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Trying to understand the hype around Google’s Pixel Buds
I have been a happy AirPods customer since January of this year. I’ve never plugged in a pair of wired headphones since I’ve gotten them, and the mere thought of using a wired connection seems downright archaic at this point. I’ve owned Bluetooth headphones and enjoyed them before, but AirPods felt like
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Austin Mann’s iPhone 8 Plus Review
Austin Mann has done another amazing review of the newest iPhone’s camera:
While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially the same as the phone we’ve had since the 6 Plus, there are some new features in the 8 Plus which really impact creative pros across the board — most notably Portrait Lighting, along with
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AMP-ing up search traffic?
Ethan Marcotte on AMP:
Rather, those companies use AMP to ensure their articles appear in the carousel that appears on Google’s search results, a carousel that only displays content published with AMP’s proprietary format—which then, in turn, drives more traffic to publishers’ content. (At least, theoretically.)
This may be true for some
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The future of Microsoft Office for Mac is just fine
There has been some worry in the Apple community about the future of Office on the Mac since Microsoft announced that Office 2011 will no longer work on High Sierra. I think David Sparks nails it though:
I think a more likely explanation for the lack of support for Office 2011 in High Sierra is
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My favorite tech buys from 2017
I haven’t done something like this in a long time, but I thought it would be fin to look back on some of my favorite tech purchases from 2017. Not that it matters, but I loosely sorted these by joy they’ve brought me this year.
AirPods
My review.
These have been totally worth
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What do we expect from a fast Android phone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJOWBUsEFfk
I generally find the above channel to be quite obnoxious1, but this speed comparison between the iPhone 7 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was fascinating. This is your classic phone speed test where they run through app launch speed, startup times, ram management, and benchmarks, and as
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Learn Ulysses is a great way to get up to speed with the best writing app out there
Shawn Blanc’s The Sweet Setup has long held a soft spot in my heart, and I think the provide a great service in helping people find the best software for just about anything they’re trying to do on their iOS and macOS devices. That’s why I was excited to see they were
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The iPhone is the camera I’ve used to capture my life.
Austin Mann wrote his own unique blog post about 10 years with the iPhone, and he summed up the importance of this line of phones very nicely as "the camera I've used to capture my life."
I think that's a very powerful statement, and is not something most people
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The apps are too damn big
John Gruber wrote a quick post titled Bad App Citizens where he says:
It’s getting to the point where most apps can’t be updated over cellular because they’re all over 100 MB. This is madness.
I decided to test out exactly how much data is transferred on some of these larger apps.
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First Impressions of the Nextbit Robin
https://youtu.be/Ll8IQejJtRo
The Nextbit Robin is a downright coolest looking phone I have ever seen since the iPhone 4. While the rest of the industry is focused on metal and glass and trying to remove everything that's not a screen, the Robin in soft plastic and demands to be noticed.
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Take care of your customers with Smallchat
Smallchat is a new product from Nicer Studio that is built to help you chat with customers on your website in real time. Unlike other tools I've seen like this, Smallchat is built on Slack.
This Slack backend means that your users get a nice chat interface on your website, but you get
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The biggest upgrade to Android Wear 2 (and The Verge's weird review)
Here's the opening to The Verge's review of the LG Watch Sport and Style:
Are you wearing a smartwatch? Not likely. Despite the fact that modern wrist computers have been available for over three years, most people have not found them to be as desirable or necessary as the ubiquitous smartphone.
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Did you know IFTTT widgets are kind of awesome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWNmoWcCtzU
Widgets are an underused tool that IFTTT offers, and I wanted to show off a few of the widgets I use regularly.
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The 50 best iOS games of last year
AppAdvice has put together a great list of the best iOS games from 2016. Not only is the list a solid representation of the best gaming on iOS, but their web designers did a bang up job with the layout of this page. It's stunning!
I didn't really talk about my
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Matt Gemmell on Ulysses vs Scrivener
Matt Gemmell is a professional writer, and has an interesting take on Ulysses as a long time Scrivener user.
It’s a difficult choice. For now, I’m keeping a watchful eye on the Updates pane of the App Store to see what happens with Scriv, but it’s Ulysses that’s on my iPad’
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Don't Get Too Used to Net Neutrality
The FCC’s Ajit Pai on net neutrality's place in the Trump administration:
The commission "need[s] to remove outdated and unnecessary regulations... We need to fire up the weed whacker and remove those rules that are holding back investment, innovation, and job creation,"
Oh, fuck you.
This doesn't
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Final Fantasy 15 is Fastest Selling Title in Series' History
Just this morning I reported that Pokémon Sun and Moon had the best first week of sales for any Pokémon game ever, and now we have word that Final Fantasy 15 moved 5 million units (physical and digital) in it's first day on the market. As you may have already guessed, that'
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Pokémon Sun and Moon are the Fastest Selling Games in the Series' History
Nintendo reports Pokémon Sun and Moon are the fastest selling Pokémon games yet.
In less than two weeks, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems sold a combined total of 3.7 million units. That’s an 85 percent increase over Pokémon X and Pokémon Y – the previous record holders