Details of HTC's Next Flagship Smartphone Leak
This Bloomberg report makes the new HTC phone sound pretty good:
Code-named M9, the phone features a 20-megapixel rear camera and an HTC UltraPixel front camera
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Its new phone resembles last year’s M8 in size and design, with gold, gray and silver options, and features Qualcomm Inc.’s eight-core Snapdragon 810
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Birch Bark 21: Coding Is Hard!
This week's episode is pretty quick, as I talk about learning to code and why you should support BirchTree.
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* Support BirchTree for just $4
* The new HTC One M9 leaks
* Treehouse
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You Can Now Directly Support BirchTree
I have been writing BirchTree for the past 5 years (good god, has it been that long!?!), and have never had aspirations to strike it rich doing it. That would be great, of course, but I honestly do it because I enjoy it. This definitely helped in the early days of the site when my
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Goodies: January 20
This was a great week for new music releases. If your formative music years were in the mid-2000's, then this week is OMFGICANTEVEN.
First off, we have a new album from The Decemberists, which Pitchfork hated, but I love.
Sleater-Kinney released their first album in 10 years, and they're
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Why We Need to Take Playstation Now Seriously
Playstation Now is quite the service. For $19.99 per month, you get access to over 100 PS3 games that you can play on your Playstation 4. If you don't want to pay for all the games, you can alternatively pay to rent a single game for as short as a few hours
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Wild Speculation on Apple Watch Pricing
I was listening to the latest episode of Resolve, in which Abdel Ibrahim and his guest Mark Gurman discuss the Apple Watch at length. If you follow, Abdel on Twitter, you've surely seen him go on at length about the Apple Watch. As opposed to most other people who are only talking about
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Night Photography Over New York (at 7,500 feet)
Photographer Vincent Laforet took a helicopter up to 7,500 feet one night over New York City, and took some amazing photographs. His photo essay is a delight to read, and there are a ton of awe-inspiring shots in there.
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It's Really Not That Hard to Sell Tech to Women
Belinda Lanks at Bloomberg Businessweek
Women are the early adopters of all kinds of technology. We talk on our phones and send more text messages than men, spend more time using location-based services, and own the vast majority of Internet-connected devices, including e-readers and health gadgets.
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Yet the tech industry continues to
On the New Apple Watch Info
Mark Gurman is having quite the week for leaks. This time it's all about the Apple Watch companion app coming to the iPhone with the watch is released in a few months. As someone who has basically decided they're 100% in on buying one when they come out, I was extremely
The Fermi Paradox
Tim Urban wrote this awesome piece over at Wait But Why on why we haven't found any intelligent life in the universe. After yet again trying to comprehend the massiveness of the universe, he gets into the idea of what another lifeform might look like.
The technology and knowledge of a civilization only
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AllCast for iOS Review
Back in the dark ages when I was using an Android phone (I kid, I kid), AllCast was one of my favorite apps. I live in a hybrid technological home with iPhones, Android tablets, Macs, PCs, an Apple TV, and Chromecasts. Therefore, any tool that helps me link all of those worlds together is gold.
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Goodies: January 13
Panda Bear released Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper this week. It's a trippy good time.
Catfish and the Bottlemen finally released their debut album, The Balcony last week in the United States. I've been listening to the UK version of this record for a few months and I think it&
Stream Belle & Sebastian and Sleater-Kinney's New Albums Now
NPR has full album previews of both Belle & Sebastian's Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance and Sleater-Kinney's No Cities To Love. Each album is coming out next week and they're both really good.
Oh yeah, and Death Cab for Cutie announced a new album coming out March
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Birch Bark 20: Treehouse
I'm back! Even though my voice isn't totally back, I got in front of the mic again to finally deliver the first episode of 2015.
Today I'm talking briefly about my move of BirchTree over to Squarespace, and then go on about how great Treehouse is for learning to
Sam Adams is Losing It's Mojo
Andy Crouch at Boston Magazine
All of this is tough for Koch to swallow, as the undisputed king of the craft-beer industry suddenly finds himself presiding over shifting and unsteady ground. Koch has spent the past three decades battling the corporate giants—Budweiser, Miller, and Coors—but now he faces what may prove his
Building My First iPhone App - Day 3
I hit a wall today, and that wall's name was "tuples." Fucking tuples.
I shouldn't be mad at enums in particular, but this step in the training has taken a decidedly sharp increase in difficulty. We're starting to link multiple aspects of Swift together instead of just
The 2012 Galaxy S3 Leads Android Usage on Flickr
PetaPixel lists the top of everything on Flickr
Top Smartphones: iPhone 5 (10.6%) Runner ups: iPhone 4S (7.0%), iPhone 4 (4.3%), iPhone 5c (2.0%), Samsung Galaxy S3 (1.2%)
What's most amazing about this stat is not that Apple holds the top 4 positions on this list, but that
Building My First iPhone App - Day 2
It's been a couple days since my last foray into the world of Swift, but I came back today with a strong desire to learn more. Today I worked on manipulating arrays, creating a dictionary, and creating for and while statements.
Manipulating the array was the most fun I had in this session,