Author: David Shanske
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Google Discontinues Google Wallet Card
Ubuntu’s bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10
Rising from the ashes of Project Astoria.
The little computer that could
Liz: Today we’ve got a guest post from the terrifyingly hirsute Pete Stevens. Pete’s from Mythic Beasts, our web hosts; and he’s the reason this website stands up to the absurd amounts of traffic you throw at it. (Yesterday we saw about a quarter of a million sessions – that goes up WAY above a million …
Wink opens up about surviving the fall of Quirky
Nathan Smith knew that Wink would have to go. It was early in 2015, and the smart home company he'd started less than a year earlier was being held back by the very thing that brought it into…
RadioShack’s VP Of Stores Keeps Reminding People That It Still Exists
RadioShack declared bankruptcy last February and closed around 2,300 of its stores. Around 1,700 of the company’s stores didn’t close, though, and the Shack’s leaders want you to …
T-Mobile Will Begin Offering Data-Only Simple Choice Plans On March 30th, According To Leak
If you route all of your voice calls through data-only web tools like Hangouts, you may want to keep an eye on T-Mobile. According to an internal leak post… by Michael Crider in News, T-Mobile
Forgotten audio formats: The Highway Hi-Fi
If only we could still play our vinyl records while speeding down country lanes.
Adding a New Component
Fire TV Stick: A Review
It’s been a bit since I got a Fire Stick during their $20 for Prime Members sale.
I’ve used the Chromecast and Roku stick/box, and the Fire Stick has a lot going for it and a lot…not. Unlike the Chromecast, it does have a remote control, so it is most similar to the Roku stick in functionality.
Now, the difference comes in specifications. The Fire Stick has the best specifications of any of the three. That means smoother execution.
However, the issue with the Fire Stick, as with the entire Fire line, is the limitation of the Amazon App Store. The apps that are in the store mirror those developed on other Android platforms…Amazon’s OS being a fork of Android. However, many developers don’t develop a version of their application for the platform, leaving many gaps.
So, if you want the standard video providers…this is an excellent option. It’s small, expensive, supports many hours of video watching.
But if you expect to get a lot of independent development beyond that, you are going to be disappointed.
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Pinboard Switches from One-Time to Annual Fee
Bookmarking site Pinboard has announced that effective January 1st, 2015, it will discontinue the one-time signup fee and instead offer a $11/year plan, as well as the existing $25/year archival plan.
However, anyone who is an existing member, or who signs up before January 1st, will be grandfathered in.
As someone who has 32,000 bookmarks in Pinboard of articles I found of interest, I would recommend the service. It is flexible enough to be whatever you want it to be.
For me, as an archival customer, it is a record of every online source I read and found of interest that I know will be there(as it is archived on the Pinboard server). I can search that for any article I remember reading.
Other people use it in other ways. It can be social, it can be a Read It Later service…I used to use a Read It Later service, when what I really wanted was an archive.
So, if you are interested, give it a try before the price goes up.