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kevinpurdy
Member since: May 2011
Freelance writer, author of The Complete Android Guide, former Lifehacker editor.
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DashClock Widget provides useful information, looks nice, and makes me want to use a part of Android I had ignored until now.
12 weeks 1 day ago
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Pre-paid must seem to some (including me, until today) like the realm of the cheap phones running on choked data. But, oh, the things you can do without a contract.
12 weeks 6 days ago
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A well-made, energy-conscious widget can be a really handy thing. So let’s look at some widgets that are worth their while.
13 weeks 9 hours ago
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Carbon is that good. It's a great Twitter client, sure, but it's also an example of what can be done on a platform that supposedly doesn't emphasize design.
13 weeks 3 days ago
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I think no-contract, $60, 3G-powered plans are an entirely sensible and usable thing, especially if the used smartphone market can step up.
13 weeks 6 days ago
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For whatever reason, the look of Google Calendar on Android phones doesn’t agree with me. So I went looking for alternatives.
14 weeks 8 hours ago
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Announcing that people now faced fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years for trying to use their phone on a competing cellular network certainly stirred the pot.
14 weeks 1 day ago
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Some wallpapers are seriously efficient with system resources, and some ride the graphics and processor chips like a vengeful cowboy.
14 weeks 6 days ago
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Expecting the carriers to maintain a consistent unlocking policy is like asking the scorpion not to sting.
15 weeks 7 hours ago
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NFC is very low-power and fairly easy to connect and extend, sometimes just with stickers. But it’s just not catching on.
15 weeks 1 day ago
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I wish the standard Android keyboard, and the lightly modified version installed by some Android phone makers, had these features.
15 weeks 6 days ago
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When you wipe, upgrade, or lose your Android phone, re-installing and configuring all your apps again is a time-wasting pain. Unless you have them properly backed up.
16 weeks 3 days ago
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One app that claimed to fix "90 percent of lag" in Android phones started a small fire in the open-source phone community. Take a look at some of the wreckage.
16 weeks 6 days ago
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I spent three days covering CES 2013, and I came away with this conclusion: the biggest story involved inaction by a company that wasn’t there at all.
17 weeks 15 hours ago
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Some Android supporters think it's Gone Corporate and should just go ahead and move to a McMansion in the suburbs. Explaining why the change was made doesn’t do much good, either.
17 weeks 6 days ago
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Ubuntu for phones raises a lot of questions about what, exactly, the Linux distribution is trying to do. Let's answer some of them.
18 weeks 7 hours ago
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May I present, in list form, the most helpful and useful things I wrote at ITWorld in 2012.
18 weeks 2 days ago
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These fixes are, hopefully, things you may not have thought of, or find in your casual look-through, but are useful and time-saving on a day-to-day basis.
18 weeks 6 days ago
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There are lots of places to get tips on getting the most from your Android device, but none will be so quick and instantly rewarding as these 5 things I have listed here.
19 weeks 9 hours ago
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This is a guide to making your gift-giving seem as savvy as your online life.
19 weeks 3 days ago
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Flickr was ahead of its time in social photo sharing, but slow on mobile. Maybe it's time to look back at the service many people left behind.
20 weeks 1 day ago
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Set each of your iPhone notification types to have a different style of vibration
20 weeks 6 days ago
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Our long, mostly middle-and-upper-class iPhone-owning directional nightmare is over. Apple has approved, and Google has released, an official Google Maps app for iPhones.
21 weeks 9 hours ago
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Let's try to list the most common needs of a modern computer, such as they arise when trying out a Chromebook.
21 weeks 1 day ago
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Twitter and Instagram do a little sparring. Nobody in the audience gains any points.
21 weeks 6 days ago
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Last week we heard that Microsoft's next console will require an internet connection and not play used games. This week it's a calibrated Kinect sensor that's required. What next?
12 weeks 1 day ago
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abennett shared Which smartphone do older users like more than younger users? (You may be surprised) on LinkedIN Which smartphone do older customers of Verizon Wireless prefer -- the iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy SIII?12 weeks 1 day ago
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Regular breaks during the workday are known to be beneficial to workers’ productivity and health, but do you need to be locked out of your computer to make you step away for a few minutes?
12 weeks 1 day ago
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Move over screen, a better terminal multiplexer is here.
13 weeks 1 day ago
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Announcing that people now faced fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years for trying to use their phone on a competing cellular network certainly stirred the pot.
14 weeks 15 hours ago
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Making fun of some of the top - or goofiest - tech stories of the past seven days, this week featuring the latest in Cuban underwater cable-laying technology, what Twitter and Beyonce had in common during the presidential inauguration and John Boehner’s new look
14 weeks 6 days ago
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abennett shared Why unlocking your phone without permission will be illegal (and why you should care) on Twitter Expecting the carriers to maintain a consistent unlocking policy is like asking the scorpion not to sting.15 weeks 4 hours ago
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Do the roots of the Facebook founder charging users $100 to send him a message lie in his middle school years?
16 weeks 2 days ago
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One app that claimed to fix "90 percent of lag" in Android phones started a small fire in the open-source phone community. Take a look at some of the wreckage.
16 weeks 3 days ago
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This spring Disney is introducing RFID wristbands that will record your activities inside the Magic Kingdom. Why? Because they love you -- and your data.
17 weeks 14 hours ago
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While the companies at CES show off all of their new media consumption toys, Neilsen looks back on how Americans consumed media in 2012
17 weeks 1 day ago
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I'll endorse you if you endorse me. But do LinkedIn endorsements have any value at all?
17 weeks 1 day ago
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It might not seem like much but the science required to produce that visual aid is very complex and really interesting.
17 weeks 1 day ago
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It might not seem like much but the science required to produce that visual aid is very complex and really interesting.
17 weeks 1 day ago
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'Quit Dropbox' doesn't mean what you might think
17 weeks 3 days ago
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As long as the Dropbox application is installed on both computers and linked to the same Dropbox account, transferring files takes place in the background, thanks to automatic synchronization. Here's how to set it up.
17 weeks 3 days ago
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Over time, you may find it necessary to reduce the amount of shared folders, files, and other data in Dropbox. Here are some tips on how to approach shared storage management.
17 weeks 3 days ago
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abennett shared Free! Download Adobe Creative Suite CS2, Photoshop, or other Adobe software at no cost on Reddit It's older software, but it won't cost you a cent to get these (normally expensive) creative applications17 weeks 3 days ago
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GoalZero’s new Yeti 150 is a 10 pound portable battery that can power gadgets either on the go or in the event of a power outage.
17 weeks 3 days ago
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Lenovo showed off three new Windows 8 devices Sunday night, two days before the International CES gets officially opens in Las Vegas.
17 weeks 3 days ago
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ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "Dropbox In 30 Minutes: The unofficial Dropbox Manual" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
18 weeks 1 day ago
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Nintendo said TVii would be out in December and it is. Unfortunately it feels like a rush job and needs a good deal of polishing still.
19 weeks 6 days ago
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Mobile device questions were top-of-mind in 2012 as readers looked to switch devices or to get more from their smartphones and tablets. But 2012 wasn't all iPhone and Android. Windows 8 also grabbed its share of attention, and Raspberry Pi, SOPA, and 802.11ac also got their due.
20 weeks 4 hours ago
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This content is excerpted from the new 3rd Ed. of 'A Practical Guide to Linux: Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming', authored by Mark Sobell, ISBN 013308504X, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall Professional, Sept. 2012, Copyright 2013 Mark G. Sobell.
20 weeks 1 day ago
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