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Multiple journals in Day One.

by F. E. Torkel on January 30, 2013

Almost a year ago I wrote about using the journaling app Day One. I wasn’t fully on-board with using it as a daily journal, and at the time limited use of the app to tracking quantified self information gleaned from other apps. These tend to be activity-specific apps, like Livestrong’s MyPlate, or Azumio’s Heart Rate [...]

Leaving Simplenote.

by F. E. Torkel on January 23, 2013

A couple years ago when I wanted a way to access plaintext files via the cloud, my search brought me to Simplenote, a service that lives up to its name. I had previously experimented with Evernote but found it to be overkill, and the lack of plaintext conservation was annoying.1 For some time I was [...]

The improved Jawbone UP.

by F. E. Torkel on November 28, 2012

It’s been about two weeks now since I received my updated Jawbone UP, and since I’ve covered my tribulations with the old version of the band over the course of the last year, it’s worth noting just what’s different in the new version of the UP. The Verge put up a review of the new [...]

A smaller iPad still makes no sense.

by F. E. Torkel on July 6, 2012

Over the past couple days, the talk of the town has been on a forthcoming 7-inch iPad. The rumour itself is nothing new, thanks in part to the misconception people have that just because everyone else is doing it, Apple has to, too. They forget that despite Apple only having one iPad form factor (9.7″), [...]

Facebook integration in iOS 6?

by F. E. Torkel on June 1, 2012

That we’re not fans of Facebook is nothing new, and that we prefer social networks like Twitter should be no surprise to anyone who’s followed our thoughts on social networking in the past. So with rumours of Facebook integration coming to iOS 6, we can’t help but feel a degree of disgust, desperately clinging to [...]

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