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kevinpurdy
Member since: May 2011
Freelance writer, author of The Complete Android Guide, former Lifehacker editor.
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A lot of Google's announcements at its I/O conference were developer-related, and long-term. This one thing is neat and needed.
3 days 13 hours ago
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Why should anyone mourn the loss of a service that most people didn't know existed? I would offer a few reasons.
1 week 13 hours ago
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You should know what it's like to be the Big Red Movie Firm. Since you don't have time to read 3,700 words right now, I will provide some highlights.
1 week 4 days ago
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Danish runes, tricky terminology, and Polish marketing firms that try to pair you up in malls. Bluetooth is a hoot.
2 weeks 13 hours ago
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Someone made an Android app that turns your Wii Fit board into a new-fangled, web-connected "smart scale." Awesome.
2 weeks 4 days ago
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Can one work productively without email? Kevin Purdy tried it so you don't have to.
3 weeks 12 hours ago
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Google Now promises "just the right information at just the right time." But how do you "use" it?
3 weeks 18 hours ago
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Fight the system that listens to hair-trigger angry reviewers but allows quietly happy users to be unheard. Write a good review for an app you use, unprompted.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Google Keep is the equivalent of Notes on the iPhone: a space in which to write quickly, with online backup and access as the only real feature.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Here are the best tools, in a short list, that I recommend for transferring music, photos, and files between Android and systems.
4 weeks 14 hours ago
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Your phone dings all the freaking time. Why not have it tell you cool stuff? WIth these two tools, that's very possible.
4 weeks 3 days ago
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Facebook Home is only officially on five phones right now. But Android is an OS full of unofficial possibilities.
5 weeks 13 hours ago
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Here's how to keep your Android phone easily unlocked whenever it's near familiar Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth devices.
5 weeks 6 days ago
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Kickstarter does not create "products" in the way that something you add to your Amazon cart is a product. I think this bears repeating, and pondering more than once.
6 weeks 6 days ago
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Weather apps: there are a ton of them, and you probably already have one, whether you want one or not. But you should make room for a really good weather app, one that works on nearly any screen, and makes some of us proud of the web.
7 weeks 4 days ago
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Why does Samsung dominate the Android handset field, and almost all phones, in general? Because you can recognize their products.
8 weeks 13 hours ago
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When a headline in a technology-focused blog, column, or magazine asks a question, there is one response that works almost every single time.
8 weeks 4 days ago
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This is what Monoprice does: they make the most reasonable tech accessories for those who know how to find them.
8 weeks 5 days ago
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The Pebble just tells you, quickly, that you need to respond to your spouse’s request to be picked up at work, or helps you ignore the 20th message about that Facebook event you’re not even going to.
9 weeks 3 days ago
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There are leaks, rumors, and indicators that sketch out an image of this year’s Google announcements.
9 weeks 4 days ago
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The Pebble watch is a nice thing to have, if your phone notifications are worth $150 to you.
9 weeks 6 days ago
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Roku is a company without phones, tablets, publicly traded stock, quotable CEOs, or ardent fans or haters. And it's doing a great job in the streaming video space.
10 weeks 4 days ago
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The White House believes that making it illegal for an individual to unlock a phone is ridiculous.
11 weeks 12 hours ago
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The Chrombook Pixel seems like a prank, a vanity project, a favor someone owes, or possibly some kind of tax write-off necessity.
12 weeks 3 days ago
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There will be gripes about an “interface made for engineers” and Apple comparisons, but right now, it's the social awkwardness that makes Glass a talking point.
12 weeks 4 days ago
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San Francisco Police Officer Dennis Toomer provides advice on how you can avoid becoming a victim of cell phone theft
6 days 18 hours ago
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While there's nothing you can do if hackers get into a database with your password in it, you can still protect yourself for all the other worst-case scenarios involving hacking. This tech tip gives basics on how to do that.
