Techno-Shaman

Why we removed on-site comments.

January 16, 2012

We’ve thrown this around in our head for some time now, and we finally decided to pull the trigger and disable site comments. There was no particular event that forced us to do this, and we weren’t encumbered by moderation problems like much larger sites are. So why bother nixing comments? Over the past several [...]

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Why buy an Apple television?

January 16, 2012

An Apple-produced television set is still in the rumour-mill, but the concept still mystifies us. Media outlets are proposing that Apple will do with the television industry what they did with the computer, music, and cell-phone industries. But TV isn’t the same beast, because of much of what TV is is not the hardware, or [...]

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Bye bye, Best Buy.

January 4, 2012

The last several years have shown us the demise of retail giants like Circuit City and CompUSA. In a way, the birth of these big-box retailers was out of necessity: electronics and computers were typically too complicated for the average consumer to research without help from knowledgeable salespeople. On Monday, Larry Downes at Forbes wrote [...]

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Here’s to Jawbone’s customer service.

December 30, 2011

As a followup to our last post on the Jawbone UP, we thought it appropriate to provide an update to our UP experience, which has unfortunately stalled. While we were among a group of users who didn’t have any notable problems with our UP, we’re now part of the class of users who have a [...]

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The phone reboot.

December 22, 2011

“So it’s come to this” I thought as I held down the white iPhone’s power button. A frustrating task because it took time, and any time not spent doing what I wanted was time wasted. I only had the bastard for a few days when all of a sudden its data feed died, going out [...]

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The problem with iPhone docks.

December 15, 2011

Recently, John Gruber linked to a new Kickstarter campaign for a fairly nice iPhone dock, called the Elevation Dock. As Gruber notes, it’s certainly a beautiful dock, but we question how useful it is. Particularly, in regards to FaceTime: The dock’s acoustics make the iPhone sound great and less tinny than when laid on a [...]

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