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First Impressions Xoom 2

Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | Xoom snapped in the hallway I GOT MY WIFE a Motorola Xoom Media Tablet for her birthday and swore I would not be spotted using it. But I'm allowed to share first impressions. It's a lot lighter than the firs...

Privacy Discussion around the Breakfast Table

I WONDER if I should startle my primary school children with discussions about what other people can see and hear. After I made a short audio clip on Anchor (an app you can get on Android and iOS) about this idea, I started to wonder if ...

Trying to post from Writer Plus

I have an Android phone that doesn't seem to have a simple app for writing. I can use Bear Writer on iOS handsets and Scrivener on the iPad Pro but I can't locate an Android app that has the same simple functionality. I may need to try...

Instapaper Helps Me Read Deeper

I GET MORE from the books I read or the subscriptions I fund when I can explore segments of them in different formats. So when I glance back at highlighted passages through the use of apps, I often recall important points I forgot on ...

Starting to chat with my tabbed AI

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel I'M LETTING ChatGPT work away in one of my Chrome browser tabs. I value its conversational responses to questions I raise and I respect it more for the context it offers as part of its responses. Because of...

App Space is Mindshare

ALTHOUGH I BUY mobile phones for their durability and tactile functionality, the mobile landscape today revolves around mindshare. People want to think they're getting the latest, coolest thing and that's often something in their mind. B...

My First X10 Qik

YOU CAN TELL I'M a novice with the SonyEricsson X10 because my finger features in the first Qik clip I made. I installed the Android application for Qik onto the phone then put the application onto the phone's home page because I lik...