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I think it's fair to say I share more of my life online than the average person. You can Google me easily, and I post all sorts of things across this blog, my YouTube channel, and social media (mostly Twitter). I even share a ton of photos across
A little over into a year of doing YouTube, I’ve invested in the channel a good amount, in terms of time, energy, and money. On the money front, the biggest single investment by far has been my camera. When I started the channel, I didn’t expect to do
One year ago today, yours truly: Save this for later, but I would be absolutely shocked if we don’t see major changes to either the App Store or non-App Store install options by this time next year, I’ll be shocked. Well, well, well, wasn't I surprised
There are some tech things where I want to buy the best, there are others where I want to get the best thing at a reasonable price, and there are other things where I just don’t care that much and just need something. A network attached storage (NAS) is
This is one of the oldest screenshots in my photo collection, and I wanted to do a deep dive into what’s there and what it tells The Device and OS This screenshot was from September 19, 2013, so this would have been an iPhone 5. The iPhone 5S was
How about something totally not technical for once!? I think I’d rather use an Android phone than stop drinking coffee, so I thought it might be fun to look at my real addition: coffee. Let’s get deep. The Beans The most important part of the coffee making process
Get them here! Wallpaper Weekend continues with a second set of wallpapers, this time inspired by the awesome grass wallpaper in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apparently Steve Jobs took that photo, so I'm not going to suggest mine are better, but I will say that mine
Pick up the pack today! Today I'm excited to share my new wallpaper pack, Vibes. This collection of 11 wallpapers is designed to look great for people who like a bright wallpaper (or a dark one if that's your speed). I'm partial to vibes-5,
This is really niche, I know, but if you are lurking on tech Twitter and want to start growing an audience via social media, writing, or video, I have one piece of advice I’d give to everyone: make your content additive, not negative. I don’t mean to say
For many years, I cared quite a bit about how many followers I had on Twitter. I wanted to get attention, so I would routinely @ more popular people and used hashtags to try to get into more people’s search results. I wanted every tweet to be pithy, snarky, and
A year ago today I kicked off my YouTube channel, A Better Computer. It’s been an absolute blast, and it reinvigorated my passion for discussing technology with all of you! When I launched it, this was my mission: This channel will be devoted to helping you make the computer
This is the most niche thing I've ever shared, but if you write about or talk about iPhone and iPad apps a lot, then App Bottlerocket might be just what you've always wanted. I built this simple website a couple years ago and have been using
Every Friday morning I open up Apple Music on my iPad and I scroll through the new music that came out overnight to see what’s new. Hardly a week goes by where I don’t add something to my library. Sometimes it’s something new from an artist I
I wouldn’t say I’m a mechanical keyboard fanatic, but I do like to have a keyboard that looks nice and is enjoyable to type on at my desk. So without waxing poetic for 1,000 words on what I’m using, I’ll just get to the details
If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of time into YouTube lately. How much, you may ask? Well, I had the same question, so I did what any good nerd does and installed Toggl to track my work. What I Tracked I didn’t want to