UbiSoft Trying to Make Right with Assassin's Creed Unity Early Adopters
From UbiSoft's official Assassin's Creed Unity site:
To show our appreciation for your continued support, we’re making the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity Dead Kings DLC free for everyone. For Season Pass holders, we will also offer the choice of one additional game from a selection of Ubisoft titles for
Who Tweeted It First
Who Tweeted it First is a very cool website that shows you the first person to ever tweet a certain word or phrase. For instance, I can see that this gentleman was the first person to tweet about now President Barak Obama:
Off to the Miami Book Fair and then to see B. Obama talk
Typed from Realmac Software
Realmac have released Typed, a new minimal markdown editor for Mac OS X.
Typed is the stunning new writing app for the Mac, and the first that improves your focus so you can create great content. Typed makes writing for the web incredibly easy, and its Zen Mode features relaxing soundtracks that help you concentrate.
Birch Bark Episode 17: Not Partaking in Black Friday
It's easy to get caught up in the Black Friday hype each year. The thrill of the hunt and finding great prices on things you kinda, sorta want is addicitve, but I took this year off from the madness. I took stock of what I already had and realized that I'm
App Ecosystems (or Why I Came Back to iOS from Android)
Android Central put together a list of the 5 best podcast apps for Android. As a passionate podcast listener and producer, I tried them all when I ran my 6-month Android experiment. What can i say about these apps? Pocket Casts is good and the other 4 are bad. Not like "just not
My Home Screen: December 2014
Ok, now things are getting back into a groove on the home screen front. I'm happy to say that not much has changed since I last checked in a month ago. Most changes over the past 30 days have been centered around getting the things I actually use all the time on my
You Really Shouldn't Buy the new Mac Mini
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So, what does this mean? At best, it means only very modest improvements for some models, certainly less than most would expect from a system as old as the 2012 Mac mini. At worst, it means a dramatic decrease in performance,
HTC Has a New One M8 with a Better Camera
Phandroid - HTC One M8 Eye press photos leak; looks just like an HTC One M8
This thing is an HTC One M8 through and through, down to its exact looks and most of the specs of the original. The only difference will be the introduction of a 13 megapixel camera sensor on the rear as
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer
Whoa, here it is! I'm a nerd, so I have a few thoughts on this trailer. I've watched it about a dozen times already, and I'm not getting bored.
1. The opening shot breaks the canon established by Lucas in the prequels that all stormtroopers are clones of Jengo
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope all you delightful people can spend it with friends and family. And if you live outside the United States, I guess I just hope you enjoy the second half of the week!
As I'll be attempting to enjoy the holiday as well, don't expect any updates
Quick Review: Homescreen for iPhone
Homescreen is a new app from Betaworks that makes it easier to post your home screen to twitter. That's about it.
I would love to go on about how innovative this is or how much better a tool this is to share your personal home screens, but I don't think it
ProTube Review: A Better YouTube App for your iPhone
ProTube ($1.99) aims to be the YouTube app that Google would make if they had any interest in you escaping the Google ecosystem. Google's own YouTube app is actually quite good. It's ability to multitask (within the app, at least) with a video playing is very cool, and everything is
Here's the First Single from Giorgio Moroder's First Album in 30 Years
Not bad for a 74 year old.
Birch Bark 16: What If We Just Don't Shoot Anyone?
We're back to tech news this week as Samsung struggled with Galaxy S5 sales, we saw some sexist Sony advertising, Netflix and Tina Fey got together, and we examine if Call of Duty is really a first person shooter.
Featured music this week is Portugal. The Man, an awesome rock band from Alaska.
2000 Miles in a Year
Today marked the 1 year anniversary of me buying a Fitbit and tracking every movement I made 24 hours a day[^1]. Like clockwork, I got an email this morning from Fitbit congratulating me on hitting the 2,000 mile mark since joining. To put this into a little perspective, that breaks down to:
* 4,
Some New Apps on my iPhone
Here's a quick overview of some of the new apps that are making their way into my daily life lately.
Pocket Casts
Overcast was one of those apps that I was excited to try when I came back to iOS, but I've fallen out of love with it. I lose track
Why Does My iPhone Think a Nexus 7 is an Apple Pay Terminal?
I had rested my iPhone 6 on my Nexus 7 today and something weird happened: Passbook opened up on my phone and asked me to use my thumbprint to authorize a payment. "huh?" I asked, understandably confused. Here's video showing it off:
I don't know enough about NFC and
The Game Awards Nominations
The Game Awards announced their nominees today, and I think their picks are pretty solid. This is the successor to the VGAs (Video Game Awards), a show that I frankly hated. The show never found its comfort zone and always, always felt awkward. The show was hosted by Geoff Keighley, a guy who I think