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I Use My Apple Watch, Except On Saturdays

I have an Apple Watch – yea, I know, a huge shocker. I use my Apple Watch, all the time. I use it mostly for notifications. I love how it vibrates on my wrist before a meeting, or when I get a text message – sometimes I might miss those otherwise. I do love/hate when

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Added A New Box To My Device Box Collection

Today I added a new box to my device box collection that I recently started building. Here are the boxes, can you guess which one is new? Can’t figure out what it is? Here is a hint: Disclaimer: I did not buy it, it was gifted to me by Microsoft.

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Who’s Correct: Apple via iPhone or Google Now via Glass

So before I leave to work every day, I check to see the traffic. I always check my iPhone notification center and Google Now via Google Glass to see how long they both think my commute will be. They rarely agree but often are close. Here is a picture of what I see through glass

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Added A Third Monitor: Wireless Wall-Mounted

Last night I mounted an extra TV we had in the office on my office wall. I hooked up an Apple TV and now with Apple Mavericks, I can extend my display wirelessly to that TV on the wall. Here is a picture of my Apple Display, MacBook Display and now wireless LG TV display

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Unboxing Google Glass As An Animated GIF

I got Glass on Friday and my nephew came with and took some pictures. Thanks to him, you get to see an animated GIF of me unboxing and putting on Google Glass for the first time: Why as an animated GIF? Some people might get it…

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AT&T 3G Down On East Coast?

For the first time since switching over to AT&T almost 5 years ago, the data network has gone down completely. 3G is dead on AT&T in my area, which is the east coast. It has been since at least 6:20am from when I tried it off the WiFi network. A tweet from california says AT&T’s

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What’s Your Internet Speed?

Back when I got FiOS I thought FiOS was amazingly fast. Back in 2007 I had 12Mbps download and 3Mbits upload speeds. But today, that same plan I have 18Mbps download and slightly over 5Mbps upload, not changing anything with FiOS or anything. The other day I tested our network here at the office and

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Need Quality Support From Verizon? Try Twitter

Last week I began having major issues with my beloved Verizon FiOS. I was so sad, my FiOS internet, which has been incredibly reliable and super fast was failing me. At first I thought it was DNS related. Web sites and emails would not load or send and then on second or third try it

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Can’t Buy a Nexus S Unlocked Online (Updated)

So this morning, the Nexus S started sales at 8am at Best Buy stores and online. I tried to buy it unlocked online but you can’t. It is not available under the no contracts phones to choose from. You can only buy it with a contract currently. So I bought it with a contract and

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My Flickr Sets Keep Disappearing

I am a big Flickr user for both professional and personal use. For some pictures, mostly personal, I use Flickr sets, so I can group them together and send out a link to my family, so they can access the private pictures. Normally, I’ll upload the pictures, place them in a set and then email