All Cylinders with the Galaxy S7
Mobile World Congress is happening this week and there have been plenty of interesting announcements made by a bunch of differnet companies, but nothing has impressed me more than Samsung's Galaxy S7 line. But why? The LG G5 is a modular smartphone with fancy friends and the VR stuff looked so cool! You
Working More but Writing Less
You may have noticed things have slowed down a little here the past few weeks. I'm definitely writing less than any time in the past year or so, and I do feel a little bad about that. I love writing and I love the conversations that spring up because of it.
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Bugs Aren't Exclusively an Apple Issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbk6HNsXXs
I tend to like TechnoBuffalo's reviews, but this one just made me snicker a bit. Their overall impression of the Huawei Mate 8 were incredibly positive, citing build quality, speed, and battery life as the major advantages over this phone. Their one negative: the software is
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Can You Get a Genie Back in the Bottle?
Well I sure picked a bad day to spend offline!
Apple caused quite a stir in the past 24 hours by posting an open letter in which Tim Cook states plainly that Apple will not comply with the FBI's request to create a backdoor into the iPhone 5C. For a nice breakdown of
The Apple Watch's Draw to Non-Tech People
I just read this awesome piece from a "watch guy" who has fallen in love with his Apple Watch. I thought it was refreshing to listen to someone gush about the Apple Watch in 2016. I feel like a lot of the storyline in the tech press has revolved around what is wrong
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A Few More Firewatch Wallpapers
Because I couldn't help myself, here are a few more Firewatch phone wallpapers based on some early moments in the game. As always, if you like them, please feel free to share them to your heart's content.
You can download all 4 new wallpapers here or pick and choose from below.
QuickPin: A Fast, Simple Pinboard Extension for Chrome
QuickPin (install via the Google Chrome Web Store) is a very simple Chrome extension that lets you save your current tab to your Pinboard read later list. I have been using a browser shortcut to do this for years, but a native Chrome extension is a little more convenient. Want to save the page you&
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First Impressions of the PlayStation Vita
The store clerk's eyes went wide when I told him I wanted to buy a PlayStation Vita. To his credit, he was very friendly and helpful unlocking a Vita for me and getting me checked out in no time flat. As soon as we started walking over to the PlayStation case, he was
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Those Red, Green, and Blue Rings are Brilliant
When I first got the Apple Watch, I thought the three rings system was a clever way to track your activity, but ultimately thought it was inferior to apps like Runkeeper's Breeze app, which have dynamic step goals. Now, after about 10 months working on filling those rings everyday, I feel safe saying
Snapchat Makes Me Feel Like an Introverted Dinosaur
I just turned 30 a few months ago, and I still feel quite young. I’m mature and my life probably looks relatively “old” to the kids today, but I like to think that I’m keeping up with what’s cool. I still listen to some of the hot bands, which counts for something,
Is Remember the Milk 4.0 the Task Manager I've Always Dreamed Of?
You know how your weather app is about 80% of what you want, but you can't find a single app that does everything? Or how about that email app that needs to have 4 key features to be perfect but you can only find a few that have 2 or 3 of those
Apple Pay Isn't a Big Deal Anymore, and That's Great!
It would be safe to say I'm an "early adopter" when it comes to tech. I get the most I new stuff I can afford as soon as it's available. I keep up with the latest phones, tablets, and web services even though I could certainly get by just
