If you’ve ever used the default iPhone alarm clock, you’ve probably noticed something strange: the snooze button is locked to 9 minutes. No matter how you set your alarm, if you hit snooze, you get precisely nine more minutes of sleep—never ten, never fifteen. It’s a quirk that most people just accept, but why does…
I got a Nike+ Apple Watch 3 with LTE for my birthday last year. As a very longtime Fitbit user, I was skeptical of losing access to the social component of Fitbit. I have always said that the back end of Fitbit is their greatest resource, and still believe this. I liked my various Fitbits…
So — AT&T pushed a new update to me today on my Samsung Galaxy s6 Edge device. Recently, Google and Samsung (and AT&T) came to an agreement that monthly security updates would be sent to Samsung phones. This, in theory, is a good thing and I assumed that is exactly what this update was, but…
It’s 2025, and Apple’s M-series chips have proven themselves as some of the most powerful consumer CPUs on the market. MacBooks and iMacs with Apple Silicon rival high-end PCs in raw performance while sipping power like mobile devices. Yet for some reason, there’s one glaring omission for gamers: Minecraft Bedrock Edition is still not available…
Recently, I have been driving to work after a very long stretch of either walking or taking subways/trains. I have found that the GPS apps are pretty useful for letting me know if there is traffic on I-95 South. Currently, I am juggling Waze and Google Maps as my go to apps as well as…
I have been a huge fan of Street Fighter now for over 20 years. I have purchased every revision of the game multiple times on multiple systems. It was very disappointing that Blanka was not originally included in Street Fighter V, but as of yesterday, he is there!! I played through his story mode and…
The big Nor’easter hit Connecticut the other day and we lost our power for a few hours. We also lost out cable too: phone, internet and TV. This was and is annoying, but I can understand how much work is involved to fix these things. One new think I learned is that you lose your…
It is a very common theme in tech media and podcasting these days to refer to the post-pc era or that the PC is dying. I agree that the desktop PC market is shrinking, but the need for workstation grade computers is not. Content creators regardless of the media type (video, games, text, graphics or…
Passwords suck. When was the last time you said: “Yeah! Another password!”? Yet, what else can we use? At the moment, there are many viable approaches to eliminating passwords from single sign-on solutions, biometrics, mobile device-based alternatives to more out-of-the-box style approaches (see SQRL for an interesting idea). While these are interesting and a few…
As parents, we often find ourselves juggling multiple Apple devices in the household—especially when our kids have both iPhones and iPads. Managing screen time, app access, and notifications can quickly become a challenge. One of the most confusing issues is why notifications (like text messages, FaceTime calls, or app alerts) don’t always show up consistently…