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kevinpurdy
Member since: May 2011
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Follow Kevin on Google+Freelance writer, author of The Complete Android Guide, former Lifehacker editor.
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Danish runes, tricky terminology, and Polish marketing firms that try to pair you up in malls. Bluetooth is a hoot.
3 days 1 min 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.
1 week 1 hour ago
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Can one work productively without email? Kevin Purdy tried it so you don't have to.
1 week 2 days ago
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Google Now promises "just the right information at just the right time." But how do you "use" it?
1 week 3 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.
1 week 5 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.
2 weeks 13 min 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.
2 weeks 3 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.
2 weeks 5 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.
3 weeks 2 days 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.
4 weeks 1 day 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.
5 weeks 2 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.
5 weeks 6 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.
6 weeks 3 days 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.
7 weeks 2 hours 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.
7 weeks 1 day 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.
7 weeks 6 days ago
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There are leaks, rumors, and indicators that sketch out an image of this year’s Google announcements.
8 weeks 18 min ago
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The Pebble watch is a nice thing to have, if your phone notifications are worth $150 to you.
8 weeks 2 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.
8 weeks 6 days ago
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The White House believes that making it illegal for an individual to unlock a phone is ridiculous.
9 weeks 2 days 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.
10 weeks 5 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.
11 weeks 3 hours ago
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The deadline to stop the Librarian of Congress from making the act of unlocking your phone for use on other carriers illegal has come and gone. But there's another deadline you can still get in front of and make a difference.
11 weeks 22 hours 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.
11 weeks 2 days ago
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Even if a company forgoes Apple's blessing, Apple can shut down their products with an update. Fun!
11 weeks 6 days ago
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A new study finds that older developers know more about programming than younger ones, including new technologies
1 week 1 day 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?
1 week 2 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?
1 week 3 days 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.
1 week 3 days 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.
2 weeks 6 hours 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 courses2 weeks 1 day 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.
2 weeks 1 day 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.
2 weeks 3 days 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.
3 weeks 6 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.
3 weeks 6 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.
5 weeks 3 days ago
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We've got 5 to give to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
5 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.
6 weeks 2 days 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.
6 weeks 6 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.
6 weeks 6 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.
6 weeks 6 days ago
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Here's how to retrieve data from Twitter by using JSONP.
7 weeks 1 day ago
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Devastated by Google Reader shutdown? YouTube is here to help with alternatives and feed export information.
8 weeks 4 hours 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.
8 weeks 7 hours 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.
10 weeks 23 hours 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.
11 weeks 1 day 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.
11 weeks 1 day 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.
11 weeks 1 day ago
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On the anniversary of IBM becoming IBM, we’re reminded that many other famous technology companies also started off with a different name. How many of these do you know?
12 weeks 1 hour ago
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Like any other job, programming has its frustrating aspects. Here are seven things that drove me nuts
12 weeks 1 day ago
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