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Goodies: June 30
Good morning, everyone! Last week was an absolutely fantastic week! The Supreme Court did amazing things and I still find myself smiling just by thinking about it. The SCOTUS also held up key Obamacare provisions and a racist old-fashioned symbol was shamed out of most public places. I feel better about being an American
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Everybody Chill, It's Okay to Work for Someone Else
A Few Words of Explanation - Richard Anderson:
That’s one of the things that irked me the most, and lead to my piece, the one-size-fits-all advice of “WORK FOR YOURSELF OR BE A MISERABLE FAILURE” mantra that runs through way too much of the tech-focused media I consume. It’s in
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Barack Obama Interviews David Attenborough
Barack Obama turns tables in David Attenborough climate change interview
Challenged by the naturalist, Obama says: “We’re not moving as fast as we need to and part of what I know from watching your programmes, and all the great work you’ve done, is that these ecosystems are all interconnected. If just one country
Game
Batman Arkham Knight is More of a Disaster on PC Than You Even Know
It gets worse - Batman: Arkham Knight on PC lacks console visual features - Digital Founrey
Just as baffling is the fact PC lacks key visual effects seen on PS4 even at its top settings. Ambient occlusion is cut from the game, bokeh depth of field is noticeably dialed back, and the transparency layer used for raindrops
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Bite Size Tech #8: I Should Be Able To Pronounce Satya
Microsoft is on the right track and may be leaving Windows Phone behind, Popcorn Time is making waves, Instagram needs to grow up, and Apple Music details come out.
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* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sees 'magical things' and 'tough choices' ahead - The Verge
* Popcorn Time for iOS passes 1 million
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Slickwraps vs. dbrand Skins: Which Is Right For You?
Updated March 2017: I bought a new dbrand skin and made a video for it.
https://youtu.be/qhA875Ov-s0
Do you love your smartphone but wish it was just a little different? Maybe it could use more grip or maybe it needs a splash of color to stand out. The phone case market has
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Not Your Father's Apple
Ian Rogers announced the details of Apple Music's launch on his blog today:
Please make a note to upgrade to iOS 8.4 at 8am PT Tuesday, June 30th and listen to the first Beats 1 broadcast at 9am PT.
A few hours later, Eddy Cue took to Twitter to answer some questions
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Privacy or Not
Dean Murphy on ad blockers:
Do I care more about my privacy, time, device battery life & data usage or do I care more about the content creators of sites I visit to be able to monetise effectively and ultimately keep creating content?
I'm with Dean here, it's a hard decision.
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A Quick Thought on Yesterday's Monumental SCOTUS Decision
To summarize Beth Birchler (my awesome wife)
The best part of all this is that the people who tried so hard to make marriage equality illegal are the very reason it’s legal today.
The Supreme Court didn’t just decide that marriage equality is the new law, they (and all the other state courts)
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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 for the PS3…er…PS4
I know Tony Hawk isn’t about the graphics, but come on, this looks like a lackluster PS3 game. This thing had better run at 60fps.
tech
Is iOS 9 beta 2 Ready to be Your Daily Driver?
As with most article titles that end in the question mark, the answer is NOOOOOOOOO.
While the Mac OS X El Capitan beta is humming along very nicely on my Mac, my iPhone is not faring as well with the newest beta. Beta 1 suffered from massive power consumption issues. My phone would last about
A Symbol of What?
Apple made the right move today but removing all Confederate flag-toting apps from the App Store. They're not the first store to remove items with the flag, and I commend all retailers who do so.
When you have someone like Tim Cook say he thinks the flag is a symbol that feeds
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T-Mobile Continues to be Nuts
T-Mobile announced that they are removing the already industry-leading 6 month wait between phone upgrades and are now letting users upgrade whenever they want. The fine print is that you're limited to 3 phones per year, but that's still pretty insane.
I have taken advantage of T-Mobile'
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Finding Your Silence
I really need quiet to get my best creative work done. I know that some people like to have some background noise or they have some music that works well for them. I have never been one of those people. The noises are always distracting. I sing along to the music (even just in my
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Inside Out, You Have To See This Pixar Gem
Almost all of Pixar's films are about growing up in one way or another. Some films hit this more on the head than others, and those tend to be my favorites. Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, and Toy Story each come to mind as standouts. Inside Out follows in these films' footsteps, and
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iOS 9 Installs Should be Way Easier Than iOS 8's
66% of my customers on eligible devices have at least 1.3GB of free space [enough to install iOS 9]. This compares to just 37% of users who would have immediately had sufficient space at the old iOS 8 requirement.
via David Smith
Speaking as an owner of a 16GB iPhone, this is great news!
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Goodies: June 23
Good morning and happy Tuesday, everyone! Here’s your weekly dose of goodies. Just a housekeeping note, there will be no new episode of Bite SIze Tech today, seeing as I have to work all day. I’m going to try and squeeze in an episode before the week’s end, but I can’t
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Why Doesn’t Microsoft Just Give Windows Away?
Since Friday, the blog post describing the changes to the Windows Insider preview program has been silently updated. Previously it said that signed up members of the Insider Program running a preview version would "receive the Windows 10 final release build and remain activated." Now it says only that they will "receive