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• The true diversity brought forth was virtual…

  By Shaun on January 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I guess you could argue some small portion of the physical diversity moved to people’s choice of case. My girlfriend has one with a built-in loop- I’d find it clunky but she loves the security of it. A silver lining… Read More ›

• To Trolls, With Love

  By Shaun on January 12, 2017 • ( 2 )

  It’s hard to convey the scope of harassment I’ve experienced in recent weeks. There were death threats, doxing threats, and rape threats. I think of the source in abstraction, as if it’s some moldy monstrosity in its mother’s basement, less… Read More ›

• Living In The Beautiful Bubble Of The Not-Quite Internet

  By Shaun on January 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  There was a guy who occupied most of my thoughts through the first semester of college. He lived upstairs, in the only single in the entire dorm. He had chestnut hair and the muscled arms of a rock climber. He… Read More ›

• Speedmaster “Speedy Tuesday” Limited Edition / dumb watches

  By Shaun on January 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

    Inspired to the popular “#speedytuesday” Instagram hashtag, the Speedsmaster “Speedy Tuesday” edition is limited to 2012 pieces, marking the year that the online trend and the use of this hashtag began. The price of the Omega Speedmaster “Speedy Tuesday”… Read More ›

• Samsung making a folding phone/tablet hybrid?

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Samsung will announce a folding smartphone in Q3 2017, according to a report from The Korea Herald. Sources familiar with the matter told the Korean news site that Samsung is preparing 100,000 units of the device, which would also fold… Read More ›

• Use anonymity against jerks

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  It’s a small thing, but when jerks leave anonymous comments on your blog, you can use that anonymity against them. Tweeted by Karl Steel. Anyone who is too scared to be identified when making comments online deserves to have their… Read More ›

• In Tech 3-In-1 Universal Camera Lens review

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  I went crazy last week and spent a whopping £4.99 on a whim in my local petrol station on this universal camera lens and still somehow managed to feel hard done by. I am starting to think that buying very… Read More ›

• Before the iPhone, you were…

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  I’m sure I was using the Treo 650. The iPhone changed everything, yes, but I’ll tell you that I still struggle with errors on the iPhone keyboard, and the depth and complexity of software on the iPhone is still not… Read More ›

• What if the iPhone had never arrived?

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Now that coral reef is bleached bone white and space gray. There is one kind of phone, the black slab, and two manufacturers. A decade ago phones slipped, slid, and transformed. Now they just slide to unlock. What would have… Read More ›

• The end of the App Store?

  By Shaun on January 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  WeChat has evolved from China’s answer to WhatsApp into a smartphone Swiss army knife. Originally a chat app, it’s become far more than a social networking platform for its more than 800 million active monthly users. Owned by internet giant Tencent, it… Read More ›

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