Android
How Does a $60 Phone’s Camera Stand Up?
One of the major things that you pay for when you buy a fancy, high-end smartphone. The iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6, and LG G4 all sport insanely impressive cameras that are way better than something that small has any right to be. They also come with zippy processors, amazing screens, and a bunch
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45 Days with the Apple Watch (Yes, I Still Use My iPhone)
The Apple Watch has been released for 45 days and I am one of the lucky few who has had one that entire time. I have worn the Watch basically every waking moment (outside of showers, because I’m not risking it!) and have figured out how the device fits into my life. I like
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Art vs. Tools
Google I/O is the week of the year where I like Google the most. It's where Google shows off some of their new tech and spells out what they believe. As far as tech goes, this was a less-than-thrilling event. There were very minor updates all around with a few
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Video Games You Should Be Looking Forward to This Summer
I made a list of all spring games worth paying attention to back in January, and now that The Witcher 3 has come out, we are officially out of the spring and into summer. We’re less than a month away from E3 where we may see some surprise announcements, but those will surely be
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Apple Watch Review
I've known that I wanted an Apple Watch since long before Apple unveiled the Apple Watch last September. I actually owned an HTC One M8 last summer, and was eyeing some of the Android Wear options just hitting the market with much interest. I also owned a Pebble for a few months, so
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Nintnedo's Amiibo Shortage Problem
Sometimes we forget the world of retail is a massive beast, and is dependent on many players getting everything right to deliver goods to consumers. We have a tendency to over-simplify things and boil them down to a point where we can easily say Company X is good, and Company Y is bad. This
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Game Boy Advance Review
The Game Boy Advance was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, and came to the United States in June of the same year. I was 15 at the time, and I saved up my money for months to buy one. My best friend and I went to Walmart and plopped down $99 each sometime
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Day 62: Can You Go From Zero to App Store in 90 Days?
Today is March 8. Exactly 62 days ago[1] I started to teach myself Apple’s new programming language, Swift. I set a very ambitious goal of getting my first app onto the App Store in 90 days. This was an insane goal, and any experienced programmer would probably have laughed at this and muttered
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Not Everybody Needs an Apple Watch, but Those Who do Will Love It
I have read and listened to some things over the past couple days of people who are very bearish on the Apple Watch. Most notably, I’m hearing people express the idea that your phone already does everything a watch does, and it does it better. On this week’s episode of Revolve, the venerable
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Maybe iTunes Has Always Been the Perfect TV Model
Like many other forward-thinking techies, I have been thinking about unsubscribing from cable for a long time. Services like Netflix and Hulu are increasingly my go-to places for all my television needs. There are a few things I still a few shows that I can't stream, and I usually buy those
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App Review: Mail Pilot 2 for iOS
I guess this is email season, because this is the second email app review I'm writing this week. Mail Pilot 2 is a major update to Mindsense's innovative email app for iOS. Back in January 2012, the concept of triage get your emails by swiping them was a new concept (and
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App Review: Outlook for iOS
Microsoft released Outlook for iOS today, and it's a really good app. Wow, I can't believe I'm saying this! But it's true, Microsoft Outlook is an email app that scales well from basic email users to those who live in their inbox. Microsoft introduced the app on
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How We Use iPads at Work
Are iPads really just a fad? That's the question that has been asked a few times this week as we just hit the 5 year anniversary of the original iPad unveiling. Sales are leveling out, and some of the grand visions we had for tablets have not quite come to pass. Are iPads
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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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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