Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2018

First Impressions: LG V20

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To be honest, I didn't purchase the LG V20 to use as a cell phone at all! What happened was that I was shopping for a high res music pl...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Review: Lightroom 6

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I actually upgraded to Lightroom 6 a while back, but waited until I did a couple of trips with large amounts of photography before writing ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Review: Garmin Vivoactive

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Last year, I bought, tested, and returned the Garmin Vivofit .  While it was a reasonable device for the people who are looking to start exe...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Interviewing and Performance

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Recently, someone asked me a deep question: we all know (and Google has the data ) that interviews do a poor job of predicting on-the-job pe...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Review: Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2

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My Windows Home Server (original) has been running very nicely since it was first installed in 2011. The nightly backup feature has saved m...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Review: Outlook 2013

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As documented previously, I've recently run into quota issues for gmail . Along with the need to aggressively delete e-mail to get under...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Review: Android Studio

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Since helping my wife with her Nutrition Tracker App, I'd had a chance to try both Eclipse and Android Studio for android app developm...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Why it now makes sense to build your own PC

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I've always been tempted to build my own PC. I'm no stranger to the tools, since my internship at Geoworks effectively required me ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

First Impressions: Microsoft Surface Pro

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Our trusty X201 had been getting long in the tooth, and Xiaoqin decided to try some Android development. If you've ever tried Android S...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Oculus Rift "Sellout"

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Yesterday's announcement of the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook has already garnered negative reactions amongst gamers and game de...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Publishing Milestone: Piracy!

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Last week, a friend of mine noticed that one of my books was pirated on ScribD . In some ways this is a milestone --- I didn't expect a ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

First Impressions: Windows Surface Tablet

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For unrelated reasons, my wife and I were near a Microsoft store today and we took the opportunity to drop by and check out the Windows Surf...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

First Impressions: Windows 8 Pro

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I'm not normally an early adopter, preferring to upgrade things after people have already eaten the beta. But Microsoft made all Windows...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Overview: Video Editing Software

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One of the strange things that happen to you as a parent is that you suddenly end up shooting lots of videos. Lots and lots of video. Gigaby...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Review: Orange Internet Max (France)

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As a very cheap person and proud of it, I rarely run my Nexus One in data mode when I'm at home: I'm usually within wifi range, and ...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Review: Google Drive

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I was one of the enthusiastic early users of Google Drive way back in 2007, when it launched internally at Google. It was great. I would dro...