Reading Time: 2 minBattery health has been in the news a bit the last few years, starting when people found out that Apple intentionally throttles (slows down) older phones in order to help with their battery performance. As a battery gets older, it can’t perform as well, and Apple chose to throttle old phones to help combat that. […]
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Good versus “must listen” podcasts
Reading Time: 2 minI was looking in my podcast app today and discovered that I’m subscribed to 41 shows. Episodes pour in every week, but I don’t have time to listen to anywhere near all of them. I’ve realized that I’ve essentially put my podcasts into two categories: Those that I listen to every episode. Those that I […]
That’s against the natural order of things
Reading Time: < 1 minIn The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, they proposed three rules that describe our reactions to technologies. The rules are pretty simple, and they seem to fit my experience pretty well. Of course, knowing and understanding that things often work this way can help you fight against your tendencies. In my case, I find things […]
Facebook still isn’t listening to you
Reading Time: 3 minIt’s a common joke (or sometimes a fear) to “be careful what you say, because Facebook (or Google) is listening to you“. While it may be often intended as a joke, there are many people that think it’s true and there are some decent reasons to believe that it might be. However, I don’t think […]
Email isn’t dead yet
Reading Time: 2 minEvery few years we hear that “email is finally dead”. It’s not. Social media, SEO, and digital ads can be great ways to help promote your business, but lowly email still generally has (by far) the best return on investment. According to a recent study from some top companies: The study showed that email-marketing ROI […]
The right tool for the right job
Reading Time: 2 minOver the past year or so, I’ve seen Google release two products that make subtle unexpected use of technology in brilliant ways. The first is Google Stadia, their streaming video game service. I talked about it a few years ago, and it’s indeed quite excellent! What makes it interesting for this post is the way […]
Episode Zero
Reading Time: 2 minOver the past few years, it’s become popular for brand new podcasts to first publish an “Episode 0”, or something like “Introducing the xx podcast”. While introducing your podcast isn’t a bad idea, that’s not the real purpose of these initial episodes. Consistency is. The way they were built, with the exception of some shows […]
The Freedom Phone is asking for trouble
Reading Time: 2 minThere’s a new phone on the market called the “Freedom Phone”, and the basic idea behind it is solid. It’s a phone that gives you more privacy and less of the tracking from companies like Google and Apple, and I think most of us can agree that’s a good thing. The problem is that the […]
Dash cams are like computer backups
Reading Time: 2 minOver the years, most of us have had a bad data loss of some kind or another. The Word doc that you wrote your paper on got corrupted. The hard drive for your computer crashed with a lot of photos on it. Things happen. In most of those cases, it’s a bit of a wake-up […]
5G has a chance
Reading Time: 2 minI wrote last year about some of the issues facing 5G, the biggest being the lack of reach, as 5G signals just don’t travel nearly as far as 4G signals do, and they never will. As I mentioned back then, if your phone shows you have a “5G” signal, you almost certainly don’t. It’s pure […]