Has the Apple Gone Rotten?

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Has the Apple Gone Rotten?

September 29, 2014 /
Apple hasn’t been the same since the untimely death of founder and CEO Steve Jobs three years ago—few people will argue that. In days since all the familiar Apple products have gone on being iterated year in and year out, but if it seems to you that each successive generation brings with it fewer improvements and more problems, you’re not alone. The Apple Maps fiasco that left Apple actually recommending Google Maps after removing it from their own system, the so-called ‘antennagate’ affair that ...

Has the Apple Gone Rotten?

Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

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Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

August 13, 2014 /
If you cringed at the word ‘social’ in the title, my apologies. I did the same thing. No, really, I did. Because up to this point, ‘social’ and ‘gaming’ (which virtual reality is definitely linked to) have always gotten together to spawn the likes of Zynga and other infamous companies which like to exploit social media platforms by bombarding the world with games that everyone is playing, so, you know, you totally should too. For the next five minutes at least, until the next fad outdates the ...

Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

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Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

June 25, 2014 /
There’s no doubt about it: Android is insanely popular. Even if you fall into the Apple, Microsoft, or Blackberry camp, 1 billion active users is an incredibly respectable number. That’s almost a seventh of the earth’s population, assuming roughly one device per person. That’s crazy. Few products ever achieve such penetration. So you know that when Google takes to the stage each year to talk about the future of their mobile operating system, a lot of people pay attention (apparently even women, who ...

Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

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Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

June 18, 2014 /
Somehow I was under the impression that virus scanners for Windows aren’t really the issue they used to be. It’s been years since I personally was infected, and generally the same is true for those I’m acquainted with. But recently I was reminded that a significant portion of PC users still don’t know how to surf the web safely, and for such people it’s just as easy to fall prey to scams and viruses today as it was five or ten years ago. Normally I address a relatively computer savvy demographic ...

Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

Don’t Blame Technology

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Don’t Blame Technology

May 15, 2014 /
There has been a continual struggle over the last century, one that has caused an ever-increasing divide between proponents on each side. With the information age and the industrial age before it, a disparity was introduced where before there was none. Children are some of the most apt learners on the planet: they pick up the basics—and even some not-so-basics—of a language and culture from exposure alone. Technology is a part of that learning process, and it’s a given that each new generation will ...

Don’t Blame Technology

Launching Windows 8 Apps from the Desktop – Round 2

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Launching Windows 8 Apps from the Desktop – Round 2

May 07, 2014 /
A while back I wrote up a post showing how it is possible to launch Modern Windows 8 Apps using a URL which can be shortcutted and even pinned to the taskbar with a little extra work. That post has since been updated numerous times as readers have encountered shortcomings of the method or found ways to circumvent them, and at the end of the day Windows 8.1 Update 1 just built in the shortcut functionality, rendering all that work almost obsolete. Almost. While Update 1 introduced native shortcutting to the ...

Launching Windows 8 Apps from the Desktop – Round 2