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kevinpurdy
Member since: May 2011
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Follow Kevin Purdy on Google+Kevin is a freelance writer, author of The Complete Android Guide, and former Lifehacker editor.
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Android enthusiasts finally get quality third-party phones running basic Android. But not particularly well.
14 weeks 3 days ago
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Spoiler alert: if you intend to watch all of season 4 of Arrested Development on Netflix, and you don't want a joke of delicious misunderstanding revealed, just Control/Command+W right now.
15 weeks 2 days ago
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Google Voice is great at voicemail and number blocking and other things. But it's not so great at working with other apps.
15 weeks 3 days ago
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The Kickstarter wonder-watch didn't have a lot of capabilities when it first launched. But then came the developers.
15 weeks 5 days ago
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This is when I would tell you to load up Facebook.com or Twitter.com in your phone's browser, and notice just how functional and fleshed-out they look lately.
16 weeks 4 days ago
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Five interesting things to check out that aren't related to what Just. Got. Announced at WWDC.
16 weeks 6 days ago
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The big stuff is what everyone's expecting. What I find exciting is when Apple adds little things that fix actual problems.
17 weeks 2 days ago
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"Find My iPhone" is neat, but it's time for smartphone makers and carriers to stop pretending their anti-theft measures are anything more than minimum viable products.
17 weeks 4 days ago
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Here is a neat tip for iPhone owners who have a bunch of friends using iMessage, but they can't quite, just yet, entirely trust that iMessage always gets through.
18 weeks 2 days ago
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If you were hoping for a complete, honest, and fact-filled debriefing on all things flat design and tablet-y at Microsoft, you're going to have to read between a whole lot of lines.
18 weeks 3 days ago
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Google knows a lot about you, but it doesn't know everything. It doesn't know that an email from a recruiter you would never expect could be the most important thing in your inbox.
18 weeks 4 days ago
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A phone not sold in cellphone stores, with a potentially confusing difference from the popular version, and with an eyebrow-raising price tag—who is buying this phone?
19 weeks 2 days ago
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iPhone and Android phones can't always see the tiny Japanese icons they send each other. Unless they use Google Hangouts.
19 weeks 6 days ago
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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.
20 weeks 2 days 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.
20 weeks 6 days 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.
21 weeks 3 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.
21 weeks 6 days 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.
22 weeks 3 days ago
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Can one work productively without email? Kevin Purdy tried it so you don't have to.
22 weeks 6 days ago
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Google Now promises "just the right information at just the right time." But how do you "use" it?
22 weeks 6 days 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.
23 weeks 2 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.
23 weeks 3 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.
23 weeks 6 days 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.
24 weeks 2 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.
24 weeks 6 days ago
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14 weeks 4 days ago
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I was discussing the current and future state with Ed Airey, a Product Marketing Director with Micro Focus. Because of the nature of his job, he has his finger on the pulse of everything COBOL.
14 weeks 5 days ago
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Verizon throttling Netflix streaming may not be the worst thing in the world
15 weeks 2 days ago
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Google Voice is great at voicemail and number blocking and other things. But it's not so great at working with other apps.
15 weeks 2 days ago
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abennett shared Scary weekend ahead: Animated monsters, Brad Pitt zombies and Chuck E. Cheese on LinkedIn Want something geeky to do this weekend? Check out our recommendations for the geekend ahead.15 weeks 2 days ago
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abennett shared The $200,000 software developer: We can build him, we have the technology on LinkedIn It’s unusual for a software developer to make $200,000 per year, but not unheard of. Here’s some advice about what it takes to get there
16 weeks 3 days ago
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Play our new hit game - identifying mystery sounds from technology or geek culture.
16 weeks 3 days ago
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abennett commented on Name That Noise: Down the rabbit hole
Ok, that one I got. Yesterday's had me stumped.
Play our new hit game - identifying mystery sounds from technology or geek culture.16 weeks 3 days ago
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Take the challenge to see if you can identify this sound from the world of technology and geek culture.
16 weeks 4 days ago
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Has Mr. Snowden, in his youthful naiveté, helped expose our own passivity, and complicity with a massive surrender of our Constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties? If it prompts much needed changes to privacy protections, then we all owe Mr. Snowden a debt of gratitude.
16 weeks 4 days ago
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What developers see as iterative and flexible, users see as disorganized and never-ending. Here's how some experienced developers have changed that perception.
16 weeks 6 days ago
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The combination of System Administration skills and Programming skills is crucial to future professional growth.
17 weeks 4 days ago
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Google Glass isn't ready for prime time, but already is one of the most restricted, policed, and limited pieces of consumer technology out there.
17 weeks 4 days ago
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Software developers provide advice for others working on a project that seems doomed to fail
17 weeks 4 days ago
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17 weeks 6 days ago
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"There are no more excuses. You have to be able to run both IPv4 and IPv6 all the time, anytime, because this is not going to be turned off. For any ISP and any edge provider, if you are not capable of running IPv6, you are not being noticed. Get going. Get IPv6 running." --Vint Cerf
18 weeks 2 days ago
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If there was ever a good time to be a Business Analyst it’s now, and here's why
18 weeks 3 days ago
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We measure the real-life speeds of wireless networks across the country.
18 weeks 5 days ago
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One company has (way) upped the ante in the search for good software engineers
18 weeks 5 days ago
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abennett shared French police end missing persons searches, suggest using Facebook instead on LinkedIn The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search.
19 weeks 3 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
20 weeks 5 days 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.
20 weeks 5 days ago
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A new study finds that older developers know more about programming than younger ones, including new technologies
22 weeks 4 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?
22 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?
22 weeks 6 days ago
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