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• Knockoff Apple Watch bands tested

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Buying a full-price Sport Band for my Apple Watch ($49) is probably one of the dumbest financial decisions I’ve ever made. Sure, it’s a nice band, and I did want a workout-ready alternative to the fancy Milanese Loop I picked… Read More ›

• Uber names/blames… or maybe not

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Uber names/blames me for account deletes, and has a different law firm -not Holders – investigating me. tweeted by Susan Fowler Rigetti. If you are unaware of the original story, you can read about it here. Not surprising that Uber… Read More ›

• Why I think I need a Psion-style device, but won’t be buying the Gemini PDA

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  The world has moved on a lot since Psion exited the mobile market, an exit that for most people is either a distant memory or of no consequence whatsoever. For those of us, however, who were introduced to the world… Read More ›

• He’s a Local Pillar in a Trump Town / Woman deported from UK despite being married to Briton for 27 years

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco — just Carlos to the people of West Frankfort — has been the manager of La Fiesta, a Mexican restaurant in this city of 8,000, for a decade. Yes, he always greeted people warmly at the… Read More ›

• The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It seemed too good to be true. On April 13, with reporters from the New York Times and NBC News hovering nearby, Dan Price, the young chief executive officer of Gravity Payments, a Seattle-based credit card processing company, told his… Read More ›

• I want a Talkase T3

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  This Talkase T3 GSM phone has just a 0.96-inch diagonal OLED display and also has a calculator type of looks. When you give this phone a look, you will understand that there was no special effort made to make it… Read More ›

• Smartphones as we know them will be dead in five years

  By Shaun on March 2, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Right now, we use the phones to send messages, make calls, browse the web and watch things. That’s still going to be the case but the real innovation in the future is going to come from software and a large… Read More ›

• These strawberries are not red and neither are the pixels

  By Shaun on March 1, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Uhhh… they all came out gray. That just makes me a little angry! It’s putting my brain in for a complete spin. Try it out for yourself, take it into Photoshop and use your color picker… More at Retouchist. How… Read More ›

• Is the Sony Xperia XZ Premium for humans?

  By Shaun on March 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve finally figured out Sony’s mobile strategy. The proud Japanese company understands that its competitiveness in the mobile sector is over. It knows it will never again speak the same language as US carriers, and it’s aware that European consumers… Read More ›

• Please Knock on My Door

  By Shaun on March 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Please Knock on My Door is a simple game about a person living with depression. The protagonist, a blocky, inky-black character, lives a fairly standard life: Wake up, go to work, come home, repeat. The days are punctuated with mundane… Read More ›