6 days 18 hours ago
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A new study finds that older developers know more about programming than younger ones, including new technologies
2 weeks 5 days ago
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All through the month of April, ad-supported Windows 8 apps have gotten no ads. That means no revenue for developers. What gives?
2 weeks 6 days ago
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All through the month of April, ad-supported Windows 8 apps have gotten no ads. That means no revenue for developers. What gives?
3 weeks 14 hours ago
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Foursquare fakes are being used to promote travel apps, and the tools to fight them are virtually nonexistent. Get ready for a GPS spamdemic.
3 weeks 17 hours ago
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Former MIT CIO Marilyn Smith recently said in an interview that to enhance your IT career, you should 'exit and then return to IT.' Her reasoning: 'Your time working outside of IT will enhance your perspective on how to best serve your internal clients and also position you to be a business partner, rather than a service provider to other business areas.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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abennett shared Here's a master list of over 700 free online courses from top universities on LinkedIn You can learn almost anything with these free audio and video courses3 weeks 5 days ago
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abennett shared Amazon debuted eight original comedy pilots and I sat through (almost) half of them on LinkedIn Amazon is crowdsourcing the decision of which of fourteen original content pilots (six kid's shows, eight comedies) they'll move forward with. I spent Saturday afternoon checking out four of the comedies and here's what I thought.3 weeks 6 days ago
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abennett shared Get phone notifications about actually cool things with IFTTT and Pushover on LinkedIn Your phone dings all the freaking time. Why not have it tell you cool stuff? WIth these two tools, that's very possible.4 weeks 19 hours ago
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The IRS is scaring taxpayers silly this season with boasts about its Big Data prowess and 'robo audits.' But recent reports suggest the agency is struggling to keep its IT operations afloat.
5 weeks 3 days ago
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Data miners like Acxiom know a lot about you -- or at least they think they do. We may soon find out exactly how much.
5 weeks 3 days ago
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Are you someone who never met a Unix command you didn't like? OK, maybe not. But are there commands you just can't imagine living without? Let's look at some that have made a big difference on my busiest days and those that people I've worked with over the years have said are their most important essentials.
7 weeks 19 hours ago
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We've got 5 to give to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
7 weeks 2 days ago
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Why does Samsung dominate the Android handset field, and almost all phones, in general? Because you can recognize their products.
8 weeks 13 hours ago
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More than 1,300 tracking companies are now following us across the Web. But who they are and what they know is a mystery to most.
8 weeks 4 days ago
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abennett shared These are the government agencies that can get your personal data under CISPA on LinkedIn CISPA, in a word, sucks. This list of agencies that can get your personally identifiable information under this bill is deeply concerning.8 weeks 4 days ago
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abennett shared These are the government agencies that can get your personal data under CISPA on LinkedIn CISPA, in a word, sucks. This list of agencies that can get your personally identifiable information under this bill is deeply concerning.8 weeks 4 days ago
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Here's how to retrieve data from Twitter by using JSONP.
8 weeks 5 days ago
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Devastated by Google Reader shutdown? YouTube is here to help with alternatives and feed export information.
9 weeks 4 days ago
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As I zoned out this morning, sipping coffee and watching my dogs wrestle on the couch, I wondered, "If my dogs were Linux distributions, which ones would they be?" Yes, these are the thoughts that run through my head as I get started in the morning.
9 weeks 4 days ago
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Juju works to do for servers what package managers do for individual systems. It enables you to deploy services quickly and easily across multiple servers, simplifying the configuration process, and is particularly designed with cloud servers in mind.
11 weeks 5 days ago
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A Chinese hacker army is targeting our nation. But even they managed to get outed by their own social media accounts.
12 weeks 6 days ago
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Here's a table of the best and most reasonable pre-paid smartphone plans from the big four carriers in the U.S.
12 weeks 6 days ago
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A Chinese hacker army is targeting our nation. But even they managed to get outed by their own social media accounts.
12 weeks 6 days ago
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