It turns out that Siri has a pretty good memory – Apple’s virtual assistant remembers everything that you ask of her for two whole years. Here’s how it works: for the first six months, the questions that you ask of Siri are associated with you – over which time the information is used to better personalize your Siri experience. After that the information is dissociated from the user and stored for another 18 months. Security-wise [...]
There was a time when higher performance cinema cameras were bulky and prohibitively expensive; the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera shoots 1080p RAW, is small enough to fit in your pocket and costs under a thousand bucks. Who said living in interesting times was a curse? Blackmagic Design’s new pocket monster shoots 1920×1080 RAW, packs a 1080HD Super 16mm sensor, a Micro Four Thirds lens mount (active) and a built in SD card slot for [...]
I have a love-hate relationship with my iPhone 5. Part of me wishes I had stuck to my Android guns and waited for my carrier to finally get around to selling the Galaxy SIII, the other part of me appreciates the cheaper apps… but on the best of days I can be found muttering to myself about the the hoops that Apple makes me jump through if I want to my access to Cydia. In [...]
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For all of the conveniences that it offers, there are aspects to the iPhone that Apple has simply not thought through – case in point: email attachment handling. I made the switch from Android to iOS a little over six months ago and half of the fun has been figuring out how to do things that I took for granted on my old phone. You would think that downloading and resending an attachment would be [...]
After suffering one broken down desktop too many for too long, your author weakened and finally built himself a new PC. The construction process also involved the purchase of a shiny new operating system: Windows 8. Microsoft’s latest OS has received mixed reviews, but overall, I think it is a massive step in the right direction. What I love About It It installs quickly. Seriously, it took me all of 15 minutes to get Windows [...]
Waterfield iPad Smart Case If you were lucky this Christmas season, Santa left you a brand new shiny iPad under your tree. Now that you have it for a couple weeks, loaded it up with every version of Angry birds and you’re still possibly using the plastic cover that covered your iPad as the screen protector, it’s time to get some real protection. The Waterfield iPad Smart Case will protect your little baby in fine [...]
If you are looking away to add an AirPlay receiver to your home audio setup without shelling out $100 for an Apple TV or AirPort express then you might want to take a look at what Jordan Burgess has done with a $25 Raspberry Pi. The Cambridge engineering student successfully converted a Raspberry Pi into an AirPlay receiver using open source software and a USB WiFi adapter. The total cost was about $48, but that [...]
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Blendtec TotalBlender What to say about the Blendtec TotalBlender? I purchased the blender, with the WildSide jar back in April. Since then it has become the second most frequently appliance in my home. I absolutely love this machine. Decisions, decisions When it comes to purchasing a high-end home-use blender, there really are only two options: Blendtec or Vita-Mix. Both of these are very good blenders, but there are a few points about the Blendtec that [...]
LG LM5800 3DTV Normally I don’t like reviewing so called “big ticket” items but in this case I’m going to make an exception because this specific television deserves a review to put all other reviews in their place. To Smart or not to Smart TV? I’ve read left right and center about the LG LM5800 (55LM5800 in this case as I’ll be reviewing the 55″ version) and most reviews are skewed towards the negative. From [...]
If you ever wanted to have your own high definition music cloud, then you really ought to take a look at the Olive ONE, the latest high definition media player in the Olive HD stable. To simply pass the Olive ONE off as a media player is selling it very short. It does a lot more. The device collates all digital music that a person has in his or her home (as long as they [...]
MagSafe Power Adapter At risk of sounding overly negative, the only way that the 85W MagSafe Power Adapter could be any worse… is if it gave people cancer. I’m sitting at home typing on my iMac waiting for the courier to come and deliver a new 85W MagSafe adapter – because my last one tried to kill me in my sleep. I was sleeping on a futon on the floor of my study, as I [...]
ClearPlex iPhone 5 Screen Protector I know, I know, the iPhone 5 screen is made from Gorilla Glass and it is designed to take a beating – but you know what? I am clumsy and I tend to drop things and having a solid screen protector gives me the confidence to treat my phone as roughly as I desire. So when I saw a video of a ClearPlex protected iPhone emerging unscathed after being shot [...]
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