The lowly text message is ready to evolve I admit this comes across as pompous, maybe a little arrogant. I’m writing this from the balcony of my Cancun hotel, during a thunderstorm. I’m here for a wedding, and the rain and clouds that mercilessly descended on our beach activities have temporarily mandated that we seek…
iOS 11.2 – You’re Going To Want To Download This Update
iOS update keeps up with the time(s) If you happen to use an iOS device running iOS 11 and you have daily alerts or repeat reminders, you might have noticed that your device has been crashing since Saturday. A bug in iOS 11 affected certain devices after 12:15 am, December 2nd, causing soft-reboots and system…
In Defense Of: Net Neutrality
Get Ready For a Restricted and Costlier Internet Next month, the FCC will be voting to repeal Net Neutrality rules. Net neutrality, for the uninitiated, is the concept that the internet should treat all network traffic equally. Essentially, this means that no particular company or set of data should be given priority over others. That…
All About Chrome OS
You are no doubt aware of Windows and MacOS, the two most well-known computer operating systems from Microsoft and Apple. What you might not know is that Google also has a computing platform called Chrome OS. Let’s dive in and learn more about what Chrome OS is and how it stacks up against the competition….
How Essential Is Essential?
Update 11/14/2017: Essential has released Android Oreo as a beta. More information can be found here. Essential is Relative This is the Essential phone. There is a reason why I haven’t posted about this before in the past and it’s the first thing I’ll mention in this review: the price. This phone debuted at $699….
Don’t Buy The iPhone X – Yet
Patience is a virtue. The new iPhone X is finally here and with it the impulse to buy the latest and greatest of Apple’s products. I’m here to tell you to resist that urge like crazy. The iPhone X is undoubtedly the best iPhone yet, bringing with it an edge-to-edge OLED screen, upgraded cameras, Face…
Dear Google — About Your New Hardware Division…
October 3rd, 2016. It’s the evening before Google’s big, BIG hardware event and I’m reading articles about what to expect — on my iPhone. Yes. iPhone. It arrived Saturday. A gently used, out-of-warranty 6S Plus with 64 GB of memory. I opened the packaging, tossed in my SIM card and booted up, putting my beloved Nexus 6P…
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