TechnoMagicians Blog

Since Google announced shutting down Google Reader I’ve been looking for a new news reader that fits my needs. I’ve been using Feedly for a month or more. Although the iOS app is pretty decent the web based experience is terrible. The only way to use it is through some Chrome extension. Its terrible and […]

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Perhaps someone from Apple heard Jobs screaming from his grave or read my blog post and decided to fix the terrible layout of the audio buttons on the iPhone lock screen.  I believe it was just fixed in iOS 6.1.4. See this post on how they screwed up at one point. Glad to see it […]

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Breaking News!! Microsoft invented a new type of magnesium that is lighter than actual Magnesium according to some PR bullshit: At 1.5 pounds, the Surface isn’t the lightest 10-inch tablet. It’s not even the thinnest, at 0.37 inches. Still, Microsoft claims that it feels lighter than other 1.5-pound devices, partly because it’s made of magnesium, […]

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You won’t see this headline often as most of what Apple does in the UI area is very very good. However, I’ve had some issues with the terrible interface for the “music” app when accessed through the lock screen on the iPhone for a long time now. I’m pretty sure this was introduced in iOS5 […]

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My reading habits for tech type news and such are mostly through the use of RSS via Google Reader or more precisely through the MobileRSS app on iOS that accesses Google Reader data. I rarely read anything via an actual computer monitor anymore. Some of that reading is augmented by apps like Zite on iOS. […]

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Hilarious article about Rob Ford (The Moron Mayor) TV Show: But then I turned on the TV to find that there was, indeed, a side-splitting show, featuring a wacky main character on the loose in Canada’s largest city, surrounded by his even kookier relatives. This guy’s a bit rumpled, a bit red-faced, and he seems […]

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Finally had to add a filter to my email to get rid of these ridiculous Twitter spam emails. These are the ones saying “Here is what is happening on Twitter” that seem to be continually being sent to me almost on a daily basis. There should be zero reason to be sending me this spam […]

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I might be a few days late on this but Paper is an iOS app that seems to have garnered a massive amount of hype recently. At first glance the app does look beautiful and takes a simple approach in design and usablility. However, once you get past the beauty/hype you realize the app is […]

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It is very good to see Apple advancing the textbook in the form of a digital textbook on the iPad with some interactivity.

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I rely heavily on the Delicious Firefox extension for daily use as a way to store/search bookmarks and it also provides me with my standard quick links at the top of the browser. Maybe one day I’ll go into how I use that and how it is setup. In any event with the recent changes […]

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