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The Lofree Keyboard Review
The Lofree keyboard wastes no time making a first impression. From the first moment I laid eyes on it, it&
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RAW images and why smartphone camera comparisons are just plain complicated
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6 just came out, which of course means the camera comparisons are hitting the web faster than you can check them out. So why not jump on this train and do my own camera comparison?
Here's 2 photos I took today, and I want you to decide
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Concept: iOS 11 Home Screen
Earlier this month I mocked up what a refined version of iOS 11's lock screen could look like, and that got my creative juices flowing, so I decided to tackle iOS's white whale: the home screen. The home screen is certainly more advanced than it was in 2007 in the first
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An Android Review for iOS Users: Conclusion (Day 5)
This is part 5 of a 5 part series on Android from the perspective on an iOS user.
* Part 1: Third Party Apps
* Part 2: Home Screens
* Part 3: Notifications
* Part 4: All the Little Things
* Part 5: Conclusion
After a month of using Android as my daily driver, where do I stand? As I&
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An Android Review for iOS Users: All the Little Things (Day 4)
This is part 4 of a 5 part series on Android from the perspective on an iOS user.
* Part 1: Third Party Apps
* Part 2: Home Screens
* Part 3: Notifications
* Part 4: All the Little Things
* Part 5: Conclusion
We're going to take a little detour today from major features and shift focus
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An Android Review for iOS Users: Notifications (Day 3)
This is part 3 of a 5 part series on Android from the perspective on an iOS user.
* Part 1: Third Party Apps
* Part 2: Home Screens
* Part 3: Notifications
* Part 4: All the Little Things
* Part 5: Conclusion
I know that this piece may come under some criticism for being a comparison of notifications
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An Android Review for iOS Users: Home Screens (Day 2)
This is part 2 of a 5 part series on Android from the perspective on an iOS user.
* Part 1: Third Party Apps
* Part 2: Home Screens
* Part 3: Notifications
* Part 4: All the Little Things
* Part 5: Conclusion
Today's post is going to be quite a bit more positive than yesterday'
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An Android Review for iOS Users: Third Party Apps (Day 1)
This is part 1 of a 5 part series on Android from the perspective on an iOS user.
* Part 1: Third Party Apps
* Part 2: Home Screens
* Part 3: Notifications
* Part 4: All the Little Things
* Part 5: Conclusion
We'll get into some specific Android system features in later pieces, but I had
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An Android Review for iOS Users: Introduction
Ah, the great Android vs iOS debate. It's the great computing rivalry of our time, and odds are that if you are reading this, you have a particular opinion on the matter. Maybe you're a "fandroid" and will love Android until your dying days, or maybe you're
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watchOS 4: A Modest Pitch
While Apple did little of what I asked them for last year, I still think watchOS 3 was a great
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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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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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watchOS 3: The BirchTree Review
Contents
* Introduction
* The Little Things
* Performance
* The Dock
* Messages
* Activity and Workout Enhancements
* Learn to Breathe
* Conclusion
Introduction
Apple has finally shipped watchOS 3, the third major version of their still extremely young wearable platform. watchOS shipped in April 2015, with watchOS 2 coming just a few months later in September. As I have made
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The Awkward Teenage Years of Mobile Payments
CVS got on a lot of Apple Pay fans' bad sides last week as they announced CVS Pay, yet another mobile payments option. I'm solidly on Team Apple Pay as well, and it frustrates me that CVS is pushing a proprietary payments solution that is clearly less convenient for users and more
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Today Weather: Beautiful weather forecasts
I'm very happy to show off Today Weather for the first time today! Today Weather is a unique weather site that I built to fill a niche that was not properly served before. Specifically, I wanted a weather site that was fast, easy to use, great at hyper-local forecasts, and looked good
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Why I'm Not Crazy for Making Safari my Default Browser
If all you knew about me was that I was a web developer and designer and I asked you what browser you think I use day-to-day, you'd probably say Chrome. Chrome is a massive force on the web, and for good reason. Google's now dominant browser started life as
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Don't You Dare Remove My Ethernet Port!
I found this article sitting in my drafts folder from 2012 and decided to publish it today. Any similarities to current port removal arguments is completely coincidental.
You know, I really like this new laptop from Apple, but the fact that they took away Ethernet, which is clearly superior to WiFi in just about every