A Week With the Windows Phone 8.1 Preview
Six days into running the free Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview on my Lumia 1020, with some real opinions on Cortana, Word Flow, and the Action Center.
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The Trusty Tahr Weekend
Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS while finally finishing my Heartbleed cleanup, plus a detour into the Kepler-186f news that popped up in my RSS reader mid-upgrade.
The Day Anyone Could Buy Google Glass
Google let anyone in the US buy a $1,500 pair of Glass for one day only, and I talked myself out of it by the end of the afternoon.
My Heartbleed Weekend
A weekend spent patching OpenSSL, revoking certs, and changing forty-plus passwords after Heartbleed, plus a side note on Windows XP's end of support the same week.
My Roku Just Got a Little Embarrassed
Amazon's new Fire TV box has better specs than my Roku 3 and now I'm second-guessing a purchase I was perfectly happy with a week ago.
Amazon Fire TV and My Increasingly Crowded TV Cabinet
Amazon's new $99 Fire TV box launched this week, and after three streaming devices already cluttering my TV cabinet, I'm not sure I needed a fourth.
Fire TV and the Streaming Box Pileup on My Shelf
Amazon shipped its $99 Fire TV box today, and I've got thoughts about owning yet another streaming device, plus a confession about losing my afternoon to Google's April Fools Pokemon map thing.
Office for iPad: Great Apps, Rude Awakening
Four days in with Microsoft's new Office for iPad apps: the design is genuinely good, but the free-to-view, pay-to-edit setup caught me off guard mid-document.
Wall Street Wasn't Addicted to Candy Crush
King Digital's Candy Crush Saga maker had a rough Wall Street debut this week, and I've got some embarrassing in-app-purchase confessions of my own.
Notch Pulled Minecraft From the Rift, and I Kind of Get It
Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion this week, and Notch pulling the Minecraft Rift port over it stuck with me more than the price tag did.
Titanfall, Two Weeks In
Two weeks into Titanfall on Xbox One: why the 6v6 cap is right, why the cloud servers aren't quite as flawless as the marketing claimed, and why I'm not losing sleep over the lack of a PS4 version.
Digging Up My First Tweet on Twitter's 8th Birthday
Twitter turned eight yesterday, so I spent twenty minutes digging up my own first tweet from 2008 and thinking about how much the site has changed since.