Technology
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Apple > Android
So I went ahead and downgraded to the iPhone. I don’t know who I am anymore.
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Bad Apple
So the great iPhone experiment failed. Two days later I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S5. I tried, I really did. I wasted money on apps to help with the experience. Overall, the lack of customization and tweaking did it for me. It is such a closed…
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iCan’t Believe This
Memorial Day weekend. I have decided to go all in to the Apple ecosystem. This is a departure from six years of Android. I have acquired the iPad mini with retina display. As soon as I am eligible, in July, I will convert to the…
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Google Camera App
Google updated their stock camera app. Basically they took the best parts of my Nexus 5 camera app and enhanced it. Added a smart blur for greater depth of field, horizontal panoramas, 50MB photospheres, manual adjustments (like a DSLR) and more. Neat!
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Shit.
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Reboot
The term “reboot” means to discard much or even all previous continuity and start over with fresh ideas. It could also imply that I just wanted to scratch the whole thing and start over again. Previous posts (2005-2011) have been backed-up and shelved until I…
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Retweet
So I may have been wrong when I left Twitter recently and I’ll tell you why. The community is a fantastic resource of information and updates. At some point I will rethink its value and decide what to do but for now I am a Twit again.
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Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire
I’ve been selling/donating books and throwing out old magazines. I’m saving space and money by going digital. The Evo has a huge screen but I still have eye strain when reading from it. My birthday is coming way too soon. I want/need the new Amazon Kindle…
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Tinker & Tweak
Little DVD had a piece of her toy snap off and asked me to repair it recently. Once the part was snapped back into place she exclaimed that I was “just like Tinkerbell!” I assume she meant that I could fix things as well as…
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Integration Testing
In another effort to de-complicate and simplify my digital world, I reworked my dual-boot Hybrid laptop. I deleted the Windows partition and added that hard disk space towards the Linux Ubuntu side. Hybrid PC no longer. Ubuntu has won over Windows because of it’s simplicty…