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Chromebooks.

by F. E. Torkel on April 24, 2013

A little while ago I picked up the cheapest Samsung Chromebook for $250. It’s roughly the size of the Apple 11″ Macbook Air, albeit with a much cheaper build quality. But it’s a pretty simple machine to get up and running, with the one caveat of course being the need to have a wireless internet [...]

Productivity Workflow

by F. E. Torkel on April 5, 2013

Managing the things I need to do throughout the day has been an evolving system, but slowly all the right pieces have come together. Surely things will continue to evolve as existing apps are refined, new apps are released, and completely new ways of doing things are revealed. My system today already works pretty well, [...]

The sudden rise of app.net.

by F. E. Torkel on October 10, 2012

A couple weeks ago I started drafting an article on app.net (ADN) clients, and in that short timeframe the ADN landscape has already shifted. At the time there were two ADN clients in the App Store: Rhino, and Adian. The former was free, while the latter ran $4.99. My immediate thought in regards Adian’s pricing [...]

AT&T’s Mobile Share plans make no sense.

by F. E. Torkel on August 27, 2012

AT&T’s Mobile Share plans went live this past Thursday, giving wireless customers the option to pool data into a single bucket for all attached devices. This, in contrast to the older Family Talk plan, which has a shared bucket of minutes but individual data allotments on a per device basis.1 I’d waited for the Mobile [...]

Slow down: there’s no Twitter replacement yet.

by F. E. Torkel on August 17, 2012

My very first blog post about Twitter was during a period when there was much hype around the new service. I likened Twitter to an away message in AoL Instant Messenger (AIM), where people would routinely leave comments about what they were doing. Only with Twitter, people could update their away/status message even when they [...]

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