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I Am Attached to Google, Are You?


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Yes, I rely on Google a lot. From email, to Ingress, to mobile operating system, I am pretty well invested. Most of the stuff is good, and free is almost always awesome. Plus, the breadth of offerings just about allows you to forget the fact that YOU are the product.

Always. It’s (hopefully) a symbiotic relationship.

I use Android because of the customization options, and the fact that the Google ecosystem just works best on Android. Managing ten email accounts (six of them were Google Apps corporate accounts) underlined that fact for me.

Now, my email is down to a more manageable four… still all Google-based. I use the Gmail app, and mostly find it very functional.

Till today.

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Smartphone Film Scanner


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Recently my wife and I were going through her grandmother’s hope chest and found some great old negatives of pictures from when her grandma was a young girl.  So of course we wanted to get some of the negatives blown up into real pictures “ol skool” style.

I took them to a photo shop who still does this and it was going to be about $40 a picture!!  That is insane in these days…THEN yesterday I found THIS:

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iOS 7 – Is it Really Innovative and Revolutionary?


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Lockscreens of iOS7 vs. Android

“Can’t innovate anymore, my a**”

With that statement, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, Phil Schiller said what may possibly be the most quoted quote for this year (at least) during WWDC 2013.

With respect to iOS 7 however, whatever was unveiled in the event made the statement quite ironic. No matter how many times the word “revolutionary” was used by Tim Cook, even die-hard iPhone fans have to admit this is Apple playing catch-up more than introducing something that’s truly innovative.

The redesign of iOS 7 by Jony Ive is nothing but a new skin in Android parlance. The jury is still out on whether the redesign is better than the previous version though. Some absolutely love it, while it’s the target of online humor for others. As for me, while I’ve always loved Apple’s designs, the color palette of the iOS 7 looks a bit childish.

Most of the “new” features announced, together became one amusing puzzle titled, “Which OS/App Has This Been Copied From?”

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App to Help Parents Teach Biblical Truths to Their Kids


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I love this idea!

The “Roots for the Journey” worship album has created a free mobile app (iOS and Android) as a companion resource targeted to kids. So, while you’re jamming-out to your music all day and you’re kids are soaking it up–whether you mean for them to or not–this mobile app is a great way to bridge the gap and make a connection!

“Through devotions, conversations, prayers and activities, parents have a new tool at their fingertips to help spiritually encourage their kids.”

Here’s a closer look at this app built by ROAR:

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Everypost App Review


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Posting to multiple sites from your mobile phone just became easier.  I tested an app called Everypost  from your iPhone or Android can post to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Linkedin and sync with Dropbox.  Right now, you don’t have the ability to schedule a post, but it looks like it is on the feature list according to their twitter feed.

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