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Thank you for your truth, police dashboard camera

God bless cell phones, dash cams and Youtube, for without them, we would be less aware of all the actual craziness that exists in the world.

By stuart

September 26, 2014September 24, 2015

Tech Travel

Slanging and Slogging: Why you should care about Uber’s business practices

In the battle between ride sharing services, on which side do you land on?

By stuart

August 27, 2014October 5, 2015

Tech

WTF? How did I collect 5GB of articles on my Pocket?

Unless you’re talking movies or high-resolution images, five gigabytes is a lot of space. Especially when you’re talking about your mobile phone. That’s why I was surprised to discover recently that Pocket, the read it later mobile app, displayed that the app’s total storage was above 5 GB!

By stuart

July 22, 2014September 24, 2015

City Tech

Lyft to start in New York (and why I don’t use Uber)

Lyft was my service of choice in San Francisco, so I was happy to read that we’ll be finally seeing Lyft cars in New York, specifically starting out in Brooklyn and Queens (though not without the expected barriers from the taxi commission).

By stuart

July 10, 2014October 5, 2015

Can I connect 2 bluetooth speakers at the same time

Music Tech

Can I connect to multiple Bluetooth speakers simultaneously via Android phone?

With a few Bluetooth speakers now in my possession (Jambox Classic, SoundBot shower speaker, and Bluetooth clock radio), I was curious to see whether I could connect (not pair, connect) all three speakers

By stuart

June 9, 2014August 31, 2015

Tech

Review: AquaAudio Cube

Who doesn’t like listening to music in the shower? I liked to bring my Jambox into the bathroom with me, but when my Jambox recently stopped working, I needed a replacement.

By stuart

June 4, 2014September 24, 2015

Tech

How to turn off camera sound, disable shutter sound on Android phones

Not only am I bad at selfies, I am also not very good at posting on Instagram. All this comes from a self-consciousness around snapping pics in public.

By stuart

June 3, 2014September 24, 2015

City Tech

NY, SF: Turn your junior studio into a 3 bedroom penthouse…

… not really, but this is cool. One of the many projects coming from the nerdfaces at M.I.T. Media Lab is developing a“Room-in-a-Box” — way to expand and extend your home without actually expanding the physical space.

By stuart

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014

Tech

Google building own Google car with no brakes or steering wheel

Why are we protesting Google and letting Apple off the hook again? Google just made a big announcement that they would launch plastic Android phones… oh wait, no that was one of Apple’s “big” announcements.

By stuart

May 28, 2014September 24, 2015

Tech

AirDroid Error: Failed to upload files onto external SD memory card

A couple years ago, I was looking for an easier way to manage my phone’s files, ones that didn’t involve connecting through USB. I ultimately went with AirDroid,

By stuart

May 17, 2014September 24, 2015

Tech

Where did Netflix go on my Tivo? How can I add it?

Today, the Netflix shortcut on my Tivo, the option that was usually located under “Now Playing List” was no longer there.

By stuart

May 3, 2014October 2, 2015

Tech

By far my favorite motherfucking “motherfucker” autocorrect

Never quite understood why my smartphone wasn’t intelligent enough to know that I have a consistently dumb mouth.

By stuart

April 24, 2014May 13, 2014

Tech

How to register .ly domain name? Any cheap options?

Another day, another idea for a niche website. I really have to stop doing this. I have more personal projects that I can handle, but this one? THIS ONE IS THE ONE

By stuart

April 22, 2014September 24, 2015

Culture San Francisco Tech

Sarah Slocum has a punchable face with or without Google Glass

I know that a good chuck of the 14 of you that read this blog will be shocked and appalled by this post, but I feel strongly about this: Sarah Slocum has a really punchable face.

By stuart

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014

huge opportunity for workplace mobile apps

Tech

Work easier with mobile apps targeting businesses

Most everyone under the age of 60 has a mobile app or two or 26 downloaded onto their smartphone. We’re well-aware of the cultural phenomenons like consumer apps like Flappy Bird and Candy Crush, but what of apps focused on the business?

By stuart

March 23, 2014March 23, 2014

Tech

Anker External Wall Charger, Batteries for Samsung Galaxy S4

Let’s not talk about how the charging port of my Samsung Galaxy S4 stopped working and let’s talk about solutions people.

By stuart

March 22, 2014June 5, 2014

Tech

Well this sucks.

I just got this little reminder today. It’s appropriate that I am getting this warning through an old ugly windows pop up prompt.

By stuart

March 18, 2014March 18, 2014

Tech

Google Drive price cut just fucked DropBox, Box

I’ve been on the edge of my free 15GB storage with Google Drive for the last couple months, so the news today that Google lowered their prices were well-timed.

By stuart

March 13, 2014March 13, 2014

Tech

Automatically add an external link icon to WordPress content

Here’s a cool plugin for WordPress that I just discovered. This External Link plugin allows you to process and style external links. Adding a link ‘notification icon’ to all external links within your content.

By stuart

March 11, 2014March 11, 2014

Tech

Behind on news? Use IFTTT for auto-curated content

I’m a big online news reader, as well as a news “saver” — meaning I love going through dozens of articles and saving several (to Pocket) so I can read them later in the subway, in bed, or waiting in line.

By stuart

March 7, 2014March 10, 2014

Tech

How to find a website’s RSS feed URL

I’ve been working on a personal project that requires RSS feed* URLs and surprisingly, they haven’t been as easy to locate as one would think.

By stuart

March 6, 2014March 10, 2014

Tech

Spend more time watching TV, use Shortcodes Ultimate for WordPress

What I Found Out Today: Bloggers have it so much easier nowadays. Ok, not today, but I was reminded of it recently just last week, that there was a time when there weren’t any blogging platforms or WYSIWYG editors: if you wanted to publish a blog post, you coded everything

By stuart

February 14, 2014March 10, 2014

New York Tech

OH CRAP. (The Internet of Things)

An intense winter storm is headed for the New York area. Starting after midnight tonight, 8-12 inches of snow will be dumped on the Tri-State area over the next 24 hours. My phone told me that without me asking.

By stuart

February 12, 2014February 13, 2014