My ‘Apple Music’ Wish List

In the next few weeks Apple is set to announce a slew of updates to iOS and OS X. Most rumors indicate that we’ll see a lot of small improvements with every corner of the Apple ecosystem, but I’m looking most forward to the impending announcement of the new Apple / Beats product that should […]

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Bulletin Shutting Down

Sad but it had to happen. We were too late to the RSS ‘gold rush’ after the Google Reader announcement. I’m still proud of what Michael and I were able to build but there are so many great alternatives that are backed by an infinitely larger userbase than Bulletin’s. I have some ideas rattling around […]

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Back to the iPhone 6

So, my two month experiment with the iPhone 6 Plus has come to an end. As it turns out, I use my phone one handed way more than I thought, and the Plus made that way too difficult. Further, I kept waiting for that moment where the phone didn’t feel like I was carrying a […]

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Time to upgrade …?

My home iMac is getting comically slow and I think it’s time to either sell it before the hard drive dies or pay the price to upgrade to SSD. I’ve been considering a handful of options to get a machine that doesn’t take 10 minute to fully start up and they break out in the […]

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Switching to the 6 plus

I wasn’t aware that a lot of prominent bloggers were apparently going through the same experience that I was. http://www.marco.org/2015/04/06/life-with-the-iphone-6-plus http://www.512pixels.net/blog/2015/4/well-i-switched-to-the-iphone-6-plus http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/04/two-weeks-with-the-iphone-6-plus/ I decided some time ago that while I really like the 6, I wanted to try the 6 plus to see if the larger screen and battery life improvement were worth the trade […]

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Spotify is perfect except…

I wish @spotify would ape the ‘Just For You’ section in Beats Music. — Daniel Andrews (@danielandrews) March 24, 2015 I love what Spotify has become over the past year or two. I was a Rdio user but saw the light last summer and haven’t looked back. The app is fast and easy to use […]

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Holiday Movie Power Rankings

I don’t have as much time to watch movies as I once did, but when I was younger the holiday season was filled with tons of Christmas movies that you could only watch for about one month a year. Whenever you turned on the TV you’d catch at least some holiday special or Christmas classic […]

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Album that represents a year of my life

I was recently thinking about what albums “defined” years of my life and quickly came up with the following list. Doesn’t mean it was even the best album of that year (or that it even came out that year). What it does mean is that’s the album that reminds me of a certain year of […]

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The State of the Streaming Union

Lately, I’ve grown tired of the HTML5/Flash based nature of Rdio, despite all of the other things that I love about the service. The desktop ‘app’ is basically a wrapper app for the website so that you can use the media keys, but is otherwise a webpage. Right clicking and selecting ‘reload’ is a dead […]

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