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There’s probably little point in calling Apple out over a four-year old computer. But I think if my experience with the mid-2011 27″ iMac is any indication, these machines are lemons. I’ve blogged here before about Jen’s mid-2011 27″ iMac,…
Voice-activated “virtual assistants” have been growing in popularity. The fervor began with Apple’s Siri, then increased with Google’s Hey Google! service. More recently, Microsoft made news with its virtual assistant Cortana, announcing that it would be coming to the Xbox One…
Feedly has announced the launch of a new service called Shared Collections. This new feature allows users to create special pages that contain everything they’d like to share from the feeds they’re following. A Shared Collections page is more than…
There are a lot of reasons to cancel service with an ISP or cable TV provider. Perhaps the quality of service has gone done hill. Or maybe a competitor has offered a better deal. It could also be something as…
For years, social sharing message board Reddit has carried the tagline “The Front Page of the Internet.” Thanks in part to Reddit’s “upvoting” system, which allows users to push items they like to its front page, Reddit has become a…
I’ve used the website Upwork a few times over the years. It’s essentially a go-between for freelancers and those who are looking to hire them. It’s not a bad site, and overall my experience with Upwork has been fine. But…
Cutting the cord is getting easier every day. And even tho you can get a great deal of TV programming online, gaps persist. One of the easiest ways to close those gaps is to turn to local, over-the-air free TV…