Reflecting on the past 10 years, I bought a lot of Android tablets: Galaxy Tabs, Nexus tablets, Pixels, even a few oddballs I forgot the names. And now, beyond Samsung and a few others, I would offer the sun is setting on the Android tablet.
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July 14, 2019Android Tablets RIP
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May 24, 2019NUC MeIntel’s Next Unit of Computing, or NUC, is pretty darn cool. It’s something I thought about years ago, when I wrote that given you don’t always need a new mouse, monitor, or keyboard. A computer system upgrade involves pretty much the console. And the console on a NUC is pretty dern small.
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May 21, 2019The 5G Cellular Standard: MehThe tech world is abuzz with the new 5G standard, which seems to be taking its time. As I recall, 4G was hot on the tail of 3G. The 5G standard must be something super special if it’s taken so long to implement, but is 5G really going to knock your socks off?
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December 28, 2018PorchCam 2018 Year-In-ReviewThis past year, my PorchCam snapped over 2,100 images. I review every one and pluck out those that have something notable in them. Because nothing exciting ever happens in my neighborhood, I really had to search to finally come up with 15 images that are marginally interesting.
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December 26, 20182018 Year In ReviewThe blog has slowed, which is fine by me as blogs are fading from the web scene. Still, I occasionally feel compelled to write something, such as my annual review of my terrible predictions for the tech industry. How did I do?
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September 6, 2018Brush Up On Your Tech, Weekly
Another one of my online training courses has gone public. This one is a bit different from the other courses I’ve done: It’s a weekly course.
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August 31, 2018The Roku Media Caster
I cut the cable almost three years ago in 2015. I don’t regret it, but the cut required that I rely upon streaming devices and screencasters to sate my visual entertainment desires. Key among these devices was my Nexus Player. Just last month, it died.
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August 7, 2018WiFi Hardware Update
The wifi network in my home and office wasn’t old, not by technology standards. I used Apple hardware, but I was never happy with the results of the network I’d cobbled together. July 27, 2018An Update to My Learning C CourseHot off the video press comes an update to one of my original courses for Lynda.com, now LinkedIn Learning: Learning C, fully updated and ready to roll.
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July 20, 2018Code Clinic C, the 2018 Edition
My Code Clinic course for the C programming language has been updated at LinkedIn Learning, once known as Lynda.com. This course is an update to one I did back in 2014, with a few new challenges.
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