Category Archives: Tech

A better way to compare smartphones

In the wake of the iPhone 5 announcement, the tech blogs are firing out a flurry of comparisons, analysis and infographics trying to compare the iPhone 5 against other competitors. I’ve found most of these charts to be confusing, misleading, and for the most part, worthless. Some of them (like this one on The Daily) [...]

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I look at two sets of earphones

I like sound. Ever since I was a kid, I found ways to take music with me everywhere I went. When I was 6 I found a microcassette recorder in my mom’s drawer and quickly made it mine. When I was 10, my parents bought me our familys’ first CD player. A year later I [...]

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11 years of mobile phones, digital music players and computers

I finnally got to making a timeline of all the “general tech” I’ve owned since 2000. 11 years worth of cell phones, computers and digital music players. 12 Cell Phones, 6 digital music players, 5 CPU’s, 6 GPUs, 3 laptops and a tablet. I wonder what the total cost would come to.     Tweet

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Chat-log Nostalgia

I was searching for an email in my Gmail account today, when I stumbled upon some old chats I had with a friend back in January 2007. It was actually a pretty big moment in mobile history; because it was when Apple released the first iPhone. A pretty cool throwback. I actually was pretty skeptical [...]

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My Guide to Buying a Smartphone

I get asked all the time (being the resident technophile) about which phones and/or providers to get. Since phones change so much, it’s hard even for me to stay on the edge. I did some research to find the best phones (based heavily on my own CES trip in January).. Also shows my thoughts on [...]

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Belated Stories: The Bay Area Society of Freeloaders

One of my friends had an HTC phone and it reminded me of this: Sometime in mid 2010 (that year sort of blurs together for me now), I was living in San Francisco and happened across a Facebook post for an HTC party. Being the geeky technophile I am, the idea of a party for [...]

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Crappy Tablets, 3D TV’s and Other Impolite CES Musings

Don’t get me wrong, CES was virtually a trip to Disneyland for me, and I feel like a kid who just ate about 10 Snickers bars and then met my favorite Ninja Turtle (Leonardo), even as I wait here at 6am for my flight back to Oakland. In true internet commentator spirit though, I feel compelled to [...]

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A Look at the Nook

So the Nook e-book reader is pretty cool for the following reasons: Bottom touch screen color LCD e-ink Free 3g through AT&T Ability to share your books with your friends for up to 14 days Ability to read any book in a Barnes & Noble store, as well as receive technical help Open format Things that suck Interface [...]

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